PowerSpeak: The Art & Science of Confident Speaking

Conquer Your Speaking Challenges

If you’re a business owner, business leader or direct sales professional, your ability to speak in public is your most powerful business asset. Speaking will increase your sales –to both external and internal customers—by increasing your visibility. People do business with people they know like and trust—as a result of your speaking skill, you get more customers, more business opportunities and, ultimately, more money.

If speaking in public is a challenge for you, you might be suffering from Speaking Stress. You can tell you have Speaking Stress when you have one or more of these Top 3 Speaking Challenges:

1. “I get so nervous when I have to speak that my mind goes blank.”
2. “I can't think on my feet when I get a question I'm not expecting.”
3. “My audience isn't engaged and I don't know what to do.”

These challenges show up in business speakers all the time—they keep smart, talented people from sharing their knowledge and skill with the people who need it the most. If these are your challenges, you have lots of company.

PowerSpeak is the antidote to Speaking Stress.

Since 1999, 100% of the people who have taken this course have left with a measurable increase in their speaking confidence and skill. None of them are professional speakers, yet they have found that their ability to speak confidently has allowed them to make more sales, speed up their professional progress and increase their business success. If you want to get more speaking practice and join that group of confident speakers, you can do it one day.

Morning:

1. Identify your speaking challenges (the purpose of the course is to address all of them).
2. Learn the top three strategies of great speakers so you can harness them for yourself.
3. Discover the Secret Skill that will transform your speaking challenges into confidence.

Afternoon:

1. Prepare for your speaking practice with a structured experience.
2. Speaking practice, with coaching and feedback.
3. Revisit your speaking challenges to see how you have transformed them in the practice so you can do it again, every time you speak.

Picture yourself with a deep feeling of confidence, connection and enjoyment, in front of thoroughly engaged audience—every time you give a presentation. That’s what you can have when you complete this course.

Your investment: $299 until February 29, $359 after
(Class limited to 6 participants)

Materials: Course workbook

Date & Location:

March 29, 2012, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Hilton Fairlawn
3180 W. Market Street
Akron, Ohio 44333
(330) 867-5000

For information about Maia's other classes, go to her Catalog.