The Conference Centre
Ground Floor
585 Great South Road
Penrose
Two Days 9am - 4.30pm, 22 & 23rd Sept
$1,395.00 plus GST (Includes lunch and snacks)
COURSE OUTLINE This course covers the fundamentals of delivering a great business presentation. Learn how to create maximum impact with your presentations, how to inspire confidence in your audience, and how to use PowerPoint as a powerful and persuasive visual tool. Training is highly practical; for almost 50% of the programme you will be on your feet developing and practising new presentation skills. Video analysis of your presentation style is used for feedback so you can see exactly the progress you’re making. What’s more, our training is guaranteed. If you’re not happy with the results you will receive a full refund. Visit www.speakeasy.co.nz for more info.
COURSE OUTCOMES By the end of our programme you will:
* Have increased confidence when presenting * Have a pragmatic, reliable and time-saving method for creating great presentations * Know how to keep your audience fully engaged and how to ‘think on your feet’ * Learn how to adjust your message and style to connect with your audience * Understand how to effectively use your voice to add clarity and meaning to your message * Have practised simple methods to improve posture and gesture * Understand how to use PowerPoint as a powerful and effective presenting tool
Russell Pickering (BA, MFA) took over SpeakEasy in 2006 and specialises in effective speaking and presentation technique. He is a professional actor, director and educator with twelve years experience teaching acting and presentation skills to students throughout the US and NZ.
Recent clients include: Coca-Cola Amatil NZ Ltd, Heinz Watties, Farmers, Microsoft, New Zealand Post, Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard, Woods, The Trusts, James Crisp Ltd.
In 1998 Russell won the Bob Hope Scholarship to study for his MFA in Acting at Meadows School of the Arts in the US. As an actor he has appeared in commercial television, feature film, and on regional theatre stages throughout the US and NZ. Aside from SpeakEasy he teaches acting, solo-performance and story-telling in the University of Auckland’s community education department.
Russell also worked for two years as an assistant at Henderson/Hogan agency in New York representing film, television and theatre actors, and in 2006 he won the CRM Awards ‘Outbound Salesperson of the Year’ while working for Foster’s NZ.