STUART WOOD
Key Presentations Skills Training

Make Your Presentations Interesting Engaging & Authentic

[Make engaging memorable presentations with confidence] Learn how to use your unique qualities to make interesting, engaging, memorable presentations; whatever the occasion; whatever the audience.

Avoid sleepless nights. Relax because you're prepared, equipped and confident.

You'll learn how to use a toolbox of skills and awareness that enhance your current strengths and how pre-talk nerves can actually help you to give better presentations, time after time, to any audience, with confidence.

The skills and awareness you learn aren't just restricted to giving talks and presentations. They can be applied to communication and relationships across all areas of life: inside and outside of work. Talk to Stuart

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About Our Training

You'll learn HOW to:

Give powerful talks that really engage & communicate with your audience
Be confident in yourself & your delivery, whatever the situation
Maximise the potential of your presentation environment
Hold your audience's attention
Produce the RIGHT talk for each audience

We teach from experience, using common sense and accessible solutions that make an immediate difference to your effectiveness at speaking and presenting.

We'll also show you how to make your presentation so flexible that your audience dictates the content and you respond instantly with what they need to hear.

This VERY powerful technique provides

A real advantage for delivering key information in time restricted situations
A unique approach to customer focussed selling
Opportunity to share diverse information with a wide range of audiences

When it comes to "How we do it", our style is

Relaxed and varied; professional with a liberal sprinkling of fun
We include a range activities but we never, ever, make you look or feel stupid
We culture and relish an attitude of learning together
We always learn something from those who attend our courses
We believe in and operate by courtesy, manners, integrity and professionalism

[Talking about something gets it sorted] We may use group work; we may use activities and workshops (though we don't have people bouncing off the walls); we may use a little drumming to reinforce learning!

BUT we understand that individuals are most effective when they use their personal skills and qualities, so we tailor each training event to the needs of that specific audience.

That's why we talk to you. We find out what you want. We work with you. We remain focussed on the fact that our input is all about helping you to succeed.

And after we finish we provide you with free follow-up e-mail support for 6 months, so that course delegates can contact us with questions which we will do our best to answer. Talk to Stuart

Who is Our Training For?

Our training is well-suited to those who have little or no previous presentation experience and those with very low levels of confidence. Individuals who already have some presentation experience but want to sharpen and hone their abilities will also benefit.

Training content is structured with a sharp focus on using and improving the skills and qualities we already possess, supplementing these with a toolbox of helpful practical and common-sense hints and tips. The following are covered in detail

Using our personal qualities
Communicating our knowledge effectively
Factors affecting delivery of our presentation (us, environment, audience etc)
Delivering large or complex presentations to diverse audiences

... and more.

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Venues & Group Size

Each training event is designed to meet your specific needs. This is not an optional extra at additional cost; it is our standard.

We don't currently run public courses as we prefer to focus on individual client needs. All training is conducted at a venue of your choice.

Training usually lasts for one day but can be tailored to suit the requirements of individual clients. Workshops consolidate learning and give attendees chance to rehearse and try-out and start refining their newly learned skills.

We restrict group size to a maximum of 10 individuals, preferring to work with between 6 and 8 participants so that everyone gets maximum benefit from our training. Talk to Stuart

Our Trainer

[Dr Stuart Wood - Trainer educator facilitator for Key Presentation Skills] Our trainer is Dr Stuart Wood.

Stuart combines over 25 years of speaking on an incredibly broad portfolio of topics with his passion for 'making the complex easy' and a proven track record. His relaxed, professional manner instantly sets you at ease so that everyone benefits. Read more about Stuart on the Key Presentation Skills web site

'Stuart is a rare individual. His ability to create sense from chaos, to distil clarity of thinking from murky waters and to impart technical knowledge in a way that makes it all seem simple, is a unique gift. His dry humour and ability to view things from a different angle, was of huge value and support to me in my role. Always challenging and thorough in his dissection, Stuart was great to work with and made meetings interesting! Put simply, he is a man many could learn from, pragmatic, human, reflective and passionate about the positive impact of what he does.'

SM, Commercial Partnerships, DeMontfort University, UK

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