NOTE--Location for Meeting
Cleveland Park Library, 2nd Floor, Large Meeting Room
3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Wash., DC

According to Mark Twain, "It usually takes more than 3 weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." Today's entrepreneurs, managers, and consultants don't have that kind of time to prepare. 

Do you need to give presentations? Do you sometimes have only 10 minutes to make your case? 

This workshop can help you achieve your presentation goals: 

• Getting the right results from your presentations. 
• Getting the audience to trust you and to believe you. 
• Getting audience members to do what you want them to do. 

• How to open your talk and how to connect. 
• How to close and how to get action. 
• How to use stories to reinforce your points emotionally. 
• Great ways to answer difficult questions. 

• Entrepreneurs and others who present to investors. 
• Sales representatives who present as part of their sales cycle. 
• Managers who want to help their sales representatives get better results. 

Speaker: A former software developer, marketing manager, and sales manager, Bob Bailey has the knowledge and experience to help high-tech business executives reach their goals by delivering polished, focused, powerful presentations. His knowledge of technospeak enables him to help the high-tech speaker translate technical jargon into language that is technically meaningful yet persuasively effective. Bob is outstanding at creating analogies, translating features into benefits, and making it meaningful for the audience. 

Bob was the Presentation Coach for the Storyboard Project (cosponsored by Interboard, the Potomac Knowledgeway Netpreneur Program, and the George Mason University Technology Resource Alliance. He began presenting and coaching in 1978, after founding Washington Whitewater. He has been active in Toastmasters and in the National Capital Speakers Association (NCSA), and is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA). In 1996 Bob was chosen to present at NCSA's Speakers School. 

Bob Bailey's company ebiz focuses on entrepreneurs, sales executives, and systems engineers of high-tech companies. Through its workshops on the elevator speech and on communicating your core message, and through its consultation services in presentation development and in killer slide creation, ebiz helps clients develop and communicate compelling messages. Bob is also president of NewRoute.

Bob Bailey may be reached at Bob@ebizMAX.com.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. (There are many restaurants suitable for pre- or post-meeting gathering/networking/refreshment in the block north of the library.) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Free and open to all