Webinar On Presenting Powerfully

Overview:

Presenting Powerfully helps you to create high-profile, articulate, and memorable slide presentations that will enable your audience to make informed decisions. You will learn to design high-impact slides, transition between ideas, craft powerful language, and employ polished platform skills-all with an eye toward cultivating your professional presence when presenting business-critical information.

Why should you attend: 

You will want to attend this webinar if you want to become a master presenter. The workshop will cover all you need to know about presenting in this four-part program:

• Challenges - Identify key elements of presenting powerfully, the biggest problems with slide design and presentation delivery as well as techniques for overcoming them.
• Graphics - Create powerful visuals that capture the high points, use visual design approaches of master presenters s to complement your spoken message, and discover the theories that support them.
• Content - Establish objectives for a highly focused presentation, focus content on the audience’s concerns, and deliver ideas with greater authority, impact, and persuasion;
• Delivery - Use the Physical Big Five and the Vocal Big Five in rendering memorable content and polished speaker’s platform skills, overcome presentation anxiety, transition smoothly between ideas to heighten impact, and proactive listening and responding

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Identify the key elements of presenting powerfully
• Create quality, audience-centered content
• Compose visuals that focus and move the audience
• Employ excellent platform skills

Who Will Benefit:

• Accounting Professionals
• Banking Managers
• Business Forecasters
• Economic Advisors
• Executive Consultants
• Information Technology Experts
• Pharmaceutical Representatives
• Retail Specialists
• Risk Analysts

Instructor:

Philip Vassallo, Ed.D. has developed, delivered, and supervised communication training programs for a wide range of managerial, administrative, and technical professionals in corporate, government, and academic environments. He has also taught writing and presentation skills on the graduate and undergraduate university levels, most recently for the Beijing International MBA program at Peking University. He has served as an essay and speech evaluator for the Educational Testing Service on standardized tests such as the Graduate Record Examination, College Level Examination Placement, Graduate Management Admissions Test, and the Test of Spoken English. He also has provided writing coaching and assessment services for numerous corporate employees. Dr. Vassallo is the author of the books How to Write Fast Under Pressure, on writing efficiently; The Art of On-the-Job Writing, on work-related writing; The Art of E-Mail Writing, on business email;

The Inwardness of the Outward Gaze, on philosophy and teaching; and The Choice Movement and Educational Equity, on education. He also writes Words on the Line, a column and a blog on effective writing. He has contributed to many literary and educational publications, and to books by McGraw-Hill, St. Martin’s Press, and Simon & Schuster. Sixteen of his plays have been staged in globally, and he has won or been a finalist in several state and national playwriting competitions. Dr. Vassallo holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Baruch College, a master’s in education from Lehman College, and a doctorate in educational theory from Rutgers University. He is a past president of the New Jersey College English Association.