For writers of fiction, non fiction, poetry and prose who’d like to polish their personal and professional impact – available as a private 1-1 online Power Hour, or an event for your group

Why learn to read well?

Reading your work aloud to an audience in bookshops, writers’ groups, literary festivals etc – it’s a great way to get yourself and your work known to the world.

But so often things can get in the way!

Mindsets can sabotage confidence

Nerves can overwhelm

And lack of breathing and vocal control can make us speed up, speak too quietly and be harder to follow.

This one hour session will help you

🌟Beat nerves and build confidence so you can enjoy the experience

🌟Learn some actor and audiobook reader techniques for looking and sounding your best

🌟Captivate and keep your audience’s attention and interest

You’ll need a short piece of your writing (a couple of minutes or so) and something you’re happy to scribble in (eg a magazine or news article) for practice exercises.

What they’re saying

‘Your workshop about speaking well at Hove Library was so good, it was what we all needed … everyone was happy, they learned and enjoyed the practice … that paragraph about what the audience wants is like a bible to always have in mind. I also liked to receive the tongue twisters and it was fun to try it … it will be lovely if you can come again and give us some text to practice.’ Julia Martínez

‘Very warm, knowledgeable, great delivery … practical advice … thank you very much’ Sarah Agnew

‘I enjoyed it very much – very useful … she speaks very well … knows her subject well … please could you arrange more of this … very helpful and increased my knowledge’ Marjan

‘Amazing … great … 10/10’ Jane

A fun, helpful session in a safe, supportive online space.

Fees

If you’d like to book a 1-1 session, do let me know.

For discussion and bookings

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Philippa Hammond

Learn to feel, look and sound better online with practical pro tips

Do you feel you look and sound awkward on Zoom?

Would you love to look and sound great on Zoom?

Beat nerves, feel, look and sound your best and grab those opportunities with me!

1-1 coaching for nervous Zoomers and anyone who’d like to get better at it.

Zoom? Back in March 2020, I’d never even heard of it.

Now? During lockdown I swept all my training, coaching and performance work online, and now offer face to face, 1-1 and remote training and coaching services.

And I learned so much observing how people present themselves to their audiences.

Here’s a secret – anyone can make easy little tweaks to hugely improve their personal and professional Zoom impact.

It doesn’t matter if you’re doing an online 1-1, meeting with a small group or speaking to a very big audience – the same principles apply.

Who’s it for?

Nervous Zoomers

Anyone who’d like to get better at it

Boost your Zoom impact at online meetings, coaching and training sessions, interviews and business presentations

What will we learn?

Beat nerves and build confidence

Think light / height / sight

Tips on positioning your device for best impact and making your available light work for you – without buying expensive kit

Develop your professional body language so you’ll look your best to your screen audiences

Develop your professional voice with some insider tips and techniques used by actors, trainers and professional speakers

Deliver a great message about you and what you do

If that sounds right for you – let me know.

Philippa Hammond

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Speak Up and Step Up: Confident Public Speaking and Presentation Skills online coaching programme

With Philippa Hammond

Brighton, Sussex, UK and beyond

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

🗨️‘Philippa was so easy to work with’

Stephanie Cronin, founder/owner Summers Photography

🗨️‘Philippa offers excellent, practical advice in a friendly manner’

Cathal McCabe, solicitor, Sherrards Employment Law Solicitors 

🗨️‘Equipping you with the necessary skills to conquer public speaking’

Rachel Nicholas, solicitor, Sherrards Employment Law Solicitors

🗨️‘It’s life-changing to have the confidence and know-how to speak well in public’

Corinne Card, co-founder Full Story Media, trainer, speaker, digital PR

Fees

A payment plan of two instalments is available.

Contact

For a free consulting call with me to find out how I can help you feel, project and inspire new confidence.

I’m only enrolling four new clients per month on my Programme – my books are currently open.

Looking forward to working with you!

Philippa Hammond

Confident Public Speaking skills coaching for leadership, training and business

Confident Public Speaking, Presentation Skills, Reading Aloud, Employability and LinkedIn training and coaching in person and online

With Philippa Hammond

Brighton, Sussex, UK and beyond

Employability Power Hour

From uncertain and nervous to better informed and prepared in just one hour

We’re living in interesting times.

So many of us found those so-called jobs for life … weren’t.

And many are now seeking a new role or a change of career.

It’s hard.

Looking for work’s a full time job, one you want to leave behind as quickly as possible.

But if you’ve been working for a long time, or maybe finding you’re having to go into the workplace for the first time in ages …

Knowing what to do, how to do it and feeling confident about it all is a BIG ask.

I can help.

I offer a three step £99 Employability package that will kick start your jobseeking, polish up your presence and give you some insider essentials on how to improve your chances of getting your next role.

Step 1 – we work out where you are now, where you need to be and what we’ll do to get you there

Step 2 – a Zoom power hour where we’ll tackle your CV, LinkedIn presence and personal presentation for interviews

Step 3 – written follow up notes plus my bonus PDF download

If you’d like to find out more, let me know.

Fees

£99

Philippa Hammond

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Confident Public Speaking, Presentation Skills, Reading Aloud, Employability and LinkedIn training and coaching in person and online

With Philippa Hammond

Brighton, Sussex, UK and beyond

LinkedIn’s a business essential for jobseekers, short term contracts, client attraction.

If you’d like to polish your LinkedIn presence, I offer my three step 1-1 Zoom Power Hour

For

Complete beginners

Anyone who’s started LinkedIn but never really did much with it

Anyone who feels their LinkedIn is a bit stale and old fashioned and would like to polish it up

Step 1 – we work out where you are now, where you need to be and what we’ll do to get you there

Step 2 – a Zoom power hour where I’ll share everything you need to start up, step up, speed up, depending on where you are now

Step 3 – I’ll send you a write up of our session plus my bonus PDF download for further reading and development

£99

Philippa Hammond

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