A recent study of 60,000 executives found that female managers ranked higher than their male colleagues in almost every professional measure except one: confidence. In a still-male dominated professional world, women need to develop the authority and presence to match their intelligence and capabilities.
Public Speaking International’s Women Voices of Leadership™ workshops empower women speakers for speeches and presentations, meetings, conferences, testimony, public outreach and public relations, and media appearances. Your speakers will learn not only nonverbal communication skills for projecting maximum authority and presence. They’ll acquire fast-track tools and techniques for speaking with power and persuasiveness.
Dr. Gary Genard, one of America’s leading speech coaches, will show your executives, spokeswomen, sales professionals, and other key personnel how to reach the “next level” of communication effectiveness. From speech anxiety to vocal power to effortless credibility to dynamic platform skills, you’ll be amazed at the rapid and dramatic improvement in your own or your staff’s speaking influence. Speak with the “voice of leadership” starting today!
Programs available: Executive speech coaching with Dr. Genard at our Boston office or your location, and one- and two-day on-site group workshops at your organization’s site in the U.S. or worldwide. Each participant in this training receives a personalized DVD recording of their practice speech or presentation, and a copy of Dr. Genard’s book “How to Give a Speech” (2007).
Executive Presence and Influencing Audiences
- Calming your nerves and gaining confidence in public appearances
- How to establish authority and credibility from the moment you enter a room
- Why dress and appearance do matter—but not in the way that you think
- Playing to your unique strengths as a female speaker
- Why relational thinking is a hidden strength for women speakers
- How to gather the power in the room where you’re about to speak!
- What is your body saying? — Understanding the nonverbal messages you send
- Why men have a physical advantage as presenters—and how you can equal it
- Breathing and projection exercises for achieving a powerful voice
- The 93% of listener receptiveness you may be neglecting!
- Using your voice to effect positive change in conversations and speeches
- Achieving charisma and likeability with stakeholders, constituents, and customers
- Moving and gesturing naturally and powerfully
- “Reading” an audience’s expectations and thinking on your feet
- Building trust with listeners for long-term relationships
Presentation Skills and Public Speaking Effectiveness
- Audience analysis: understanding and meeting the needs of your listeners
- Developing your critical message and building your arguments
- The C.U.R.E. Method of Powerful Persuasion
- Vocal dynamics: making your voice interesting and engaging
- How to make your presentations audience-centered and audience focused
- When to choose a direct vs. an indirect approach with audiences
- Dealing with resistant, skeptical, or hostile audiences
- Selling change to senior leadership and the C-suite
- Connecting emotionally with listeners to persuade and influence them
- How to captivate an audience from the first word out of your mouth
- How to “simplify and sell” complex concepts to listeners
- Maximizing your individual talents as a communicator
- Getting your listeners to think, feel, or do what you want them to
- Building Your Presentation: Logic, Language, and Using Evidence
- The 7 Danger Zones of Q & A
- “The Best-Kept Secret of PowerPoint,” and how to employ it effectively
- How to speak naturally from notes or a manuscript
- “Speaking Visually” in the Age of Television—and why you have to do it!
- Eliminating “ah’s, ”um’s,” and other vocal fillers
- Putting It All Together: Videotaped presentations and private viewing sessions
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