Do you want to succeed and advance in your career? If so, presentation and personal presence skills are essential. If you present well in front of an audience and influence your audience to your way of thinking—you will quickly advance in your company or organization. You can outpace those with greater technical knowledge who lack good presentation skills.

Self-development expert Brian Tracy says, “Your ability to communicate with others will account for fully 85% of your success in your business and in your life.” Would you improve your presentation skills if you knew there was an 85% chance it would fuel your career success? Of course, you would!

Frank DiBartolomeo has helped hundreds of people improve their presentation skills, communication techniques, and personal presence. During the program, you’ll receive customized presentation skills that fit your specific personal needs. Your needs are assessed before you attend the course to ensure your maximum value.

As a practicing engineer, Frank understands technical professionals' proclivity to work with numbers, graphs, and spreadsheets. However, as Brian Tracy says above, this accounts for only 15% of your success in business and your life.

Sitting at your desk and doing your job every day will allow you to keep your job but only contributes 15% toward your advancement. You need to get up from your desk and communicate with others and convince them to your way of thinking.

Zig Ziglar said, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” And the only way to get others what they want is to communicate with them. Improving your presentation skills is like mining a vein of pure gold which is your mind.

If you want to command the room when you speak, if you want to speak with confidence and ease, if you want to influence your audience—Frank DiBartolomeo can help you.

During his lifetime of public speaking as a U.S. Air Force officer, engineer, college adjunct professor, Toastmaster, and entrepreneur, Frank has honed his presentation skills and his ability to help others improve their presentation skills, communication, and personal presence.

He has evaluated and provided constructive and actionable feedback for hundreds of speakers. Through methods acquired from his extensive experience as a systems engineer, Frank determines your in-depth requirements and then designs a customized presentation skills program just for you.

In 2002, Toastmasters International awarded Frank the organization's highest individual recognition, Distinguished Toastmaster, for outstanding public speaking and leadership. A large part of this recognition was providing other speakers feedback on what went right in their speeches, what they need to improve, and how to improve it.

Through Frank’s customized presentation program, you will develop the following skills:

> Reduce your fear of presenting to an audience

> Solve your presentation pain points

> Use better listening skills to become a better speaker

> Learn how public speaking adds to your power

> Develop a speech topic

> Speak frequently to develop your presentation skills faster

> Answer audience questions with competence and confidence

> Field hostile audience questions

> Field audience questions not related to your topic

> Use descriptive words to get your point across to your audience

> Use eye contact to engage and keep your audience’s attention

> Use eye contact to build rapport with your audience

> Use eye contact to gain speaking confidence

> Use gestures to emphasize your main points

> Use gestures to gain audience trust

> Use gestures to enhance the words you are speaking

> Dress for success in your speaking

>Dress appropriately for your audience, venue, and topic

> Dress to evoke a planned audience reaction

> Write your presentation to clarify your thinking

> Speak well to enhance your leadership

> Record yourself in video to help you become a better speaker

> Tell stories to engage your audience

> Tell stories to tap into your audience’s emotions

> Tell stories to give your audience mental hooks to remember your main points

> Remain calm when things go wrong in your presentation

> Practice mishap recovery before your presentation

> Recover from presentation mishaps when the audience notices the mishap

> Use your presentation openings capture your audience’s attention

> Use the basic forms of the presentation opening

> Use your presentation closings to make your presentation more memorable

> Use the basic forms of the presentation closing

> Pack more power with shorter presentations

> Reduce ahs, ums, and other verbal fillers

> Construct PowerPoint slides

> Establish yourself as the expert through your presentations

> Mind Storming your topic to discover your main points

> Seek opportunities to speak

> Use powerful and descriptive statements when you speak

> Use repeated words and phrases to emphasize your main points

> Use the Rule of Three

> Give your audience practical action steps to implement your main points

> Use speech patterns to influence your audience

Initial Session (Two Hours)— Purpose is to review best practices in delivering presentations to individuals and small to large groups

Some of the competencies we will cover include:

> How to build instant rapport and connect with one person, five, fifty, or a hundred

> Exercises to be more engaging and keep everyone awake

> How to SOFTEN your image to be more approachable, likable, and trustworthy (body language, tone of voice)

> Reducing your fear of presenting to an audience

> Words and language that derail connections

> How to connect with various age groups (millennials, baby boomers, etc.)

> How to speak in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner

> How to cut out your ums, ahs, and other verbal clutter

> Use of stories to generate interest (storyboarding)

> How to open and close a presentation for maximum impact

> Communication crushers that get in the way

> How to speak on the fly—impromptu speaking

> How to get and use humor in your presentations

> What to do before, during, and after a presentation to ensure success

> How to answer questions

> People buy on emotion and back by facts

> PowerPoint tips, tools, and techniques

> Dealing with doubters, skeptics, and difficult clients

> And more…

Second Session (Two Hours)—Purpose is to review past and upcoming presentations

> Review first session

> You will deliver a presentation(s) and get feedback on strengths and areas to improve

> How to exercises and tools for continual improvement

> Assistance in writing, adding/subtracting content, stories, humor, etc. to enhance the presentation

Third Session (Two Hours)—Purpose is to deliver a presentation(s) to several colleagues

> The presentation will be recorded and reviewed

> Feedback on connecting with the audience

> Feedback on strengths and areas for improvement

> How to exercises and tools for continual improvement

> If possible, Frank is available to watch and review an actual presentation to provide feedback

Additional Sessions on an As-Needed Basis

> Frank is available to watch and review specific meetings and provide feedback

> Frank can assist in writing and preparing upcoming presentations

> Frank also offers professional development programs on presentation skills for groups (flat fee for groups)

You will also receive:

> A presentation skills checklist

> Recording of the session to remind and reinforce

> FREE subscription to Frank’s weekly presentation skills ezine

> FREE PDF electronic copy of Frank’s book Speak Well and Prosper: Tips, Tools and Techniques for Better Presentations

Your investment is $997 for the initial three two-hour sessions. For additional sessions the investment is $697 per session or portion thereof which includes all expenses. An invoice will be provided after each additional session.

The session schedule is by mutual consent between the client and Frank DiBartolomeo.

For more information, contact Frank DiBartolomeo at (703) 509-4424 or frank@speakleadandsucceed.com.