Day 1: Message, Structure, and Slide Design

Structuring Presentation Decision

• Define decision or approval from audience
• Frame question the presentation must answer
• Select evidence essential to the decision
• Close with a clear actionable request

Persuasive Story Structure

• Open by explaining why topic matters
• Move logically from problem to response
• Use a concise example or story
• Close with an explicit next action

Developing Slide Design

• Keep one main idea per slide
• Use headlines to communicate conclusions
• Simplify dense tables and charts
• Redesign one overloaded slide

Day 2: Delivery, Confidence, and Presentation Lab

Voice and Presence

• Regulate breathing before the opening
• Use pauses to emphasize meaning
• Vary pace without sounding artificial
• Maintain natural posture and movement

Timing and Questions

• Allocate time across sections in advance
• Move between ideas using brief transitions
• Listen to questions before answering
• Handle out-of-scope questions clearly

Influential Presentation Lab

• Deliver a short slide-based business presentation
• Receive feedback on content and performance
• Revise slide message or pacing choice
• Redeliver the improved section

• A real business presentation rebuilt around one audience decision
• Dense slides tables and charts redesigned for simpler comprehension
• Voice timing transition and interruption-question practice
• A recorded presentation comparing first and final delivery after feedback