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Presenting with Influence –
fACE TO FACE IN-HOUSE WORKSHOPS

Learn how to prepare and present your key corporate messages and deliver them with confidence and conviction.

Duration: 1-day workshop

Learning how to speak with charisma, confidence and clarity is no longer a 'nice to have' skill. It's a critical leadership 'must have' skill that has the potential to influence your next promotion (and your pay packet).

Presenting for Influence is a comprehensive public speaking training system for creating highly effective presentations. Based on rigorous study of the best public speakers in the world, this course shows you how to select your topic, craft your content, tell powerful stories, and master your delivery.

This workshop will shorten your learning curve, save yourself years of trial and error and teach you the blueprint for creating a winning presentation.

If you have to deliver speeches, sales pitches, media comments or facilitate training, Q&A sessions or panels, this workshop will give you the confidence to perform at your best.

You’ll get honest, personalised feedback on an existing or new presentation, help with writing and structuring your presentation, insights into how you are being perceived by the audience and how to manage that perception and project the image you want.

You’ll also get all your questions answered about how to manage difficult, stressful or tricky situations that occur on and off stage, before, during or after your presentation.

If you or your team have an important presentation you need to prepare for, this service is fast, efficient and it gets results.

Here's what your team will learn when they enrol in our Presenting for Influence workshop:

1. Preparation

Organising your message – what’s the moral of the story?
Researching techniques – accessing facts, figures and images quickly and easily
Mindfulness and relaxation – essential tools for remaining calm and collected

Delivering off-the-cuff presentations – tips and tricks to get you off the hook

Using speech templates and structures – for creating instant presentations

Speaker etiquette – how to get tech crew, clients and fellow speakers on side

2. Persuasion

Using archetypal storytelling templates – the art of influence and being memorable
Mastering humour – get this wrong and you’ll never work again
Rehearsal and warm up exercises – how to prepare like a professional

Stagecraft – take control of the space and make it work for you

Microphone techniques - what to do, what not to do

Writing ice-breakers and credibility statements – establishing your authority to speak

3. Performing

Conquering nerves – convert nervous energy into confidence
Handling technical glitches – contingency plans and scripts to cover every situation
Making the most of your voice – increasing vocal power, articulation, range and tone

Body language – how to use your hands and how to stand

Rehearsed gestures – how to use gestures effectively

Eye contact – how to build a personal connection with audiences big and small

How is this workshop different to other workshops?

Many presentation skills workshops are run my ex journalists or PR people, or actors who have only worked as actors. That’s fine, but can they teach you how to both prepare business content as well as deliver it? When did they last pitch for a large piece of business or be grilled by an agitated audience? How have they honed their skills that give them the authority to train on a topic that can only be learned by doing? Choose your trainers carefully. Just learning how to ‘relax’ or ‘breathe’ is not enough and you should expect more from your trainers.

If you need your team to be trained by people who speak and present for a living and have endured the ‘rough and tumble’ of dealing with a wide range of audiences and business environments, we are the team who can help you.

Our trainers walk the talk. Check out this brief showreel of the course director, Bernadette Schwerdt and see how our trainers perform when the pressure is on.

Watch Bernadette's Showreel

What you’ll get:

One to one feedback and personalised coaching
Video-based feedback
Customised learning plan for future development
Small group sizes to ensure personalised attention

Who should attend:

Managers who need present at meetings, conferences, tenders, pitches
Executives who want to improve the professional image
Sales teams who want to fine tune their business stories and win new business
Professional speakers wanting to learn some new ‘tricks’ to add to their suite of tools
Authors wanting to use speaking as a promotional tool

This workshop is available as:

1-day workshop
1-day workshop + ½ day follow-up
1-hour keynote/Executive Preview session

Here's what others have to say:

Special offer:

All attendees receive a free copy of the 10-page eBook, ‘Top 10 Mistakes All Presenters Make When Speaking in Public’ by Bernadette Schwerdt.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
ABOUT BERNADETTE

"This is the best professional development course I have ever done – ever. I highly recommend it. "
Matt Eggins, Media and Speech Writing Unit, Australian Government of Employment and Broadcaster for ABC News Radio

"I thoroughly recommend this course for anyone looking for ideas about how they can improve their presenting, their speaking skills. Great ideas about structure. Great ideas about body language and how to communicate. Highly recommended."
Joseph McCaroll, Assistant Director, International Engagement and Strategy, Department of Communications and the Arts

"The calibre of guest speakers which Toyota Australia provide at their dealer training courses has always been high, but they went to a totally new level by using Bernadette Schwerdt. I’m not someone who often gives a 10 out of 10 – and I won’t now. I’m giving a 12."
Tania Hall, Toyota