Enhance Your Training and Facilitation Skills

How to Inspire and Empower People to Learn

Date: Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Location: Boardroom Executive Suites Cherry Creek Conference Rooms Suite 290. Enter the building and go right to the elevators (East Tower) take the elevator to the 2nd floor and follow signs to Suite 290. Map and Directions

As trainers and facilitators your goal is to take command of the room, show enthusiasm for your content and keep learners captivated. To accomplish this, you need to incorporate dynamic facilitation skills, strong body language and keep your attendees on track, on topic and on time.

During this 75-minute session, volunteers will receive personalized coaching to transform their facilitation skills. This provides a unique opportunity for individuals to see on-the-spot improvement. As others witness the transformation, they learn techniques to immediately implement on the job.

You will learn:

• Five qualities of a dynamic facilitator
• Facilitation techniques that work
• Three factors that influence an audience
• Tips to become a confident trainer, regardless of the topic or audience
• How to present your information in a relaxed and natural style
• A process to handle challenging questions with ease

This interactive, hands-on session will empower you to project confidence and conviction for your curriculum while motivating and engaging learners.

75-Minute Agenda

30 Minutes will be lecture (with activity)

• Top five qualities of a dynamic facilitator
  
• Three factors that influence an audience: Verbal, Visual, Vocal
  
• Introduce the six key physical skills: eye contact, square-up, walk and plant, gestures and hands, pause and breathe, vocal variety and intonation. Discuss best practices for these skills to look and sound dynamic.
  

30 Minutes will be volunteer (3-4 attendees)

• Sheri will take 3 volunteers to stand and present followed by personalized coaching for on the spot improvement
  

Remaining 15 minutes

• Process to handle challenging questions with ease
  

About the Speaker

Sheri Jeavons President & Founder Power Presentations, Inc. Sheri Jeavons is a highly regarded communications consultant, dynamic speaker and entrepreneur. Since founding Power Presentations, Inc. in 1993, she has developed communication skills training programs and products for high-profile standing, seated and virtual communications for all levels of expertise. Her company has successfully trained more than 20,000 professionals from a variety of Fortune 500 Companies and industry leaders such as: Cisco WebEx, FedEx, McDonald’s, Marathon Petroleum, Ernst & Young, Federal Reserve Bank, GE Energy, NASA, Medtronic and Boehringer Ingelheim. Sheri has developed the Webinars that Wow® and Web Meetings that Wow® online training curriculum to help professionals become more dynamic online communicators. She has since become a leader on the topic of virtual communications and is known as the Virtual Communications CoachSM, speaking at many industry-leading training conferences. Sheri is the author of Master your Virtual Communications: A Webinars that Wow® Training Guide. She has also written Tips for your Talk® and was a contributing author to Getting Things Done: Keys to Communication, Sales and Service. In addition, Sheri produced the one-of-a-kind TOP Mastery® DVD Self-Study Series, Master your Physical Presence and Craft Compelling Content. She was selected as one of the Top Ten Women Business Owners by the National Association of Women Business Owners and has received the Working Woman Magazine Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. While Power Presentations is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Sheri’s heart belongs in San Francisco where she enjoys hiking, golf, yoga, travel, visiting wine country and spending time with friends and family