Rachel Maunder

The ability to deliver a presentation with confidence and clarity says a lot about you. Unfair but true, assumptions will be made about your ability to fulfil your role from your ability, and willingness, to present competently. What does is it say about you if you turn down an opportunity to speak in front of others? What does it say about you if you do it badly? This course is designed to help you put together a short presentation and to deliver it confidently and competently. Objectives: • To share the importance of being clear about the message you want to convey • To share a simple format for putting content together which will make it both easier for the audience to follow and for the speaker to remember • To give participants the opportunity to practise delivery and receive constructive feedback Outcomes: Participants will come away with: • A presentation in draft form and a template for further use • An understanding of how to structure a presentation • An understanding of how to repurpose speech content • New techniques for getting your message across clearly • More confidence in delivery ‘Prior to this course, I was filled with dread at the thought of giving a presentation. I now feel I’m capable of doing it! I thought the format of the day was perfect. Enough balance between writing, presenting and teaching of skills. Thank you! Amanda Phillips-Wyld. Solicitor’

Course style: 70/30 teaching to interaction Who is this for? Those who have experience in presenting and recognise the value of a skills refresher programme; those who have completed the Getting Comfortable with Presenting course and feel ready to take the next step forward. Overview: There’s a difference between good and great and what makes that difference when it comes to speaking in public? A good speaker will deliver a well-constructed, interesting and informative presentation with confidence. A great speaker will have their audience engaged from the outset, wanting to hear more. But how do they do that? Often it’s only the little things that make the difference but they’re not always obvious – and they can be learned. This course covers many of those little things and gives participants an opportunity to get comfortable with using them, so that they too can go from good to great. Objectives: • To provide an opportunity for participants to challenge themselves and their presentation skills. There’s always something new to learn! • To introduce participants to a higher level of public speaking techniques for even greater audience engagement • To provide an opportunity for participants to experiment with those techniques and to receive feedback Outcomes: Participants can expect to: • Have a greater understanding of how to achieve greater audience engagement • Have learned techniques to take their public speaking to a higher level • Have identified at least 3 of those techniques they can incorporate/develop further within their own presentations straight away

It’s one thing to deliver a presentation confidently and competently, but quite another to really engage your audience and achieve the outcome you set out to achieve, both for that audience and for you and your organisation. When you can effectively make use of stories within your presentations, you’re already engaging much more meaningfully with your audience, which makes them more likely to take the action you want them to take. Stories evoke emotions. They travel down through generations and stay in people’s minds much more easily than a set of facts and figures. Don’t have an ‘against the odds’ tale? Your own everyday stories and your client stories are just as powerful. Objectives: • To raise awareness of how important everyday stories are for engaging and connecting with your presentation audience • To raise awareness of why stories are so powerful • To give an overview of the different types of story that can be used • To give examples of different ways of using different types of story Outcomes: • Participants to identify some of their own stories they can use in their presentations • To understand the simplicity of recording everyday stories • Tips and ideas on how to weave different types of stories into presentations for greatest effect, i.e. a great story doesn’t always start at the beginning.