Audit Presentations With Style and Ease

 

 

 

Workshop length:

1- or 2-day workshops

Objectives:

  • Gain self-confidence by zeroing in on your unique presenting style
  • Convey content in a clear, assertive, and persuasive manner
  • Gain listeners’ involvement in a presentation
  • Present a status update on an audit project directly and clearly
  • Negotiate settlement of a problem situation with a client
  • Avoid miscommunication leading to hostility, frustration, and rigidity
  • Learn techniques for dealing with difficult personalities

Topics:

1. Analyzing Your Fears and Knowing Your Audience

2. Structuring Your Presentation:  Content

  • Knowing types of presentations and their common element: persuasion
  • Establishing an agenda
  • Framing key points to make them memorable—no more than three per module

3. Getting Your Listeners Involved

4. Rehearsing in a Way That Works

5. Using and Not Using Visual Aids

6. Delivering a Stand-up Presentation

  • Connecting with audience
  • Taking the platform and being present
  • Getting listeners’ attention and establishing agenda
  • Using Q&A as a way to amplify your presentation
  • Handling the attention hog or the hostile questioner
  • Taking charge of your body language

7. Delivering audit findings to clients and linking them to business results

  • Realizing importance of communication, relationships, and thorough knowledge of people involved
  • Convincing internal or external customer of need for action

8. Preparing for the meeting:

  • Assessing the situation and the client
  • Preparing a meeting agenda, including presenting comments in order of priority or by classification of issues
  • Scheduling the meeting

9. Performing in the meeting:

  • Making introductions and achieving a positive start
  • Giving overview of what you plan to cover
  • Using language that conveys an attitude of wanting to help and really hear the client; being open and frank and genuine
  • Tuning in to tone and body language
  • Tying your solutions to the business objectives
  • Summarizing at end of presentation and closing positively

Smashing reviews:

“I believe that what I learned can help me in interacting with our clients.” Rick Baldini, Director, Cal Fed Audit