Maximise the Impact of your Presentations and Corporate Communications
Professional Development Workshop - WiT Wednesday 22 April 
WiT invites you and your colleagues to our upcoming professional development workshop. This workshop aims to develop and enhance the skills required to maximize the impact our individual  presentations have on our audience.
Presentations for marketing and information purposes are regular activities in professional lives. Everyone has sat through those that are outstanding and others we may have preferred to miss! How do we maximize our potential to always make an outstanding presentation? The workshop will provide practical techniques for public speaking and delivering powerful presentations.
Workshop Outline:
- Using vocals to improve your presentation
- Practical skills required to perform presentations/pitches without slides
- Delivering information in an interesting and comprehensible manner
- Delivering an effective 2 or 5 minute pitch or self introduction
- Keeping an audience interested for the entire duration of your presentation
- Creating an effective and interesting presentation - what works
- Firing up Your PowerPoint:10 Immutable Laws for Effective Business Presentations
- Take your presentation online - Introduction to video streaming and what it can do to maximise online corporate communications
- Our guest speaker will give an overview of e-newsletters and how they should be used to enhance corporate communications with clients, staff or members.
We have tools readily available and at our disposal, but do we use them effectively or at all? Tools include technical media and personal attributes that can be fostered to deliver our message effectively to deliver results with confidence and that "wow" factor. It is rare to do a business presentation these days without using PowerPointŪ. Unfortunately, most of them end up as "Death by PowerPointŪ"; but it doesn't have to be that way. Creating an effective, interesting presentation isn't difficult as long as you know what works.
SPECIAL PROMOTION: Register Before Wednesday 8 April And Go In The Draw To Win One Of Two Gift Certificates for New Horizons Brisbane Valued at $425 each
Who should attend:
- Senior executives, managers and board members who need to present to an audience regularly;
- Business and government representatives and agents;
- Project managers and team members;
- Communications and marketing staff;
- Those who can't afford to make costly mistakes in their presentations;
- People who want to improve their presentation style and delivery skills and
- People who want to learn how to deliver presentations with impact.
About the Speakers
Sally Symonds (MA, BA (Hons), LSDA, ASDA) Member of the Speech and Drama Teachers' Association of Qld Inc
Sally Symonds will take you through the key elements of communications focused on the soft skills of delivering presentations. Sally has spent over ten years consulting on various communication and presentation issues. Her clients have included national and international companies, media identities, stockbrokers, lawyers, accountants, engineers, doctors, real estate agents, teachers, police officers, personal trainers, colour consultants, actors, professional storytellers and other creative artists.
Lee Featherby
Lee Featherby is the Managing Director of PowerfulPoints and his highly practical talk, "Firing up Your PowerPoint:10 Immutable Laws for Effective Business Presentations" will take you through the rules he has developed after working with presentations for over 25 years. He is a highly regarded professional speaker and trained presenter, formerly a professional lecturer at both Undergraduate and Graduate level, Lee ran Advanced Diploma, Undergraduate and MBA courses in market research methods, consumer behaviour, business to business e-marketing, services marketing, marketing management, and organisational behaviour. Lee has produced presentations for some of Australia's leading businesspeople such as Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and counts some of Australia's leading companies amongst his client list, as well as numerous small and medium enterprises. As the prestigious "Marketing" magazine wrote about him in an article produced in their February edition, "Trust us, take some of his advice, whether you think you need it or not"
Guest Speaker: Murray James - Director, Envisage Media
Murray will introduce you to some clever media technology for video streaming and e-newsletters and how they relate to effective corporate communication strategies. With streaming video or streaming media, a visitor to a website does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives. Becoming common place as part of an online communication strategy, streaming media allows organisations to directly communicate to web visitors. From taking your presentations online to offering announcements of new products and services to hosting online meetings, streaming media generates more visual excitement and encourages communication between your organisation and web visitors. Email marketing has somewhat of a bad reputation thanks to a vast amounts of inbox spam. E-newsletters are exclusively distributed online and contain specific communication elements and are far more successful and at generating communication and returning web traffic. E-newsletters are more then current updates of organisational developments, they must be interesting, contain useful content and should let your readers know that you are willing to help and share useful information about your organisation and services.
SPECIAL PROMOTION: Register Before Wednesday 8 April And Go In The Draw To Win One Of Two Gift Certificates for New Horizons Brisbane Valued at $425 each for application or professional development training. Prizes drawn on the night.
Date: Wednesday 22 April 2009
Time: 5.15pm networking for a 5.45 start until 8.00pm
Venue: McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Level 11, Central Plaza Two, 66 Eagle Street, Brisbane (Google Map)
Pricing: $45 Members, $60 non-members, Student Members $30
Parking: Post Office Square, Entry Adelaide St, $11 after 4pm or Waterfront Place, $10 after 4pm.
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