PERSUASIVE PRESENTATION SKILLS

Selling a big idea, gaining peoples’ buy-in, or getting others to take your desired course of action is one of the most challenging endeavors you will undertake in business. It is also one of the most pivotal skills to have in business. Everyone, regardless of their place or position within an organization, will find themselves having to influence colleagues, motivate a team, persuade a superior, or sell a client. The persuasive power of your presentation makes the difference between getting ahead or falling behind.

This workshop on Persuasive Presentations provides participants with a presentation framework as well as persuasion strategies and tactics to ensure that their ideas are adopted, projects and change initiatives gain acceptance, or simply achieve more of “Yes” and more effectively move others to action.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING:

In this training, participants will learn how to:

  • Capture their audience’s attention
  • Engage them throughout the presentation
  • Frame their big idea or recommendation
  • Tell a compelling story that conveys your message
  • Strike at the audience’s logic and emotion
  • Use visuals that are the most persuasive, how and when to use them
  • Utilize 5 keys to influence
  • Implement the 3 levers of persuasive speech
  • Leverage body language to enhance persuasion and influence
  • Use vocal tone to enhance your point or draw others in
  • Answer difficult questions
  • How to frame and reframe ideas
  • Fielding, avoiding, or artfully deflecting difficult topics or questions
  • Responding to objections and winning people over
  • Overcoming last minute objections and resistance to action
  • Rhetorical devices that have stood the test of time
  • Test your audience’s receptiveness before “closing”
  • Use of stories, analogies, and metaphors that strike at the heart and at the mind
  • How to close the presentation in a manner than increases the chances of hearing “Yes” and motivating desired action

PROGRAM DETAILS:

OTHER TOPICS
  • People Strategy
  • Talent Management
  • Motivation
  • Recruiting
  • Group Facilitation
DELIVERY OPTIONS
  • 2 Day Intensive
METHODS
  • Lecture
  • Group Dynamics
  • Simulations
  • Studies
  • Case Studies
  • Skill Practice Exercises
PROCESS
  • Pre-Training Assessment
  • Tailored Content
  • Expert Delivery
  • Post-Training Evaluation
  • Post-Training Assessment
  • 3 Month Follow-Up

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Expert Delivered

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98%

of participants would refer us

5

running evaluation form average
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90%

of trainers hold higher degrees
(Most PhD)

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