Presenting Success: equipping you with the skills and confidence to make successful small group presentations
Presentations are full of opportunities for growth. Whether you’re looking to impart knowledge, get support for an idea or share your experience, you have something that can make a difference to your audience. And in the process of preparing, practising and performing, you too can grow and learn. So many opportunities, and yet, as presenters we can sometimes fail to make the most of them.
And that’s where I come in!
My Presentation Skills workshop will give you what you need to make the most of these moments.
My approach
- Inspiring: I’ll share fresh insights, and new information, drawn from my experience and my extensive reading.
- Practical: I’ll share a set of practical steps and actions you can take to improve.
- Interactive: there will be space for sharing, discussion and questions, plus time to create an action plan to make the most of the takeaways.
- Supported: all participants receive a welcome pack with the agenda, a biography of the trainer and suggested preparation and post-training reading and resources
- Agile: you will leave with a set of principles that you can employ to become a confident presenter, whether ‘on video’ or ‘in-room’.
- Flexible: the workshop can be tailored to run across 2.5 hours, a half-day or a full-day, depending on the requirements of the group.
A sample agenda
- Introductions: strengths and opportunities.
- First steps: your pre-flight checklist.
- Pulling your ideas together: where to begin.
- Communication styles: and how to use them to shape your material.
- Structuring your presentation: by turning it into a compelling story.
- Practical matters: guidance on creating slides, handling questions.
- Rehearsal: how to practise your presentations.
- Voice and Body Language: using pause, emphasis and gesture to create impact.
- Presenting on screen: performing well over video.
- Building your confidence: how to create it.
- Action plan: turning today into tomorrow. Your plan to turn learning into action.
If this workshop sounds like it would be useful for you or your team, feel free to get in touch and we can arrange a time to chat.
Feedback
“The thing I’m taking away is that you CAN learn this.”
“The presentation skills workshop has been a game changer for me! I’ll certainly take what I’ve learned and put this into practice.”
“Thanks John I really loved your session yesterday! You framed presentations in a completely different light for me and it feels more like an exciting challenge than a nightmare now.”
“It was a pleasure and an inspiration.”
“Very beneficial indeed. I learnt a lot and will be used in all my future endeavours. Thanks!”
“Thanks John, I really enjoyed it. The work is already proving useful as we are working on pitches today!”
“I have come away with so many practical examples that I can take back to my team and it’s given me plenty of food for thought too”
“Have you ever left a training day feeling so inspired that you were buzzing? I had so many ideas running through my mind I could barely sleep after an incredibly inspirational day”
Thank you for a great session on presentation skills – it really helped with the pitch and I’m looking forward to taking your tips forward into my role at work. I’ve already encouraged everyone at the agency to work out their presentation preferences. Thanks again.”