Southwest FL ASTD Monthly Meeting

July 18, 2012

Developing Effective Presentation Skills

If communicating through presentations is important to your job or goals, this session will help build the essential skill set practiced by trainers and professional speakers and instill confidence in your delivery of important information.

Using industry standards developed by certification authorities, participants will be given a competency description and audit scorecard to use both for individual self-coaching and evaluation of presenters and trainers.

Session Objectives:

• Creating value for your audience
• Demonstrating delivery competence
• List of top delivery skills and tips to master
• Using questions strategically
• Creating a positive environment
• Evaluating a presentation event

Who should attend?

This session is designed for people who need to be able to master Public Speaking technical skills.  This includes anyone who has the responsibility or desire to deliver information in formal or informal groups.

 

You can pay by credit card or choose to pay at the door.  We can only accept credit cards online.

MEMBERS: $15 with lunch, $10 without lunch - GUESTS: $20 (lunch) $15 (no lunch)

Lunch is from Jason's Deli
Please let us know when you register if you want a lunchbox with sandwich, chips, and cookie or a Vegetarian Lunch. 

Ice Cold Water will be provided for everyone.

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Meet the Speaker

Teresa Hiatt, now retired, is the past president of the Professional Society of Sales and Marketing Training (www.smt.org). She was the Director of Sales Education at Ricoh Americas Corporation, where she spent 10 years directing sales training teams and conducting research. She also spent 5 years at Sony Corporation developing launch training for the VAIO computer launches.

As a Six Sigma Black Belt, she has conducted process improvement projects on training effectiveness and has published Return on Investment projects certified by the ROI Institute for Training.

Hiatt has served on Industry Panel discussions at national conferences with Gartner Research Group and CompTIA.  She has delivered breakout sessions on sales training at the InfoTrends Office Document Technology Forum, SMT Sales Training conferences and the BTA Channel Partner seminars. 

She is a regular contributor for Office Technology Magazine and contributing author to “Fortify Your Sales Force”, a ground-breaking handbook for building productive sales team. She can be reached at teresa@hiattaviation.com.

 

If you have any questions about the Monthly Chapter Meeting or how to register please give me a call, or drop me an e-mail.

 

We look forward to seeing you at the Southwest Florida Chapter of ASTD Monthly Meeting.

 

Thank you for your attention and response.  

 

Sincerely,

 

Christine Davlin

VP of Events, Southwest Florida Chapter of ASTD

239-338-3500

cdavlin@leegov.com