Speaking to Lead and Motivate Whether you choose to lead, or
have leadership demanded of you, one thing in particular becomes
alarmingly apparent. People take what you say to heart. They take more
account of everything you say, and the precise way you say it. One of the
burdens of leadership is that you no longer have leeway for speaking
half-formed thoughts. Rightly or not, people expect more of you.
Few
people, even among senior executives, are naturally outstanding as
motivational speakers. You can differentiate your company and stand out
amongst peers by becoming the very best speaker you can be. Small
changes in perception often have a huge effect in response. Public
speaking may be the only way you can directly influence many of your
customers and perhaps some of your employees. You can win more mind share,
more support, and more customers, through small improvements in your
skills.
Course Contents
Leadership and Motivation - Connect
leadership success with the ability to communicate with credibility,
logic, and passion.
Charisma - Discover the ingredients that
make a person charismatic. Explore the effect of presence on others. Learn
how to increase your own personal impact.
Easy Learning -
Accelerate your assimilation of new material through a better
understanding of how you learn. Examine your preferences and form a
strategy for leveraging them.
What's New - Find out how science
is unravelling the mysteries of the mind and how recent discoveries can
help you advance your communication skills.
Audience Rapport -
Use the first principle and seven tenets to establish audience support.
Have them want to hear your message and eager to hear you out.
Faster
Preparation - Leverage this simple to use method to cut your
preparation time in half.
Natural Style - Recognise your most
comfortable communication style and learn how to leverage it for all
situations. Practise to reinforce your most effective manner.
Gain
Attention - Engage this familiar skill to keep your audience focused
on what you want them to think about.
Keep Attention - Use the
most powerful visual tool available, without the need for visual aids.
Entertain
- Prepare and deliver an after dinner speech, after dinner, in a
private dinning room, with the other delegates. Learn from their efforts,
and your own, how to better entertain when the occasion demands it.
Be
Funny - Understand what makes people laugh. Learn about using humour
in a formal presentation and discover how to take the risk out of amusing
your audience.
Use Creativity - Invigorate your communications.
Come up with more ideas than you can possibly put into practice. Learn how
to stimulate and exercise your creativity so that good ideas come to you
easily.
Ten more Techniques - Learn a range of techniques for
commanding audience attention in any circumstances.
Put it in to
Practice - Apply the creative process to the most boring business
presentation. Enliven a talk about your business using the new tools for
stimulating creativity. Renew what you do already and double its impact on
listeners.
Simplify Preparation - Structure your communications
to get the desired results. Take into account how people best absorb
information and what makes them act on what you say.
Control
Difficult Situations - Handle every question perfectly. Recover
attention when your audience becomes noisy. Manage interruptions to
minimise distraction.
Palpable Leadership - Practise rallying an
audience to work together towards a common goal. Experiment with the
techniques and skills to stimulate passion and commitment. Get objective
feedback from others with similar perspectives.
Right Every Time
- Avoid the embarrassment of being unprepared. Use these simple methods to
ensure all your communications are welcomed and effective.
Arrangements
Ten days before the event, you will gain access to the
course resource directory, via a private area of our web site. This
provides for pre course preparation and helps us to spend more time in
practical exercises during the course. Throughout the two days, you will
be involved in discussions and exercises. You will have seven
opportunities to practise your speaking skills and incorporate new
learning.
Each practise session will be recorded for personal feedback.
You will hear constructive observations from the course leader and other
participants. Receiving objective feedback, from peers with similar
expectations and requirements will help you zero in on exactly how to
improve. Giving feedback will help you recognise opportunities to advance
your own delivery and enhance the learning process.
At the end of the
workshop, you will have comprehensive notes and a video recording of your
presentations. You will take with you a colourful aid memoir that will
provide an easy reference for all of the principles, ideas, and methods
practised over the two days. Motivational Speaking and Leadership Skills
is fun, challenging, and effective in helping people develop their ability
to influence people. We guarantee an enjoyable two days that will leave
you with renewed confidence in your ability inspire commitment and
motivation in people.
