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10 Things to Look for When Selecting a Presentation Skills Training Provider

10 Things to Look for When Selecting a Presentation Skills Training Provider

There’s no doubt that effective communication and strong presenting skills are a must for employees working in today’s corporate environment, which is why many organisations choose it as an area of focus within their L&D training plans.  When senior leaders, managers and staff in your organisation have the skills and confidence to deliver clear, impactful, […]

10 Tips to Prevent ‘Zoom Fatigue’

10 Tips to Prevent ‘Zoom Fatigue’

Let’s face it, a year ago the word ‘Zoom’ – along with words like lockdown, coronavirus and face mask- wasn’t top of mind. Just 11 months on and ‘Zoom’ has become the generic term for Video Conferencing and most of us are already currently suffering from ‘Zoom fatigue’!  This isn’t surprising given that as of […]

What is Presentation Training?

What is Presentation Training?

Presentation Training is an umbrella term covering a wide range of skills that fall into 6 pillars. Learn more about the 6 pillars of presentation training.

How to Pitch a New Idea at a Business Meeting

How to Pitch a New Idea at a Business Meeting

It could be a new project, service, a form of funding or even the idea that closing at 3pm on a Friday would benefit the company as well as employees. Pitching a new idea at a business meeting is all about being clear, credible and compelling.

Speaker Training Tips for Presenting Business Webinars

Speaker Training Tips for Presenting Business Webinars

What Is A Webinar? Sounds like an obvious question, right, what is a webinar? But let’s take a moment to reflect.  A webinar is a web-based seminar. Specifically: It’s a presentation;  And, taking the seminar part literally, a webinar should be highly interactive. With questions and answers, exploring the depth and breadth of a subject. […]

Virtual Instructor-Led Training – V.I.L.T. It’s the future for now!

Virtual Instructor-Led Training – V.I.L.T. It’s the future for now!

As the saying goes “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.”, and Covid-19 has definitely been the hour of opportunity for V.I.L.T. (Virtual Instructor-Led Training). Face-To-Face (F-T-F) training and coaching is the gold-standard for learning. Until now, it always has been. All the way through our lives. From education at school and college, to professional coaching […]

Do You Know The Differences Between Presenting Online and Presenting Face-to-Face?

Do You Know The Differences Between Presenting Online and Presenting Face-to-Face?

There are important distinctions between presenting online and presenting face-to-face, in person and in the same room as your audience. We’ve done a lot of thinking about this recently as we are coaching business people to present online far more than face-to-face currently, and we’ve found that there are many differences between the two, but […]

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