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.
