Presentation and Influencing Effectiveness

How to get your point across in 30 seconds or less

If there is one thing that is precious to everyone in the Building and Construction industry, that is time. There never seems to be enough hours in a day.

That is why it is vital to increase skills in communication and learn how to get your message across in 30 seconds or less.

This workshop helps people learn how to package their message into 30 seconds or less no matter what type of communication it is.

Why will this help? Most people in our industry would agree that:

• Memos and letters of request are too long.
• Time has become compressed: people are often in a hurry, and we have “instant messaging.”
• Television and radio commercials do a good job of getting their message across in 30 seconds. TV news “sound bites” are 30 seconds long, or they don’t get air time.
• If it can’t be said in 30 seconds, the messagewill not be as clear or have as much impact.”

The attention span of the average person in our industry is 30 seconds. Understanding this and working towards being easily understood in the least amount of time is critical to managing people and getting people to listen to you. This powerful workshop will help you learn in only 4 hours how to become a much more effective presenter and communicator. Using industry examples it covers the specific needs of people in the Building, Contracting and Engineering Industries.

Using this personal communication system will help people to:

• Get positive answers to their requests for help from others
• Design text messages that have impact
• Make memos and fax messages more powerful
• Write letters that get people to take the action required
• Make sure emails are answered and get results
• Substantially improve formal presentations at meetings
• Make interviews easier to do and participate in
• Motivate people to help
• Develop a sales pitch that gets people to say yes more often

Most importantly this business communication system will help participants be themselves,
while projecting energy, enthusiasm and competence.

Course Outline

• The basics of good verbal and written presentations
• Interviewing skills and techniques
• Planning and writing a presentation. email or letter for maximum impact
• Get your point across in 30 seconds (practicing presentation skills)

This course is an interactive workshop that spans 4 hours. During the course of the workshop we will practice the communication system being learned so that people not only learn them, they start using them with confidence that day.