Webcast Presentation Skills CLE

Webcast Presentation Skills

March 2013

Presentation Skills

Program Highlights:

- The Actor's Secret - Look Confident and Engaging, No Matter What You're Feeling, No Matter What the Situation, No Matter Whom Your Audience

- Vocal Presentation Skills

- How Your Physical Presence Affects Your Presentation

- Controlling the Visual Focus of the Room

Program Description:

You are faced with many important presentations in your career, from client meetings to business development to courtroom arguments … to continuing legal education presentations. But just presenting yourself well is not enough: You need to persuade your audience.

Being an effective presenter isn't something you're born with. It involves specific techniques, which you can learn.

How do you, as a CLE presenter, make sure that your listener sees the same picture, and comes to the same conclusions, that you did about the information you're presenting? From stage presence, to the sound of your voice, to the structure of your story, this workshop will help you use the tools that professional actors and directors use to paint a clear picture. You'll learn about the most common mistakes presenters make in and out of the courtroom, and the simple changes you can make to bring your presentations from good to great.

As presenters, most people underestimate their strengths, and misjudge their weaknesses. This workshop will finally give you confidence - you'll know for sure what really works, what you do well, and where you should work to improve.

This dynamic seminar takes you beyond the usual “public speaking” classes to help you discover how to be the most credible, most persuasive person in the room. And you'll leave with clear techniques you can use immediately.

This is a unique opportunity for you as a CLE Faculty Member … and it's free*

(* Live program and live webcast are Free to faculty members who have presented for a CBA-CLE program within the past 3 years)

Agenda:

8:30am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:55am

Introduction and Welcome

9:00am - 9:45am

The Actor's Secret - Look Confident and Engaging, No Matter What You're Feeling, No Matter What the Situation, No Matter Whom Your Audience

- What is Stage Presence?

- Control This, and Control the Room

- Building - And Keeping - Your Credibility

- What Behaviors Do Audiences Find Most - And Least - Credible? The Answers May Surprise You

9:45am - 10:30am

Vocal Presentation Skills

- Volume - More Volume Equals More Credibility. But How Loud is Too Loud? What is the “right volume” for women? This will definitely surprise you.

- What You Say, and How You Say It

- Clarity and Enunciation - How They Affect Your Message, Your Credibility, and Your Persuasiveness

- Setting the Tone - How Your Vocal Inflection Affects Your Listeners

10:30am - 10:45am

Networking Break

10:45am - 11:30am

How Your Physical Presence Affects Your Presentation

- Is Your Body Language Contradicting Your Words?

- Using Your Body Language to Teach

- How Your Body Language is Affecting Your Credibility

- Reading the Body Language of Your Audience: What It Really Means

11:30am - 12:00pm

Controlling the Visual Focus of the Room

- How to Make Eye Contact in a Group Presentation

- When and How to Use Eye Contact to Build a Relationship with Every Listener

- How to Connect with Your Audience While Using Notes

Faculty

Leonard Matheo and Lisa DeCaro are co-founders of Courtroom Performance, Inc., a trial consulting firm dedicated to improving oral advocacy. They are co-authors of the book, The Lawyer's Winning Edge: Exceptional Courtroom Performance (Bradford Publishing, 2004). Mr. Matheo and Ms. DeCaro have practical experience in hundreds of cases in the areas of civil plaintiff, civil defense, and criminal defense ranging from simple to complex litigation. With a national trial consulting practice that specializes in jury research (mock trials/focus groups), witness preparation, and trial strategy, they have assisted in victories involving many Fortune 100 companies in high-profile litigation, on both the Plaintiff's and the Defendant's side of the courtroom.

They have helped hundreds of attorneys and their witnesses prepare for deposition and trial, by employing the professional actor's techniques of effective story analysis, story structure, and persuasive presentation. Professional actors and directors, they have been working exclusively with attorneys for over a decade.

Mr. Matheo and Ms. DeCaro are active members of the Association for Continuing Legal Education, and Ms. DeCaro is active with the American Society of Trial Consultants. Both are frequent speakers at regional seminars and national conventions (including the annual conference of the ABA Litigation Leadership Section and many state bar programs), and have served as faculty for colleges and conferences nationwide. In addition to their book, Mr. Matheo and Ms. DeCaro have also authored popular papers and articles for national legal publications (including ALI-ABA's Practical Litigator, ABA's Tips from the Trenches, The Brief, and Lawyers Weekly USA).