Presentation skills training
An advanced presentation skills programme for those who want to go deeper with their learning
Craft the story, back it with VISUALS that land AND DELIVER IT with PRESENCE AND IMPACT
Skills your team learn
Story Structures
Empathy and Connection
Painting Pictures
Audience Engagement
Message Clarity
Creative Flow
Eye-catching visuals
Memory Roadmaps
Embodied and Authentic
Voice and Presence
Why most presentation training only fixes half the problem
Most business executives learn a traditional, conceptual, approach to building presentations. Such presentations may initially engage your audiences' minds yet quickly overwhelm them with information and leave their hearts untouched. We help you to craft business stories that take your audiences on compelling journeys that warm their hearts and stimulate their minds.
Presenters often build slides that are chock-full of information, keen to share all the details. However when slides are cluttered with no visual hierarchy they take an audience minutes to decode leaving many feeling baffled. We help you to build the perfect set of visuals to support their story every time.
Finally, when it comes to delivery, presenters are often caught in their heads trying to explain complexity yet disconnected from the audience. We help you to connect, engage and inspire your audience by bringing your embodied presence and natural authenticity to every presentation.
Overly intellectual
Cluttered slides
Data that takes minutes to decode
Confident delivery
Confident delivery can’t rescue a presentation that was built badly.
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The programme
What's covered in the presentation skills course?
Three modules covering story crafting, visual stimulation and audience connection through embodied presence. We are offering an advanced presentation skills training programme that boosts the standards for your organisation. Our advanced presentation skills programme is designed to be effective from day one after your team completes the programme.
01
Storytelling for presentations
Structure every presentation around a clear narrative using our business storytelling methods, so the audience knows why it matters, what to think and what to do next.
What can you expect
- Find the one message your audience must remember
- Build a story line that moves from problem to action
- Cut content that doesn't earn its place
- Create connection and empathy with your stories
02
Slides and data that land
Everything the audience sees while you speak: one message per visual, a clear hierarchy, and nothing that competes with the speaker. Drawn from our presentation design training and data visualisation workshops.
What can you expect
Professional slide design
- One idea per slide, stated in the headline
- Visual hierarchy that guides the eye
- Professional slide layouts like a pro
- And many more…
Build clear data visualisations
- Match the chart to the message
- Visual hierarchy that guides the eye
- Title every chart with the insight
- And many more…
03
Presenting with clarity and confidence
Practical coaching on voice, presence and nerves, so your people present with impact in the room and on screen.
What can you expect
- Manage nerves and own the room
- Use voice, pace and pause deliberately
- Handle questions and challenge calmly
- Bring your authentic self
- Stay on track with a clear roadmap
Book a 10 minute discovery call
No hard sell, just a curiosity call to see if we’re a good fit and our presentation skills programme aligns to your business objectives.
Practical, usable skills
Techniques your team applies to their next presentation from day one after the programme.
The whole presentation
Story, delivery and visuals in one comprehensive programme. All the skills you need to ensure presentation success.
Tailored to your team
Built around the presentations your people really give, not just some theoretical presentation.
In-house or virtual
Delivered across the UK, in the format that suits you. Delivered by business people who have walked in your shoes.
Who it’s for
Who our presentation skills training is for
Built for teams in large organisations whose presentations carry real weight: decisions, deals and buy-in.
Leaders and executives
Land the message first time
Executive presentation training for board updates, all-hands and strategy moments, building on our leadership storytelling work.
Sales and client-facing teams
Pitch the client’s problem
Turn capability decks into pitches built around what the client actually needs. Sales presentation training that gets results, drawing on our storytelling for sales pitching workshop.
Technical and data teams
Make complex work clear
For experts presenting to non-experts, without dumbing it down, using techniques from our storytelling with data workshop.
Book a 10 minute discovery call
If our advanced presentation skills learning programme resonate with your team's needs, please get in touch with us for an initial conversation
Formats
Presentation skills training delivered your way
Every format covers the same programme and is tailored to your people's real presentations. Delivered at your offices anywhere in the UK, including London, Manchester and Birmingham, or live online. Need the slides designed for you instead? Our presentation design agency can help.
Not sure if this will suit your team? A no obligation call will help you decide.
Book a 10 minute discovery call01
In-house presentation skills workshops
In person
Hands-on workshops at your offices, built around the presentations your team is actually giving, with plenty of practice and feedback in the room.
Best for: teams who want to build skills together and agree a shared way of presenting.
02
Online presentation skills training
Virtual
The same three-day programme delivered live online, with the same practice and feedback as in the room.
Best for: distributed or hybrid teams who can't easily get together in one place. Same content, same expert facilitation.
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How the programme runs
Both formats
The programme is delivered over three days. Ideally the days run consecutively, so the skills build on each other while they're fresh. If that's hard to schedule, the days can be spread out, but all three must be completed within three weeks.
What clients say
Results from our presentation skills training
What changes when a team gets the story, the slides and the delivery right, in their own words.
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I just wanted to say on behalf of my team, many thanks for your leadership of the presentation skills workshops. The team got a lot out of it, and I’m already seeing great progression in their output.
Scott Phillips
MD – Regional Co-Head EMEA & Head of UK, Moodys Ratings
[Client quote, sales or client-facing team. How their pitches changed after the programme, and a win it led to.]
[Client quote, technical or data team. How they now explain complex work to non-experts, and what that changed.]
Presentation skills training FAQs
A few commonly asked questions about our training
The questions we're asked most about our presentation skills course. Can't see yours? A quick call will answer it.
Do you run presentation skills courses for individuals?
Unfortunately, this is for teams only. If you are part of a team or work in a corporate organisation, our advice is to see if others in your organisation would benefit from this programme so that you could pull together a number of people to attend the training.
Where do you deliver the training?
We deliver this training all over the UK and Ireland and in some cases mainland Europe. We can deliver the training on your site or at our offices in Oxfordshire UK. We also can deliver part of this programme online which is facilitator led.
How is this different from a public speaking course?
While there may be some similarities, this goes far deeper than public speaking and is closely linked to corporate businesses and what your business objectives are. In terms of delivering your well crafted story and presentations, we use cutting edge techniques such as embodyment and NLP to give your executives every tool they need to deliver their presentations with confidence and clarity.
Is the training tailored to our team?
Although the programme is not fully bespoke, we customise examples to fit in with your industry. For example, in terms of building your story and messaging, we will draw on examples from your industry. The same goes for the presentation design module, we will use your brand colours/livery for a lot of the examples we teach in this module. Call us for more details.
How many people can attend
For this programme we recommend group sizes of between 8 and 12. In certain cases and modules we can offer two facilitators to double the group sizes.
Can the presentation training run online?
For this programme, some modules can be run online, however, as this is advanced training we recommend the whole programme is delivered face to face.
What does the programme cover?
This is a comprehensive advanced level programme that gives your executives the skills and tools needed to delivey highly effective presentations that engage and motivate people. It has three core modules :
- Storytelling for presentations, covering all aspects of storytelling telling in business using our own in-house methodology
- Slides and Data that land, covering professional slide design and data visualisation techniques
- Presentation with clarity and confidence, using cutting edge phycological technques such as embodyment, NLP etc
How long is the presentation skills course?
Three days. Ideally the days run consecutively so the skills build while they're fresh. If that's hard to schedule, the days can be spread out, but all three must be completed within three weeks.
How much does the presentation skills training cost?
As our training programmes often have a custom element to them and can be run face to face (on your premises or ours) the price can vary. Having said this a typical price for putting 12 executives through this comprehensive 3 day programme face to face would be £9000 + VAT. This is excluding any expenses such as travel/accomodation. Where you have a lot more executives to put through this programme, we can reduce the cost per head. Contact us for details. If you would like a one day taster workshop for your team check out all our one day workshops here
Contact us if you have any further questions or would like to book a workshop
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