Presentation Skills Training!

Oh, how this conjures up being trained in “eye contact”, “voice modulation”, and "gestures" – great phone and PDF file presentation applications are they not? Or worse yet, remember being informed you were going to “charm school”, the product of the 70's and 80's presentation training out of New York?

And how about the trainer who sits in the back of the classroom and counts the number of “ums” inexplicably escaping your jaws. Yes, and this as late as 2006. Can you believe it?

How agencies and corporations sell to clients is now so dramatically different to as recently as 5 years ago. Power Point has been replaced by PDF files. In person is replaced by teleconference. Boards replaced by streaming video and e-mail attachments. So where does that leave the individual presenter and their persuasive skills in presenting agency recommendations and getting them sold in?

It's what happened to mechanics with the advent of fuel injection. Carburetor training became antiquated. Those who survived went back to school.

And so do those who've been trained “the old way” in presentation skills. Reschooling, reteaching and repracticing with contemporary tools have become paramount to survival...

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