Presentation Skills Training for Individuals
Presentation Skills Training
in Canada
For the past 25 years, we have delivered public enrollment small-group two-day presentation skills workshops in Toronto, Canada. Our presentation skills training will bring about substantial and permanent improvement to your speaking skills and is specifically designed for Executives, Managers, Accountants, Lawyers, and Leaders.
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Our Presentation Skills Training
Our Presentation Skills Training
In Commanding Presence’s highly effective and transformational Two-Day Advanced Presentation Skills Training, you will achieve a substantial and permanent improvement in your comfort, confidence, and speaking skills. Our participants receive all the expert coaching, exercises, practice, and video feedback they require and learn effective public speaking skills in a comfortable and supportive learning environment. Participants will quickly improve every aspect of their public speaking and presentation skills, from strategy and text preparation to voice quality, body language, establishing rapport, and overcoming speaking anxiety.
Is Our Presentation Skills Training Right For You?
Do your presentation skills fall short of matching your expertise and knowledge?
Do you have complex ideas and thoughts that you wish to deliver in a way that is easily remembered when speaking impromptu?
Is speaking anxiety or a fear of speaking a barrier to your success?
Do you want to be more eloquent and persuasive in high-stakes presentations and meetings?
If your response is YES to these questions, then our presentation skills training is right for you!
Accountants, lawyers, executives, sales staff and other professionals, either in the early stage of their career or already successful leaders, all will benefit from our effective presentation skills training.
What Makes Our Presentation Skills Training Unique?
Our presentation skills training is of tremendous value to those who are in the early years of their career, as well as those who are already successful speakers and leaders.
World-Class Coaching
You will receive expert personal coaching and video feedback tailored to your unique speaking skills. The objective is to develop the full power of your natural speaking style and your unique personality.
Pre-Workshop Coaching Assessment
You will receive expert personal coaching and video feedback tailored to your unique speaking skills. The objective is to develop the full power of your natural speaking style and your unique personality.
Small Groups
With only 10 participants, you will receive all of the personal coaching you require and learn new skills in a comfortable and supportive environment.
Video Recording & Video Feedback
Time and time again, participants have indicated that our videotaping sessions have been transformational. You will have the opportunity to record four presentations throughout the workshop – and receive feedback from participants and your coach after you present.
Enjoyable
Our clients appreciate the comfortable workshop environment and find the experience challenging, enjoyable and very rewarding.
Continuous Improvement
You will receive a written analysis from your presentation skills coach with personal recommendations for continuous improvement. The Commanding Presence Handbook is filled with “best practices” that will help you continue the momentum from course.
What Will You Learn In Our
Presentation Skills Training?
After this advanced presentation skills training, participants will be able to:
- Speak with more confidence and authority in all business and social environments.
- Quickly prepare and deliver memorable, persuasive presentations and talks to small and large groups.
- “Think on your feet”: respond quickly and eloquently to questions and inquiries in meetings, on the telephone, and in presentations.
- Connect with the audience and establish rapport with different personality types: persuade and influence with integrity.
- Develop your authentic and natural speaking style.
- Manage personal stress and communicate effectively under pressure.
- Reduce their fear of speaking.
Two of our most popular units during the communication skills training are the FOCUS! Method and Connecting with Your Audience.
Even for subject experts and leaders, there is a lot of pressure in choosing what to say, how much to say, and how to begin and end, to ensure our message is retained, understood, and effective. Our FOCUS! Method addresses this issue, factoring in the limitations of people’s short-term memory. It guides you to rehearse, to replay, and to have strong images connected to your messages, thus transferring your freshly composed material from working memory to longer-term memory.
Connecting with Your Audience, on the other hand, guides you through the message delivery process. You start with your thought, then make a mental connection with your audience, then share the thought, and then pause to internalise the audience’s response. This is a powerful tool. Using it wisely can help you turn an otherwise superficial message relay into an engaging, thought-provoking delivery.
Two-Day Presentation Skills Workshop Agenda
Day One
Introduction
- Group discussion: Coaching objectives, individual objectives and personal interests are summarized
- Presentation recording #1– Intro Talk
Fundamentals of Advanced Speaking Skills
- Benefits and consequences of your speaking skills
- The elements of verbal communication
- The elements of personal performance
The Keys to Effective Delivery
- Natural speaking
- The keys to Presence and Charisma communication
- Audience Interaction
The FOCUS! Method
- Prepare short, clear, memorable messages on current topics and issues
- How to “think on your feet” and respond quickly and persuasively
- Creating your own library of eloquent and persuasive statements for client presentations
- Partnered work: practicing writing Focus Method presentations
- Coaching: Delivering your FOCUS! Method presentations
- Presentation recording #2– FOCUS! Method presentation
- Advanced listening skills
- Preparing for meetings
- Preparing persuasive presentations
How to Control the Room
- Overcoming speaking anxiety
- PowerPoint & delivering from slides
- Platform skills
Video Feedback Session
- Review at least one video per participant in a group setting – 360 style feedback.
- PowerPoint & delivering from slides
- Coaching: positive feedback from peers and coach on personal qualities unconsciously conveyed
Day Two
Group discussion:
- Coaching and recommendations
Connecting With Your Audience
- The keys to effective delivery
- Managing pre-performance stress
- Natural speaking with effective eye contact
- Partnered work: speaking effectively from notes
- Coaching: speaking effectively from notes
- Presentation recording #3: Connecting with your audience presentation
Speaking Superbly From Notes
- Natural speaking with effective eye contact
- The keys to effective delivery
Platform & PowerPoint Skills
- Gestures and movement
- Audience interaction
- Powerful PowerPoint and delivering complex information
Eliminating Speaking Anxiety
- Relaxation techniques to reduce tension and increase energy
- Preparing yourself to speak
- How to relax when speaking
Rediscovering Your Natural Voice
- Natural breathing
- Improving your diction
- Simple physical and vocal relaxation and preparation
- Group exercises: vocal exercises and stress management
Final Presentations
- Coaching: Putting it all together
- Presentation recording #4: Final presentations
Coach’s Recommendations
- Final Q&A
- Personalized plan for continuous improvement
- Resources
Fees & What's Included
The Two-Day Workshop fee is $2,400 + HST per person
Workshop Deliverables
- Pre-workshop personal assessment of each participant that helps the coach customize the workshop to the goals and needs of the participants. This will be in the form of an online questionnaire.
- Highly interactive workshop with group exercises, practice, and expert personal coaching
- 4 Presentation recording sessions
- 1 Video feedback session with 360-style feedback
- Customized personal coaching in a group setting
- Copies of your workshop video recordings
Workshop Logistics
Location: Yonge & Bloor Area, Toronto, ON Canada
Hours: 8:30am to 4:30pm each day
Meals: continental breakfast, catered lunch, refreshments and snacks provided each day
Post Workshop: You will receive a letter of recommendations from the coach and your workshop video recordings
Presentation Skills Training Dates
These are small group workshops with a limit of 10 participants, to maximize time for presentation exercises, video recordings, and personal coaching. Our public workshops are held in downtown Toronto, Canada.
