Persuasive Presentations

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Do you want to speak with confidence and influence others?

Public speaking is an essential component of seeking sales and improving revenue. Confidence is necessary to persuade your audience, internally as well as to a broader audience outside your organisation.

In this one-day course, sharpen your public speaking skills through practice, and your ability to persuade an audience.

DESIGNED FOR

This course is useful for all business leaders and staff who want to improve their public speaking skills, including sales staff, people managers, HR, professionals, business owners, and organisational leaders.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Identify your purpose for speaking with your audience
How to speak to a variety of audiences
Importance of knowing your audience
Tips on working with larger audiences
Improving confidence
How to stay calm and breathe
Preparing your presentation
Structure your speech for effect and clarity
Interesting ways to start and conclude your speech
Influence and creating a “call to action”
Speaking with variety in pitch, pace, pause
Awareness of posture and body language
Practise your public speaking
Receive peer and tutor feedback on your public speaking

DURATION

One day

FACILITATOR

Kathryn Finn from KiwiBoss Christchurch

Kathryn Finn has a degree in Psychology and Sociology. With a background in HR, Kathryn has lectured for a tertiary organisation in HR and management. Kathryn has eight years of experience as a team manager in the UK, and has dealt with a wide range of HR issues and recruitment. She is passionate about creating an engaging workplace that gets the best out of its people, in an environment that is positive and productive.

An experienced facilitator, Kathryn has produced workbooks and presentations on a wide range of HR issues such as flexible working, workplace policies and essential HR practices.

Julia Shallcrass from KiwiBoss Christchurch

Julia is an employment lawyer who specialises in legal education on contemporary workplace issues.

As director of KiwiBoss, she delivers in-house training and public training on HR and people management to help businesses create better workplaces.

Julia is part of the KiwiBoss team that delivers public courses through OSEA, HRNZ, and in partnership with Auldhouse. Julia is a regular webinar presenter for CCH Learning, and subject matter expert for Kineo online training.

She has lectured in Human Resources, Business Ethics and Business Communication for tertiary institutions. Julia is an employment columnist for NZ Herald.