P.S. This unique public speaking forum is built on member feedback from our other popular business skills forum at: http://www.meetup.com/Entrepreneurship-Creative-Business-MBA/
Welcome to this member-run NYC Business Speaking Forum! We are a new forum created from successful techniques of hundreds of successful people, focused specifically for entrepreneurs & managerial professionals that are looking for a practical platform for enhancing their “ business & leadership presence” and “ public speaking” abilities.
This is not a typical “toastmaster club”. We do focus the basics of public speaking but then go well beyond that to address the unique “business & leadership” challenges facing individuals in this new global economy.
Let us see if this forum is for you!
* Are you tired of typical “icebreaker” or “feel good” type toastmaster meetings?
* Do you feel being haunted by this “stage fear”, “camera phobia”, etc.?
* Are you prepared to address the presentation challenges in this emerging global economy?
* Do you understand and incorporate global cultural aspects into your presentations?
* Can you present with same impact irrespective of the duration (30 seconds to 60 minutes)?
* Does your confidence change when a video camera and large audience is facing you?
* Do you have a professional command over presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Excel?
* Do you know how to create presentations designed for diverse audience i.e. to people from business, marketing, finance, operations, risk, technology, etc.?
* Can you crank out a complex presentation on a business topic in 15min using PowerPoint?
* Do you feel you lose “memory” during presentation and resort to reading the slides?
* Do you know how to redeem yourself if the presentation started in the wrong direction?
* Are you in Operations and struggling to incorporate marketing into your presentations (or vice versa)?
* Are you a Marketing professional struggling to incorporate finance into your presentations (or vice versa)?
* Do you struggle to handle difficult Q&A sessions during or after the presentation?
* Do you find it difficult to think about the “big picture” on the feet?
Consider joining this forum if you found relevance with 80% of these challenges. This practical innovative business speaking forum can provide you a great opportunity to take your career or venture to the next level.
Most of our meetings will be designed around the following key practical skills:
1. Improving efficiency & effectiveness in “preparing” for business cases & presentations.
2. Mastering business presentation tools & techniques (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.).
3. Delivering business presentations by integrating various methods (oral, written/visual, acting).
4. Demonstrating competency of “business lingo” to appeal to diverse business audience.
5. Most importantly, practicing to present and think “on the feet” to influence for a cause!
Our most important aspiration is to raise confidence by practicing presentations, the right way, to deliver the impact and achieve personal and professional goals!
Thank you.
Julie
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