Why “exciting an audience”?
In today´s world, business leaders are often overwhelmed by the pace and complexity of the decisions they have to take in a context of fast-growing interdependencies and hyper-information. Exciting an audience through high-impact communication is nowadays a „must“ for every business leader that wants to actively shape his/her own organization´s agenda and drive change. The big consulting players have recognized early the importance of high-impact communication and have refined over the years a set of practical rules how to excite their audience. execon partners have codified this knowledge and tailored into a handy 3 days x 4 hours group training format that well fits into today´s busy businesspeople´s agendas.
Apply what you´ve learned – straight away
Each training module is a mix of learning, real-life examples, and hands-on exercises, where groups are asked to put in practice what they´ve learned, based on realistic business cases. These include: defining the best communication strategy, sketching down a storyline, designing the exhibits, crafting them professionally and quickly in PowerPointTM, and delivering them in a high-impact way to an audience.
Topics
Module 1 – Define strategy & prepare (4 hours)
- How to define a communication strategy that works
- What is a good presentation & how to prepare it
- Storylines that work
- The slidemaster
- How to design effective visual exhibits
- Virtual walkthrough of a complete real-life business presentation with comments
- Exercise, exercise, exercise!
Module 2 – Deliver & excite (4 hours)
- Analyze your audience
- The right attitude and the right style
- Time & process management
- Pre- and post-presentation engagement
- Exercise, exercise, exercise!
Module 3 – Master PowerPointTM quickly (4 hours)
- Objects and objects alignment
- Say it with numbers: GraphTM and ThinkcellTM
- How to work with pictures
- 10 further tricks that you always wanted to know
- Exercise, exercise, exercise!
One-on-one coaching sessions (Optional, time tbd)
- Brainstorming on real-life cases selected by the coachee
- Joint development of solutions & selection
- Strategy
- Storyline
- Exhibit design
- Crafting in PowerPointTM
- Delivery simulation
Who should attend
Role: Digitalization experts from the chemicals or other process industries
Industry: Chemical industry and other process industries
Company size: Large corporations, mid-sized companies
Functions: all
Language: Training can be held in English and German