Presentation Skills Training
Entertaining Business Training Programs

In a perfect world, presentations would be judged on content. In reality, most presentations are judged on how well they are presented.

People are more likely to support, remember and implement information delivered with the most impact. Presentations are only as good as the presenter. The good news is that regardless of your talent level, the effectiveness of your presentations can be dramatically improved. 

Garrison Wynn is known for having maximum impact on a variety of audiences. A nationally known sales, leadership and motivational presenter, a top-rated corporate trainer and a former professional stand-up comedian, Garrison knows what an audience wants and how to deliver it to them.

See Garrison in action! Seven-minute streaming video windows media file All programs can be customized to your industry and your organization's current challenges.

Learn how to convey the true value of your message, product or service ... to an audience of ONE ... or a THOUSAND

	Evaluation of current skills, talents and presentation goals
	Customization of training modules tailored to your immediate and long-term needs
	Interactive and action-based learning format emphasizing modeling, practice and feedback

• High-Impact Presentations: Connecting to your audience
• Structure and Flow: Preparing for Individual and Public Presentations
• Comedy is truth: Only faster! Finding your original humor
• Speaking Like a Speaker
• Presenting Like a Leader
• Complete Presentation Skills Training for Financial Professionals

High-Impact Presentations
Connecting to your audience

How Well Do You Actually Present?

• Reading your audience: Knowing when you stink
• Making assumptions: The improv exercise
• The top five things that brand you as average
• Mr. Fake and Mr. Meek
• How do your feel about your audience?
• Being yourself is better than being a bad speaker
• Identifying your talents: Maximizing your strengths

Stage Presence: The Art of Commanding Attention

• What do Captain Kirk and John Wayne have in common?
• Drawing out your talent: The exercise
• Getting insight on your impact
• Projecting your personality
• Being comfortable with your notes
• What changes will make the most difference?
• Identifying your limitations: Minimizing your weaknesses

Entertainment Value

• Do I have to be funny?
• Why jokes don’t work: Being original
• The key to comedy: Exaggeration and timing
• Comedy is truth, only faster
• Finding your humor
• Punching up your material: Being funnier than you are now
• You don’t have to get big laughs to be entertaining

Storytelling

• When do you tell a story?
• What makes a great story?
• Discovering your best stories: Signature Story telling
• Making your stories short, relevant, and effective
• Connecting the story to your point
• Creating clear mental pictures for the audience
• You can’t be the lead character in all your stories

Performance

• Are you prepared to be good?
• How closely should you follow your script?
• How much do you care about the audience?
• Matching your passion to the presentation
• Dealing with attention-seeking attendees
• Focusing on what’s important
• Fear of failure lowers your ability to perform
• Putting it all together

Structure and Flow: Preparing for Individual and Public Presentations

	Lay the foundation: What do you want your audience to walk away with?
	Create a concise presentation from too much information
	Turn text into deliverable information
	Transition from the written to the spoken word
	Outline your concepts in a manner that makes sense to you and your audience
	Create the action you want your audience to take

Stage Presence and performance

	Connect your passion to your presentation: Being you, but better
	Improve your entertainment value: Find your own humor
	Delivery systems in motion: Match how you look and how you sound with what you say
	Make your points with high-impact sound bites
	Enhance the impact of Power Point and audiovisual aids
	Develop signature stories that make your point

Emergency Surgery

	Review and evaluate presentation problems
	Punch up your material: Create original humor to match your points
	Create cohesion: Make it all come together
	Conduct emergency research
	Find out what you need and get rid of what you don't

	Bumper sticker statements that stick
	What to keep, what to leave
	Some words are funnier than others
	The basics of comedy
	Timing is everything
	Delivery: Personal stories
	Why jokes don't work: Creating customized comedy

Customizing Presentations to Fit the Presenter

Are you trying to use someone else's words to create impact? Have you noticed that it sounds and feels insincere, and in some cases, it’s just plain weird? From telemarketing scripts to keynote speeches to Power Point presentations, we can help you customize a presentation to fit YOU!

	Connecting passion to personality (your presentation)
	The fear cycle: How we create it, how we lose it, how we use it
	Stage presence: Commanding attention (the interview)
	Finding your voice: Where does it go?
	Everybody is charming!
	Let's talk about ourselves: Enough about me, what do you think of me?
	Audience participation: It’s time to talk Believing (in your product or service)
	Selling yourself (it’s not illegal): Do you have to be funny?
	Being yourself is better than being a bad speaker!
	Let's go over the specific techniques: Little do’s and big don’t's
	Practice makes polish (and polish makes money)

Complete Presentation Skills Training
for Financial Professionals
Financial Professionals Page

	Evaluation of current skills, talents and presentation goals
	Customization of training modules tailored to your immediate and long-term needs
	Interactive and action-based learning format, emphasizing modeling, practice and feedback
	Improve stage presence and performance
	Enhance presentation structure and flow
	Consistently motivate your audience to take action

Suggested Agenda

Stage Presence and Performance
(Three-hour session)

	Connect your passion to your presentation: Being you, but better™
	Improve your entertainment value: Find your own humor
	Delivery systems in motion: Match how you look and how you sound with what you say
	Make your points with high-impact sound bites
	Enhance the impact of Power Point and audiovisual aids
	Develop signature stories that make your point

Structure and Flow
(Three-hour session)

	Lay the foundation: What do you want your audience to walk away with?
	The fear cycle: How we create it, how we lose it, how we use it
	Turn text into deliverable information
	Outline your concepts in a manner that makes sense to you and your audience
	Create the action you want your audience to take

From Nervous to Natural
(Three-hour session)

	Exactly what is stage fright?
	Getting over the myths: Confidence is not the key
	Using the power of the audience to feel better about your presentation
	Being really, really prepared
	Everything you ever wanted to know about an audience but were afraid to ask
	Showbiz secrets: Being good when the conditions are not

Wholesalers
Customized session (Three-hour session)

	What is it about a great speaker that compels us?
	What do financial advisors expect from wholesaler presentations?
	Anonymous comments: What Financial Advisors say about wholesaler presentations
	What they liked; what they didn’t like
	What could a wholesaler say in five minutes that would actually make a difference?
	Clarity is king: Clearly explaining the value of your service in less than a minute
	What are financial advisors most likely to remember about wholesaler presentations?

Extended Learning
Suggested Agenda

	An in-depth overview of the training modules
	Review and evaluate presentation problems
	Punch up your material: Create original humor to match your points
	Create cohesion: Make it all come together
	Presentation creation for a specific event: Find out what you need and get rid of what you don’t
	Presentation creation for a specific event Teleseminars
	This popular follow-up tool helps to solidify learning and can address specific events.

Presenting Like a Leader

Based on specifically defined outcomes, this transformation program for leaders gives participants the power to create audience loyalty and to influence audience actions. Combining every aspect of effective presentation skills and leadership speaking impact, this program is designed to match who you are as a leader with how you present in public.