Establishing A Connection With Your Audience.
Getting called upon to address a group or making presentations is expected if you plan on progressing in business or public life,. If unprepared, incremental opportunities are lost by people who fail to convey their message effectively when it is their turn to get up and speak.
Why this Presentations Masterclass Is Unique In Malaysia?
Smart Presentations is an award-winning program based entirely on Lars Sudmann’s
globally recognized TED Talks with millions of views, & his decades of interactions with nations & corporations via his tenures as a C-Suite Executive of Proctor & Gamble & McKinsey & Company.
You will gain a structured & proven methodology to convey your ideas, even complex ones, simply and engaging a wide range of audiences and on any platform. Shed unproductive speaking & body language habits and begin communicating with an articulate & confident voice that resonates with your audience.
Lars Sudmann will be flown to Malaysia from Belgium for 2 days only to conduct this class.
Praise for This Facilitator from Belgium.
I learned from Lars, strategies and knowledge that I could directly apply then & now.
Lars led a great session on ‘Communication with Impact’ I quickly applied new skills effectively.
Lars’s led sessions helped us tell a compelling business story with clarity and impact.
Lars’s methods yielded tangible results, enabling swift communication to stakeholders
Lars conducted the single best educational session.
Cornerstone Benefits of This Program.
Acquire an effective presentation method to shed ingrained and unproductive speaking habits.
Apply analytical thinking techniques tailored to engage your listeners effectively.
Master cutting edged techniques to start crafting impactful storyboards right-away.
Discover innovative methods for speech preparation and integrate storytelling into your presentation toolkit.
Learn to craft slide decks and visual aids that resonates with your audience.
Explore the potential benefits of leveraging on Generative AI in honing your presentations.
Your Expert Trainer From Europe.
Based in Europe, Lars is an executive advisor, best-selling author, and global keynote expert on communications & leadership. His TEDx talks are globally ranked with millions of views and has featured on Forbes, BBC Capital, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune, and many more.
As a former chief finance executive with Proctor & Gamble in Europe – known for its rigorous business writing culture and the famous P&G memo, combined with his tenure as a McKinsey Consultant, Lars draws expertise for this class from his decades of business communications experience & senior leadership through the engagement of Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Vodafone, SAP, Siemens etc.
Lars is a gifted facilitator and teaches Executive MBAs at leading universities and business schools in Germany and Belgium. He is also a 2-times European Champion of Public Speaking and features in TEDx conferences.
Lars will be flown from Europe to Malaysia for 2 Days in August to deliver this class.
Ask Us Anything>> michael@gbxmasterclass.org
Day 1
Training Agenda for 1st Day
Session 1 : Compelling Speaking Essentials
The key to compelling speaking is to erase bad habits and embrace a fresh approach. Participants will explore good & bad speaking with powerful real-life examples as well as own experiences.
Principles of Compelling Speaking
Participants will explore mini cases and create real-life examples of good & bad speaking. Based on this, you will learn the first steps in crafting a great message. Based on a pre-work, participants will explore a new approach to creating a business presentation or speech.
Principles you’ll learn:
• How to identify the most important thing in speaking: your goal
• Identify what is important and what to ignore.
• How to develop a clear, focused message for your audience
Session 2 : First Speaking Clinic – A Practical Excercise
Highly practical and interactive session where participants draft a first message & get feedback.
• Four ways to define a compelling objective
• How to define expected outcome
• Identify four typical audience types
• How to write to each listeners’ perspective
Session 3: Crafting the Story Flow
The key to getting confidence on stage and in a meeting is having a great storyflow and storyline to tell. In this part we will dissect the messages and craft these compelling storyflow.
Workshop participants will learn how to examine their messages and topics, analyse options, choose a listener- focused strategy, organize their ideas, and communicate powerfully and compellingly.
You’ll learn to use these thinking tools:
• The Storyboard Principle – How to Organize your thoughts and draft a great story flow of your presentation or speech
• Rapid Storyboard creation
• Rapid feedback
•Vertical & horizontal consistence and the “Shark teeth” principle of breadth and depth
• Plan, write, revise, edit – 4-step process to help you think clearly, organize your ideas, focus on your objectives
Session 4 : Delivery Mastery – Slide Design & Visual Aids
Participants complete a series of exercises designed to help them create and draft compelling visuals that support their business needs and speaking objective
Techniques you will learn:
• Impactful slide design
• Why minimalism is a must in presenting
• Alternatives to PowerPoint: WhiteBoard, Prezi & Co
Session 5 : Delivery Mastery – Your body speaks: Mastering great body language
Participants explore powerful body language patterns and principles and apply them directly for their own presentations.
• How to move during a presentation
• How to stand so that your message convey with power
• What to do with these hands?
• How to have powerful eye contact
• How to leverage the power of the voice.
Day 2
Training Agenda for 2nd Day
Session 6 : Practical On-Site Assignment – Practical Presentation
Participants will work on a full-fledged presentation and create their masterpiece based on the topics learned and feedback already received. Participants will do a championship routine for testing their material and get real-life feedback.
Session 7 : Speaking in the Virtual World
Many business and government professionals have not only to speak in meetings and maybe at conferences, but also in virtual meetings via for instance MS Teams. In order to be impactful here, we need to learn the key techniques to also excel in the virtual world
Skills you will learn:
• The differences between virtual and offline presentations.
• Key pitfalls to avoid
• How to master digital tools such as MS Teams
Session 8 : Advanced Speaking Techniques
Participants will learn the essential skills of advanced speaking. Once the foundation of great speaking is in place it is time to add advanced strategies that can captivate an audience.
Skills you will learn:
• Rhetorical Devices that truly work
• How to share complex data with power
• Storytelling techniques with lessons from TED and Pixar for your speaking success
• Audience interaction techniques
• Championship Stage preparation
Session 9: Implementation Exercises
Each participant will take the additional lessons learned to incorporate all into their own master pieces of presenting.
Lars will walk you through the writing process and help you apply what you learned.
