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In response to demand, we are expanding our two-day Presenting to Win workshops across the nation, the first of which is in New York in March.

Sign up by January 15 and receive a complimentary, autographed copy of Jerry Weissman's latest book, Presentations in Action.

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Presenting to Win Two-day Workshop

Now is the time to learn how to develop, deliver and present your message effectively.

Register for our next Presenting to Win Two-day Workshop scheduled for March 6-7. The cost is $1750 per person. Please contact us directly for Group discounts.

This workshop is designed for all levels; senior managers, mid-level managers, salespersons, administrative staff, engineers, educators, authors, fundraisers for not-for-profit organizations, and more.

Learn Jerry Weissman's proven techniques

You've spent countless hours and endless dollars to develop your message and your proposal; how you communicate that message and yourself is critical.

Now you can learn the same techniques that have helped hundreds of companies raise hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market to optimize your own communication and presentation skills.

New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York, New York 10036 USA

Date: March 6 and 7, 2012

Time: 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM

Three-day Presenting to Win Workshop

You've spent countless hours and endless dollars to develop your business proposal or employment resume. How you communicate your message and your self is critical.

Now you can learn what has helped hundreds of companies raise hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market.

Power Presentations will offer three consecutive full-day public workshop versions of its proven private program. Each workshop will provide basic techniques that, when combined, address the essential elements of any presentation; and each workshop will provide a rich learning experience with coaching, breakouts, exercises, and videos.

This cost-effective series is open to individuals in all walks of life including business, government, academia, job seekers and not-for-profit organizations. The workshops are designed to be taken as a group contiguously or as individual sessions.

Program Size: 25-30 attendees from different companies

Location: Sofitel San Francisco Bay

Date/Program: Three-day event, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

January, 2012 - Day One: Presenting to Win

This workshop, based on Jerry Weissman’s international bestseller, named as a “must read” by Fortune magazine, offers the seven steps of story development, and includes participatory exercises in brainstorming and how to develop a strong introduction that will capture any audience immediately.

This workshop also includes the full tutorial from the core program in how to design and animate Microsoft PowerPoint graphics. These instructions will be followed by a hands-on coaching session in which participants will receive direct feedback on their individual slide shows. All participants will learn from each other.

January, 2012 - Day Two: The Power Presenter

This workshop, based on Jerry Weissman’s book of the same name, offers techniques in how to control the fear of public speaking and present with poise, assurance and confidence. The skills, which include eye contact, body language, gestures, voice production, and cadence, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, live videotaping, and video analysis of famous speakers, among them John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. 

January, 2012 - Day Three: How to Handle Tough Questions

This workshop, based on Jerry Weissman’s book, In the Line of Fire, offers techniques in how to handle tough questions. The techniques, which include: active listening, paraphrasing, addressing the key issue, and adding value, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, and video analysis of famous Q&A sessions including presidential debates, press conferences, senate hearings, and television interviews.

In preparation for our upcoming public workshop on How to Handle Tough Questions, we hosted a Q&A workshop with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Mastery in Communication Initiative .

The Mastery in Communication Initiative promotes communication excellence by providing coursework, coaching, and a breadth of tools and resources to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Stanford’s mission is to help students at all levels of communication competence achieve a mastery in communication. Our mission here at Power Presentations is to help you achieve a mastery in communications and presentation style.

We hope you join us for our upcoming workshop, September 20-22, 2010.

Day One: Presenting to Win
This session, based on Presenting to Win, offers the seven steps of story development, including a participatory brainstorming session. One of several interactive sessions will be an exercise on developing a strong Opening Gambit to capture any audience immediately and succinctly describe a company’s business.

This workshop also includes a full tutorial on how to design and animate Microsoft PowerPoint graphics. These instructions will be followed by a hands-on coaching session in which participants will receive direct feedback on their individual slideshows.

Day Two: The Power Presenter
This session, based on The Power Presenter, offers techniques in how to control the fear of public speaking and to present with poise, assurance and confidence.

The skills, which include eye contact, body language, gestures, voice production, and cadence, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, live videotaping, and video analysis of famous speakers, among them John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.

Day Three: How to Handle Tough Questions
This session, based on In the Line of Fire, offers techniques in how to handle tough questions.

The techniques which include: active listening, paraphrasing, addressing the key issue, and adding value, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, and video examples of famous Q&A sessions including presidential debates, press conferences, senate hearings, and television interviews.

Jerry Weissman spoke at the University of Notre Dame’s first ever ESTEEM/Silicon Valley event on Thursday, April 22.

The ESTEEM Program (Engineering, Science, Technology Entrepreneurship & Excellence Master’s) is a one-year Masters of Science Program. It has been developed as a joint program of the College of Science, College of Engineering and Mendoza College of Business. The objective is to provide Science and Engineering graduates the skills required to take science and/or engineering inventions and translate those inventions into commercial ventures while strengthening their science and/or engineering skills.

Earlier this week, Jerry Weissman presented to a group of senior financial executives at the Financial Executives International (FEI) Silicom Valley Chapter Dinner Meeting at the Palo Alto Hills Country Club.

FEI provides exclusive peer networking for chief financial officers, controllers, treasurers, tax executives and finance and accounting professors in academia. Its membership base is 15,000 strong with chapters throughout United States and Canada.

Other speakers in 2009 included Joshua Bolten, former White House Chief of Staff; Ronnie Lott, NFL Hall of Famer; and, Tom Campbell, former US Congressman.

We are proud to announce the new release of the Japanese version of The Power Presenter, published by WAVE Publishing.

Readers of our blogs know that our subject matter is intentionally apolitical so as to remain objective in our commentary on our areas of specialization, presentations and communication. We will depart from that policy today to offer an opinion about a related subject: Freedom of speech as it is affected by the recent Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to provide campaign financing. We object to that decision and support measures to counteract it as expressed in an op-ed piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. The article was written by Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate, and Robert Weissman (no relation) the president of Public Citizen.

Visit getAbstract to download a free summary of The Power Presenter. You can download versions of this summary for Kindle, Sony Reader, BlackBerry, Palm, eBook Reader, pdf or listen to an audio version.

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We are pleased to announce that The Power Presenter: Style, and Strategy from America’s Top Speaking Coach will be published by China Renmin University Press in simplified Chinese.

Dr. Kai Fu Lee, former Preseident of Google Greater China and founder of Innovation Works, says it best,”This book, The Power Presenter, is an excellent exposition into what makes a great communicator, and how to become one, starting from the inside.  Using the very persuasion techniques it teaches, this book applies plain language, fun examples, and convincing demonstrations to lead the reader to absorb and internalize the concepts, and gain the skills and confidence to truly become a power presenter.”