KNOCKOUT PRESENTATIONS:
Speaking Skills for Women in Tough Economic Times
The March 3, 2011 Program has been cancelled.
For several years you’ve been asking me for a special speaking skills program for women.
Why? Because women have different issues. Women have a glass ceiling and in most cases are competing in a male environment.
Women tend to:
- wait for perfection before taking action
- take fewer risks than men
- downplay their accomplishments
- don’t take a strong enough stand on their ideas.
I’ve seen women hold themselves back because they lacked the confidence or skills to present themselves with conviction, clarity, and confidence.
To succeed in tough economic times, what separates you from the competition is your presentation.
You MUST be able to present yourself, present your message and present your value to the marketplace. And that takes confidence.
Speaking Skills for Women in Tough Economic Times is a content rich program with practical tips you can use immediately.
Who Should Attend?
- Business owners
- Business Professionals
- Key executives at middle-market companies
- Sales professionals
- Rainmakers in professional service, accounting, or legal firms
You’ll learn tips to:
- Command a room before you ever open your mouth
- Convert nervousness into dynamic energy
- Identify what confidence looks like, sounds like, and how to speak the language of confidence
- Project executive presence
- Avoid the top communication mistakes women make
- Change your negative beliefs about speaking
- Hook your audience in the first 10 seconds
- Speak with authority and get rid of up talk
- How to dress for a presentation
- Increase your persuasiveness
- Get to the point and stick to it
In the absence of communication there can be no business — this is the philosophy at DiResta Communications, a communications skills consulting firm, that provides presentation, communication and media training. It’s time to step into your power and gain more business.
About Diane DiResta
Diane DiResta is founder and president of DiResta Communications, Inc. Known as the Speaking Strategist, Diane brings over 20 years as a communications expert using her unique approach, the Science of Speaking. Her company works with Fortune 500 companies, media trains sports and entertainment celebrities and coaches transitioning C-level executives how to shine in an interview.
As an in demand speaker and coach, Diane’s programs are delivered both locally and internationally. Prior to establishing her company, she was an AVP at Drexel Burnham, a training specialist for Salomon Brothers and a Speech Pathologist for the NYC schools. She holds a Masters Degree in Speech Pathology from Columbia University, is a graduate of CoachU, and is the author of the popular book, Knockout Presentations.
Partial Client List
- AT&T
- AXA
- Centre Re
- Citigroup
- CNNfn
- Federal Reserve Bank
- Furman Selz
- Grey Advertising
- Helena Chemical Company
- Hospitality, Sales, and Marketing Association
- IBM
- JP Morgan Chase
- Lee Hecht Harrison
- L’Oreal
- Marriott Hotels
- Madison Square Garden
- Merck
- National Basketball Association
- NASA
- Omni Hotels
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Sanofi Pasteur
- Skadden Arps
- Spike DDB
- Staten Island University Hospital
- Tiffany & Co.
- U.S. Army
- USGA
- Verizon Wireless
- Warner Brothers
- WNBA