Find your voice and learn how to use it. How to give a talk and be heard - (The Midlands) 12 April 2024

74% of us fear public speaking yet it is the way that we spread ideas, it is the way we change things, it is the way we get spotted and promoted.

Presentations skills really matter as they are the key to spreading great ideas. Ideas change things. They are the most valuable of currencies.

Ideas mean nothing if they are not shared.
Ideas go nowhere if they are not presented.
Ideas need oxygen and presentations are the bellows.
Most of us hate presenting. Some of us love it. Even those that look like extroverts on stage are often really introverts. This stuff can be learnt. This workshop teaches you how to present like you know you can.

Who'd have thought that presentation skills would become one of the most important business tools ever?

This workshop takes all Mark’s learning from presenting around the world over the last 20 years, being one of the comperes at the brilliant Do Lectures over the last 7 years, and hosting events and conferences over the last 25 years, and it condenses it into a one day workshop on how to develop an authentic and compelling presentation style.

Mark will take you through the basics of enhancing your presentation skills, will take your ideas and help form them into stories and will then give you the confidence to share those stories.

Each person will present without slides at the beginning and the end of the workshop. Mark will give you gentle and constructive feedback on your style before going into the detail of story and technique. Mark will show you methods for having better ideas, building stories, and creating presentations. He then spends a chunk of time working on confidence before everyone presents again. The session will be recorded and your presentations sent to you afterwards with a workbook and other tools.

What this isn't about.

This isn't about copying the best; it's about finding your best.

What this is about

This is about finding the real you. This is about reconnecting with the sparky, lively, enthusiastic person you really are and bring that person to the stage.

This is about building ideas that take all the oxygen out of the room, that make the hairs on your arm stand-up.

This is about using stories - your stories - to build presentations that change things.

This is about finding your voice.

What you will learn

You will learn what makes a great presentation and you will learn what makes a dreadful presentation.

You will learn that you have a true voice and you will learn how to find it.

You will learn how to prepare so that you won't forget.

You will learn how to relax in, and even enjoy, the spotlight.

You will learn what is holding you back on stage and how to deal with it.

You will learn how to build ideas and give them velcro so that they stick to people.

You will learn how to build a presentation with stories.

You will learn that pauses are - good.

You will learn how to use media, music and video to make your points faster and better.

You will learn how to get out of your own way.

You will learn how to breathe.

You will learn a simple meditation technique to reduce nerves (nerves are not all bad - you will learn that too).

You will learn about fonts and slides, confidence and no-slides.

You will learn how to be you, you're very good at that.

12 April 2024 09.30 - 17.30 at our studio in the Midlands. We are brilliantly located for trains from London, the South West, and the North. The nearest station is Tamworth and we can arrange lifts to and from the station.

£300 including VAT. Includes all course materials, refreshments, lunch and a copy of Mark’s book Do present, how to give a talk and be heard.