Mastering Presentations

Creating Your Executive Presence

Whether it’s a speaking engagement large or small, an opening statement at an event or a sales and marketing presentation, sharpening your performance skills will win over your audience and communicate your messages.

Mastering presentations will help you deliver winning speeches and presentations in any setting as you learn how to perform your personal best.

Part I: Building your executive presence
You’ll learn the five keys to executive presence, the tools of effective presentations, the importance of the first 90 seconds, how to handle an audience and what it takes to look your best.

Part II: Creating an audience based presentation
You’ll find out how to take center stage and project an attitude of positive anticipation as you work towards building an audience. You’ll learn how to use tools of the trade, including vocal variations and eye contact. Ken Vest will bolster your credibility to create an audience based presentation ensuring that the themes you communicate will be well received.

Part III: Practice and message assessment
After a benchmark practice session, we’ll consider your audience and objective and conduct an analysis of the individuals and groups you are trying to reach. We’ll also evaluate the various presentation factors and how to adjust yours to match the setting.

A major part of this session will be to examine the elements of clear messages and we’ll conduct an in depth analysis of your presentation to determine if it communicates your key themes clearly and concisely. Finally, you will go through a number of on-camera practice sessions perfecting your presentation, followed by a review and analysis of your performance.