A one-day training workshop
A workshop structured around the iconic TED Talks, the gold standard for public speaking. Learn a step-by-step method to inspire and improve your next presentation. Master the art of storytelling, learn to paint strong visual imagery and understand how to get your audience behind your ideas. A fun and challenging session for those who need to add serious impact to their next piece of communication!
To allow sufficient time for all participants to get the benefit of one-to-one feedback on their presentations, we recommend restricting the group size to 8 each time.
- Understand what an audience needs from you
- Engage and inspire a team to perform
- Understand your personal style and how to use it
- Show passion in your delivery as well as clear insight to your subject
- Combat nerves, speak up and get your ideas heard
- Learn how to express yourself by standing out and impacting your audience
- Analyse the difference between communication that sticks, and information that gets forgotten
- Deliver a persuasive and memorable TED style presentation from a clear nine-step method
Training workshop outline
1. What’s it all about?
- Exercise: audience reaction in three words…
- Introduction to the spoken word
- Understanding the needs of the listener
- The currency of ideas
- Outlining your intention
2. Finding the story in complex content
- Motivating activity
- Analysing memorable messages
- How do you add value to your content?
- Exercise: The Six Principles of Sticky Ideas (Dan and Chip Heath)
- How do you teach something new?
3. Delivering jaw-dropping moments
- Systematic creativity
- – Deliver an emotionally charged experience
- – How to effectively use statistics and data
- – Tactics that get results
- The ‘urban legends’ concept – what makes stories unforgettable? How elements of the unexpected take content from ordinary to extraordinary
- Exercises
- – The Toolbox: Hands, Volume, Pausing, Eye Contact, Expression
- – Energy levels. What percentage are you at?
- – What type of communicator are you?
- – Which TED speakers are the most inspirational?
4. Combatting anxiety
- How to answer difficult questions
- Identifying challenging situations
- Controlling nervous energy
5. Making it personal
- Creating impact
- – Lighten up!
- – Analogies and metaphors
- – Keeping it simple
- – Pictures and props
- Make an emotional investment
- Exercise: Personal anecdotes and memories
- The 9 steps to a TED Talk, including:
- – Find the emotion
- – Is it novel?
- – Make it memorable
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.
