Presenting with Poise

Convey your message to your audience, clearly, succinctly, and effectively. Move through the three speaker transitions to focus on engaging your audience and giving them the information they need. Develop your presentation style to deliver the main idea that most benefits your audience through a smooth flow of information.

Make sure you are delivering presentations that people are happy to attend, and who leave fulfilled, knowing that their time was productive and worthwhile. Presenting with poise engages your audience, and produces favorable results.

This class can be customized for introductory, intermediate, or experienced presenters.

Creating Presentation Slides

The class presents strategies for creating slides that are informative, clear, concise, and targeted to the needs of your audience. Topics include how to write informative headlines; integrate text and graphics for better comprehension; use animation and sequencing to best present dense information; and create meaningful handouts.

Most bullet-point slides do not impart meaningful information. Learn how to enhance those slides, and design more compelling slides based on current research.You will learn how to craft a message that resonates, then design slides that communicate with clarity.

Writing for Business

Business writing is mostly about creating documents: reports, studies, proposals, instructions, memos, procedures, policies, specifications, and many others. This class directly addresses these challenges.

Writing for Business revolves around a three-step writing process. While working on this writing process, you will edit your writing and that of others, plus complete exercises to master specific writing techniques and overcome common pitfalls. You will also learn how to write audience-centered documents, the fundamental key for your readers to fully comprehend and use your document as needed.

Editing Essentials

After you have written your document's first draft, edit it to perfection by applying basic writing principles.

Learn how to apply the more basic and common editing techniques. Reorganize your text for a better flow; tighten it for greater clarity; employ grammar, punctuation, mechanics, word choice, style—all form the foundation of solid writing. These straightforward techniques are so critical to clear writing.