Applause & Accolades - Attention Grabbing Presentation Skills: Get Noticed & Promoted

Reduce your anxiety. Develop impressive presentations quickly. Speak with finesse.

Public speaking excellence is a choice. Use Dave R. Hill's success-building tips and strategies to increase your organization's bottom line - and your own.

Structure and develop a presentation in minutes; Have colleagues nodding in agreement with your proposal; Look brilliant and confident!


• Quickly develop the outline of a presentation and get focused
• Understand the value of storyboarding your presentation
• How to find your own stories and to gather others
• Understand the power of a story and how to maximize its value
• How to open a speech or presentation
• How to close a speech with maximum impact
• Development of clear, smooth transitions
• Handling the Q & A session and avoiding the common pitfalls
• PowerPoint success strategies
• Humor development techniques
• Understanding why jokes fail
• Deliver dry, technical information successfully with pizzazz
• Customizing your content to your audience
• Incorporate purposeful movement
• Comprehend distractions you maybe unaware of – filler words and nervous gestures etc.
• Use notes successfully
• Learn techniques to maximize the delivery of stories and humor
• Understanding the room layout – pros and cons
• Use of a microphone
• If you have a strong accent
• Deliver presentations while seated
• Multi-speaker format success strategies
• Memorization techniques
• How to keep an audiences attention
• Dealing with anxiety
• Looking after your voice
• Use group exercises in the most effective way possible
• Use the presentation style best suited for the situation
• Understand non-verbal audience feedback
• Delivering unpopular information – do’s and don’ts
• When things go wrong – survival strategies
• Cost effective means to practice and hone your skills
• Room Layout - preparation and considerations