Description:

In a world flooded with information and distractions, how can you make sure your message not only breaks through but leaves a lasting impact? Welcome to Persuasive Presentations Quick Start. Discover the art of crafting presentations that grab attention and resonate with your audience. It's time to make your message the one they remember.

Why Choose This Course?

Are you tired of struggling to make your message heard? In today's professional landscape, your ability to present with authenticity, confidence, and persuasion can define success. Learn essential skills to connect effectively with your audience even if there is mistrust, controversy, or anger. This course is ideal for busy environmental professionals, including risk managers, regulators, public involvement managers, project managers, technical experts, and planners.

What You'll Gain

With each presentation, you're not just conveying information; you're shaping your reputation. Ensure it's your message that charts the path forward. In this course, you'll gain the skills to,

• Influence and inspire action.
• Transform audience skepticism into trust and engagement.
• Overcome resistance and effectively respond to criticism.
• Handle questions with confidence.

Course Highlights

You will learn how to present yourself and your information in the best possible way to both deliver the facts and, at the same time, be persuasive, including,

• The reasonable objective to shoot for
• Three non-traditional audience analyses to address skepticism and resistance points
• Three models for planning persuasive remarks
• Three techniques for impromptu presenting when answering questions

Intended Audience:

This course is ideal for busy environmental professionals, including risk managers, regulators, public involvement managers, project managers, technical experts, and planners.

Continuing Education Units: 0.40 CEUs

More Information

Course Topics

• The reasonable objective to shoot for
• Three non-traditional audience analyses to address skepticism and resistance points
• Three models for planning persuasive remarks
• Three techniques for impromptu presenting when answering questions

About the Instructor

Michael Fraidenburg

 

Mike Fraidenburg designs and delivers facilitation services ranging in format from small technical and task-oriented workgroups to large-audience conferences.  He has extensive experience facilitating science intensive issues and, as a certified mediator, using interest-based bargaining techniques to create consensus in his facilitations.  His facilitation experience includes international scientific review panels, discovery and coordination meetings of regional groups (e.g., data managers, programmers, statisticians), and program evaluations and strategic planning.  Mike has been facilitating online meetings to collect citizen participation input, create consensus opinions of advisory groups, conduct strategic and operational planning, and for training other facilitators in online facilitation techniques.

 

What to Bring

For live stream Zoom courses, you will need a computer and a reliable internet connection. You may wish to have a way to take notes.

For in-person courses, please bring a pen or pencil and notepad if you would like to take notes (you may also choose to take notes in your book)

If you would like more information, or have any questions, please contact us via email or phone 425-270-3274.

Billing Information

In order to guarantee a space in a course, the tuition must be paid in full TWO WEEKS before the first day of the course by either check or credit card. State and government agencies paying with a purchase order are allowed payment under the two-week time frame if a copy of the purchase order is received by NWETC.

If You Need to Cancel

Cancellations*

• With 31 or more days notice, we will offer a 100% refund or credit towards a future course. The credit is good for one year and may be applied to any course.
• With 30-8 days notice, we will offer a course credit towards a future course. The credit is good for one year and may be applied to any course.
• With fewer than 8 days notice, there is no course credit available

*Please note that attendee replacement is welcome at any time

Disability Accommodations

Disability Accommodations:

To request disability accommodations, please contact us at info@nwetc.org or 425-270-3274 at least 30 days prior to the event.