2. Content

Built around you

• Each session is unique, tailored specifically to match your needs, background and the results you're trying to achieve
• 1 to 1 or small group settings, your place or ours
• From 2 hours to a full day's group workshop, or a series of short sessions

How

• Almost 100% practical, learn-by-doing approach with no dreary lectures or textbook theories
• Building confidence through proof - with recording and playback, you'll immediately see the measurable effects of the coaching on both confidence and competence
• We give you what you need, rather than telling you what you already know. Our training style is sufficiently flexible and advanced to ensure that we go at your pace, instead of working within a rigid structure. This means that your time is maximised for optimal benefit and cost effectiveness
• And, if your training is in a group setting, coaching is still predominantly 1 to 1 meaning that we can simultaneously challenge and deliver value to both experienced and inexperienced speakers alike. Participants are very much encouraged to work as a group, with the benefit of allowing them to "brainstorm" and collectively pick up subtle nuances and techniques by experiencing their colleagues' differing approaches and skills
• You'll receive a professional recording of all the practical exercises, vividly illustrating your growth throughout the training
• You'll also receive an individually-tailored, credit card-sized "aide memoire", highlighting the specific conclusions and key points of the coaching and - clients tell us - a wonderful boost when referred to immediately prior to a presentation
• "Advice for life"; Pozitiv clients - whenever they feel they need it - have access to unlimited informal telephone advice, aimed at providing re-assurance, a confidence boost and broad-based guidance prior to any key presentation

WhatContent is always tailored to your specific needs but typically includes...

• How to banish the nerves for good: common-sense strategies for ridding yourself of the needless fears that often accompany a formal presentation. And all without the use of the likes of gimmicky breathing exercises and mumbo-jumbo self-talk

• The one main reason why otherwise confident speakers can be struck by debilitating nerves on the platform, restricting their natural conversational style. And how, once you understand it, you can turn your presentations around instantly
• It’s not what you say but how you say it: discovering why focusing on the script and not the message is fatal
• How to discover the “feel” of a room, ensuring the audience is on your side from the outset
• Minimum preparation, maximum impact: we challenge the common theory that “preparation is everything” and show how your presentations can be better, not worse, by severely cutting back on your preparation
• Do it without notes: how to deliver your presentation without a handheld script or prompts - and make it stronger as a result
• “I’ve started… now I’ll finish”: the very best ways to begin and end your presentations with maximum influence and impact; without resorting to staid platitudes or cheesy stories. And little-known techniques to ensure that everyone is attentively listening, even before you speak
• Persuade, influence, engage: how to press the hot buttons of your audience by drawing on the conclusions of proven presentation psychology
• Leaving a big impression: powerful techniques to stand out from the crowd and really connect with your audience
• Questions and answers: learning how to effectively handle tricky questions, whether friendly or hostile, supportive or mischievous - and in a way that reinforces and increases respect for both you and the questioner
• Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint”: bringing your presentation and its content alive by using slides as an enhancement instead of a crutch

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