Specialty Workshops
Public Speaking Presentations
Want to motivate, celebrate, inspire, and educate whenever you’re onstage before a large, diverse audience – whether it’s at internal events such as an employee town hall meeting or external situations like a keynote address? Clockwork Talk shows you how to create an experience, not just a speech.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to work from the big picture – with a core message and the right key ideas – and harness the power of storytelling to keep your audience engaged. Then we’ll show you how to support your message with slide decks and demonstrations that are clean, simple, and full of impact. Last, you’ll learn how to work on developing a dynamic presentation style that energizes and holds the attention of a large group.
Executive Presentations
Do you need to present to your boss – or your boss’s boss, an executive steering committee, or even to the Board? Whether it’s to report on an issue of concern to a particular executive or to win executive support for your own initiative, this workshop can improve your success.
You’ll learn how to accurately assess the situation before your presentation by asking the right questions, so that the message you shape clearly and persuasively speaks to the drivers and personalities of the executives in the room. Because time with executives can be cut short, you’ll learn how to get your point across quickly – so you’re never at the mercy of the clock or interruptions.
Multi-Stakeholder Presentations
Need to align – and ally – multiple stakeholder groups with your direction, new department, or process? This Clockwork Talk workshop begins by helping you choose the key stakeholders to involve – and evaluate their anticipated response and identify their likely points of resistance to your initiative.
You’ll also learn how to map a winning strategy for each group, and approach them in the right order to build momentum towards consensus and ultimately your end result. And you’ll discover how to position and adapt the message effectively to win over resistant groups and establish common ground.
Subject-Matter Expert Presentations
Are you an expert – a scientist, engineer, physician, lawyer, programmer, or finance professional – who must turn complex concepts into meaningful information for decision-makers or the public? Clockwork Talk helps simplify this process, so that you can easily distill your expertise into relevant information tools – without oversimplifying.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to sidestep the technical jargon to enhance your ability to be clear and concise in your message and in your response to questions. You’ll also gain valuable tips about how best to create effective visual aids that communicate nuance and complexity in ways that no verbal explanation can do alone.
Sales Presentations
Shortlisted in a competition, and want to stand out from the rest? Sadly, many sales presentations sound all too alike. They’re general, not specific to the pitch, and they tend to talk more about us (the sellers) than about them (the buyers) – and what they might want and need.
In this workshop, you and/or your sales team will learn how to shape a distinct core message and frame information so it speaks powerfully to their needs; how to create an immediate rapport and presence that instills trust and confidence in your organization’s expertise; how to build a slide deck that powerfully sells your story – even after you’ve left; and how to prepare yourselves to handle the tough questions that might reveal weaknesses.