Communications Foundation

Build your Foundation
Those who posses the skill and courage to effectively present information and ideas, also posses the power to effectively teach, educate, persuade and motivate listeners to quickly understand and take action.

Opportunities to Influence
Opportunities to educate and influence others through presentations are ubiquitous. Marketing, sales, project management, strategic planning, change management, brand building, business and product development, operations management and client relations are just a few of the areas where effective presentations can make the difference.

This interactive program provides you with a solid foundation for creating informative and engaging presentations. You will practice creating an informative and persuasive presentation.  Bring source material for constructing a five minute presentation.

Understand how to quickly overcome 'on stage' anxiety
• Learn the facts about fear and anxiety
• Practice relaxation techniques for use before, during and after you speak

Discover your unique presentation style
• We all have presentation strengths and weaknesses - discover yours
• Learn how to strengthen your weaker abilities and leverage your natural abilities

Learn techniques for creating high impact presentations
• Understand how to balance emotion and logic
• Discover how to motivate your audience and be more persuasive
• Learn how to engage the audience and position your presentation
• Learn how to grab and hold your audience with great opening and closing remarks
• Learn how to structure the body of your presentation for maximum effect
• Discover how to effectively use visual aids for different types of presentations

Understand how to use your body and voice to add power
• Receive video feedback regarding your stage presence
• Learn techniques for appropriate body positioning, hand gestures, eye contact and voice control for greater impact

Learn a highly effective framework for rapid speech and presentation development
• Discover how much time an effective development frameworks can save

Workbook and DVD: Included in the workshop is the Communications Foundations Workbook containing all the material presented during the workshop. At the end of the day you will also receive a DVD of all your recorded performances during the day. The workbook and DVD will save you time, accelerate your learning and serve as valuable resource material as you move forward in the development of your presentation and communication skills.

Workshop Facilitators: Graham Meakins and Rodney Denno deliver an intensive, fast paced, hands-on workshop that packs more learning into one day than most pack into two days.

Graham and Rodney use a combination of accelerated learning techniques that ensure you will absorb the information and retain it for far longer. You will emerge from this one day workshop with a deep and lasting understanding of how to best use your developing communicaitons skills to teach, educate, motivate and persuade.

Join us for the Communications Foundation workshop and see the difference one day of building a solid communications foundation can make in your life and career.