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PRESENTATION SKILLS TRAINING
Audiences are inspired by people, not PowerPoint. They can only believe and trust in you, not your slides. So Deborah will raise your performance to enable you to engage your audience, take them with you and remember what you’ve said. She uses journalistic techniques and elements of psychology and theatre to give you a sound skill set for preparing memorable speeches.
Topics covered:
- a journalistic approach to structuring messages
- preparation tools including mind maps
- body language, voice and professional image workshop
- handling Q& A using media training techniques
- focusing the mind and controlling nerves
- appearing relaxed and confident
- individual coaching to enhance your personal performance skills
Through the Glass Ceiling
A gender diverse board is good for business but how do you encourage women within your company to take on more senior roles? This course is designed specifically to give talented and capable women more confidence in taking leadership roles. They discover how journalists use words in an inspirational and compelling way, and how women can be more authoritative in their body language, while using their natural warmth to further their influence.
This course is aimed at high achieving women who want quick and effective tips and techniques that they can use immediately, so they get heard and noticed.
"The sessions are incredibly practical and relevant to the working world. We have seen immediate results when it comes to increased confidence and empowerment in our senior female staff". (Ruth Mitchell, HR Director, BMS)
“energy, flair, depth of knowledge – we were carried away by the trainer’s enthusiasm” “I can’t believe how much I’ve achieved” “inspirational”
Recent clients: Crystal Business; Media First; Insurance Market Conferences; Lloyd’s Managing Agencies & Brokers; Home Office; Business Link; BT; the Law Society; Barlow Lyde & Gilbert; Compass; Merrill Lynch;
Royal Mail; First Ascent; Salix Consulting; Coca-Cola Enterprises; Ofcom.
In the Health Field: The King’s Fund, Newham, Wandsworth, Westminster and South Central PCTs;
many NHS Trusts throughout the UK.
MEDIA TRAINING
Retained media consultant and trainer:
Media consultant on medical side of Bill Gates’ worldwide programme to vaccinate the poor (ADVAC - since 2001)
Public health doctors in Germany (FETPs) and the Caribbean (CAREC) and throughout the E.U. (European Centre for Disease Control) (since 1995)
CEOs and senior executives from
- The Football Association
- Ofcom
- Barclaycard
- Coca-Cola Enterprises
Other clients include:
- GlaxoSmithKline re patent expiry
- Johnson & Johnson re research on contact lenses;
- Sainsbury’s
- BAA
- Inspire Training for the military and airline industry
- Cambridge University
- BT
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- WHO East Mediterranean Region in preparation for Vaccination Week 2011.
VOLUNTARY WORK
I am very happy to give presentation skills and job interview training as it transforms lives.
I work regularly with:
- sixth formers at schools throughout Hounslow (via Business Link)
- former prisoners (Only Connect)
- people with a history of substance abuse who are now clean and trying to secure work (Service Users Drug Rehabilitation Group)
- disadvantaged young people (London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s Media Prospects programme)
