"Now You're Talking"Learn to Enjoy Public SpeakingSpeaking at a presentation, meeting, for a website video, media interview, at a wedding or private event?Our training for public speaking is tailored to your needs. We'll help you overcome anxiety, use stories and start to enjoy - yes, enjoy - speaking in public. We'll show you how to gain clarity, be relevant and engage your audience. Our one-on-one public speaking training sessions are designed to help you feel competent, confident and energised. For corporates, our workshops & small group training help managers and employees gain presentation & speaking skills in a team environment. And what's more - have fun learning! Would you like to speak in public with confidence?As a young actress in both New Zealand and Australia I was often sick to my stomach with nerves. I was in good company. Many actors - Richard Burton, Stephen Fry, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Scarlet Johanssen - have suffered from stage fright. Like them, I had to learn to harness the butterflies and use the adrenaline to give me energy, pace and focus. It's true. You can learn to lose the fear, create presence and engage an audience. |
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Public speaking is learning the art of being confident while engaging and stimulating the minds of your audience.Our one-on-one coaching achieves faster more effective growth & change. Each session is tailored to individual strengths and weaknesses.
You will learn to communicate more effectively, listen differently and change the way you react to things.
If you are motivated & apply the training you will gain the confidence to enjoy - yes enjoy - speaking to an audience! We guarantee results.
In our work with both corporations and individuals we have found most people find public speaking one of their greatest challenges. This is true whether giving presentations, making a pitch, holding meetings with clients or staff or talking to the media. To see people gain the confidence to enjoy - yes enjoy - speaking in public is enormously rewarding for them and for us. Motivation is key.
If you tell, people forget, if you show they listen, but if you involve them they will remember!
The following video outlines what I can do for you in helping you to learn to enjoy public speaking.
Recently I heard the actor, talk show host and professional storyteller Graham Norton, give a basic guide on how to tell a story well. ‘It’s an art form as old as Time’ he said. He’s right. We’ve been telling stories since the Pleistocene era.
Today we also use stories to make business presentations, pitches and meetings more effective and memorable.
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Simple"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
Einstein sums up one of the basic rules of speaking.
So when you prepare your next speech/presentation make sure you:
Strategic Story TellingOn strategic storytelling - ‘Tell to Win’ author and business guru Peter Guber describes purposeful storytelling as a ‘Trojan Horse’. An audience takes in a good story not realising they’ve received the teller’s hidden message. Sneaky? Maybe. But it works.
Read more about our Strategic Story Telling workshops for Corporates
You’ve probably heard the old maxim ‘people may forget what you said, and they may forget what you did, but they will never, ever forget how you made them feel.’
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