Would you like to speak with complete confidence and maximum influence? Do you need to convince customers and other stakeholders? Is persuading listeners and achieving actionable results a critical part of what you’re hoping to accomplish in your speeches and presentations?
Whether you want to overcome a fear of public speaking or reach “the next level” in public speaking improvement, PSI’s Speak at Your Best!™ training provides the solutions you need. Deliver your messages with ease and power in speeches, presentations, meetings, testimony, sales talks, investor conferences, and other high-stakes appearances. Speak with clarity, composure, and credibility—to any audience, in the situations that matter to you most.
Programs available: Private speech coaching, and 1- and 2-day on-site Speak at Your Best!™ group seminars. Seminars include learning modules, exercises, simulations and role-plays, videotaped presentation practice, and individual private viewing-and-coaching sessions. Additionally, the 2-day group seminar combines full attendance on the first day with individual coaching sessions on the second day—so your staff’s “away from their work” time is reduced!
Every on-site seminar participant receives an individualized DVD recording of their practice presentations, and a 15% discount off the cover price of Dr. Gary Genard's book "How to Give a Speech" (2007).
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Speak at Your Best!™ – On-Site Seminar Agenda:
Learning Module 1: How to Persuade and Influence Your Audience
- Communicate to one or a group effortlessly and efficiently
- How to get an audience to think, feel, and do what you want them to
- Reduce nervousness and be a more comfortable and confident speaker
- Techniques for achieving greater presence and charisma
- Discover how to gather the power in the room and use it productively!
- Learn breathing and relaxation techniques for calmness and focus
- Speak more confidently in meetings and interpersonal conversations
- The High-Rise Elevator Speech: Achieving Maximum Clarity and Conciseness
- How to make your audiences the center of everything you say and do
- Boost the directness and flow of your speeches and presentations
- Improve employee retention by increasing your staff’s comfort and confidence
- Create trust and strengthen long-term relationship with stakeholders
- Speaker training for sales events, testimony, annual meetings, and conferences
- Comfortably handle skeptical, resistant, and difficult listeners
- Create powerful, forward-moving narratives using evidence, logic, and stories
- Message development and speechwriting to craft memorable speeches
- Learn how to listen to and observe audiences to uncover needs and motives
Learning Module 2: Delivering Dynamic Speeches and Presentations
- When you speak in public—make it clear, concise, and compelling!
- Show listeners just how knowledgeable and committed you are to your topic
- Learn the vocal tools that will keep audiences listening and paying attention
- Use body language, gestures, and movement that strenghten your message
- Create dynamic introductions and conclusions that move your audience
- Recognize unspoken feedback from listeners that may contain key information
- Develop a vocal style that’s honest and comfortable for you—yet powerful!
- Tips for speaking effortlessly from notes, manuscripts, or a TelePrompTer
- 93% of your audience’s receptivity involves this. Are you doing it?
- “The Best-Kept Secret of PowerPoint” and how to employ it effectively
- Strengthen your credibility with listeners—whatever your age or experience
- How to dramatically improve your presentations through real-life storytelling
- Persuade more skillfully by using metaphors, comparisons, and visual images
- Eliminate vocal fillers and make your speaking voice professional and pleasant
- Strengthen your confidence and performance in question-and-answer sessions
- Videotaped presentation practice with private individual viewing & coaching
- Follow-up opportunities to keep improving your speaking skills and influence
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