Presentation skills open workshop (26 March 2025)

This programme gives the foundation skills you need to improve the impact, clarity and structure of your presentations.

It can be flexed to meet the needs of people new to presenting, or to challenge those who have presented extensively in the past.

Master the physical factors, harnessing the power of nonverbal communication. Engage your audience. Learn how to structure your presentation for best results. Deal with questions more effectively.

Boost your confidence.

Learn all this and more over the course of a day with expert trainer

Refreshments will be provided throughout the day. The workshop will run from 9:30am-16:30pm at the British Dental Association.

• Have a benchmark for what powerful presenters do and don’t do
• Know how to structure a presentation to maximise impact and engagement
• Be able to master the use of posture and gesture for maximum impact
• Be able to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint’
• Improve your ability and confidence to get buy-in to your ideas
• Feel more confident when handling questions or challenges
• Understand your strengths and weaknesses when presenting

A one-day workshop. The group size is limited to 12 participants.

This workshop is delivered by Scott Rumsey.

A popular and enthusiastic trainer, facilitator and coach, Scott revels in the opportunity to help people learn and flourish. He shows great empathy for his participants and creates a positive learning environment.

Scott works with people managers and team members facilitating interactive and engaging programmes.

The following titles are in regular demand:

• Honest / crucial conversations
• Management / Leadership skills
• Influencing and persuading/negotiating
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Emotional intelligence
• Assertiveness
• Change management
• Dealing with change
• Stress and resilience
• Performance management
• Creativity and innovation
• Presentation skills
• Coaching skills
• Time & priority management
• Behavioural & communication styles
• Communication styles
• DISC or Facet5 profiles and feedback
• Presentation skills
• From team member to team leader
• Managing across generations
• Team development
• Cross cultural competence
• Data brilliance
• Compelling business case

In recent years, some of the most enjoyable and valuable programmes have involved the use of actors, particularly in having more difficult conversations. This often involves actors providing extremely realistic responses in such situations for participants to test their skills. Alternatively, participants can observe a scenario, before ‘directing’ the actors to make improvements.

Virtual learning has naturally become more popular since the pandemic. Scott now delivers workshops ranging from 45-minute short, focused sessions to full and half-day online workshops bringing together colleagues from different locations around the country and internationally.

Despite this trend, Scott has also seen a return to in-person learning, where colleagues can spend time away from their day job to collaborate and learn together in the same space. Often facilitating creative ideas, participants have enjoyed working face-to-face again whilst sharing and learning from each other’s experiences.

Scott works extensively across the full range of sectors, including pharmaceutical, insurance, education, manufacturing, entertainment, local authority, not-for-profit and hospitality.

• What makes someone a confident presenter?
• Why feeling nervous is a normal human reaction to being in the spotlight
• The mindset that will help you be a confident presenter
• Techniques for handling nerves
• The matrix of authentic presenting
• Pre-prepared individual presentations (3 minutes max) – practice activity

• The three primary channels of communication – Visual, Vocal and Verbal
• Bringing the 3Vs to life – practice activity

• Hints and tips to make PowerPoint powerful
• Participants receive coaching from other participants and the trainer on their slides – what’s working and what needs to change?

• How to ensure that you are the presentation, not your slides
• Unscripted individual presentations – practice activity

• Why the best presentations are audience-centred
• Organising materials to make presentations relevant and compelling

• If you don’t get your key messages across clearly, you will never achieve the outcome you want
• Reducing the pre-prepared individual presentations from 3 minutes to just 90 seconds – individual activity

• How to keep your audience engaged
• How attention typically varies throughout a presentation
• Review the structure of the 90-second presentations and improving them – group activity

• Review
• Personal action planning
• Next steps

£199 + VAT = £239

Smart casual

1. All our events are very popular and places on this course are limited to 12.
2. Please book (and pay) online using Eventbrite by clicking the 'Tickets' button at the top of this page.
3. Please read ‘the small print’: We reserve the right to refuse admission if payment has not been received. A full refund will be made for cancellations received in writing at least 20 working days prior to the event date; there is no refund for cancellations made within 20 working days of the start of the event. We reserve the right to change the programme, the dates, the trainer or the venue: participants will be notified as soon as practicable in such circumstances. In the event that the event is cancelled, a full refund will be given. We disclaim any further liability.
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