Career Confidence

About the role

This workshop is designed to help professionals refine their communication skills, focusing on structuring engaging content, improving storytelling, enhancing presentation delivery, and increasing audience engagement.

What you'll learn

• Confident Content Shaping:
  • Train models to structure communications more engagingly, sorting and prioritizing relevant material.
  • Create strong openings, key messages, smooth transitions, and memorable conclusions.
  • Present data and technical information in a compelling and understandable way for non-specialist audiences.
  • Replace text-heavy PowerPoint slides with alternative methods to support messaging.
• Improved Storytelling Techniques:
  • Incorporate storytelling into communications to captivate audiences and make messages memorable.
  • Use anecdotes, case studies, and real-life examples to illustrate points and engage listeners emotionally.
  • Experiment with imagery, metaphor, and analogy to add depth ("colour creation").
  • Build a story bank for various speaking occasions.
• Enhanced Presentation Skills:
  • Define your presenter persona and explore your authentic style for natural alignment.
  • Receive tailored, sensitive feedback on public speaking abilities, including physical and vocal presence.
  • Experiment with body language, pitch, pace, volume, emphasis, and silence for maximum impact.
• Increased Audience Engagement:
  • Tailor content to audience needs instead of "information dumping."
  • Map audience outcomes: what you want them to feel, learn, remember, and do.
  • Learn techniques to interact with audiences in large or small settings, live or virtually.
• Communication Confidence:
  • Manage physical nerves and build confidence.
  • Adjust your mindset and quiet your inner critic.
  • Anticipate and handle questions, including difficult ones.
  • Deal with sudden changes and recover from unexpected situations.

Testimonials

• "Thank you! I couldn’t have done it without you, Rachel. I felt the most relaxed presenting that I ever have."
• "Great tools and techniques. I feel much more confident. Getting in-the-moment feedback was really helpful!"
• "I enjoyed actually learning something new! I thought I would have heard it all before. Great and insightful guidance."
• "Pretty darn valuable! I only wish I'd had the opportunity to attend years ago."