Feature
Issue No. 5 - April/June 2002
Persuasive Presentations
You get one chance to make the really big presentations. Messing up the opportunity of a business lifetime with a stumbling performance doesn’t bear thinking about.
Overcoming the stage fright we all feel to some degree in ‘limelight’ situations is a serious business and professional help is available. One valuable local resource is the dean of South Australian orators, David Griggs, who was honoured at the National Speakers Association of Australia annual convention in Adelaide in March. David has made this ‘corporate bid’ or ‘pitch’ coaching a new facet of his Speakers Studio enterprise.
David has been training clients ad hoc for more than two years, but demand went to a new level when, lately, one of the State’s major events organisers, who “felt that they had not been getting the most out of their presentation opportunities” asked for help, then went on to win an important bid on the strength of David’s coaching.
In the lead-up to the World Congress of IT, in conjunction with CIBM David helped 11 local IT companies hone their presentations.
“I was asked to help CIBM clients who had difficulty in promoting what they do, and CIBM itself wanted help in making its small business networking more effective—because if CIBM is not effective, its clients are not effective,” he says.
“This was particularly important for the IT companies because they had to m...
