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The Impressive Presentation: Ways to "Wow" Clients and Prospects
Level 1: Basic
Level 2: Advanced
Level 2: Advanced
- comprehensive strategies plus tricks-of-the-trade for high impact, professional presentations
- everything you need to know to become a polished presenter
- custom-tailored for every level - from inexperienced to seasoned
- Includes:
- organizing information, structuring remarks
- delivering with ease and impact
- designing and using visuals & graphics effectively
- using nonverbals, clothing, atmosphere and language
- using the psychology of audience appeal
- projecting competence and confidence
- adding-in the sophisticated techniques that move your presentation from "just fine" to "remarkable"
- learning how to rehearse
- upon request: techniques for delivering conference and meeting presentations and papers
Winning is the ONLY Thing!
- Specialized, proven, innovative techniques that influence decision-making and put your interview presentation over-the-top
- Includes:
- organizing content, organizing the team
- conducting reconnaissance
- incorporating your competitive edge
- separating your team/firm from "the pack"
- choosing, creating and using appropriate visuals/graphics/animation/leave behinds/handouts
- projecting "teamness"
- selling your expertise
- deciding who says what timing
- making your presentation and team unforgettable
"What?! Me Market???" -- The Project Managers' Marketing Primer
- Step-by-step guide for Project Managers as they venture into the unfamiliar roles of business development and marketing as part of regular project delivery
- Includes:
- understanding the unique, exciting role PMs play in marketing
- using regular project meetings as business development opportunities
- incorporating publicity and promotion strategies in job delivery
- encouraging clients for repeat business
- applying personal communication skills as marketing techniques
Bringing in Business is Everyone's Business:
Ways every person in the firm can weave marketing and business development into everyday just-doing-the-job
- Practical, easy-to-acquire techniques that can be used immediately
- Specific, focused hints for every person in the company, at every level
- Includes:
- adopting the marketing mindset to help the company go-and-grow
- saying the "right" thing
- creating chemistry
- using publicity and public relations tactics
- sharpening individual communications skills to have a marketing focus
In the Hot Seat: The Art & Magic of Q&A
- Expert tips for maximizing success in the Q&A process so you can gain the advantage
- Especially helpful for potentially "heated" meetings, competitive interviews, board approvals, stockholders meetings, investor/funder reviews, testifying
- Includes:
- adapting your presentation to prevent certain questions
- implementing tactics for how to respond
- using nonverbal cues
- reducing "tension" in the room
- positioning yourself for a productive exchange of ideas
"See If It Floats!" : Ways to Ace Public Hearings and Community Meetings
- Tactics for presenting your project or your client's project for community acceptance or board/commission approvals
- Includes:
- preparing appropriate presentation style and format
- developing focused content
- creating and using best-suited visuals
- preparing for the media
- creating the "right" atmosphere via your presentation
- using persuasive techniques
- orchestrating successful question-and-answers
Beyond the Handshake: Making the Impression that Counts
- Solid hints for making the impression that counts anytime you have information to share, formally or informally
- Presentation and communications techniques to enhance your effectiveness in any meeting, in all design and technical presentations, interactions with legislators and decision-makers
- Includes:
- targeting your message
- making your message stick!
- engaging your listener(s)
- harnessing nonverbals and the meeting space
- distinguishing yourself, your ideas, and your project/company
- using effective collateral materials - visuals, leave behinds, etc.
- maximizing your personal delivery style to create rapport
- establishing the approach towards the result you seek
Quelling the Intrigue: Conducting Reconnaissance
- How to gather project and client information effectively, then synthesize it for targeted, influential presentations
- Includes:
- exploring the most valuable types of information to gather
- learning strategies and hints for asking the "right" questions
- structuring questions to yield the information you need and want
- understanding how the team works together to bring useful information to the table
- turning the information into a targeted, on-point presentation
Keeping the Edge - In house
- Specific train-the-trainer skills for in house staff who do your training
- Ways to create and deliver more effective and productive training sessions, workshops, and seminars
- For management, staff and personnel at every level who have expertise to share and need to effectively bring others up-to-speed
- Includes:
- developing appropriate and achievable instructional objectives
- creating training modules appropriate to the time available
- using presentation techniques that engage listeners and motivate learning
- building-in techniques that foster information retention and reduce time
- making the unfamiliar become familiar and easily grasped
- setting the stage for a positive and interactive learning experience
- maximizing dollar value in using inhouse trainers
Contact LXDi to discuss how these professional development programs can be tailored for your company, your budget, your timing.