'Speak Performance' Masterclass - public speaking skills - Ges Ray
Building your Speak Performance skills & public speaking confidence - every time you speak you are performing - enabling you to present the best version of yourself.
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Free 30/45 minute virtual session over Zoom. Short session to calm nerves and build confidence
Summary
Building your Speak Performance skills & public speaking confidence - every time you speak you are performing - enabling you to present the best version of yourself.
Who is it for?
- All Employees
- C-suite
- Senior leadership / managememt
- Early-career / junior employees
- Remote or hybrid teams
Credentials
Previous clients
- Savills,
- Handelsbanken,
- University of Surrey
- School of Veterinary Medicine,
- Institute of Directors Advance,
- Williams & Glyn Bank,
- Barlow Robbins Solicitors,
- Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust.
Reviews
Ges really helped me to deliver an outstanding presentation on my Nuffield Farming Scholarship Report, ‘Leading Your Farm to Success,’ at the Conference. He is a trusted and assured speaking coach who takes the time to listen and makes the appropriate comments to lift you up and make you shine on the most important occasions. We are very luck to have Ges as a third party, available to train us, as part of our The Nuffield Farming Scholarship.
– Chris
Awards
- Professional Speaking Association Member,
- Institute of Directors. Associate,
- Chartered Institute of Bankers.
- Chairman & Trustee,
- Leith Hill Music Festival.
- Previous specialist public speaking ‘Growth Champion’
- Coast2Capital Local Enterprise Partnership,
- Ambassador for East Surrey with Surrey Chambers of Commerce,
- MC & Advisor to TEDx Woking.
Activity overview
Speak Performance masterclass sessions deliver beyond a workshop with a one-time objective. These are life skills in communication, in the performance of - also preparation for - speaking whether in meetings with clients, speaking at a podium or simply having the confidence to pick up the ‘phone. Having a selection of skills & techniques in your speaking toolkit that you can call on when required assists you in building your confidence, also your audience’s confidence in you. Confidence to speak up when in meetings, confidence to initiate a ‘phone call, and yes, confidence to stand up and present even when nervous, even when in your head you feel overawed because you now know how to ameliorate the physical, physiological & mental challenges of presenting.
Content includes:
Fundamental Skills
• Breathing techniques: preparation, impact & confidence
• Audience engagement techniques
• Posture & position for impact & authority
• Silence as a skill & technique: enabling your audience to listen & process
• Elimination of filler words
• Voice tones: matching voice to message, not being one of those boring business speakers…
Delivery Skills (Virtual / in the room)
• ‘Where is your audience?’: effective use of your camera for impact on your audience
• Voice preparation: ensuring your personal presentation delivery equipment (your voice, the mask & muscles of your face) delivers the best version of you for what is likely the most important moment for you this year…
• Professional impact: ensuring what your audience see & hear in those vital opening seconds – when instant judgements are made – reflects your professionalism
Agenda
Focusing on your confidence in your speaking performance – as every time you speak, you are performing.
Here you will build fundamental and effective ‘speak performance’ techniques to help build your confidence in public speaking, and just as importantly, your audience’s confidence in you as a speaker, working on:
• Your initial contact, your ‘handshake’ with the audience
• Gaining your audience’s attention
• Maintaining your audience’s attention
What message are you trying to deliver? (Exploring impact of voice tones).
• Understanding the impact of different voice tones (whether face to face, virtually or on the ‘phone)
• How do you adapt your voice for different messages? Are you telling a story to illustrate a point? Portraying your enthusiasm? Or delivering a key message about the business?
• Matching your voice to the intended message of the presentation – what do you want the audience to feel as well as hear?
How do you engage your audience?
• How do you use stories and language to:
o Engage your audience
o Go beyond engagement to Engage, Compel, Haunt & Obsess your audience, enabling your audience to not only remember the content of your presentation, but also…
o Remember you How does this masterclass work?
• Introduction: Why does public speaking make you feel this way? Evolution has a lot to answer for…
• Masterclass: Working through practical exercises focusing on fundamental speak performance techniques. In a supportive, constructive, atmosphere you put these techniques into practice, building public speaking & performance skills
• Presentation rehearsals: deliver then refine aspects of your presentation either to screen or in the room with the benefit of immediate recording, playback & feedback.
Locations available
1) Virtual via Zoom
2) ‘In the Room’ sessions locations by arrangement.
Length of session
1) Virtual via Zoom – 2 x half days 9:30am to 1:00pm
2) ‘In the Room’ sessions – 1 business day (e.g. 9:30am to 4:30pm).
Max capacity
6 per session
Cost
