Leaders Speakers, a leadership soft skills training company located in Charlotte NC was requisitioned to facilitate one of their 2 day Master Presentations Workshops last week on October 13-14, 2017. The Childress Klein School of Real Estate is located at the UNCC campus at 320 E. 9th Street Downtown Charlotte. The Director of the Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) Program was looking for a company to facilitate a public speaking workshop for their students so that they could be prepared to deliver strong presentations in the business world. Leaders Speakers has performed many public and corporate public speaking workshops over the past few years and has helped many people overcome the obstacles that hold most people back from being able to speak in front of an audience. The workshop has also helps individuals to become more persuasive to deliver winning presentations using a unique formula taught in the 2 day Workshop.
The class of 20 students that attended the Public Speaking Workshop at the Childress Klein UNCC campus went through a series of exercise starting with how to give an introductory speech on themselves to serve as a benchmark and also have them get used to keeping track of their time speaking. Timing is a very important component as the audience is very sensitive to speaking time, going over will disengage the audience. The students then learned importance of how to build rapport with the use of stories. Stories not only engage the audience but substantiate an occurrence with a specifics who, what, where and when something happened to prove or sell your point. Finally the students were taught to use a story as a component for the formula to persuade. The formula was actually developed by Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg address in which Lincoln only spoke for three minutes but was noted as one the most famous speeches because it was so successful in getting the country united. The simple formula has the speaker tell a story then shows a benefit that people will receive if they take a prescribed action by the speaker after telling the story.
After the class learned how to present a persuasive speech they were tasked to develop a four minute and then a final six minute presentation. They used their class skills to come up with a “solution” based title to hook the audience then come up with three main points ( the audience will typically not remember more than three) then to use a story or example to back up each point and then finally summarize their presentation in a concise manner to close the audience.
The best way to develop a winning memorable presentation is to design in a way that it presents a solution to which the audience came to obtain a benefit for which they were seeking to get from the speech or presentation.
Steven Stasczak is a motivational speaker who facilitates professional speaking training and team building events/workshops. He spent his earlier career as a top business to business sales manager before beginning coaching and training around the U.S. professionally. His areas of expertise includes developing effective public speaking workshops and helping individuals overcome fear of public speaking. He also performs and facilitates leadership training , time management workshops and fun team building activities to align your team in the workplace