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PRESENTATION &
COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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Essential Skills for Working Professionals

Professional Presentation & Communication Skills

Communicate with confidence. Present with impact. Influence your audience.

Whether you are leading meetings, presenting to clients, pitching ideas, or communicating with executive leadership, your ability to communicate with clarity and confidence directly influences your professional success.

This interactive course equips professionals with practical techniques to develop compelling messages, design engaging presentations, deliver with confidence, manage presentation anxiety, and respond to questions with credibility and poise. Participants can immediately apply these skills to presentations, meetings, and everyday professional communication.

Learning Outcomes

1
Organize ideas into clear, audience-centered messages with a compelling purpose and logical flow.
2
Design presentation content and visuals that reinforce key messages and sustain audience attention.
3
Use voice, body language, pacing, and presence to deliver presentations with greater confidence and impact.
4
Apply practical strategies to manage presentation anxiety and prepare effectively.
5
Respond to questions, objections, and challenging audience interactions with credibility and poise.
6
Adapt communication style and message for clients, colleagues, senior leaders, and other professional audiences.

Program at a Glance

  • Instructor: Art Samansky
  • Format: In-Person
  • Schedule: Thursdays, October 1, 8, and 15, 2026
    6:00-8:00 p.m.
  • Tuition: $175
  • Duration: Three weeks; six instructional hours
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Art Samansky, instructor for Professional Presentation and Communication Skills
Meet Your Instructor

Art Samansky

Art Samansky is the principal of The Samansky Group, a Long Island-based corporate communications consulting firm.

He has trained executives and professionals across a variety of disciplines in presentation, speech, and media skills for nearly 60 years through his corporate communications and consulting roles. He also developed two proprietary coaching programs: Power-Speak© presentation and speech training and In-Control© media training.

Before forming The Samansky Group in late 2000, Art held high-profile corporate communications positions with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the New York Stock Exchange, the Securities Industry Association, HSBC, and Stern & Co.

He began his career as a business and financial reporter in New York City at the New York World-Telegram & Sun/World Journal Tribune and later served as a copyeditor at AP-Dow Jones. He also taught Business Presentation Skills and Business Communications as an adjunct instructor in the School of Business at SUNY Old Westbury.

Art earned a Master of Arts degree in 1977 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965, both from New York University's evening division.

Three Interactive Sessions

Course Schedule

Session 1 — October 1

Build a Clear, Compelling Message

  • Define your purpose, audience, and desired outcome.
  • Organize ideas into a clear narrative with a strong opening and memorable close.
  • Distill complex information into concise, audience-centered messages.
  • Adapt your communication for meetings, client presentations, pitches, and executive audiences.
  • Practice: Develop and refine the core message for an upcoming professional presentation.
Session 2 — October 8

Design for Impact and Deliver with Confidence

  • Create presentation visuals that clarify ideas and support your message.
  • Use voice, pacing, body language, and eye contact to strengthen your presence.
  • Manage presentation anxiety through preparation, rehearsal, and in-the-moment techniques.
  • Keep audiences engaged in both formal presentations and everyday workplace communication.
  • Practice: Deliver a short presentation and apply focused feedback.
Session 3 — October 15

Influence Your Audience and Handle Questions with Poise

  • Build credibility and make persuasive recommendations without overselling.
  • Read the room and adjust your message in real time.
  • Prepare for questions, objections, and challenging audience interactions.
  • Respond clearly when you do not know the answer or need to follow up.
  • Practice: Present, lead a question-and-answer exchange, and leave with a personal communication action plan.