This is Dr Meegan Brown’s Success Story after Presentation Skills Training with Michelle Bowden, presentation skills trainer. Enjoy Meegan’s insights!
Dr Meegan Brown is a lecturer and Study Area Co-ordinator of the Master of Education School Guidance and Counselling at the Queensland University of Technology.
Meegan has specialised for over 20 years in remote schools as a teacher, Principal, Guidance Officer, and Senior Guidance Officer. Her research and teaching interests include school guidance and counselling, trauma aware education, and rural and remote education.
After attending Michelle’s Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass online in 2021 Meegan said:
What type of presenting do you do?
I do different types of presenting which include lecturing, presenting at conferences, and delivering professional learning to educators across different sectors.
What prompted you to attend Michelle’s Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass?
Michelle’s masterclass was offered through QUT. My colleagues had told me how powerful and transformative her masterclass is and they were right!
What did you learn that was helpful?
Michelle’s teaching and strategies have continued to build my skill set in how to present persuasively through understanding the importance of stage craft, keeping the audience perspective as my focus, acknowledging barriers and be clear with solutions. It also reinforced the importance of preparation and practice, and the importance of having effective power point slides.
How has working with Michelle helped you and your career?
There have been many positive outcomes that I have achieved from improving my presentation skills. The standout is I have been able to develop more effective and engaging slides. I have also been able to further refine my online presentation skills.
By following Michelle’s structure in persuasive presenting has made my presentations more impactful.
What were your top 3 take-aways from Michelle’s training?
3 top take aways from Michelle’s masterclass:
– preparation is the key: analysis, then design, then delivery.
– creating a message that sticks in the audience mind – using linguistics to resonate.
– the use of 5 Step Analysis model, 4Mat and the Persuasion Blueprint for structuring your message – invaluable!
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©2024 MICHELLE BOWDEN is an authority on persuasive presenting in business. She’s run her Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass over 1000 times for more than 13,000 people over the past 25 years and her name is a synonym for ‘presentation skills’ in Australia.
Michelle is a multi-million-dollar pitch coach to her client list that reads like a who’s who of international business: banking and finance, IT, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications plus many more. Michelle is the creator of the Persuasion Smart Profile®, a world-first psychological assessment tool that reports on your persuasive strengths and weaknesses at work, the best-selling internationally published author of How to Present: the ultimate guide to presenting live and online (Wiley) and How to Persuade: the skills you need to get what you want (Wiley).
