Presenting with Confidence in Virtual Meetings

What’s this course about?

 

Now more than ever we all need to present our ideas and lead meetings with clarity and confidence. This online workshop teaches executives how to quickly tailor their message to their audience for the greatest impact. They learn how to stay on point, tell a persuasive story, and keep their audience engaged during virtual meetings and presentations. Each person receives feedback from the instructor on their individual presentation style and learns how to take their performance to the next level. This multi-session online workshop will be structured as follows:

Part One: Group Workshop (4 Hours)

• Understanding and practicing components of effective communication: audience analysis, identifying key takeaways, streamlining content, storytelling, interacting with the audience, and conveying confidence.
• Each person presents and receives feedback on their delivery.
• The group learns how to use the Organization Flow Chart to plan and organize their content (prep for 1-on-1 session).

Part Two: 1-on-1s (I Hour Per person)

• Each person shares their observations and insights from their presentation recording (from session 1) with the instructor.
• Each person finetunes their presentation content flow and organization with guidance from the instructor.

Part Three: Group Workshop (3 Hours)

• Each participant presents to the group and receives feedback.
• Summary and review of key learnings from the workshop.
• Each person sets development goals they’ll continue to work on moving forward

Topics to be practiced and discussed during the workshop include:

• Creating an “exchange” with the audience and suggested ways to make a presentation more interactive.
• Conveying confidence and presence – the importance of looking at the camera when speaking.
• Using voice and gestures to add energy and emphasize specific points.
• Interacting effectively with visual aids (slides, etc.).
• Varying the pace to add interest and match the content.
• Adjusting to feedback from the audience in the moment.
• Rehearsing to ensure the presentation comes across as conversational instead of scripted.
• Making sure the content…
  • includes the most relevant information that is tailored to the audience.
  • flows logically from one topic to the next.
  • tells a compelling “story” with the information/data.
  • illustrates the main points in the most visual way possible.
  • reinforces key take-aways and leads to a clear conclusion

Who will be teaching the course?

Molly Sullivan

Director of Professional Development

The Ad Club

Molly Sullivan is an ICF certified Executive Coach who brings more than 20 years of experience in consumer marketing and talent development to The Ad Club. She specializes in coaching and training executives to optimize their leadership potential by building on their core strengths and talents. Molly leads proprietary programs focused on the following topics: Strengths-based Executive and Team Coaching, Presenting with Impact and Persuasive Business Writing.  She has coached executives and teams at Google, Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, Procter & Gamble, Swarovski, Carat, FreshDirect and Wellesley College to strengthen their management and leadership capabilities.  She has also worked extensively with executives at Hill Holiday, Tory Burch, Mullen, New Balance, Tank, Mad Pow and The TJX Companies, to advance their presentation and writing skills.  Molly’s strategic brand building and employee development skills were refined while she held executive marketing positions with worldwide advertising agencies, including Arnold, J. Walter Thompson, DDB and BBDO. Her client experience ranges from packaged goods companies such as Clorox, Frito-Lay and General Mills to real estate and telecommunication giants, Century 21 and Verizon.