Breaking a Presentation Rule
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Open Presentation Skills Workshop - 17 June 2010
Outstanding Presentations
17 June 2010 9:00-17:00
Friends Coffee House (http://milujikavu.cz/en/)
Are you getting the results you want when you present?
Is your audience really listening to your message?
Do you want to feel more confident when presenting?
Spend a day improving your presentation skills with Jeanne Trojan!
This interactive workshop will include:
Streamlining the preparation process
Defining and communicating your core message
Creating content that motivates your audience to listen
Getting and keeping your audience's attention
Designing slides that support your message
Leaving a strong final impression
Participants will practice the skills they've learned throughout the workshop.
Feedback is an essential part of the process.
Space is limited to eight participants.
Price: 4 500CZK (includes a handbook, light lunch and drinks)
Register:
(+420) 777 952 343
Saturday, April 3, 2010
When it's done right
It's the nature of my work that I attend a lot of presentations. Unfortunately, a lot of them are awful. Last week, I was pleasantly surprised.
I was invited to a presentation of the House of Wine (www.houseofwine.cz) at the Royal Oak (www.royaloakprague.com). There were about twenty of us in the audience and our presenter was Elsie Pells. Elsie immediately caught our attention with a video introducing us to the wines of South Africa. The video was short, but it got our attention and made us want to learn more.
After the video, Elsie gave a talk in more depth about what makes her wine special and we had a chance to taste each variety as she went along. Not all of us have the advantage of having our audience taste wine and eat cheese while they are listening to us, but I can think of a hundred ways that even this could have been made boring. Elsie avoided every one of them.
How did she do it? One word - enthusiasm! She was wildly enthusiastic about her product and she managed to infuse us with the same amount of enthusiasm throughout her talk. Her presentation lasted close to two hours, but not once did I or anyone else notice how long it was.
This was not the only thing she did right. Her audience was clearly the focus of her talk and she continually asked us questions and kept our attention by weaving interesting stories into her presentation. The effect was phenomenal.
It has been a long time since I enjoyed a presentation so much and it has restored my faith in the possibility that it can still be done right. I left the presentation with a renewed energy to help people do what Elsie did. Bravo!
© 2009 Jeanne Trojan. All rights reserved
I was invited to a presentation of the House of Wine (www.houseofwine.cz) at the Royal Oak (www.royaloakprague.com). There were about twenty of us in the audience and our presenter was Elsie Pells. Elsie immediately caught our attention with a video introducing us to the wines of South Africa. The video was short, but it got our attention and made us want to learn more.
After the video, Elsie gave a talk in more depth about what makes her wine special and we had a chance to taste each variety as she went along. Not all of us have the advantage of having our audience taste wine and eat cheese while they are listening to us, but I can think of a hundred ways that even this could have been made boring. Elsie avoided every one of them.
How did she do it? One word - enthusiasm! She was wildly enthusiastic about her product and she managed to infuse us with the same amount of enthusiasm throughout her talk. Her presentation lasted close to two hours, but not once did I or anyone else notice how long it was.
This was not the only thing she did right. Her audience was clearly the focus of her talk and she continually asked us questions and kept our attention by weaving interesting stories into her presentation. The effect was phenomenal.
It has been a long time since I enjoyed a presentation so much and it has restored my faith in the possibility that it can still be done right. I left the presentation with a renewed energy to help people do what Elsie did. Bravo!
© 2009 Jeanne Trojan. All rights reserved
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