Personal Impact

Presenting to groups can be one of the most stressful business activities. Reputations and credibility are at stake, audiences can be challenging and preparation time may be limited. It is therefore not surprising that this has been the most frequently requested skill development area. Whether promoting your ideas, influencing others, getting proposals accepted, presenting data or winning new business, the ability to deliver confident and impactful presentations is paramount. We believe it is a learnt skill and you can read more about this topic here. 

Delivering your message in a clear, relevant and meaningful way for a range of different audiences requires skills, as does handling nerves. These skills can be learned. Our proven approach is guaranteed to improve participant presentation skills, regardless of the experience of the presenter. The results can be truly transformational.

Outcomes

• • • • • • • • • • • Know how to build rapport with different audiences
                    • Be able to handle nerves and convey confidence
                    • Learn ways to build personal impact and influence with an audience
                    • Know how best to use slides and visual media
                    • Learn a proven 5 step planning process for any presentation
                    • Be able to handle questions assertively

We also provide training on more specialised presenting skills including webcasting and remote presenting, and storyboarding. To discuss this further with a member of our team, click here to book in your call today. In the meantime, delve into our recent blog post here which is a comprehensive exploration of the key pitfalls to steer clear of while delivering presentations. 

Compared to presenting, facilitating is about saying less and achieving more. More information, interaction and input from the audience. And this takes a whole new set of skills.

• • • • • • • • • Plan the sweet spot, the overlap between their needs and yours
                • Create cohesion amongst the competing egos and agendas
                • Control communication, your own and everyone else’s
                • Use chunking to bring even a disparate group to consensus
                • Finish a meeting with genuine commitment to tangible actions
                • Handle conflict whenever and why ever it arises
                  

For more information around this topic visit The Mentoring Series blog.  

As the workplace becomes more culturally, behaviourally and educationally diverse, more versatile interaction is essential to the success of any organisation (for more of a deep dive into this theory, read this blog post). Social Styles helps you identify your own preferred communication style and the styles of others, and how to use this knowledge to develop far more effective and productive working relationships. You will complete an online profile prior to the workshop and will benefit from two reports which provide objective feedback on your preferred behavioural style as well as your versatility.

Objectives

• • • • • • • Enhance your ability to gain rapport and increase interpersonal effectiveness with others
            • Reduce conflict in interactions with a range of colleagues and customers
            • Have a greater understanding of your own and other peoples’ behavioural style
            • Gain more confidence in your ability to communicate effectively in one to one and group situations
            • Experience less frustration with poor communication
            • Increase your versatility, being more effective with more people, more of the time
              

Read more in our recent blog post about why it is so crucial to learn about the different social styles within the workplace and the impact on individuals at any level within an organisation. 

Many organisations invest in an internal training resource, either full time trainers or a range of subject matter experts with significant levels of technical knowledge but who do not consider themselves to be professional trainers.

The challenge is to recognise the specialist knowledge and experience these people have and also the importance of developing their communication and influencing skills in the context of delivering training.  The aim is to maximise people’s learning through creating and delivering engaging and inspiring training events.  Without a professional trainer accreditation programme, internally led training could become a series of PowerPoint presentations which can be repetitive to deliver and, unfortunately just as forgettable for the recipients.

Our full Accreditation programme includes the following:

• • • • • • • • • • • • • Professional Presentation Skills
                        • Facilitation and Audience Management
                        • Training Diagnosis and Design
                        • Feedback and Coaching for Performance

Have a listen to our recent podcast Getting Comfortable With Discomfort for some tips and inspiration when face to face with uncomfortable situations.

Everyone works on projects but few people are trained as project managers. That’s a recipe for disaster or at least busted budgets and long-lost deadlines. The challenge with project working is rarely a rogue Gantt chart. It is far more often the other people working on, or affected by, the project. Which is why this unique programme was designed.

• • • • • • • • • Integrate people management skill with project management process
                • Engage key sponsors, team members and stakeholders
                • Plan and manage projects with just-enough-admin
                • Gain revolutionary insights into the psychology of projects
                • Build your own project during the programme!

Have a read of our recent blog about how to identify behavioural styles and how this knowledge can be used to influence others. 

Whether you are a leader, manager, sports coach or parent the skill of coaching helps you get the best out of others. When done well, coaching positively affects retention, results, morale and motivation. When done badly, the outputs are very different!

The challenge for many is having the wisdom to know what approach to use, the skill to be flexible and the rapport to be able to coach others and provide meaningful feedback. Our coaching programmes have helped transform potential into performance for over 30 years.

Outcomes
By the end of the programme participants will be able to:

• Assess their coaching capability
• Choose between directive and non-directive coaching
• Apply the GROW model when coaching
• Give effective feedback on performance
• Gain insight into how to deal with blocks to high performance
• Easily uncover key motivational drivers

If you would like to further understand how an effective coaching culture can impact a business, have a read of this recent blog or for a more hands-free approach, listen to our podcast on this topic. 

Being more in control of your time and tasks is a skill crucial to success in the hectic world of today. In both the workplace and as more people work from home, boundaries become blurred with personal relationships and mental health suffering as a result.

This programme will put you more in control of your life, more efficient when juggling responsibilities, and will give you the ability to effectively prioritise, say “No” constructively and delegate effectively.

Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Prioritise their life tasks, putting important things first
• Understand that urgency is proportional to time
• Choose how to manage the four sectors of the Eisenhower Matrix
• Delegate effectively
• Say “No” in an assertive and constructive way
• Flex their communication style to become the right amount of assertive

For more tips around this topic, check out our recent blog: 4 Ways to End Each Day & Boost Your Success Tomorrow.