Beyond Presentations: Skills That Change Lives
Applying the principles of 100% Proficiency to presentation skills training gives results that go far beyond “commanding the audience,” “getting the message across” or “creating impact.” Those are a given. What makes the 100% Proficiency difference is that every student achieves a dramatic improvement in skill by the end of the class. As one student put it, “It helped me switch my focus from ‘transmit to audience’ to ‘communicate with audience’.”
Besides correct preparation and correct use of slides, each student masters making an audience genuinely enthusiastic about an idea, smoothly handling difficult questions or challenges—all of the skills that give a presenter total poise and confidence. Every student gains these skills, and those skills translate into communication confidence and ability far beyond the classroom, the boardroom or the presentation platform.
Extensive videotaping combined with precise coaching tailored to each individual student result in graduates who have profoundly greater self-confidence and ability to handle interpersonal as well as group communication. By turning attention outward, onto the audience and communicating with them personally and directly, rather than inward (“How do I place my feet?” “What should I do with my hands?”), students learn to achieve a natural connection with any type of audience. It is an individual discovery, different for each person, but one that once achieved can never be lost.
We receive a very large volume of emails from people who have completed this course, many of them telling us how their professional, and even personal lives have changed as a result of their new skills.
That is the effect of 100% Proficiency applied to what, for many, was once a high-stress activity.
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