Presentation Skill Training Cardiff
We offer a wide range of presentation skill training programmes right in the centre of Cardiff, covering all aspects of presentations from anxiety management through to advanced media courses. Our Cardiff presentation skill training programme is delivered either one a one to one basis, in house to groups of up to 12, or as a public training course.
The Cardiff programme covers fundamental business presentation skill, sales presentations, pitching to investors, new business ideas and presenting to the Welsh Assembly Government and its officials.
We also offer bespoke one to one public speaking training for those wishing to create motivational speeches of help to reduce anxiety or the fear of speaking in public.
A typical one day programme covers the following topics:
- Presentation analysis, what makes a great speaker
- Fear of public speaking, anxiety busters, myths and models, stress management
- Assertiveness training, commanding the audience
- Motivational theory, how to capture and keep your audience
- Structure, how to create a winning presentation
- Project management and risk mitigation
- Conflict management training,dealing with hostile audiences
- Powerpoint, good slide design and colour theory
- Lessons through history, great speech writing
- Thinking creatively, business innovation
We come into your orgainsation fully equipt to run Presentation Skill training specific to your organisations needs. As part of this service, we will come in and discuss the outcome you'd like to achieve, staff roles, types of presentations you'd like to cater for and the sort of audiences you are likely to encounter. We will then develop a bespoke course for you, which can be integrated into you existing organisational development programme which we would be happy to discuss with you.
One to one coaching
Many of our clients prefer an intensive one to one presentation skill training session geared around a specific event or topice.g. shareholder meeting, addressing the media etc. In this situation you will be assigned to a senior coach who will develop a plan of action around your timescales.
Feedback and support
Presentation skills develop over a lifetime, so we continue to support all of our clients by email and telephone throughout their careers as part of our commitment to continued development.
Terrified of presenting?
Thats perfectly normal, most of our delegates and trainers have varying degrees of anxiety before a big performance and its just your bodys way of preparing yourself for the big event. Our Presentation Skill Training Courses have been written and developed with novices and experts in mind. Each exercise has been developed to slowly increase your confidence, skills and knowledge in a supportive and collaborative environment. We dont expect you to be an expert at the end of the course, but the skills you will learn and develop will give you greater confidence, clarity and conviction to present in any situation, knowing you have the backup of a friendly knowledgable trainer.
Our training style
Unlike many training organisations, our trainers have come from industry and fully understand the complexities and anxiety of speaking in public. All of our Presentation Skill trainers take a down to earth approach to teaching, allowing you to develop your own presentation skills without being forced down a formulaic, prescriptive route. Our Presentation Skill courses are based on leading edge academic research coupled with practical guidance from the floor. Each participant is expected to experiment and demostrate their new found skills whilst receiving constructive feedback from both the trainer and fellow delegates. Optionally, Presentation Skill courses can be videotaped and edited, allowing delegates to receive full and detailed feedback post training.
What makes us different?
To start, we are'nt passionate about presentation skills but obsessive. We are committed to improving the presenting community as a whole, and not just churning out repetitive courses. We teach on many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes from Swansea to New York, and sponsor many communication projects that enable us to examine current and future trends that we work into our Presentation Skill courses, ensuring you get the very latest thinking in management development programmes.
Want to know more?
A leading business school recently quoted "Oatmeal Training Courses are in a league of their own, an intelligent approach to management development", and here are a few more comments from our clients:
"Working with Oatmeal opened our eyes to the many pitfalls of poor presentations. In accessible language, they showed us what to do, and what not to do, and gave us a series of practical guidelines and tools to ensure we inform, educate and inspire our audiences"
Oxfam Cymru
‘The Potentia project (Welsh Assembly Government) which supports under represented groups into business, has been extremely pleased with the Race awareness training package designed and delivered by the Oatmeal Group. John Davies and Carol Hill have structured a package that centers the training around the needs of the target audience, which has resulted in a highly successful, interactive and participative course. Oatmeal’s commitment to providing a first class service to its customer has been second to none and I have been extremely pleased with their openness and commitment to understanding the needs of Equalities training in relation to Business Support in Wales.
Oatmeal’s commitment to continuous improvement is also to be commended. Constant evaluation of training is undertaken with the resulting feedback used to enhance the training and ultimately improve the training sessions for delegates. I look forward to continuing to develop our relationship with Oatmeal over the coming months and the continued success of this element of our training package’
Welsh Assembly Government
"The first thing that struck us on meeting the Oatmeal team was the refreshing and innovative way that they looked at our business, the team took their time to research our brand and market before charging us a penny - which is very rare in this field.
Since working with the Oatmeal team our staff have increased their productivity but more importantly their confidence and self worth has really improved. The business has benefitedin financial terms with increased revenue coming into the club as a direct result of adopting the Oatmeal way of working. The Oatmeal philosophy of working with businesses in a pragmatic, non beaurocratic, non oppressive way to develop their brand and products has really benefited Neath Rugby.
We have referred the Oatmeal team to a number of our sponsors who are all excited and delighted with the improvements that have also been made to their own organization."
Neath Rugby Club
What do I do next?
Great presentation skills start with a small step but a lifetime commitment to improve. Whether youre presenting for the first time or a seasoned professional wishing to gain some tips and advice, we can help you every step of the way. If you want to improve your presentation skills, click on the contact us button and tell us what you'd like to achieve.
