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Presentation & Public Speaking Skills

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Life IS a Series of Presentations - Complete Kit

New Release Available on Video & DVD!

Based on the book by author Tony Jeary, Life IS a Series of Presentations demonstrates how to focus and execute your communication so that every time you present an idea, a message, a speech, or even conduct a meeting, you will gain the skills necessary to maximize your daily interactions. The course follows a series of easy-to-use steps with the P.O.I.N.T. model, enabling participants to inspire, inform, and influence others confidently and persuasively. Ultimately, employees will establish credibility, improve working relationships, increase efficiency and effectiveness, improve job and personal satisfaction, and more.

After viewing this video, employees will know how to:

  • Explain why work (and life) is a series of "presentations"
  • Identify the three categories of presentations:
  • Inspire, Influence, and Inform
  • Articulate why and how the P.O.I.N.T. model is effective
  • Apply the steps of the P.O.I.N.T. model in common presentation situations, including e-mail, voice-mail, live phone conversations, one-on-one, small group/team
  • Demonstrate confidence and persuasiveness when making presentations

Program Includes:

  • 24 Minute program available in DVD or VHS
  • Facilitator Guide with 1-hr, 4-hr, and 1-day
  • (8-hr) agenda options
  • Reproducible Participant Materials
  • Reproducible Self-Study Workbook
  • PowerPoint presentation available for download

  • Life IS a Series of Presentations - Complete Kit $995.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Life IS a Series of Presentations - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand - DVD

Free Online Preview

Host Steve Landesberg, of the "Barney Miller" TV show, and a team of actors show the most common ways speakers can botch a presentation. Then they show the four main components of effective speaking for an audience of any size.

This video proves that the ability to speak effectively is one of the most powerful tools for personal and professional success. And because people who speak effectively are perceived as leaders, the importance of training all members of your organization in the techniques presented here cannot be overstated. By showing this film to both management and the workforce, you'll help people build better relationships with colleagues and customers while greatly enhancing the quality of communication, creativity, productivity and the very image of your organization.

Participants will learn:

  • What causes public-speaking fear and how to avoid it
  • The roles of appearance and body language
  • How to most effectively communicate your message

Program Contents: A 24 minute VHS or DVD, Leader's Guide

  • Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand - DVD $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand - VHS $895.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand - DVD Rental $275.00 [Add to Cart]
  • Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand - VHS Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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How to Make Winning Presentations - DVD

One of the greatest fears for most individuals is making a presentation in front of one person or an entire group. The fear is real and, for many, it can be devastating to an otherwise promising career. Now, with this 30-minute training program, you'll learn to develop the skills necessary to make every presentation a total success. You'll learn how to: overcome jitters; appear calm and composed; deliver what audiences expect; and much more. Order now and improve your skills in the crucial activity of making presentations!

Includes: A 30 minute DVD, 97-page book and audio CD

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

  • Post training test and reporting results 24/7
  • Certificates of completion
  • Digital copies of the support materials

    Online Training Pricing:

    • 1 to 1000 $6 per person
    • 1001 to 3000 $5 per person
    • Minimum order for any one program $395.00

    • How to Make Winning Presentations - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]
    • How to Make Winning Presentations - Online Course $6.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Winning Presentation - Next Speech DVD

    Be ready to anticipate the moment. Feel the goals and aspirations of your audience and make the presentation of your life! Divided into three sections—planning, writing and giving a presentation, The Basics of How to Plan, Write and Give a Winning Presentation! will help you overcome the “presentation jitters” and deliver what the audience expects—a great speech! Includes DVD and 75 Ways to Improve Your Next Speech book. 30 minutes.

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    50 Activities for Developing People Skills

    David Couper , Jacqueline Stewart / 2003

    Training Objectives

    • Improve interpersonal skills
    • Enhance management performance
    • Create effective teams
    • Improve communication within your organization

    Activities

    Select activities to build training that examines all the key people skills your managers need. These skills include:

    • Assertiveness
    • Presentation
    • Counseling
    • Teamwork
    • Verbal communication
    • Listening
    • Nonverbal communication

    Time Guidelines

    • 14 activities take less than 30 minutes
    • 27 activities take between 30 minutes and 1 hour
    • 11 activities take between 1 and 2 hours

    Format: 3-ring binder

    • 50 Activities for Developing People Skills $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Communication Toolkit - DVD

    Released - 2005

    Free Online Preview

    This course is also available for online training, see details below.

    A library of 39 video clips on various aspects of communication, plus a comprehensive guide for using the clips in a number of innovative ways!

    Designed for maximum flexibility, the Communication Toolkit provides you with high quality video vignettes that you can use in your own custom training courses. Each vignette/clip runs anywhere from 20 seconds to 3 minutes and depicts a common workplace interaction. Suggestions are provided for using the clips to draw out specific lessons/skills on communication.

    The 39 clips in the Toolkit fall into the following communication skill categories:

      1. Speaking Clearly and Specifically 2. Listening/Asking for Clarification 3. Nonverbal Communication 4. Resolving Conflict/Difficult Conversations 5. Group Communication 6. Presentation Skills

    Clips are provided in two formats:

    Format 1: The clip is introduced with some brief narration. The narration sets up the scene and gives a very general idea of what to look for in the vignette. As the narration plays, key phrases and words are highlighted through on-screen graphics.

    Format 2: The scene plays without any set-up narration/onscreen graphics.

    The accompanying Leader's Guide contains the following information for each clip:

    • Primary and secondary skills that can be taught using the clip
    • Suggested training applications
    • Background information relevant to the clip
    • Scene description and photo
    • Suggested Discussion Questions along with possible responses
    • Activity Suggestions
    • Key points to draw from the clip
    • Ideas for following up on training conducted
    • Suggestions for using the clip in conjunction with other clips in the Communication Toolkit

    Online Training Option

    • Pricing - $9.95 per user
    • Minimum order - $500
    • Users receive a post-test and certificate of completion. You set the test’s passing grade.
    • You get an Administrator’s Page that shows who has logged on to take the training and the test score of each viewer.

    Please contact us by email if you have more than 1000 users for special pricing options.

    Note: When you order the online training version of this program, our shopping cart will show 50 items listed (minimum number of participants) for $500, each additional participant/item added is $9.95

    Program Contents:

    • Video clips on CD-Rom and DVD, printed Leader's Guide and Leader's Guide on CD-ROM.
    • The Guide also contains reference tables that help you select clips by skill (such as Listening) or application (such as Supervisor-to-Subordinate communication).

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    The Communication Combination Offer - DVD

    Communication Skills…What Everyone Needs to Know
    Effective communication is the difference between productivity and chaos in the workplace. There are basic skills you must learn and apply to ensure your message is understood every time. But too often we forget the fundamentals as we rush to complete more work in less time. In this new training program you'll learn practical techniques to improve all your communication skills-written, oral, electronic, and face-to-face.
    Includes DVD and Everyday Communication Techniques for the Workplace management book.

    How to Build a High-Performance Workforce…The Keys to Effective Supervision
    Whether it's your first day as a supervisor or you're a seasoned veteran, this training program will make you even better at your job. You'll learn to develop the critical skills you need to be a truly effective leader-communicate with clarity, make effective and timely decisions, recruit, train, motivate and retain a successful workforce! Even the busiest managers can apply the training techniques found in this new program.
    Includes DVD and Developing a High-Performance Workforce book.

    The Basics of How to Plan, Write and Give A Winning Presentation
    Be ready to anticipate the moment. Feel the goals and aspirations of your audience and make the presentation of your life! Divided into three sections-planning, writing and giving a presentation, this new training program will help you overcome the “presentation jitters” and deliver what the audience expects-a great speech!
    Includes DVD and 75 Ways to Improve Your Next Speech book.

    • The Communication Combination Offer - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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    How Not To Exhibit Yourself - DVD

    The aim of this program is to teach stand staff how to present themselves and their organization in a professional and organized manner.

    This program shows how to encourage visitors, welcoming them without being over-eager, and how to avoid the guaranteed conversation killer - "Can I help you?" It demonstrates the importance of accurately logging potential customers' details, arranging follow-up visits, and keeping the stand smart.

    Key Learning Points:

    • A simple, direct way to ensure that all stand staff are fully prepared for opening day
    • Techniques for opening, controlling, and closing sales dialogues
    • Key turn-offs that reduce customer traffic, and how to remedy them

    Program includes: 30 minute DVD and course leader's guide

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    Trade Show Selling Skills Series - DVD
    Matthew Hill, president of The Hill Group, leads you through a fun, informative and memorable training session in the Trade Show Selling Skills Training Series. In volume one you will learn to:
    • Question and qualify visitor quickly
    • Dismiss unqualified visitors politely and professionally
    • Focus demonstrations on the visitor's area of interest
    • Add visitors to ongoing conversations so they do not have to wait
    • Ggenerate complete, useful leads. (And have a lot more fun doing it.)

    In the Trade Show Selling Skills Video Training Series, Matthew Hill demonstrates common mistakes made by exhibit staff, and teaches proven techniques for correcting them. Here, the exhibit staff is talking amongst themselves and being inaccessible to visitors. We'll show you how to fix that without busting kneecaps.

  • Volume 1 Length: 23 minutes
  • Volume 2 Length: 15 minutes

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    Creative Training Techniques Handbook

    Best-Seller

    Tips, Tactics, and How-To's for Delivering Effective training

    This complete collection of training tips, tactics and how-tos will show you the eight steps to proper presentation preparation, how to customize training to your audience, and how to keep learners motivated both during and after the training session. This second edition includes a comprehensive resource guide, activity sheets, transparencies, outlines, detachable index cards, and more. An invaluable resource for delivering cost-effective, high-impact training.

    Selected Contents

    • Creative Genesis
    • Learner Motivation
    • Group Involvement
    • Customizing Training
    • Closing the Circle
    • Presentation Preparation
    • Visual Aids
    • Creative Materials
    • Presentation Techniques
    • Creating Effective Resource Materials

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    Fearless Facilitation! -Complete Kit

    Just say "NO" to boring training classes and unproductive meetings. Turn your trainers and meeting leaders into "Fearless Facilitators"! They'll learn how to bring a laser-like focus to every agenda, handle disruptions with ease and condense a week's worth of meetings into a single session. "Fearless Facilitators" expertly foster participation and make any group session more productive.

    Learning Point Highlights:

    • Covers all the fundamental techniques of effective facilitation
    • Delivers an effective method for planning and managing meetings
    • Takes current trainers and facilitators to a new level of effectiveness

    Complete Training Kit Components:

    • Two DVDs (full length video, companion SMART-START Motivation, interview with subject-matter expert, Laura Bernstein, TrainerTALKâ„¢ with Sue Mueller and classroom slides)
    • Two VHS (21 minutes each)
    • Facilitator Guides (multiple agenda options)
    • Reproducible Participant Materials
    • Online Program Resources
    • Trainer Pack

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    Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide (2nd edition)

    3-Ring Binder

    Use this practice-oriented workshop to teach team leaders and group facilitators the key skills for leading productive team meetings. This workshop contains everything you need to teach others how to facilitate; it comes complete with background material for the trainer and participants, and handouts for evaluation.

    The Resource Guide includes "how to's" on group leading and problem solving for new facilitators. It covers everything from agenda setting to selecting the right problem solving tools. Use it as a participant coursebook with the training program, as a self-study option, or for managers who need to understand more about the facilitator's role.

    Fully Updated, Including:

    • An all new chapter on process management
    • More problem solving tools
    • A new chapter on how to get started with a team and how to involve management in all phases
    • Creative ideas for handling conflicts and dealing with difficult people in teams
    • Improved material on preparing agendas
    • Comprehensive bibliography

    Contents Include

    • Warm-up and agenda setting
    • Observing, listening, and questioning skills
    • Problem-solving methods
    • Dealing with problem people
    • Setting team guidelines
    • Creating a Vision
    • And much more!

    • Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide (2nd edition) $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Public Speaking: Time to Stand - DVD

    Produced - 2000

    In this program, Dr. Tina Dupree, president of the Motivational Training Center and founder of the Professional Speakers Network, shares her proven techniques for building confidence as a public speaker. How to turn fear into an asset, master the art of small talk, create a "30-second commercial," assess an audience, choose the right words, organize a speech, improve delivery, and other topics are addressed, along with the ten do’s and don’ts of creating a winning speech. Guest speakers include Arlene Hoffman, of International Sales & Marketing; Bradley Johnson, of Johnson Partners Research; and retired pro football player Roy Foster. (27 minutes)

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    Creative Training and Presentation Techniques - DVD

    This four-part series describes creative and effective presentation techniques. Information in the programs guides teachers through the process of developing their own carefully constructed program outlines—ones that include effective motivators and high-impact visuals that clearly communicate a message. 4-part series, 10-14 minutes each.

    The Series Includes: Preparation | Openings and Closings | Motivation | Creativity

    • Creative Training and Presentation Techniques - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Business Communications - DVD Series

    A clear and recurring message from the business world today is that students entering the workforce need better communication skills. This 20-part series will help students learn and use basic communication skills such as listening, speaking, writing, and reading; taking and giving instruction; receiving and placing messages; attending and speaking at meetings; reading and writing letters, reports, manuals, blueprints, charts, and graphs. Each program enhances students’ understanding of the importance of these skills by taking them on site in the business world to see how people use these skills in everyday work. 20-part series, 15 minutes each.

    The Series Includes: Importance of Business Communication | Mechanics of Communication | The Writing Process | Listening | Speaking | Viewing | Reading | Business Writing | Research and Report Writing | Business Presentations | The Job Hunt | The Job Interview | Teamwork on the Job | Technology on the Job | Marketing Communications | The Business Meeting | Conflict Resolution | Negotiating | Conducting the Interview | Professional Development