Presenting
Tips for Presenting to Executives
Delivery Options
- Webinar: Virtual, 90 minutes
- Speaker Sessions: In-Person, 90 minutes
Presenting to the C-suite and other executive audiences can intimidate even the most polished presenter. To engage busy executives, you need to get to the point quickly. To be persuasive, you need to understand your audience so you can demonstrate the benefits of your recommendations from your audience’s point of view.
This course shows you how prepare for your executive presentations. You learn how to address what is important to your audience, capture attention with an engaging opening, use transitions to create flow, and close effectively for results.
Who should attend
The webinar is ideal for anyone who needs to make persuasive presentations to executives.
We can support up to 100 participants
What you will learn
- analyze your executive audience to understand their specific needs
- demonstrate the benefits to your audience
- address key questions and concerns
- get to the point quickly to make the best use of time
- show presentation polish with transitions that create flow
- open and close your presentation effectively
What to expect
In this course, learn how to adapt and elevate your presentations for an executive audience. Apply your learning as you go, and leave with new techniques to effectively engage and persuade executive audiences in your future presentations.
Course outlines
Webinar: Virtual, 90 minutes
Download course outline
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Speaker Sessions: In-Person, 90 minutes
Download course outline
PDF, 68 KB
Webinars and speaker series FAQs
Your manager or training department will schedule it directly with Wavelength. We occasionally offer public open-enrollment webinars to individuals so you can sign up for a session yourself.
Our course administration team works with your training coordinator to confirm participant numbers and rosters, as well as participant materials and logistics. The team also answers questions and troubleshoots any issues.
About two weeks before your session is scheduled to begin, you receive an email with information about how to join, including login details for virtual sessions and logistical details for in-person sessions. You receive an email explaining what to expect and how to prepare. If you’re using digital participant materials, you also receive these with your email. If you’re using print materials, you receive these when you arrive for your session.
You spend your time learning. Our webinars and speaker sessions are interactive, so you have plenty of opportunities to try out new skills and share ideas as you learn.
Yes! You receive a copy of the PPT for future reference. You may also receive additional materials to use during or after your session.
Typically, there’s no prework for webinars and speaker sessions. If you receive digital materials with your pre-course email, we ask you to have these downloaded and saved to your device to use as you need during the session. Otherwise, just bring yourself and come ready to engage and learn!
We don’t ask participants to turn video on for webinars.
For webinars, you need a computer, preferably with camera and microphone capabilities, with your digital materials downloaded and saved. Although it’s possible to join virtual sessions on other devices, we recommend a computer for an optimal learning experience.
For in-person speaker sessions, bring a laptop if you’re using digital materials, and a pen and notebook if you wish to take notes by hand.
Delivery methods
Webinar, Virtual
Webinars are perfect if you’re looking for a cost-effective way to entertain, inspire and educate a large group virtually, and you have 60- to 90-minutes. Participants are remote and they can be anywhere in the world, so webinars are ideal if you want to bring together teams from different regions.
Speaker Sessions, In-Person
If you’re looking for a speaker to entertain, inspire and educate a large group at an offsite, conference or lunch and learn in a 60- to 90-minute time slot, a speaker session is for you. We can accommodate a large group, so it’s cost effective.
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