Download this free workbook designed to help you and your colleagues to Stop Global Boring by finishing your presentations with greater impact. The workbook contains thirteen different presentation closing techniques that you can experiment with in future presentations.
This is a great self-study workbook, or a resource that you can use with your team during a lunch and lead seminar.
Workbook – Presentation Closing Techniques from Kathy McAfee
What’s in this workbook?
You will read more about the five guidelines to effective presentation closing remarks:
- Avoid the weak wind-down
- End naked
- You get the last word
- Practice your closing remarks ahead of time
- Have a contingency plan
You will learn in detail how to use these 13 Presentation Closing Techniques:
- The traditional close
- Leave them with a conundrum
- Motivating quote close
- The WWW close
- Physical props to create a lasting visual memory
- Metaphor close
- Inspiring quote close
- Final advice close
- Call-to-action close
- Question close
- Customer tributes, poems, and musical scores
- Inspiring video or energizing music close
- Gratitude close
With each technique, you will see:
- At a Glance: a brief explanation of the closing technique
- Example: a link to a video example or a written example to help you understand how it works, plus a transcription, if one is available
- Space for you to draft your own version of this presentation close technique
Note: If you plan on printing out this workbook, we recommended you do so two-sided. The workbook has been formatted with a three blank pages, so that if you want to print it out two-sided, it flows nicely.
What’s more….
- You can also find this content online with embedded video examples in the four-part blog series posted by Kathy McAfee from Jun 29-July 16, 2016. Here’s a link to the first post – http://www.americasmarketingmotivator.com/part-1-finish-strong/
- For more information on how you can improve your communication and presentation skills, please contact executive presentation coach and trainer, Kathy McAfee at (860) 408-0033 or email Kathy@AmericasMarketingMotivator.com