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What’s The Deal with presentation skills Training?

Here at the Oatmeal Group, we believe that presentation skills training has flown under the radar for far too long.  That’s never right.  Business people at all levels are increasingly required to design and deliver presentations.  In fact, it often starts nowadays at interview stage, before you’ve even been offered the job.

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In that respect, presentations aren’t big news - they are taken for granted in most working environments.  Increased demands are put on business people to give presentations to colleagues, bosses and prospective and existing customers…  In some cases, they even include public speaking at industry events or to the press.

 

Yet the demand for quantity is not matched by quality.  Like millions of business people around the globe, you might be expected to give professional presentations on a regular basis, without as much as an hour’s training in your life.

 

Mega bucks are won by carefully researched and prepared presentations that are delivered with confidence and passion.  On the flip side of the coin, they are lost by dull presentations that do not flow and are delivered by a struggling person who doesn’t seem to be with the programme.

 

With so much at stake, doesn’t it make sense for you to invest in yourself and your staff for the greater good of the business? 

 

Helping individuals and helping businesses – that is what we, at the Oatmeal Group, bring to your table.  We’ve been there and done it.  We are now bringing Presentation skills training out of the shadows and in to your business.

 

It’s Only Talking – Do Business People Need Presentation Training?

Correct – that is exactly what presentations are, just talking.  That being the case, why is it that so many otherwise competent business people are terrified of giving presentations and do it so badly?

 

Even your most articulate and entertaining team members are often reduced to a pulp when asked to stand up and deliver presentations to their own peer group, let alone superiors or potential clients.

 

Presentations matter.  They matter in terms of business credibility and business growth.  Yet our research highlights that more than 80% of business presentations fall short of the mark, resulting in detrimental effects to businesses themselves.

 

Successful presentations are about what you say and how you say it all rolled in to one.  Furthermore, they are not just about that 20 minutes or so when you actually address your audience.  They are about the careful preparation that brings you to that moment, your body language, even the sound of your voice.

 

Allowing your people to simply ‘muddle through’ without any time served and honoured help isn’t adding to their competitive edge.  If you are happy with hit-and-miss presentations that produce so-so results, feel free to click off now. It is, after all, only talking.

 

If you want their presentations to represent your business as it deserves to be represented, and put them ahead of your rivals, shouldn’t you be thinking of picking the phone up to the Oatmeal Group?

 

Who is Presentation skills Training For?

We design and deliver Presentation skills training courses for business people at all levels.  If it’s about presentations, we either already do it, or we can do it, from group sessions for novice presenters to one to one coaching with experienced public speakers. 

 

Ranking highly in our most wanted list is presentation skills training for:-

 

• Managers – including management communication skills, giving winning presentations at staff meetings and conferences, pitches, Board meetings and on other public platforms.

 

• Sales People – including research and preparation for 1:1 or group presentations, the use of audio visual aids, rapport building, overcoming objections, closing.

 

• Techies – incorporating all of the key ethics of giving great presentations, whilst addressing the use of ‘geek speak’ to technical and non-technical audiences.

 

• Advanced – helping senior Managers who already have considerable public speaking experience to up their games to the next level.

 

• Senior Executives – tailor-made one to one planning, mentoring and coaching sessions, often addressing specific forthcoming public speaking engagements such as Stakeholder presentations, industry events and press conferences.

 

• Jibbering Wrecks – group or one-to-one sessions to blast those public speaking nerves right out of the ballpark and nurture confident, professional presentations.

 

This is no means an exhaustive list.  If what you want does not feature above, please don’t assume that it doesn’t exist or can’t be done.  It probably does and can be.

 

What Issues Does Presentation training Skills Resolve?

We’ve all been obliged to sit through dreary presentations.  Here are a few scenarios and they’re not a pretty ones:-    

 

“(S)He’s too serious / too ‘matey’ / too quiet / not in touch with the audience / cracking corny jokes that just aren’t funny…”

 

“Looks a bit nervous, poor soul, in fact, looks terrified, I feel a bit sorry for her / him, surely (s)he’s not like that normally…” 

 

“Making me lose my will to live, going through slide after slide, too much information and just reading it back when I can see for myself what it says…”

 

“No flow, it’s all over the place, jumping backwards and forwards and not really going anywhere…”

 

“Hypothetical questions that never seem to get answered…”

 

“I’ve lost the plot and am texting, doodling and jotting down my shopping list.  My colleague sitting next to me is juts as fed up as I am…”

 

“Folks are asking questions and (s)he doesn’t seem to have a clue, is flapping, grinning inanely, wittering on, digging a hole…”

 

“WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!”

 

We think this answers the question about the issues presentations skills training resolves quite comprehensively.  And how scary are the answers, if you are honest enough to admit that they apply to you or your team members?

 

Your admission represents the first obstacle overcome.  The next is making contact with us, at the Oatmeal Group.

 

How Does Our Presentation Skills Training Work Hard For You?

We have the real-time experience, the insight, the qualifications and the insider tricks of the trade to help you and your people progress your presentations from mediocre to megawatt.

 

When you undertake your initial free consultation with us, we obtain a clear understanding of who your staff are and what they specifically need.  None of our clients are identical, so our sessions do not come ‘off the shelf’.

 

We then mix and match relevant course modules focused on quick and significant improvements in the fields of:-

 

• Assertiveness
• Body language
• Facilitation
• Interpersonal skills
• Keynote speaking
• Leadership
• Powerpoint presentations
• Public speaking anxiety
• Team building
• Vocal impact.

 

Our sessions are delivered interactively and personably by professional presentations coaches who are used to dealing with the specific demands of the corporate marketplace. 

 

We leave delegates with public speaking action plans they can put to immediate effect, confidently, persuasively and full of impact, for their own benefit and the benefit of your business.

 

Our presentation skills training courses are not one-trick ponies.  We do not simply tell your team how to transform their presentations from formulaic to fabulous – we show them how to, by example, by effective teaching, and by constructive criticism that empowers but never embarrasses.

 

Presentation skills training by the Oatmeal Group works hard for your business, not only now, but long in to the future.  We look forward to working in partnership with you and tacking the issues that may be holding your people and your business back.

 

How often have you been recited to in a formulaic fashion, been tortured with slide upon slide of text or been bored senseless by the poor audience engagement of the presenter? or do you have a fear of public speaking?

How would you like your pitches and presentations to be passionate and evocative, have the audience glued to their seat as they listen intently to your every word, and create a stir amongst your peers; we can give you that through effective sales and presentation skills training, that will show you how to look, sound and behave your way to success.

As part of his MBA, at Cass Business School London, John Davies, the founding partner, researched why so many presentations failed. The results were shocking with over 80% of business presentations failing at some level, largely due to the formulaic way we are trained . But the good news is that creating great presentations is a skill we can all acquire and one we can master quickly.

Oatmeal training takes a psychologists view of human motivation, addressing the hierarchies of audience needs, examining the three types of presentations that exist, and what presentation skills training we need to easily structure our business presentation skills for maximum effect. Our sales and Presentation courses are high impact and designed for the corporate marketplace covering:

 

• fear of public speaking, how to control anxiety, nerves and phobias
• Sales presentation skills training, closure and impactive presentations
• Advanced presentation skills training for company/ project briefings
• Executive presentation skills training for conferences, shareholder meetings etc.
• Effective negotiation skills training

Being persuasive, speaking with impact, and presenting confidently are all presentation skills that can be quickly acquired within our presentation skill training courses. All our presentations courses educate our students to the key formula of a great presentation, rather than take a formulaic approach to presentations which is so prevalent in today's business courses.

Our sales and presentation skills training courses can help you improve your:

 

• Public speaking anxiety
• Body language
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Job interview skills
• Public speaking skills
• Vocal Impact and skills
• Facilitation skills
• Assertiveness skills
• Leadership skills
• Team building skills
• Powerpoint and Keynote skills

Courses are run in house directly geared around the needs of your business in London, Cardiff and Bristol. Please contact us for availability and cost. 

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