The smart Presentations™
workshop
15 Years of Praise
16 benefits
2 Day Training Agenda
Your European Facilitator
Smart Presentations is an award-winning program based entirely Lars Sudmann’s distinguished TED Talks with millions of global views, & his decades of interactions via his tenures as a C-Suite Executive of P&G & McKinsey & Company. He will be flown to Singapore for 2 days only to conduct this class.
Gain a structured & proven methodology to convey your ideas, even complex ones, simply and engaging a wide range of audiences on any platform. Shed unproductive speaking & body language habits and begin communicating with an articulate & confident voice that resonates with your audience.
Features & Benefits
6 Features
Acquire an effective presentation method to shed ingrained and unproductive speaking habits.
Apply analytical thinking techniques tailored to engage your listeners effectively.
Master cutting edged techniques to start crafting impactful storyboards right-away.
Discover innovative methods for speech preparation and integrate storytelling into your presentation toolkit.
Learn to craft slide decks and visual aides that resonates with your audience.
Explore the potential benefits of leveraging on Generative AI in honing your presentations.
12 Benefits
Take your presentations to the highest levels by incorporating the best practices from a 3 time Speaking Champion and Global Ted talks veteran.
Learn to re-create convincing story-lines every time.
Cultivate precision in your words so that your audiences don’t get lost in PowerPoint hell.
Craft a captivating storyboard that drives clarity and creates a clear red thread.
Employ persuasive speaking methods and tools that add spice and meaning to your message.
Express complex information with clarity and brevity using proprietory delivery methods that will wow your audience.
Learn to see the benefits from the perspective of your audience.
Hone active listening abilities to discern your audience’s motivations.
Extract the most valuable insights from your content and deliver it in a straightforward way.
Recognize and learn how to avoid common presentation mistakes going forward.
Utilize impactful slide titles to drive impact and coherence.
Implement effective iteration techniques for maximum results.
Learn & apply pre-presentation rehearsal strategies that truly work.
Engage in thought-provoking exercises to practice powerful speaking and get real life feedback.
2 Day Training Agenda
Training Day 1
Day 1
Session 1 : Compelling Speaking Essentials
The key to compelling speaking is to erase bad habits and embrace a fresh approach. Participants will explore good & bad speaking with powerful real-life examples as well as own experiences.
Principles of Compelling Speaking
Participants will explore mini cases and create real-life examples of good & bad speaking. Based on this, you will learn the first steps in crafting a great message. Based on a pre-work, participants will explore a new approach to creating a business presentation or speech.
Principles you’ll learn:
• How to identify the most important thing in speaking: your goal
• Identify what is important and what to ignore.
• How to develop a clear, focused message for your audience
Session 2 : First Speaking Clinic – A Practical Excercise
Highly practical and interactive session where participants draft a first message & get feedback.
• Four ways to define a compelling objective
• How to define expected outcome
• Identify four typical audience types
• How to write to each listeners’ perspective
Session 3: Crafting the Story Flow
The key to getting confidence on stage and in a meeting is having a great storyflow and storyline to tell. In this part we will dissect the messages and craft these compelling storyflow.
Workshop participants will learn how to examine their messages and topics, analyse options, choose a listener- focused strategy, organize their ideas, and communicate powerfully and compellingly.
You’ll learn to use these thinking tools:
• The Storyboard Principle – How to Organize your thoughts and draft a great story flow of your presentation or speech
• Rapid Storyboard creation
• Rapid feedback
•Vertical & horizontal consistence and the “Shark teeth” principle of breadth and depth
• Plan, write, revise, edit – 4-step process to help you think clearly, organize your ideas, focus on your objectives
Session 4 : Delivery Mastery – Slide Design & Visual Aids
Participants complete a series of exercises designed to help them create and draft compelling visuals that support their business needs and speaking objective
Techniques you will learn:
• Impactful slide design
• Why minimalism is a must in presenting
• Alternatives to PowerPoint: WhiteBoard, Prezi & Co
Session 5 : Delivery Mastery – Your body speaks: Mastering great body language
Participants explore powerful body language patterns and principles and apply them directly for their own presentations.
• How to move during a presentation
• How to stand so that your message convey with power
• What to do with these hands?
• How to have powerful eye contact
• How to leverage the power of the voice.
Training Day 2
Session 6 : Practical On-Site Assignment – Practical Presentation
Participants will work on a full-fledged presentation and create their masterpiece based on the topics learned and feedback already received. Participants will do a championship routine for testing their material and get real-life feedback.
Session 7 : Speaking in the Virtual World
Many business and government professionals have not only to speak in meetings and maybe at conferences, but also in virtual meetings via for instance MS Teams. In order to be impactful here, we need to learn the key techniques to also excel in the virtual world
Skills you will learn:
• The differences between virtual and offline presentations.
• Key pitfalls to avoid
• How to master digital tools such as MS Teams
Session 8 : Advanced Speaking Techniques
Participants will learn the essential skills of advanced speaking. Once the foundation of great speaking is in place it is time to add advanced strategies that can captivate an audience.
Skills you will learn:
• Rhetorical Devices that truly work
• How to share complex data with power
• Storytelling techniques with lessons from TED and Pixar for your speaking success
• Audience interaction techniques
• Championship Stage preparation
Session 9: Implementation Exercises
Each participant will take the additional lessons learned to incorporate all into their own master pieces of presenting.
Lars will walk you through the writing process and help you apply what you learned.
Your Expert Facilitator
Based in Europe, Lars Sudmann has garnered vast experience as a leader and communicator. He has a distinguished career at Procter & Gamble -known for it’s rigourous business writing culture and the famous P&G memo- where he was for instance CFO for Belgium. He is a lecturer at the distinguished RWTH Aachen Business School in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. Lars Sudmann is also a best-selling author featured in a multitude of international outlets, such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, BBC Capital and many more. His TED talks have more than 2 million views. For more than 15 years Lars has helped executives around the world learn to think analytically and become better communicators and leaders.
The Trainer will be flown from Europe to Singapore for 2 Days to deliver this class
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