Presenting as a Leader™

Business managers and professionals who want to present their ideas with clarity and conviction, to inspire others to act on them.

• Translate your leadership thinking into a powerful message 
• Build a logical, persuasive structure reinforced with compelling language 
• Design slides that are clear, beautiful and impactful
• Speak about rather than read your slides
• Use body language, pace, eye contact and expression to engage and inspire your audience 
• Answer questions concisely and confidently

Session 1: Determining your Presentation’s Purpose

Pre-work activities: Self-Learning Module Part I – “Building Inspiring Presentations”

Real-time online session: Analyzing your audience, opportunity and purpose 

• Identifying your purpose, what you wish to achieve, and what kind of presentation and slide deck you need to build

Session 2: Structuring your Presentation

Pre-work activities: Self-Learning Module Part II

Real-time online session: Developing a persuasive and logical structure

• Identifying what you want your audience to take away, determining the structure that will work best, using The Leader’s Script to create an outline

Session 3: Thinking Visually

Pre-work activities: Self-Learning Module Part III

Real-time online session: Building visuals that are clear, meaningful and impactful

• Creating vertical logic on each individual slide, ensuring your visuals convey something of value, when to use text vs. when to use images, storyboarding your outlines

In Between Sessions 3 and 4: Thirty minutes of individualized coaching with the program instructor

• Projecting confidence through body language, eye contact, pace and expression
• Practicing your virtual delivery

Session 4: Mastering Q&As

Real-time online session: Best practice techniques for handling Q&A scenarios

• Structuring concise responses in the moment, anticipating and scripting a response to challenging questions

Special features

You will work on scripts for an upcoming presentation or re-do an old presentation, and receive feedback on your speaking notes, slides and delivery skills.

Note: while every program from The Humphrey Group is unique, there will be overlap in the communications methodology that underpins the learning. Please speak to an advisor at 604.822.8400 if you plan to attend this after taking a previous Humphrey Group course.

This program is delivered by the team at the Humphrey Group.