Effective Executive Speaking

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Master the art of presenting and public speaking with poise, power and persuasion.

Today, presentations and public speaking are very much a part of every executive’s responsibilities. Effective executive speaking is what distinguishes the successful professional from everyone else. Public speaking skills are most critical to your success—and to your individual and corporate image. Learn to use powerful tools and techniques to turn every presentation or public speaking opportunity into a rewarding experience.

Who Should Attend
This seminar is recommended for every executive with some prior public speaking experience who must speak in front of groups, make presentations, sell ideas to others or face cameras and microphones.

Extras from AMA

You'll be recorded in action as you address your colleagues. You will see yourself improve, relax and refine your public speaking techniques with each performance. This recording is yours to keep.

How You Will Benefit

• Speak and think with greater clarity and purpose, stressing key ideas
• Face an audience or camera with confidence and control, and make the most of your own natural speaking style
• Shape and organize your public speaking and presentations to persuade listeners and get the response and results you want
• Conquer fear of public speaking and negative stress
• Make your performance skills, your sense of humor and your own personality work for you
• Give impromptu and prepared speeches to the class and receive personalized feedback

What You Will Cover

Fundamentals of Executive Speaking Skills

• Identify the elements of a good presentation
• Create an individualized speaking skills profile
• Set personal goals for the development of public speaking skills

Preparation

• The importance of research and organization in preparing an effective presentation
• Illustrate how to plan and prepare strong beginnings and endings in your presentations and public speaking
• Select and design effective visuals

Delivery Skills

• The effective use of voice, action, image and language in public speaking
• Apply strategies for positively addressing speech anxiety
• Practice articulation methods

Essentials for Winning Presentations and Public Speaking

• Choose appropriate strategies for reaching reluctant, uncommitted and inactive audiences
• Design successful informative, persuasive, entertaining motivational and special event presentations
• Respond in a focused and controlled fashion to questions and answer
• Impromptu speech making

Extended Description

Learning Objectives

• Speak and Think with Greater Clarity and Purpose, Stressing Key Ideas
• Face an Audience or Camera with Confidence and Control, and Make the Most of Your Own Natural Speaking Style
• Shape and Organize Your Speech or Presentation to Persuade Listeners and Get the Response and Results You Want
• Conquer Fear and Negative Stress
• Make Your Performance Skills, Your Sense of Humor, and Your Own Personality Work for You
• Give Impromptu and Prepared Speeches before the Class and Receive Personalized Feedback

Fundamentals of Executive Speaking Skills

• State the Professional Benefits Associated with Effective Executive Speaking Skills
• Identify the Elements of a Good Presentation
• Create an Individualized Speaking Skills Profile
• Set Personal Goals for the Development of Speaking Skills

Probing

• Demonstrate the Importance of Performing an Audience Analysis
• Demonstrate the Importance of Research and Organization in Preparing an Effective Presentation
• Illustrate How to Plan and Prepare Strong Beginnings and Endings

Planning

• Recognize and Apply the Various Types of Organizational Patterns Used in Oral Presentations
• Establish and Apply Measurable Objectives to the Speechmaking Event
• Apply the "Tell ’Em" Structure for Developing Balanced Presentations
• Identify Appropriate Uses of Media That Will Add Attention to and Complement a Presentational Message

Practicing

• Apply Dynamic Use of Voice and Action in Order to Add Interest and Clarity to a Presentation
• Adapt Language Use to the Audience and Occasion in Ways That Will Build Credibility, Attention, and Retention of Information
• Avoid Common Misuses of Media through Applying Effective Strategies for Utilizing Media
• Apply Proven Methods for Turning Speech Anxiety into a Positive Force in a Presentation

Presenting and Processing Your Presentation

• Choose Appropriate Strategies for Reaching Reluctant, Uncommitted and Inactive Audiences
• Design Successful Informative, Persuasive, Entertaining, and Special-Event Presentations
• Integrate Media into Delivery to Complement and Add Attention to Their Message
• Respond in a Focused and Controlled Fashion During Question/Answer Periods
• Demonstrate Skills in Impromptu Speechmaking

Planning for Continued Growth and Development

• Prepare a Concrete Self-Development Action Plan to Strengthen, Improve, or Modify Your Executive Presentation Skills

3 days/1.8 CEUs

Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:

• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:

• manage your priorities effectively
• cultivate more productive working relationships
• increase your on-the-job value
• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.

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