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.