The Hired Guns Academy

Nail That Presentation! Adding Strength to Your Professional Talks, Appearances, and Job Interviews

When:  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Cost:  $129

Where:  The Hired Guns Hive, 33 West 17th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY

Instructor:  Joel Schwartzberg

Course Description:

What do bosses, business partners, and prospective employers look for in presentations, speeches and job interviews?

Strength.

A strong presentation conveys leadership, confidence, and competence, and gives you a definite advantage as you aim to impress your audience, advance your agenda, and sell your ideas. But strength is communicated far more by how you present than by what you present.

So how do you learn deliver a strong presentation? The good news is that great presenters aren't born; they're trained. The Hired Guns Academy now offers that training in a unique and intensive two-hour workshop run by Joel Schwartzberg.

A top public-speaking instructor and former national champion public speaker, Joel teaches you how to excel in today's competitive market by adopting techniques he honed over his fifteen years in public-speaking competition and university coaching and as a successful author and senior media executive for Nickelodeon, Time Inc., and PBS.

By the workshop's end, you'll learn:

• How to strengthen your sentences
• Strong posture and gestures
• The power of pauses
• Quick warm-up tricks
• How to inject passion into your points
• The best way to use PowerPoint and other visual aids

In an economy where every opportunity is golden, having an edge in your presentation skills is crucial to capturing every one you can.

Details:

Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 6:30 to 9 PM
Place: The Hired Guns Hive, 33 West 17th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY
Cost: $129
Instructor: Joel Schwartzberg

Pre-requisites: a desire to improve

Bring with you: a subject you're passionate about

Instructor Bio:

In 1990, Joel Schwartzberg won the collegiate National Championship in after-dinner speaking and the Masachusetts State Championship in persuasive speaking, and was ranked among the top ten public speakers overall in the United States. He went on to coach competitive public-speaking teams at the University of Pennsylvania, Seton Hall University, St. Joseph's University, and Queens College. In 2002, Joel was inducted into the National Forensic Association Hall of Fame for his contributions to the practice of competitive public speaking and has been conducting both one-on-one and group public speaking workshops for the past five years.

Currently a new media executive for PBS, Joel Schwartzberg has also held senior executive roles at Time Inc. Interactive and Nickelodeon Online.

Joel is also an author, screenwriter, author publicity coach, and personal essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Daily News, Newsweek, New Jersey Monthly, The New York Post, Babble.com, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Huffington Post, and regional parenting magazines around the country. His "humoir" The 40-Year-Old Version was published in 2009.

About the Academy:

Welcome to The Hired Guns Academy
(For Guns, By Guns)

The Hired Guns Academy is a new kind of career and brand management training program, committed to providing you with unmatched content, hand-selected instructors and a community of Guns to work (and play) with.

The perfect place for state-of-the-art career management, Academy courses are guaranteed to get you thinking differently about career and personal brand management. To help you to outperform in this new, post-corporate economy, we've crafted an inspirational, educational curriculum; carefully matched each course to the Hired Guns instructor we consider to be best-in-class experts; and engineered a unique experience that will ensure an intimate, hands-on, and networking-friendly learning environment.

Let The Hired Guns Academy separate you from the crowd, empowering you to completely take charge of your future. Be brave. Come learn. Have fun.