The ‘bespoke’ option – sample 3
A ‘level three’ programme, designed for those with a reasonable level of experience making presentations. Participants should already feel confident about their presentation skills but want to explore the TED style and add real audience engagement power to their content and delivery.
The focus of this training is to enhance pre-existing skills around public speaking. In terms of personal development, the session will guarantee a significant improvement in the communication and leadership skills of each participant. This workshop is structured around the iconic TED Talks, the gold standard for public speaking. It is designed help participants improve or create the content for a high-impact talk, presentation or speech in the TED style.
- Develop or re-write material and sound bites designed to make your key message clear
- Maximise your ability to support your team with their communication
- Create a compelling communication style, in a way that exudes authority, charisma and rapport
- Reconstruct complex content to become accessible and tangible statements
- Understand how to prepare for a pitch
- Prepare yourself for ‘curve ball’ questions and learn techniques to combat hostile or provocative audiences
- Set clear and measurable objectives to ensure you are consistently performing at your best
Programme outline
1. What’s it all about?
- Exercise: Iconic public speakers
- Understanding the expectations of internal and external audiences
- Adapting quickly and responding to challenge
- Combining the ‘Why’ with a call to action
2. Dynamic content creation
- Expressing ideas with total conviction
- Focusing your material on the needs and ambitions of your clients
- Exercise: The Six Principles of Sticky Ideas (Dan and Chip Heath)
- Injecting case studies to make your content tangible
3. High-impact delivery
- TED-style content creation and delivery
- Slides, props, visual aids and stage management
- Exercises
4. Total delivery control
- Harnessing adrenaline
- Delivering as a leader
5. The voice of a leader
- Communicating a change
- Exercises
6. Action planning
- Exercise: identify specific actions to enhance your presentation style
- Exercise: personal action planning
If you’ve got any requirements at all around presentation skills – whether that’s for an in-house training programme for a group of people, a bite-sized session, one-to-one coaching or a keynote conference presentation – then please just give us a call on 01582 463460 to talk it through.
