Sales Presentations Training

We’ve had several questions about what our presentation skills training services cover. We wanted to emphasize some of our more popular services. Executive speech coaching continues to gain popularity for executives giving public presentations and honing their media skills. Executive presentation skills training is normally done in a one on one setting. The training can be done at your location or ours. We also offer group presentations training for those giving presentations to executive committees or seeking advanced presentation skills training.

Whether your intent is to overcome a fear of public speaking or to sharpen your communication and negotiation skills please feel free to contact us with any of your presentation challenges.

Steve Mertz
Technorati Tags: Presentation Skills Training, Executive Speech Coaching, Media Relations Training

Remember the song Dirty Laundry by Don Henley?

“I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry”

Many of the CEOs that we coach feel they are more susceptible than ever to a press looking for Dirty Laundry! As a matter of fact, the fastest growing aspect of our business is Executive Speech Coaching-learning to verbal banter with the press! (Read on …)

Last week I was speaking with a potential client who wanted executive speech coaching. He has an important meeting coming up and needs to convey an important shift in corporate culture. He told me: ” I feel I speak pretty well off the cuff.”

Here are some of my top reasons on why you might not want to speak off the cuff when you are delivering a very important public presentation:

1. You will have a tendency to waffle on your opening and not have a killer opening.
2. It’s very easy to forget key points.
3. It’s easy to dilute your message by leaving your key points and speaking completely off topic.
4. You are thinking too much about making your presentation and forget to engage the audience in a meaningful way.
5. By jumping around from point to point without an orderly transition and tie in-your audience becomes confused and then bored!
6. You have a tendency not to anchor key points with memorable stories.
7. You forget the “call to action”
8. You don’t have a strong close for your presentation.

The art of great public speaking is having a fabulous presentation that you have rehearsed until you are blue in the face and having your audience feel that you were speaking “just to me” in a conversational manner!!

Steve Mertz
Public Speaking is an Art!

Tags: Public Speaking, Sales Presentations, Executive Speech Coaching, Speech Coaching.

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