“It takes you out of your comfort zone and will grow you as a person as well as improve your presentation skills.”

“Learning about framing, lighting and other aspects of virtual presentation allows me to feel more confident in my professional appearance on screen.”

“Laura and Gerry have great chemistry and the staff have really gravitated towards them and are taking the lessons to heart and implementing them right away.”

“It helped me to be a better presenter and I think it’ll help others, at any level, to improve their presentation skills.”

“Over the course of the module I felt more confident in utilizing different techniques to better present and communicate to others via online platforms.”

ROOM TO ZOOM:

Customized Communications Training

The pandemic has dramatically changed how we communicate. Teams already are connecting in new ways and will need to continue to improve how they engage and communicate – whether virtually, in person, or in new hybrid environments.

Moving a program, a meeting, a sales presentation or a conference from in-person to an online or hybrid model is not as simple as standing in front of your laptop camera and talking. How you present, individually and as a team, can lead to success or failure. The right strategy, skills and approach make all the difference.

In partnership with Gerry Sandusky, the Voice of the Baltimore Ravens, MarketPoint’s team offers customized online presentation training tailored to your organization’s specific presentation needs. Programs can be designed to address multiple aspects of virtual communications – from getting comfortable and understanding how to connect with your audience when in front of the camera to strengthening presentation skills for sales pitches or other types of ideation, problem-solving or project meetings. Our experts bring more than 30 years of experience in communications and broadcasting.

Create a Competitive Advantage for Your Team

  • Learn reproducible strategies for developing and delivering presentations in person, online, and in hybrid environments
  • Strengthen your team’s ability to create audience engagement, not fatigue
  • Establish high levels of comfort and confidence in your team
  • Connect with your audience to more effectively communicate your point
  • Employ techniques that transform team presentations, ensuring smooth transitions and leveraging individual talents

Tailored to Your Needs

We offer a number of customized training and coaching modules, where teams learn to connect more effectively with their audience, use the power of perception to their advantage, employ techniques for audience engagement and use of multimedia, and manage the dynamics of presenting in a team setting. Most programs comprise multiple sessions for participants, workshop coaching, and asynchronous learning and practice between sessions.

For more information or to schedule your initial consultation, please call 410.942.0600.

What Participants Found Most Helpful

  • “Individual feedback, about [challenges] I didn’t realize I could improve upon…”
  • “It was helpful to see others having similar issues… I can recognize my own issues in them…”
  • “The power of storytelling…”
  • “Direct feedback on personal strengths/weaknesses…”
  • “The concrete tips/strategies + presentation practice coupled with honest feedback/critiques…”
  • “Learning from one another; getting feedback on your presentation skills…”
  • “Pointers on how best to connect with your audience and subtle things that I can do off-camera to perform better on camera…”
  • “The video-conference-specific training and tips to making your ‘rectangle’ look its best and make sure your nervous mannerisms and insecurities are not present in the frame…”
  • “Input on how the voice and body language are received…”

Testimonials

From early stakeholder focus groups through final recommendations, MarketPoint’s work has been thorough and extremely professional. Their insight and analysis helped us build a stronger message platform and informs our ongoing communications.

Thank you for the invaluable training and for guiding me to find my voice. The workshops were succinct, well organized, and taught valuable lifelong lessons.

I asked MarketPoint to help me prepare for a major presentation, and their coaching proved invaluable. Thanks to their guidance, patience and advice, my presentation flowed well, my audience stayed engaged, and I received numerous requests for more information and follow-up as soon as I finished because so many people wanted to chat!

MarketPoint helped us develop a brand platform that articulates a clear vision of the direction we need to take the company. And their organizational compass gave us a tool that helps keep the whole delivery system on track and on message – it’s a visual representation of what we’re all about. Marketing can be a funny thing: You don’t know what you don’t know! That’s why you need MarketPoint.

The presentation went very well. Thanks again for all your help in elevating our preparation for this presentation and leaving us with lasting lessons that we can carry on into future preparation and presentations. We won the project!