Create Messages That Motivate

In today's climate of high-velocity change, you can't get the results you want alone. You need to be able to inspire those around you to do what's necessary to make the impossible a reality.

Your personal and professional success is largely determined by what you say and how you say it. Let communication expert Bert Decker be your guide to the effective communication so essential to today's society. Gain clarity, focus, and power for your messages; learn the secrets of people such as Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Gates.

In Creating a Powerful Presence, Bert Decker uses examples of these and other great communicators to illustrate powerful techniques — including using question-and-answer periods for emotional involvement, visual communication through video, and inserting humor to reach your audience on a more personal level.

Integral to your success is the Decker Grid System® — an innovative approach to developing well-focused messages that will reduce preparation time while making presentations more natural and memorable.

Creating a Powerful Presence will teach you how to:

• Recognize the 7 critical success factors and why they are vital to your personal and professional success
• Become a charismatic, engaging communicator
• Use humor to build an unbreakable bond with your listener
• Create energy and spontaneity in any presentation with simple techniques like the "Hot Potato"
• Bring your message vividly to life with guaranteed attention-getters
• Sell your ideas to others by presenting them as beneficial to the audience
• Spice up your presentation with stories, analogies, quotes, and quips
• Recognize the seven deadly presentation sins — and how to avoid them
• Think fast on your feet when under pressure
• Utilize three secrets of the most successful communicators

Spoken communication is the most effective way to move from ideas to action to results. Bert Decker will show you how to seize that advantage for yourself so you, like all great communicators, can command a powerful presence.