The Workshops
If you want your audience to LISTEN, WATCH, and ACT, you need to TELL, SHOW, and INSPIRE
Tell
The art of the hook
Why hooking is instrumental for a great opening
How important is your audience
What imagination enables
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60 minutes interactive workshop
crafting a narrative
Why conflict is necessary to have a story
How to create feelings and emotions
What you need to connect
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60 minutes interactive workshop
"Excellent course. Part of the modern work culture is to create presentations. Bijan succinctly and expertly educated us on how to tell better stories with when presenting, without a visual avalanche of data on slides. One of the biggest takeaways for me is: just because it's the tradition to create slides with dense visual data clutter does not make it correct!"
show
basics of slides
Why you (don't) need slides
How to master visual & graphic design
What you do with all that screen real estate
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60 minutes hands-on workshop
advanced slide design
Why brains love beauty
How to tell a visual story
What beautiful data looks like
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60 minutes hands-on workshop
"The whole class was phenomenal. Thank you! I particularly liked the examples of "bad slides" and how you'd change them to get the point across better. It provided a good reference point most of us can relate to. "
inspire
beyond words
Why your voice is more important than words
How your body empowers your speech
What is the purpose of distractions
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60 minutes interactive workshop
the RECIPE for attention
Why preparation always leads to confidence
How charisma derives from passion
What you need to control crowds
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90 minutes interactive workshop
"Bijan was the best teacher I've had at Google and will change my presentation skills and style. I SO appreciated his course and the way he delivered it with humor and authenticity. We need to change the culture of presentations at Google! Thank you!!"