At some point in your career, presenting will become a part (often quite a significant part) of your role. And it can happen at any time, whether you are:
- A graduate needing to present a project update to your boss
- A manager needing to present a new company policy to your team
- A technical expert (SME) needing to present a business case to your Senior Leadership Team
- A newly appointed leader needing to present a recommendation to the Board
- A new sales exec needing to present a proposal to a client.
If you think about these occasions above, being able to present confidently and effectively is a career-critical skill for almost every role, at some point.
When we reach that stage in our careers where presenting becomes part of our role, how many of us can say we’ve received the training, feedback, and coaching necessary to do it professionally and successfully? Based on the feedback we receive, far too few!
Presenting is a skill that needs to be learned. Just like swimming, or driving a car, or playing an instrument. In your career, are you expected to be an accountant without learning how? Or a marketer without the skills, or an engineer without the knowledge? We wouldn’t expect anyone in life, or in business, to perform any of these skills with confidence and competence without training or coaching. So why do we assume anyone can present without being taught the skills and techniques to do it?
What’s more, the result of not getting the right training, feedback and coaching to learn how to present with confidence and impact can be potentially damaging. For the individual, poor presenting skills can erode confidence, cause anxiety and stress, and even damage reputations amongst both internal and external stakeholders. For organisations, it can lead to poor communication up, down and across the business. It can mean ineffective and inefficient meetings – wasting people’s time, and resulting in poor decision making. Plus, of course, poor presenters and bad presentations can mean organisations miss sales opportunities. All these negatively impact the bottom line. When you think about it like this, learning how to present is not just career-critical. They are business-critical too.
So in all likelihood, if you are reading this, you would really benefit from professional presentation skills training, or coaching to uplift your skills and confidence.
But, first, why not take a look at our handy assessment tool which will give you a steer on what your strengths and weaknesses are as a presenter. If you’re in L&D you can use the tool to assess your people, and find out if they need professional presentation skills training. Plus, we have some very useful extra information for L&D and HR professionals.
10 reasons why secondnature are the UK business presentation skills experts – this one-pager will give you some insights about us and how our experience can help you/your people. Once you’ve checked these out, then please simply get in touch, and we can have a quick chat about your/your people needs.
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