Have you explored how your presence can be boosted (in either live room or online videocall group dynamics) through experimenting with group control techniques? Have you thought about why so many speech and presentation webpages encourage you to “say what you’re going to say before saying it and then saying what you said”?
Have you wondered exactly why an introvert but passionate wonk can captivate and charm an audience better than a bombastic salesy type?
I will workshop your skills in:
- Accepting and working the room dynamics to your advantage
- Structuring and managing your content optimally
- Delivering your content authentically, comfortably and fluidly
- Engaging and persuading using personal and rhetorical techniques
- Speaking in a way that boosts your cred and influence
- Focusing on what is important and human
- Learning about the hormones that link with feelings and how to manage them
- Accepting residual stress responses and extending your comfort zone
I have delivered speechwriting and presentation skills courses to high-profile cohorts like the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and EU agencies in Brussels. Such comprehensive approaches also included areas like:
- Linguistic analysis of great speeches,
- Preparations including into broader context, appropriateness, and purpose
- Forming arguments, using tactical juxtaposition, inductive or deductive direction
- Using rhetorical devices to persuade
- Writing for the ear not the eye
- Analysing tone, pitching at appropriate levels
- Voice modulation and projection
- Language features useful in public speaking
- Your cognition as you speak, including performance anxiety management
"Tony is a professional, extremely knowledgeable, articulate and approachable. He provided me superb guidance and direction in public speaking and helped me rediscover an inner confidence and self belief that I thought I had lost."
"Inspiring - Tony has patiently guided me along a path to career enlightenment. Enabling me to achieve clarity and define a vision for my future. He has set mechallenges which ultimately helped me understand my core drivers and the value I can add."
"Tony's guidance as a speech and presentation coach were transformative for me. He helped me understand my motivations and inhibitions. At the start he told me his goal was to make himself redundant as fast as possible. He helped overcome the blockages with impressive speed and insight. I have already recommended Tony to several colleagues."
"Tony showed me how to demonstrate my strengths in a format employers recognise. He helped in every aspect of the process, from the way to behave, to having solid answers to questions I was likely to be asked (and they really did come up!)"
