Art of Speaking Business

The Art of Public Speaking™

Do you want others to be impressed with your speaking skills? Do you need to make compelling and memorable presentations that inspire and motivate? Then this workshop is for you.

The Art of Public Speaking™ for business leaders
Two Day Intensive Hands-on Presentation Skills Workshop
from Lisa B. Marshall

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You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t already recognize just how important successful speaking skills are. As you know, leaders can delegate most tasks and good business leaders often hire talent to fill-in their missing skill sets. However, there is one skill all true leaders cannot delegate– the ability to effectively communicate, especially through the spoken word.

If you are like many leaders, your ideas, your communication skills and your technical and business savvy have gotten you to where you are now. But success at the highest levels requires excellence in oral communication because more and more of your time is spent in meetings, on the phone and making presentations.

Especially today, with the prevalence of microphones, cameras and digital recorders, you need to be always be prepared. Every time you speak you need to be compelling, captivating, and memorable in order to inspire and motivate employees, clients, customers, vendors, analysts, investors, bloggers, podcasters, and the media.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision that you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. – Theodore Hesburgh, President University of Notre Dame

Knowing how to easily engage and persuade people is a leaders’ secret weapon. In a nutshell, this is what you will learn in this Art of Public Speaking workshop.

Improving your ability to effectively communicate through the spoken word is one of the single most important investments you can make in your career. When is the last time you received formal training from a communication expert? By investing in your communication skills, you are improving your ability to advance you and your organization much faster and much further.

Why else is it essential to become an effective speaker? Nope, you probably won’t be fired for being a terrible speaker (although sometimes that happens). More often, a poor communicator will simply be “passed over ” for senior level positions because they lack “leadership skills”.

The ability to consistently be a captivating, concise and compelling communicator is an important and significant part of effective leadership.

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In this workshop you will learn and practice the skills every great speaker should know. You will learn to communicate a clear message, to captivate your audiences while also learning to compel them to take action. Finally, by completing this workshop, you will learn to control your presentation anxiety and use this energy to your advantage. In short, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to move from an average speaker to great speaker.

Frequently participants enthusiastically send updates after completing this workshop…they received funding, they got a promotion, they received great feedback on their speaking skills, etc. All attribute a good part of their success to the skills they learned here. Many even report that they no longer hate to give a talk, but instead look forward to opportunities to show off their new skills.

So why do you need to come to the Lisa B. Marshall’s Art of Public Speaking™ workshop?

After all, there are thousands of books and videos on the subject of public speaking in your local library, you could join Toastmasters or you could just faithfully read public speaking blogs.

The truth is, reading about how to develop and deliver a better speech doesn’t work any better than reading about how to ride a bike. In fact, giving speeches without practice and personalized feedback from a communication skills expert often just makes bad habits become more firmly rooted.

With the help of an expert coach and other participants you’ll receive objective and precise descriptions of your strengths and weaknesses. You’ll also get specific practical guidelines and science-based methods that will help you to understand what you need to keep doing improve and what areas you need the most help.

Using a proven review process, you will learn how to analyze the specifics of your own performance using video and Internet technologies. This not only helps with your short term improvement it also provides you a method to continue your improvement process after the workshop has completed.

Although you’ll learn variety of guidelines and strategies, there isn’t one best way or perfect way of making an effective business presentation. The best strategies, like your strengths and weaknesses are unique to you. In this workshop you will discover what is the most effective (and lease effective) for you–this is where the “art” in the Art of Public Speaking comes into play.

To be very clear, this is not a generic workshop that focuses on generic delivery advice that you are already familiar with. ALL aspects of your presentation, including the content, are reviewed. Several clients have confided (after the workshop) that were initially concerned that the reviews would be cursory and generic and were extremely pleased (and somewhat surprised) when they received feedback that demonstrated technical understanding, business acumen and communication savvy.

Your presentation content, organization, delivery, and visuals will be analyzed, probed and diagnosed in great detail. In fact, the level of detailed review and analysis is the biggest reason clients return for refresher and one-on-one training—especially when they are preparing particularly important talks.

Senior executives value the unique, detailed, and business oriented insights that greatly enhance your ability to make great presentations.

Art of Public Speaking workshops are intensive and highly interactive. You will have optional homework before, during, and after the workshop. You’ll be tired by the time you go home! However, I guarantee your efforts will pay off. In fact, the more you put into the workshop, the more value you receive back.

“I learned a lot of good skills from Lisa in in terms of the design of the presentation…the content of the slides, the flow, what makes a good presentation from a bad presentation, where you should look and how to interact with the audience…it was labor intensive, but it was definitely worth it. One of the great things about Lisa’s seminars is that the more work you put in, the more you get out the seminar. A lot of it is interactive…and I see the benefits of it now.” - Workshop Participant
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By the way, there will be no more than 7 of us together. Guaranteed. You will receive the individual attention that you need in order to practice, review, and improve because the group is very small. There will not be hundreds of people (like large group seminars) or even a dozen people jammed together vying for individualized attention. Seven is the ideal number of participants for this type of intensive, interactive training.

Since talking is something we do every day most people don’t realize just how much they don’t know about public speaking. Commonly participants comment that they never realized just how much there was to learn. In fact many clients, including those that had a strong foundation of communication skills, have been surprised by how much they were able to improve.

This intensive workshop enhances and develops critical communication skills that will allow you to talk more confidently about your work in any situation.

In addition, this workshop provides practical guidance that will enable you to consistently deliver your presentations in an efficient, effective and clear manner. This workshop will ensure that you have a polished, professional presentation that is concise and compelling.

Becoming an engaging presenter is one of those things many people put off—sort of like cleaning the garage. (Some surveys list the fear of public speaking as the number one fear.) Avoiding presentations can have a deadly affect on your career—and you might not ever be made aware of it.

There is no doubt that this investment will pay off both in the short-term and in the long-term as your career unfolds. In fact, many experts suggest that skill in public speaking has the greatest impact on the progression of careers and income–regardless of the industry or job.

In short, this business presentation skills training gives you a distinct advantage—you are guaranteeing that you will be captivating, concise and compelling speaker.

In your highly competitive industry can you afford NOT to invest in the improvement of your communication skills?

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