Elegant Skills for Powerful Presentations Program next week on September 29 and 30, in Palo Alto, CA. The winner will have the opportunity to experience the DeFinis Communications powerful brand of presentations skills training complete with dynamic media, unique learning models, extensive practice exercises, video feedback and our signature Line by Line Coaching™ process.   The winner will be notified by 5PM EDT Friday, September 25, 2009 I just got an email from our contest winner and because of a work emergency she is unable to attend our Encore!

Elegant Skills for Powerful Presentations . With only eight participants per class, individuals will experience the power of personalized attention and our signature Line By Line™ coaching process . Rules: ·          All entries must be submitted by Midnight EST on August 24 th , 2009. ·          If the amount of invitations increases after your initial submission, you must indicate the previous number on subsequent entry posts. ·          You may keep adding invitations until DeFinis Communications is proud to announce our Fall 2009 Public Seminar schedule. Building Professional Presence is our new, one-day program designed to give a general audience exposure to the best practices of creating and delivering powerful presentations.

You see much has been written about Obama’s speaking skill. He uses rhetoric and oratorical skills that wouldn’t be out of place in Ancient Greece or Rome. Rhetoric can be seen as someone not being honest by saying what they mean. So I wanted to share how we the ordinary speakers can make use of Obama’s incredible skill. If you have to make presentations as part of your job you might be able to pick up some useful tips from this post. This post is a kind of follow up to my post Lessons from President Obama’s Inaugural Speech .