What you will learn at the SpeakersTrainingCamp®
HOW TO PREPARE A PRESENTATION: MAKING IT MEMORABLE, INTERESTING, AND PERSUASIVE
- Why your laptop is not good to plan your presentation.
- What makes today’s audience different from yesterday’s audience?
- Make sure your Mac works…
-The one thing you want them to remember forever.
- The columns that should support your speech.
- Why most presentations are boring and forgettable.
- Why we all get lost in someone else’s speech.
- Opening with power: they decide whether they are paying attention in the first minute.
- Closing with power: your last chance.
HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH POWER AND PASSION: YOUR NONVERBAL EXPRESSION
- Why you should not try to be like Obama.
- Your voice inflection: your harp.
- Use of hands and arms: regional folk dances.
- Should you manage your stance and feet movement?
- Eye contact: some really bad advice you may have been given.
FACING THE AUDIENCE WHEN THEY HAVE THE FLOOR: HOW TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION, FROM THE FRIENDLY TO THE CHALLENGING ONES
- When you have no idea about the answer.
- Those stupid questions.
- When you do not understand a word the person asking is saying.
- Nasties.
- Supernasties.
- Unbeatable bridges.
- Do you like your competitors?
- False statements.
- And other awkward situations.
STORYTELLING: WHAT IT IS NOT, AND HOW TO PERSUADE ANY AUDIENCE WITH A STORY
- The common misconceptions about storytelling in business.
- The best container to deliver any message.
- Why stories work: your caveman brain and surviving in a group.
- How to find your stories: your life is more hollywoodesque than you think.
- The structure of any story: from Nemo and Snow White to the board room.
- Telling the story: polishing your natural storytelling skills.
STRESS CONTROL: MAKE ALL THOSE BUTTERFLIES FLY IN THE SAME DIRECTION
- Why we are ALL afraid of public speaking (even if it’s not the world’s number one fear): your primate brain.
- The only two things that will reveal your stress, and how to get out of both.
- Why you should never tell them you are nervous.
- How to make stress work for you.
- The best way to design and use your notes.
- Memorizing is bad for you.
ONLINE PRESENTATIONS AND MEETINGS: HOW TO OVERCOME THE HARDEST CHALLENGE TO COMMUNICATION SINCE ESPERANTO
- Why online public speaking is bad for you.
- The setting: approximating a 3D environment.
- Your nonverbal resources: more than your voice.
- How not to bore them with slides.
- Managing side activities that excite the audience.
HOW NOT TO USE SLIDEWARE: YOUR SLIDES ARE NOT A DOCUMENT
- What PowerPoint was invented for.
- How not to do PowerPoint karaoke.
- Canva is for kids.
- The very simple rules that will transform your slides into visual aids.
- The tricks IT people will not tell you about.
HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE
- The bully: what they think of you, and how to hold your ground.
- The sniper: strip away the camouflage.
- The exploder: just like your little kid.
- The complainer: hey, do something to fix this.
- The know-it-all: how to kill creativity in a group.
- The full-of-it: castles in the air.
- The no-no: do not let them drag you into their hell.
- The yes-man: you, me, and everyone who knows he is going to be late.
- The silent one: how to take away their secret weapon.