CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT PRESENTATIONS

Scholarly debate still rages today in the halls of commerce whether the all-too-typical less-than-enthralling business presentation, especially those congested with hastily-produced PowerPoint slides, is more agonizing for those who have to give it or those who are unlucky enough to have to sit through it. This is a medium more-often-than-not held in derision equally by all those whose professional lives it touches. Many presentations are dreadful. The slightly better ones aspire to mediocrity. Most professionals were taught to be experts in their fields, yet no one bothered to teach most of them how to communicate that knowledge effectively to others. Some thought that all the new effects gizmos in PowerPoint would help. But the joke was on them.

PUT YOU MOUTH WHERE YOUR MONEY IS™

Face-to-face, person-to-person business presentations are perhaps the most persuasive form of professional-to-professional communication. An effective presentation has the power to persuade, inform, change perceptions, sell products and ideas and move an audience to action. In the right hands, an effective presentation is also a valuable bottom line, results-driven, dollar-GENERATING asset.

Learning how to develop, produce, and deliver a more concise, more effective presentation, and preparing it in less time, can be a bottom- line, results-driven, dollar-SAVINGS asset.

LEVERAGING THE PRESENTATION TO IGNITE INTEREST

Sure, there are classes in public speaking or workshops in how to make cheesy backgrounds, import photos, and create mind-numbing transitions in PowerPoint. But what professionals really need is a mature, comprehensive, organized process to leverage the presentation into a business tool.

WORD-OF-MOUTH™

Word-of-Mouth™ is an in-depth, results-driven presentation skills and management system, providing the practices, tools, guidelines, flowcharts, and checklists to help you design and deliver persuasive business presentations.

It's a comprehensive system to manage, create, and deliver top drawer presentations. Participants learn how to prepare, brainstorm, write, create visual support, and deliver with confidence.

It teaches the same techniques and skills used by professional speakers, speechwriters, slide graphic designers, and communications strategists.

The workshop is an indispensable tool for anyone who gives presentations, whether to inform or train, sell or motivate, whether to a large audience in a meeting facility or conference room or to a single decision maker across a desk.

YOU WILL LEAVE WITH THE SKILLS TO DEVELOP MORE EFFECTIVE PRESNTATIONS IN LESS THAN A SINGLE DAY

LEAVING MUCH RICHER THAN WHEN YOU WALKED IN

Aside from teaching the skills required to develop clearer content, more informative and professional slides, and a more poised delivery, this training will contribute hard dollars to the bottom line by:
•	Saving you hours of preparation time by streamlining development
•	Saving you and your audience meeting time and make the meeting more efficient by streamlining the presentation, making it clearer and at the same time, making it more concise
•	Reclaiming billable hours saved during preparation and presentation

POTENTIALLY SAVING YOU THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS
OF DOLLARS

THE COST

The training workshop will ultimately cost you nothing. The efficiencies and skills you learn and put into use in your very next presentation will recoup every penny you put in.

CUSTOMIZED INDUSTRY VERSION

Professionals in engineering, architecture, medical, consulting, and many other technical fields know there are special challenges in presenting talks, where content is often complex and audiences can be either technical or non-technical, or even more difficult, a mix of both.

A specialized workshop for technical professionals called Word-of-Mouth™: Technical Edition addresses some of more common issues of preparation, writing, visual development, and presentation that are unique to those handling more intricate technical content, complex analytical data, or information that cannot be easily summarized.

We are helping clients structure thorny content to make talks clear and concise, and assure that the visuals are accurate, effective and palatable

Word-of-Mouth™: Technical Edition, answer concerns expressed by those who present and those who must attend a presentation.

We can customize both Word-of-Mouth™ and Word-of-Mouth™: Technical Edition for specialized industries, using data, visuals, and examples that relate to the kind of material and audience that a presenter confronts.