Dave Schwensen delivers informative programs with healthy doses of creativity, humor and audience participation. Topics include strengthening your communication / conversational skills, teamwork, networking, customer service, sales and public speaking. 

• Keynote Speaker

• Training Seminar / Break Out Session Leader

• Private or Group Coaching

• Presentation Skills (Full or Half Day)

Whether your event is business related, educational, or focused on special interests, Dave's presentations and training seminars can be customized for your specific need. This includes content emphasis, program titles, and selected handouts and worksheets from his university courses.

Talking For Success:

You're Talking - But Is Anyone Really Listening?

A lively and entertaining keynote or break out session

Open the lines of communication by initiating memorable conversations. Your message will not only be heard - but listened to and remembered.

• Dynamic first impressions

• Break the ice

• Build stronger professional and personal relationships

Program opens with a humorous greeting customized for your event and audience. This is followed by an explanation of the value of personal creativity and politically correct humor as a communication tool - and emphasized with audience participation. Program includes worksheet from Dave's university course and ends with selected volunteers sharing their improved conversational skills in front of the group. The results are fun, laughter - and a new awareness of how a simple conversation can make a difference and separate you from the competition.  

Customized For:

Business / Corporate Events

The focus is on customer service, teambuilding, networking and sales. As a business owner since 1994, Dave uses personal experiences in management, client acquisition and retention, and employee relations to deliver an informative and entertaining program. Based on the university courses he designed and instructs in Business Communications and Presentation Skills.

Education

Administrative, office professionals, teachers and students. Open the lines of communication to build better and more productive relationships, improve teamwork and ease stressful situations. In a learning environment - personality counts.

Special Interest Groups

For social and professional associations - including women's groups, college clubs, retreats, and other special events. This program has less emphasis on business and concentrates more on conversational techniques to break the "ice," make memorable first impressions, and build more productive professional, personal and organizational relationships.

Presentation Skills - Half or Full Day Seminar:

You're Speaking - But Is Anyone Really Listening?

Tips, Techniques & Top Secret Information on how to become a Better Public Speaker

Based on the university course designed and instructed by Dave Schwensen. Includes 50-page workbook.

When speaking in public, you are expected to give an informative presentation. But successful presentations involve more than "just saying the words." The goal is to have an audience listen to your message, relate and remember it. 

As a trainer, administrator, supervisor, HR representative or professional speaker you may already know what you want to say. How successful you are as a speaker depends on how you deliver - how you say - the message. Preparation, practiced delivery techniques and enhancements employing personal creativity and politically correct humor that don't take away from your message will hold an audience's attention. The end result is a memorable presentation. 

This course in public speaking includes in class presentations with instructor critiques and coaching.

In this course you will learn:

• Effective delivery techniques

• Overcoming nervousness

• How to make a strong first impression before ever saying a word

• How to develop an opening that will "break the ice" 

• Methods to research and personalize your topic 

• Working with audience demographics

• Signature stories that help audiences relate to you and your message 

• Using politically correct humor for your advantage

• How to deal with unexpected interruptions

• Methods to close a memorable presentation

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