Demonstrate Executive Presence

Executive Presence Intensive Workshop

This intense and comprehensive workshop includes pre-work using TorchMetrics—Claudyne Wilder’s innovative online presentation feedback and coaching system. This personalized workshop is designed to move your senior managers and executives to the highest executive presence presentation-skill level. For one year after the workshop, participants will have free use of Torchmetrics, their online customized speaking coach.

This workshop focuses on developing, designing and delivering: the three major skills executives need to persuasively sell themselves and their ideas using a concise and focused message. Participants learn to take advantage of their strengths and correct their weaknesses in each skill area.

What’s Special about This Workshop

Whole-brain focused: Executives learn how to organize and focus content speaking with an executive summary. They also practice telling a story that motivates and engages the audience.
Storytelling focused: Using the storytelling job aid executives practice telling a story within the talk as well as making the talk a story.
Message-oriented: Executives learn how to get to the message using an executive summary—then stop talking.
Practice: Each executive does four live-fire mini-presentations followed by rigorous instructor coaching and peer critique.
Just-in-time coaching: Executives practice what it takes to move to an advanced level of speaking.
Feedback: Executives get feedback on a real-work presentation. After every presentation, executives watch themselves on DVD.
Action plan: Each executive receives a personalized executive-presence action plan that lists strengths and provides guidance on changing specific nonexecutive behaviors.
TorchMetrics*: Executives receive honest feedback from colleagues and peers, plus coaching and a way to check for continuous improvement.
Slide analysis: Executives learn how slides can enable or stifle an executives’ presentation delivery.(If appropriate, slide critique and slide redo recommendations)

*TorchMetrics is an innovative online coaching tool that provides presenters with honest feedback from their audience, highlights strengths and action-areas, and tracks improvement over time. Effectively it is your own personal speaking coach in the palm of your hand.

Real-Work Practice

Executives work with a past or future work presentation. They receive feedback on what is or is not “executive-oriented” about their content and delivery style.

Time

1 day (2-day option available).

Follow-up consultation (optional)

30-minute follow-up call to discuss how to continue to implement a customized action plan.
Individual coaching and/or coaching on the PowerPoint slides for a specific presentation.

Participants

Executives and senior managers. Maximum of 8.

Objectives

Participants practice and strengthen their ability to:

Tell a brief story using dialogue, transitional phrases and pauses.
Create message-oriented rather than data-driven presentations.
Convey sophisticated, high-level information without excess detail.
Communicate concisely and suggest real-time recommendations.
Create executive summaries that get to the point.
Explain and show how PowerPoint slides can enable or stifle an executive’s presentation. (If appropriate, slide critique and slide redo recommendations)