What’s your key skillset? Whatever your field, there’ll be something essential, central to your practice.
What’s your key skillset? Whatever your field, there’ll be something essential, central to your practice. How do you describe yours?
I believe it’s possible to be both heart- and business-centred. The people and their needs will always be at the heart of my practice, with the business goals at its head.
As a trainer/coach, I see learning and development as a four sided diamond, all about quality and clarity:
💠Audience learning, development and performance needs analysis
💠Designing, writing and creating content and supporting materials to deliver new knowledge, develop new skills and encourage new mindsets
💠Hands on delivery, whether in person or online, with a wide variety of delivery methods
💠Kirkpatrick-style evaluation, focussing on their reaction, learning, behaviour and results.
It’s all about triggering (and crucially, supporting) a permanent change in behaviour that achieves the organisation’s goals.
Absolutely essential questions for your clients – and for you
What’s keeping you up at night? What’s the worry? What’s wrong? Whether I’m working with an individual client, a cohort of workshop delegates or an organisation, these questions are key.
Helping them look at where they are now, holding up a mirror to their current situation and supporting them as they reflect is so rewarding.
I love to see people feeling they’ve been given permission to be vulnerable, to be open about what’s not quite right and getting clear about what they want.
Pinning down those problems, identifying the triggers and the blocks, and acknowledging what’s driving them and what they truly need.
And saying yes – this is what I want and I’m going for it.
Whether you’re an individual client, attending one of my group workshops or looking for a corporate learning and development programme … I’ll be asking you to ask yourself those questions!
Philippa x
Confident Public Speaking skills for leadership, management and business
Do you secretly wonder what they must think of you when you stand up to speak?
Do you secretly wonder what they must think of you when you stand up to speak? Maybe they’re criticising your appearance. Your voice. Your message. Judging.
I’ve trained countless business people on how to feel, look and sound their best and deliver a great message, using simple tried and tested insider techniques.
Anyone can learn! Here are some quick tips to help you:
🌠Be prepared! Ask yourself what your audience really need from you right now and give it to them in clear, simple plain English.
🌠Wear something you’re familiar with and know it’s in a great colour for you and fits you well.
🌠Breathe deeply from your diaphragm not your chest, and allow the pause. Much more effective and easy to follow than a nervous ‘um’-infested gabble.
If you’d like to step into spring with more public speaking confidence and impact, I’m offering my new Speak Up And Step Up 1-1 coaching programmes.
Philippa x Confident Public Speaking skills for leadership, management and business
Your people need to be able to achieve your organisation’s mission, vision and values – and to do that, you need great trainers.
‘You’re great at your job, so you’ll be great at training it!’
Sound familiar?
It’s a bit like saying ‘you’re a great football player – so you can drive the team bus to the next match!’
But do they understand how and why adults learn, current learning and development thinking, practical training, facilitation and presentation techniques that work?
Training’s a very particular set of knowledge, skills and mindsets – and these can be learned.
Train the Trainer 2-day personal development programme
This programme offers an introduction to essential training skills.
Delegates explore key training topics, with practical elements and individual feedback throughout.
Audience
A practical first step for aspiring and new trainers who are subject matter experts
A practical refresher for returning trainers
A practical introduction to training for delegates new to the learning and development management role
Course Information
Aim To introduce, practice and develop essential new knowledge, skills and mindsets that prepare your trainers to train
Style A fast-paced, participative, interactive 70:20:10 approach. Tuition, discussion, practical exercises, prepared presentations, reflection, with peer group and tutor’s honest, respectful and constructive feedback
Location This is an in-house event held at your venue
Online option Please contact me if you would like to discuss a bespoke online group event
Objectives and learning outcomes
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
Explain The training cycle
The 70:20:10 approach
How to do a learning needs analysis
The Kirkpatrick evaluation system
Demonstrate Planning and preparing a short training session with a visual aid
Exercises for developing confidence, their professional voice and effective body language
Deliver Their own short training session
Feedback on observed sessions
Pre course preparation
Short reading list and video playlist
For Day 1: All delegates prepare to give their thirty-second elevator pitch – their answer to ‘who are you, what do you do and what makes you so great?’
For Day 2: Delegates design and prepare to deliver their own short ten-minute training presentations
Course Programme Day 1
Part 1 All about you
Welcome, course introduction, aim and objectives
Personal introductions and developing confidence in your professional trainer brand – elevator pitches with feedback to build control over nerves, body language, voice
Part 2 Learning and learners, training and trainers
The trainer role and training in organisations
Why organisations train – and what are the blocks
Why and how adults learn
Introducing facilitation skills
Part 3 The Training Cycle
Planning training: audience learning needs analysis, setting aim and objectives
Designing and preparing training: gathering, writing and structuring material, delivery methods, PowerPoint
Delivering training: public speaking, presentation and facilitation skills, dealing with people and questions
Course Programme Day 2
Part 1 Practical
Delegates deliver their own prepared short training presentations
Reflection, discussion and shared peer group and tutor feedback throughout for post course continuing professional development
Part 2 Post training
Evaluating training: delegates’ reaction, learning and new behaviour, and the effect of the training on their organisation
My three step system takes business people struggling with public speaking nerves to freedom from anxiety and fear.
For complete beginners, the nervous speaker and brushing up the basics if it’s been a while
Learn and practice your newly acquired skills in a safe, supportive space
Develop the confidence and skill you need, to:
Feel, look and sound better, when you’re speaking in person and online
Craft and deliver a great message about you and your business
… in as little as six weeks.
All six one-hour 1-1 sessions are delivered via Zoom.
Confident Public Speaking three-step process
🌟Step 1: Feel better about yourself and your public speaking with my nerve-beating confidence-boosting 1-1 coaching
🌟Step
2: Learn the essential insider skills for planning, writing and
delivering a memorable message that trainers, public speakers and
performers have always used
🌟Step 3: Practice all your new skills in a safe space with my honest, respectful and constructive feedback and guidance.
Confident Public Speaking programme content details
🌟Step 1
Nerves, confidence and personal impact – feel, look and sound better in person and online
Goal setting
Elevator pitch – introducing yourself in a business setting
Nerves
Fight or flight
Think + feel + behave = results
Your audience
Visual impact – Your body language
Vocal impact – Your voice
Zoom – Technical tips on positioning your device and lens for best impact
Zoom – Making your available light work for you
Zoom – How to look your best to your screen audience
Zoom – Actor tips for sounding better on mic
🌟Step 2
Verbal impact – Planning and preparing your content and material, ready to deliver a great message
Audience analysis – their pain, their pleasure, their drivers
Setting aim and objectives, for their new knowledge, skills, attitudes and permanent change in behaviour
Mind mapping, prioritising and structuring your content
Creating PowerPoints
Facilitation skills
Reading aloud
Q&A
Dealing with difficult people and situations
🌟Step 3
Practice and polish
A practical business presentation, with honest, respectful and constructive feedback.
This can be a dress rehearsal of any important upcoming presentation, if required.
Testimonials
My 1-1 coaching clients say:
🗨️ ‘Highly recommended’
Issac Theophilos, author of the Amazon bestseller book ‘How To Get Outstanding.’
🗨️‘You were a great help to me’
Elvira Gabos, Southern Water, Water Industry Award winner 2019
🗨️‘A massive confidence boost’
James Clammer, author and Carnegie medal nominee
🗨️‘An experience that just kept giving!’
James Stalley, founding director Pure Choice Partnership
You could mend it invisibly – shhhh, it’s a secret, no-one must ever know it broke …
Or you could mend it using gold, so the break will always be a part of what it is, and the mend a beautiful, essential element of its recovery, strength and continuing life.
