Leaders Don’t Do PowerPoint How to Influence and Inspire Audiences

Overview

Leaders aren’t like other people — at least not when it comes to giving speeches. Other people try to get out of giving a speech any way they can. They’re relieved simply to get through a presentation without embarrassing themselves.

But when you’re a leader, you must look and sound like a leader in every speech you give. There’s too much riding on your performance — your prestige, your ability to command people’s attention and support, the success of your project or your organization — to settle for being average.

Program Objectives

This speech is designed for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to speak in a way that changes the way audiences think and feel and act.

1. WHY leaders speak

  • to create the audience’s shared sense of identity
  • to influence how they think and feel, and
  • to inspire them to take action

2. HOW leaders speak

  • capitalizing on the strength of their own character
  • shaping the event to enhance their message
  • developing one bold “big idea”
  • delivering their message authentically and powerfully

3. WHAT leaders can do to speak more influentially

  • stop imitating anyone else
  • speak less (less often and for less time) to have a greater impact
  • avoid using PowerPoint as much as possible

“Thanks to Chris, I’m able to deliver professional briefings — to three- and four-star generals, Members of Congress, and leaders of foreign armed forces — in a manner that not only gets my message across but also keeps the listener’s attention.”

Matt McCarthy
Fr. Lewis Mission Support Training Facility

Program Highlights

  • A leader’s primary mission is to influence people’s behavior.
    Various definitions and models of leadership, no matter how dissimilar, share a common assumption: leaders are responsible for influencing others – for changing how they think and feel so that, ultimately, they will change how they act.
  • PowerPoint™ reduces a speaker’s ability to influence.
    It conveys information, facts that can be represented in a chart, graph, or bullet-point list. It does not engage an audience’s imagination or emotions – the prime ways of affecting people’s beliefs and actions.
  • Leaders can increase their power to influence in three ways:
  1. By refining their “Silent Message” — Before saying a single word, leaders can win people’s respect and receptivity.
  2. By telling their Story — Stories persuade, motivate, and inspire in ways that cold facts, charts, and graphs can’t.
  3. By shaping the Event — Leaders take responsibility for the success of the entire event, not just of their speech.

Program Format

  • Keynote Speech (45 Minutes to 1 Hour) covers these topics, giving illustrations and how-tos.
  • Workshop (Half to Full Day) goes into each topic in more depth and coaches participants through exercises designed to increase their “influence factor.”

Questions?

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