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How To Influence Your Audience: Delivering Powerful Presentations How effective are your presentations? Do people seem captured by your words, data, and graphics? Do they look at you and your slides with intense interest? Do they come to you after the presentation commending you and asking for more on the subject? Perhaps that level of presentation success happens only once in a long while. People say that most presentations are boring and ineffective. How can you make yours more interesting and influential? Here are the techniques that work best: Know your subject: The one element that can make your presentation much easier on you and more influential to your audience is your mastery of the subject. Practice giving a presentation on your topic until you are confident that you know your topic inside out without having to look at slides or notes. Speak to your audience’s interest: It’s amazing how many presenters stand up and start talking about their project, their ideas, their product, as it what is of interest to them is also of interest to their audience. Follow the WIFM concept (What’s In It Form Me?) Tell your audience at the outset how what you will be talking about is going to benefit them. Speak the language of your listeners: A key concept in effective communication is to speak in the language of your listener. This means that you must not speak in your own preferred language, style, and point of view. If you want to be effective, you must make sure that you reach the audience by adopting their language, their style, their way of seeing things, and their level of comprehension. If you don’t reach them, you don’t influence them. Talk to group one person at a time: Don’t look in the outer space. Look at your audience one at a time. Spend a few seconds looking in the eyes of each person sitting in front of you, then move slowly to the next. This way each person will feel that you are talking to him or her personally. Make it personal. Make it human: Even if your presentation is technical, make it as human as you can. You make your presentation human by making it personal. Talk about your personal experience. Describe how you felt when. Be vulnerable. Be authentic. By funny, without necessarily telling jokes. Be natural. Be human. Engage your audience: Communication is a two way street. Avoid giving one-way speeches. Fill your presentations with questions that require your audiences’ answers. Use quizzes to intrigue them. Ask those who have similar experiences to raise their hands. Get them involved. If you have time, give them time to speak and present their view points. Perform: Being natural and authentic does not mean you stand up there whispering in your normal voice. If you are presenting then you are on stage. You must perform. You need to raise your voice, move, waive your hands. You are the center of attention and the focal point of your audience. Don’t let them sleep in their seats. Your movements, voice, and body language should all be dynamic enough to keep your audience awake and interested. (c) 2005 Communication Ideas - Get the entire program of 30 inspiring and educational 'CommUnicate' articles like this one - use two a month for 15 months- to post on your Intranet, publish as a regular column in your publication, or copy and hand-out in meetings- to help people communicate more effectively at work for just $98.

The Presentation Game: Turn ANY PowerPoint Presentation Into an Exciting GAME Turn ANY PowerPoint Presentation into a TRAINING GAME with this unique Excel based application. It's as easy as 1-2-3 to export your slides into this exciting tool which converts your PowerPoint presentation into an exciting game. With the Excel TGI Presentation Game, you can actually score key discussion points, add intriguing questions to your slides, and award points for correct answers. Get creative and turn your presentation into an exciting and fun game! The game also has sound effects, automatic scoring, time keeper, and allows up to 8 teams to play. This program is totally unlike anything else. It is not a question This is a product that takes slides from YOUR PowerPoint presentation and puts them into a game format. It also has many other features that help you to create many different types of games from your PPT slides. We have designed this product to be very flexible in concept and application. If you use PowerPoint presentations as part of your main job, you know the limitations. Too many slides or too much information leads to "POWERPOINT BURNOUT OR OVERLOAD". This is a recognized problem. The Presentation Game is the solution. It will keep your people involved in your presentation because they will be playing a game while they are learning. Presentation Game Features: - View your PowerPoint slides from inside the program. -You present your slide presentation as you normally would but now you can award points for great game participation or correct answers to your questions. - The game keeps score for you automatically -Set up special bonus questions, and reveal correct answers at the touch of a button. - Team play can be set for 2 to 8 teams/players, and the team/player names appear in the game itself. - Teams can have an unlimited number of players. - Game clock, allows you to pre-set play time and stay on schedule or turn off the clock and play throughout your entire program.- Dynamic scoring allows you to set different values for each slide or question. - Teams can score Multiple times during any slide. You make the game rules and award points accordingly. - You have complete control over scoring including a pop-up that will let you correct scores if an error is made during play. - Handles up to 3 different program topics or individual presentations with the ability to load up to 225 total slides (75 per category) into the Presentation game. - You define the program presentation categories (3) within the game to fit your training Program. For example you may have one program that includes presentations on Leadership, Managing Teams, and Team Work loaded into one game, or perhaps you have loaded in your main presentation in one category, and and have trivia questions or team building exercises loaded into the other categories, ready when you need them. -Get ready to give your greatest presentation with The Presentation Game! Presentation Game Program Options: - Editible Rules pop-up lets you enter your own rules for each game. - Toggle game sounds on or off. - Add your program name to the game scoreboard screen. - Change the host on the game scoreboard. - Bring your PowerPoint presentation into the game with a click of a button. - Sort Order buttons to reorder or move slides or images. - Slide viewer to help with resorting slides.. - Spell Checker available. - Button to easily clear all data for category pages. - Buttons to generate good, bad or other sounds during the game at the trainers option. - Scrollbar to easily move forward or backwards through your presentation. - Button to temporily exit the presentation to check the scoreboard. - Buttons to optimize how your image is viewed on the main game screen. - Button to pop-up an answer or any other information related to the current slide in your presentation. - The Game ends automatically when you run out of slides or time. – We also provide an “END GAME” function for unexpected schedule changes! - A special tie-breaker option button (Just in case). - "Save As" option allows you to save different versions of the game. - Full Screen mode to make the game as large as your screen for better visibility when using a projector. This is one tool you will want to have in your Training Universe. Purchase the Presentation Game on a CD for just $74.95 __________________________________________________________________________

Slides That Win: The Ultimate Tool to Create Great PowerPoint Presentations $79 There is not another product like Slides That Win on the market. Compare and use over 300 before-and-after PowerPoint slide examples. Save hours of time to create professional looking slides that achieve results for your presentations. Slides That Win was created using PowerPoint so you can replicate and use the examples. Copy and use the designs on the Slides That Win CD. Create professional-looking slides. Save hours creating slides. Give confident presentations. You will also get free backgrounds from Jennifer Rotondo of Creative Minds, free presentation and design articles, and PowerPlugs examples. See examples of what to do and not to do. Instantly apply the tips and tricks to your presentation. When you like an example, you can copy and paste it into your presentation.

In Slides That Win you'll learn to compare over 300 before-and-after PowerPoint slides You'll learn to compare over 300 before-and-after PowerPoint slide examples, understanding what makes an effective slide. You'll get Design Tips, PowerPoint Tips and Delivery Tips. Claudyne Wilder, author of Point, Click & Wow! and The Presentations Kit: 10 Steps for Selling Your Ideas! and Jennifer Rotondo, Microsoft Certified PowerPoint Expert, have combined their twenty years of presentation experience into this powerful CD. Order Now for $79.00

Presentations In A Hurry: Create an organized, professional presentation in half the time Are you spending nights and weekends slaving over PowerPoint presentations? Presentations In A Hurry will help you regain your life and get back to your business. Presentations in a Hurry: 26 Formats That Persuade CD PowerPoint shells covering 26 of the most common presentation scenarios, from problem analysis, communicating bad news, Investor Relations, New Project Proposal and Product Launch to Project Progress Report, fund raising, and many other topics. Simply follow the content recommendations and, once you drop in the text, your presentation will be complete. Every shell also includes a template design, plus custom graphics and appropriate imagery. Save hours of time creating your slide presentations. More importantly, they will look professional and enhance your confidence while talking. Why do you need Presentations in a Hurry? In school learning information is very important. Out in the real world, however, learning how to present information is even more important. Lack of information is not the problem for most people—they're overloaded with too much already. The presenter's challenge is to organize the data so the audience understands and, usually, agrees to take specific action. If you are like most people, you were never trained to organize data—knowing what to leave out, putting it in easily understandable chunks, and showing it graphically. Too many presenters feel frustrated because they know their presentations are poorly organized, visually cluttered, and hard to follow. But they weren't hired because they were professional graphic designers or good public speakers. They were hired to do a job. Do you want to use PowerPoint like a pro? With this system, anyone can create presentations that really harness the amazing toolkit within PowerPoint. Even people with little or no experience will be able to create carefully organized, attractive presentations that hold their audiences' attention. And because these presentation shells walk you through the process so quickly, they free up your time to focus on what you do best. How will Presentations in a Hurry benefit you? Time savings: Free up your time to get back to your business. Increased productivity: Raise your productivity by focusing on the right things. More confidence: Increase your confidence with focused, well-designed, high-quality presentations. Audience appreciation: When your audience can easily follow your train of thought in a presentation, they will stay interested and be able to make decisions based on your talk. Carefully chosen, sophisticated graphical designs illustrate key concepts and keep your audience's attention. Cutting out unnecessary details: Don't present information your audience does not want to see or hear! Learn how to eliminate it. Presentation Shell Topics Category Review Change Proposal Communicate the Bad News Company Overview Company Strategic Analysis Convince People of a Problem General Format Identify the Problem Investor Relations New Project Proposal Influence Potential Problem Analysis Product Launch Project Progress Report Recommend an Alternative Research Assay Satisfying Our Customers Sell to Customer Interests Share Information Strategy Recommendation Teach Skills Technical Technical Selling Work Update Non-Profit Fund Raising Program Introduction Each Presentations in a Hurry topic has two PowerPoint files The presentation file includes 10 to 15 slides that organize your content. Graphical images help you display what you want to say. Besides the professionally designed backgrounds, every file has a plain dark and a plain light background to use with diagrams and charts. Notes on several slides suggest the best way to design a powerful presentation. Every topic gives you a slide to define your audience objective. By filling it out before you create your slides, you will include only the information needed to reach your presentation's objective. You won't spend time inputting information of little interest to your audience. The "how-to" file tells you when to use this shell and shows you a filled out audience-objective slide. You can read advice on how to create slides and how to deliver an effective presentation on this topic. You also see 10 Delivery Tips that will remind you of best practices for presenters. Order Presentation In A Hurry for $99.95

Presentation Skills Customizable Workshop in Word Template CD-ROM $179.95 This fully reproducible and customizable workshop is designed for employees in the organization who are responsible for giving presentations to internal or external customers. All the information and exercises can be easily applied to work-related situations. Presentation Skills is designed to be facilitated in up to two-days, or if you prefer, in a series of short-term meetings. Participants will learn to: Improve the quality of presentations through better use of the voice, eyes, gestures, posture and movement; Engage audiences mentally and physically; Use a presentation framework that ensures audience members know the goals and objectives for their presentation; Generate immediate interest in their presentation; Use their skills and creativity to maintain the interest of audience members; Use visual aids such as the flip chart and overhead projector in a more effective manner; Use a podium in more formal presentations; Give "group" or "team" presentations Skills covered include: Understanding the Two Key Roles of Effective Presenters; Developing Your Voice; Using Eye Contact, Gestures, Posture and Movement for Maximum Impact; Preparing Concise, Hard-Hitting and Memorable Presentations; Defining Meaningful Objectives for Presenter and Audiences Alike; Creating Opening Statements that Grab the Audience; Designing the Body to Support your Objectives and Opening Statements; Successfully Closing the Presentation; Giving Podium Presentations; Handling Questions from the Audience; Effectively Using Overhead Projectors and Transparencies; Identifying Blocks to Successful Performance. Word 2000 Custom Version CD-ROM: Using the power of Microsoft Word 2000, you can modify, change, edit, delete, import, export, copy, paste, add color, logos, clip art, fonts, etc., to this program, just as you would any Word document! On the CD is an original template of the Participant’s Workbook and Facilitator’s Guide. This CD can be used in any IBM compatible computer with Windows 95/98/NT and Microsoft Word already loaded. Presentation Skills Workshop Template CD-ROM/ Code BD-PS/ $179.95

More than Just a Pointer. It Is 3 Presentation Devices in One WIDE POINTER combines the features of the presentation controller, wireless mouse and laser pointer into one ergonomic device. With WIDE POINTER, you don't need to stand beside your notebook PC or have an additional person to assist you, nor do you need to aim at the receiver of the remote control. Excellent 2.4 GHz RF technologies enable the user to control the presentation wirelessly up to 100 feet (30 meters) away indoors. It is a USB plug-and-play device with no additional software required. The automatic laser beam safety switch provides protection against unintentional laser beam into human eyes. Regular price is $149- Order now and save $30 - Just $119 Click below for more details Wide Pointer

Use PeP to Evaluate and Boost the Effectiveness of Presentations Throughout the Organization Your presentations can make or break your career. Improving the effectiveness of your presentations, and those of your team members, can go a long way toward helping you achieve more dramatic results. And now there is a quantifiable way to assess and improve the effectiveness of your presentations in all formats: PeP: The Reproducible, Customizable, Presentation Evaluation Profile for your entire team. Based on over twenty years of experience in the presentations, communications, and training fields, we developed PeP to be an easy to use, self-scoring, and 360 degree others' scoring tool that delivers instant results revealing the degree of effectiveness of your presentations and the presentations of others, and much more. How PeP Will Dramatically Improve Your Presentations PeP consists of questions covering the 25 most critical aspects of presentations development and delivery. From preparation and planning, to purpose, messages and messenger, to the use of aides and influencing techniques. PeP enables you to evaluate your own presentation PeP uses a 360 format to give you the benefit of discovering how others see and evaluate your presentation. PeP enables you to quickly identify the areas that need improvements and guides you on how to do it. PeP enables you to keep track of your improvements, in numbers, until you master the art of presentations at its best. PeP also reveals your Blind Spot regarding your presentation's delivery, style, and effectiveness. PeP identifies the gap between the way you perceive your presentation and the way others actually respond to your presentations. This revelation is the most useful insight you can get regarding your own presentation effectiveness. PeP is easy and fast to use, takes about 15 minutes to complete for each user. PeP will guide you through the necessary steps toward significantly improving your presentation development and delivery. PeP comes with a Presentation Planning and Outline Creation Template that enables you to quickly create a presentation following the outline and steps provided. PeP is delivered to you in an electronic format (MS Word) so that you can print as many copies of it as you need to evaluate and improve the presentations of all your team members, managers, or trainees. The presentation skills of your entire team, department, or organizations can be evaluated, measured, tracked and improved for a small one time investment. Who Can Benefit from PeP? Managers presenting to their staff / Sales professionals / Trainers / Teachers / Educators / Communicators / Public Speakers / Lawyers / Public Officials / Politicians / Teams making presentations. PeP is delivered in an electronic format (MS Word). A Complete File of Reproducible PeP (Self) and Three (Others) Profiles, plus a Presentation Planning Template, and a User's Guide for $39.95

Flip Chart Magic: Building and Using Effective Flip Charts in Training Sessions. Flip Chart Magic takes you step-by-step through the process of building and using effective flip charts in training sessions. Divided into three sections with color coded pages (Need to Know / Nice to Know / Where to Find), the book comes with its own set of flip chart markers so that you can immediately begin applying the concepts and principles presented. Flip Chart Magic is literally "A Seminar In A Book!" The front half of the book is a more basic course and the back half of the book is a more advanced course on the subject of effective flip chart use. Flip Chart Magic also contains a "Bonus Section" with seventeen transparency masters for combining the overhead projector with the flip chart to increase its effectiveness even more! Includes a Mr. Sketch® Scented Marker four-pack, with markers in red, green, blue, and yellow. Order Now $39.95

The Presenter's Twin Guides to Effective Presentations If you are serious about creating and delivering powerful presentations then you must have this two-book set designed to give you, in a very concise format, everything you need. The first book is The Manager's Pocket Guide to Public Presentations by Steve Gladis, Ph.D. It is an indispensable reference for managers and executives who find themselves in the often frightening position of having to give a public presentation. The book is a compendium of tips and techniques that will help you learn the survival tactics of public speaking. A simple, quick read, based on accepted theory and best practices, it is also a confidence builder that will help you overcome anxiety over public speaking. The second book is "101 Leadership Actions for Effective Presentations." Upgrade your leadership skills quickly and easily—and produce results in your organization with a lot less effort. Each book in this collection focuses on a specific area of leadership and managerial effectiveness and offers 101 actions you can accomplish today to improve your impact. The books are easy-to-read and written by experts with real-world experience. Packed with involving activities that encourage thought and action, the books offer techniques that have been tried and proven effective in Fortune 500 companies. Read each title from cover to cover or one action-at-a-time. Either way, you are sure to discover new and stimulating ways to unleash your best effort as a leader. Organize your presentation thoughts . . . present your ideas with impact . . . manage yourself and your audience. These 101 actions will help you overcome "presentation-dread." Get ideas on how to make your main point compelling, practice with tape recorders and video recorders, use memory joggers, create slides, and more. The two books together $20.90

High Impact Presentations: Learn Presentation Skills from Master Presenter Bob Pike - Training Video. Free Preview High Impact Presentations is a three parts Masters Series video that will deliver clear and simple tools for adding power and impact to presentations. Bob Pike, an expert on delivering high impact and high energy presentations, leads this three-part video series. He explains to the learners that they are the magic in their presentations. If they prepare, practice and involve participants, they can get the results they're looking for. Master Trainer Bob Pike presents this three-part series to a live audience. His presentations include: Part I—Effective Openings and Closings Part II—Presentations, Springboards and Deadly Sins Part III—How To Use Questions. Key Training Points: Present your content as well as you know it Utilize different types of openings and closings Establish credibility with your audience Use eye contact effectively Create interest in your presentation Involve and answer questions appropriately / Learn the 10 deadly sins that presenters should avoid. Length: Part I: 27 min; Part II: 19 min; Part III: 16 min./ Product Code: AM0051/ Purchase for $495.00  Rent VHS Format for $195.00   Rent DVD Format for $225.00 Call Us For a Free Preview: 973-427-3004

Life Is a Series of Presentations: Inspire, Inform & Influence. Anytime. Anywhere. A Training Video - Free Preview The best way to cut through the clutter is to make your point–quickly and effectively. Based on the book by author Tony Jeary (Mr. Presentation), Life Is a Series of Presentations demonstrates how to focus and execute your communication so that every time you present an idea, a message, a speech, or even conduct a meeting, you will gain the skills necessary to maximize your daily interactions. The course follows a series of easy-to-use steps with the P.O.I.N.T. model, enabling participants to inspire, inform, and influence others confidently and persuasively. Ultimately, employees will establish credibility, improve working relationships, increase efficiency and effectiveness, improve job and personal satisfaction, and more. The P.O.I.N.T. Model: P - Prepare / O - Outline Intent  / I - Involve Audience /  N - Narrow Objectives and Focus /  T - Tailor Presentation Throughout Learning Point Highlights: Encourages employees to approach communication in a whole new way Outlines a five-step method that increases individual impact Increases confidence and skills in all areas of communication Complete Training Kit Components: DVD (full length video, companion SMART-START® Presentations: What IS a Presentation?, interview with subject-matter expert, Tony Jeary, TrainerTALK™ with Sue Mueller and classroom slides) VHS (24 minutes) Facilitator Guide (multiple agenda options) Reproducible Participant Materials Reproducible Self-Study Guide Online Program Resources Trainer Pack Purchase the Complete Kit on sale till 12/31/2006 for $895.00 Basic Kit Components: VHS (24 minutes) Facilitator Guide (multiple agenda options) Reproducible Participant Materials Reproducible Self-Study Guide Online Program Resources Purchase the Basic kit for $795.00 For a Free Preview Call: 973-427-3004 or email: service@communicationideas.com

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