  What we do - more information about presentation skills training
My wish to offer professional presentation skills training, particularly to scientists in academia,
is linked to a specific event. It may have been 1999. I was attending a meeting of
the Dutch women geoscientists
network GAIA.
Something struck me. Something really impressed me: The way the woman in charge
was running the show. Superbly! I enjoy and admire great skill tremendously and sat there
in silent awe, thinking: "Boy, she is GOOD!"
This woman was a recent earth science graduate and had just joined Shell. I noticed
similar qualities in other Shell staff at that meeting. Shell, then, probably had a darn good
presentations skills training program, was my conclusion.
After the meeting, I tried to find out more about this training program. In vain.
Can you imagine the magnitude of my pleasure when I later - at a Toastmasters meeting in The Hague - ran
into the motor behind this particular training program? It made my day.
I want to make your day, too.
I strongly feel that you should have the opportunity to get similar great training.
Because I think every good scientist deserves to have this top-quality presentation skills
training.
Sure, most of us can give a pretty decent presentation. But are we really running the show
when we chair a session? Is the audience with us when we guide a discussion? Do we
shine and sparkle and make the audience shine and sparkle?
Jumpstart your presentation finesse. Learn how to enjoy yourself in front of an audience.
Let me introduce you to a very good professional communication trainer: Pinkney Froneberger.
Pinkney is a U.S. citizen and has
been training staff at large international banks for over fifteen years (Deutsche Bank and similar
large international organizations). He has conducted seminars in Germany, Switzerland, England and Italy
and comes highly recommended.
In addition, he has served as guest lecturer at the University of
Hamburg (Master's in European Business Program). He received his degree in
Communications and Political Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. You can find
more about Pinkney on the
web site of International Communications Training for Business (ICTB).
Pinkney and I ran into each other at a workshop on cultural differences
organized by Berenschot in 2004. We discovered we were both members of the
Amsterdam American Business Club.
Pinkney is a great guy, with a good sense of humor, and is tremendously
dedicated and motivated.
In the summer of 2004, NATO contacted me and asked if I could provide
presentation skills seminars. "We want our people to show more enthusiasm."
I called ICTB and introduced the two parties. That led to a series of on-site workshops.
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