Question Detail High Impact Presentations The question was posted by Melanie Coop on 10/03/2010 17:17:06   Hi I have been asked to design a high impact presentation skills workshop aimed at senior level to directors. These people deliver presentations on a day to day basis and when putting forward bids for new business. I need something more than the standard presentation skills workshop as they are already aware of this. Some deliver styles of these people can be a little old hat and stagnant (for want of a better word). I need something that is going to get them thinking and create energy and life and the wow factor. I have already decided on filming them and giving feedback but thats about as far as I have got. Any help anyone could provide I would be most grateful. I also need to gain their buy in for this. Many thanks Melanie    Melanie Coop has requested the following response type(s): General advice and information: Recommendations of other people's products and service. (Those responding will not be able to promote their own services): Information from Trainers' Library members about their products and services that will help me: responses date author Hi Melanie, I am going to echo what Shelley has suggested below - I would focus on alternatives to the standard "a million powerpoint slides and me stood talking at you". Perhaps even move to providing them with facilitation skills (though of course it depends on the size of their audience). When I am coaching senior managers on presentations my main focus for them is high impact usually equates to other mediums than text. Perhaps look at giving them an exercise where they present an idea or subject with no other visual aids than pictures or sound. This is a great way I have found to force people to think about presentation impact. Also think about using props (touchy feely stuff). Justa few ideas that have worked for me for "experienced" presenters. Oh, and voice projection exercises are usually fun and effective as well. Get them doing musical scales with their voice! 26/03/2010 Peter Charlesworth Melanie, you might want want to train your suits that each of the people in their audience is going to have a different learning style and in order to connect with each of their audience members (creating greater impact) they need to incorporate all of those learning styles. They can think about high impact flash video for the visual learners, activities that incorporate moving aound the room or moving in their chairs for the kinesthetic learners, and vocal repetition exercises for the auditory learners. A presentation that incorporates all of these aspects will have greater impact and connect with a larger number of audience members than one that does not. 11/03/2010 Shelley Dudley