Presenting with Panache

Creating and Presenting professional presentations to impress your audience.

Death by Bullet
One of the biggest fears most people have is that of speaking in public. The answer for many is to seek refuge in PowerPoint - using a PowerPoint presentation both as a prompting facility for what to say and to distract focus from them. But too often the preparation of that presentation gets put off to the last minute, resulting in audiences sitting through hastily prepared presentations, looking at the back, or side, of the presenter, as they face the screen, nervously flicking through slides, reading through the bullet points on them.

When a presenter is fidgety, nervous, ill-prepared and unsure of their message, we pick up on that, we, the audience, become nervous and fidgety for them, boredom sets in and we come away at the at the end of it wondering what the purpose of it all was.

It doesn’t have to be that way……

Punching Above Your Weight
Presentations are a fantastic opportunity. As a presenter, you have a captive audience that have come along to listen to YOU and what YOU have to say. This is your opportunity to engage and connect with existing and potential: Customers, investors, suppliers, business partners, employees, employers. Presentations are also a great opportunity to stretch yourself, to present yourself as to where you want to be, not necessarily where you are now, in other words to “Punch above your Weight”, becoming the world class company you would like to be.

If we are not enjoying presenting then it is unlikely that our audience will enjoy the presentation. Audiences like to be entertained. They may have come along to learn something but learning works best when we are enjoying that experience and even having fun doing it.

You never know who may be sitting in your audience and likes your style. No one is going to be impressed by presentations that have hastily been prepared the night before as topic cue cards to remind you what to say. They are going to be impressed by someone who has taken the time and effort to think what the audience wants to see, hear and engage with and be entertained by. PowerPoint can be a great tool - if used properly and effectively.

This workshop provides key tips and tricks on how to prepare and present top class presentations to enthral your audience. It is presented by Rod Tallowin – the Barefoot Warrior – who has been using PowerPoint for some 18 years, starting out presenting boring financial presentations to bored, boards of directors.

Rod says: “I am happy to say I have learnt a lot since those early days and would like to share what I have learnt with you so that you too can relieve the suffering of your audiences and learn how to enjoy presenting yourself and your company as the world class company it truly deserves to be.”