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Presenter

PowerPoint slides have become the center of gravity in presentations today, not the presenter. Everywhere you look, the tool that promised to make presentations exponentially better is facilitating just the opposite—turning slides into dense pages that belong in an appendix, and creating a global competition to see just how much information can be crammed onto a single slide. Is it surprising that audiences are frustrated with presentations that are incomprehensible or incoherent?

This workshop reverses the trend, and puts the focus—and the power—of every presentation back where it belongs: with the presenter. It transforms ineffective presentations into ones that clarify thinking, catalyze buy-in, improve decision-making, and close deals.

Seeing is believing: one client’s first TEDx Talk.

Michael is the author of Just Add Water ®: An incredibly easy guide for creating simple, powerful presentations.

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Storyteller

We are hardwired for telling and listening to stories. Whether spoken around the glow of a campfire, or conveyed in a corporate conference room, stories represent a natural, everyday form of communication that resonates with audi-ences and connects them to speakers.

In a business and sales context, storytelling acts as a potent tool for positioning a brand more memorably than mere charts and statistics, so that customers both understand and appreciate a brand’s value. By employing evocative analogies and emotive examples, stories play an integral part in preparing and delivering presentations that support ambitious sales goals. But even if we know good storytelling when we hear it, what goes into creating it?Storytelling that Sells is a hands-on practical one-day workshop that teaches participants how to leverage stories in the sales process. It focuses on over-coming any misgivings or fears that salespeople experience about storytelling by reacquainting them with the natural act of storytelling and speaking with an authentic voice.