POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS (online course)

 

Communicate masterfully in front of any audience

20 hour ONLINE course, offered in English, Spanish, or Catalan. Small groups or individual coaching. Addressed to students, teachers, managers, doctorates, HR professionals, trainers etc.

GOALS

        The course is highly interactive combining theory, exercises, lots of practice, and feedback.

·        To provide a communication model that focuses on identifying and reinforcing participants’ own untapped resources to improve the quality and effectiveness of presentations, and public speaking.

·        To explore the beliefs, attitudes and strategies of master presenters.

·        To focus on key language for presentations.

·        To increase self-confidence, flexibility and stage presence.

·        To learn new strategies for connecting with audiences, presenting with conviction and delivering with impact.

CONTENTS

Basic concepts

Review difficulties and best practices

The presentation as a specific form of communication: inform, entertain, educate, motivate.

Communication model: outcome, sensory acuity, flexibility, rapport. “The meaning of my communication is the response I get.”

Language mastery

Capturing and keeping audience’s attention

Key language involved in different phases of public speaking

How to describe processes, systems, trends, changes, charts, refer to visual aids.

The Presenter’s Internal State

 Creating the ideal internal state

 Charisma. Innate or learned?

Handling objections, dealing with resistance

The audience’s internal state

Calibrating an audience / group rapport

 Identifying and covering different thinking styles

 Eliciting states from audience and anchoring them

Creating reference experiences: examples, role-play, exercises, metaphors, and demonstration 

Non verbal language

 Voice exercises: control, projection, and pace. Pronunciation, intonation.

Congruence: body language, posture, effective gestures

 

Structuring the presentation

  Strategies for generating ideas, structuring, revising content

Different options for introductions and conclusions

REFERENCES

   Neurolinguistic Programming: Effective Presentation Skills, Robert Dilts. Presenting Magically. Tad James.

     Learner-Centered Curriculum, David Nunan.

·    Impro, theatre skills. Keith Johnston.

 TRAINER

 Robert Long longerob@gmail.com 629275378

Certified NLP Trainer AEPNL. Coach. Specialist in theatre and education (USA). HR Trainer. Author language methods.

Academic collaborator Language Department UPC: courses in public speaking for PhDs and teachers. Over 20 years experience as trainer in Management and Communication Skills: public speaking, emotional intelligence, centering techniques, leadership, teamwork, impact and influence, conflict management, innovation and creativity etc.

Clients: Barcelona City Council - “empowerment” course for people in risk of social exclusion; Center d'Estudis Juridics Generalitat - NLP courses for educators and social workers in the prison system.  Agència Residus Generalitat- public speaking. Diputació - courses for social workers. TicSalut- public presentations. AADPC / Estudi Laura Jou- theater workshops

Roche, Bertrant, KAO, Novartis, Pfizer, Maersk, Benteler, Econocom, Sara Lee, Sandvik, Schneider, Mango, Mutua Universal, Banc Sabadell, BBVA, etc. The Universities of: Granada, Teruel, UAB, UEM, UPC, ESADE, IESE, University Pompeu Fabra, Institut de Teatre.