Deborah Boswell works with some of the nation’s top companies, helping executives and emerging leaders project confidence and credibility to any audience. These clients understand how clear and concise presentations make a positive impact on earning ability and the company’s bottom line. Other sharpened skills include:
- Grabbing your audience with the first words that come out of your mouth
- Selling more products and services through powerful presentations
- Conducting more powerful meetings that help get things done
- Listening effectively
- Developing a more powerful and energetic voice
- Overcoming fear and shyness about business presentations
- Presenting technical information clearly, concisely, and persuasively
- Mastering voice projection, articulation, pace, body language, eye contact, and gestures
- Using audience involvement techniques to identify and handle questions
Presentation skills training is delivered according to the client’s need in a variety of customized formats:
Two-Day
Course
Delivered on your site for up to 6 persons. This course helps your
leaders and associates prepare and deliver clearer, more persuasive
presentations to clients, sales prospects, and internal audiences.
Includes multiple videotaping exercises with feedback, skill-building
exercises, plus one-on-one guidance and coaching.
Two-Day
Course—Technically Speaking: Presentation Skills for Engineers
and Tech Experts
Very similar to the two-day course described above, but crafted specifically
for special needs of technical professionals. Delivered on your site
for up to 6 persons. This course helps your engineers and tech experts
prepare and deliver clearer, more persuasive presentations to technical
(and non-technical) clients, sales prospects, and internal audiences.
Includes multiple videotaping exercises with feedback, skill-building
exercises, plus one-on-one guidance and coaching.
Half-Day
Mini-Course
Delivered on your site for up to 7 persons. This three-hour session
is ideal for a select group of associates and leaders who need a quick
shot of presentation skill training. The course can serve as a refresher/reminder
for seasoned presenters or an introductory overview for the less experienced.
Videotaping with instant feedback is included, and Deborah will provide
a written evaluation for each student so further training can be sought
where appropriate.
One-on-One
Training/Consulting
Deborah can meet with your executive at your site or at headquarters
in Birmingham. Individual needs are assessed and skills developed
accordingly. Ideal for sharpening skills of intermediate and advance
level presenters. Schedule and session lengths are flexible.
DVD
Training Course
Produced at a live training session, the DVD course TECHNICALLY
SPEAKING: PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR ENGINEERS & TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS
is a compressed version of the Two-Day Course TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
and provides CEUs through Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
Take a look at a demo of the program.
While Deborah provides customized workshops and training professionals in all fields, she specializes in the engineering, high-tech, banking, medical, financial and insurance sectors. After taking Deborah’s training, the technical professional will be able to:
- Identify the key components of a powerful presentation.
- Understand the value of utilizing stories and analogies in a technical presentation.
- Explain the physiological and perceptual factors involved in producing a strong and interesting speaking voice.
- List the specific tools required for communicating specific information to virtually any audience.
- Utilize a three-step process for handling questions from the audience.
- Differentiate between effective and ineffective use of visuals in a presentation.
Contact Deborah today to discuss your need for presentation skills training, or to request a DVD copy of her demo.




