PRESENTATION SKILLS

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Do you rely on presentations from your company experts to win contracts? Do you sometimes realise that everyone is zoning out at important project update meetings? Do you feel like it’s an uphill battle to get referrals for your business from your colleagues in other divisions?

Every business struggles at times to make the most of market opportunity. Maybe it’s time to tackle the productivity drain that poor presentations cause. How much easier would your life be if you knew that your team could get their message across every time? We can help you to make your messages memorable, and present information in a compelling way when you and your team stand up to speak.

Our clients vary in size and profile, but they are all committed to staff development and growing their organisation. Browse the information below to find out more about some of our most successful programmes. Or allow us to tailor a programme to your needs – either one-on-one or for your entire team.

Persuasive Presenting

Talk like TED

Leadership Communication for Impact and Influence

Communicating for Research Impact

Persuasive Presenting

This is the Bespoke Communications flagship programme. Maybe your team are confident, competent presenters but you’d like to start making presentations that really stick with your audiences? Or you find that you’ve gotten so close to your subject that you’re drowning in detail whenever you get up to speak? Or maybe you’d just like to set up a forum where rookie presenters in your team can learn from the best? Allow us to develop your team’s communication style over two half-days with a two-step process based on the principles of performance psychology:

Plan and Prepare – what’s the goal of your presentation and who is your audience? We’ll introduce you to the research behind our planning process and show you how to build up a compelling presentation that advances your project every time. With our structure and storytelling techniques, your presentation will hook your audience’s attention, keep them engaged and move them to the behaviour change that you’re looking for.

Perform – whether you’re giving a formal presentation in a large venue, presenting at a small meeting or over a coffee, we’ll give you approaches that suit your personal style. Learn to overcome presentation nerves and find ways to harness your inner speaker for presentations that connect you with your audiences.

This training programme is best arranged over two x half-days, although we can tailor content to meet the needs of different audiences. We also offer one-on-one coaching.

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Talk like TED

This is a fun, fast-paced workshop for a team Away Day with a difference! Using techniques from the wildly-popular TED Talk format, your team will build their ability to communicate with greater clarity of ideas, better structures and stronger arguments. We encourage group collaboration and build up a toolkit of individual skills over the course of a highly interactive day. And everyone gets the chance to present – removing the fear factor from presentations and encouraging everyone to think about their audience the next time they stand up to speak. Help your team to view presentations in a whole new light – you can be sure that after a day of Talk like TED, team meetings will never be the same again!

This one-day workshop format is tailored to the needs of your business and your team.

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Leadership Communication for Impact and Influence

The ability to communicate persuasively takes a leader from good to great. As a manager and leader, most of your time is spent communicating with others to achieve results. You’re on a continuous and rewarding learning journey to find ways of getting the most out of your team. You must find ways of inspiring and motivating to achieve results. Let’s face it, you’re often faced with the task of presenting a difficult message, and that’s not easy. When it comes to resource, you’re the person that negotiates internally on behalf of your team.

This programme is an opportunity for you to reposition your business communication skills. You’ll develop the awareness, energy and skills to communicate your vision to increase your influence both within and outside your organisation. Whether you’re presenting to a group, delivering a speech or communicating one-on-one, this course will challenge, surprise and inspire you to communicate with impact every time. After all, good communication is at the heart of every high-performing team.

Adapting your style

Understanding your own communication bias
Understanding the communication needs of your audience
Communicating with a diverse team
Active listening skills
Assertive and respectful communication

Developing your message

Clarity of message for transparent communication
Concise messaging
Harnessing the power of storytelling
Making your message memorable
Great structures to help you

Presenting in Public

Speaker impact
Communicator credibility and warmth
Personal presence
Enhancing your message with great visuals or props

Typically delivered over two days, this training programme can be tailored to the needs of your organisation to meet your budget and timeframes.

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Communicating for Research Impact

With an increased emphasis on the civic impact of research, University research strategies are adapting to encourage greater involvement with social, cultural and economic institutions. Public engagement is a pathway to Research Impact. Capacity building for researchers in public engagement is now a source of strategic benefit to universities and research institutes.

Allow us to show you a four-step model to develop memorable talks with meaningful messages.

You’ll develop a talk that makes your audience care about your research topic, without detracting from the complexity of your research.

Allow us to develop a bespoke programme to help your researchers to develop memorable presentations that resonate with audiences everywhere. We can offer you programmes to meet your objectives, starting from a half-day commitment.

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What Others Say

‘I’m more aware of myself and my skills. It’s not as scary as I thought!’

Learning Pool

‘The course helped me to reframe my work, and gave me time and space I wouldn’t otherwise have to consider public speaking’

Ulster University

‘I’ve been empowered as a presenter to deliver a better service’

Alzheimers Society

‘I learnt something new in an area I thought I knew a lot about’

Local Partnerships

‘Enjoyable, fun, informative and made me think!’

Fleming Agri

‘Our course was informative, structured and gave great examples of practice’

People Plus

‘Before walking into the room, I was worried I was too anxious, too monotone, too quiet or not authoritative or compelling enough. This course encouraged me to communicate with confidence’

Ulster University

‘I would recommend this course to colleagues because they will grow as an individual and as a team’

JMK Solicitors

PRESENTATION SKILLS

BROWSE OUR FREE PRESENTATION SKILLS LEARNING RESOURCES

Persuasive Presenting

Talk like TED

Leadership Communication for Impact and Influence

Adapting your style

Developing your message

Presenting in Public

Communicating for Research Impact

Allow us to show you a four-step model to develop memorable talks with meaningful messages.

What Others Say

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