Articulate Presentation Training

Articulate helps you and your colleagues create and give great presentations.

About Articulate Presentation Training

Our presentation training is in two parts: preparation and delivery.

Articulate has created dozens of presentations for clients including The Design Council, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.

Our preparation training draws on this experience and includes:

• Refining your ideas to focus on what is most important to your audience
• How to structure a presentation properly to tell a compelling story
• Writing clear, concise headlines and bullets
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, such as creating interactive slide decks and templates
• Turning a presentation into an effective ‘leave-behind’ document
• Creating memorable slides with strong visual impact
• Creating simple but effective diagrams
• Finding and using appropriate stock images and clipart

We work with an RSC-trained director and members of her theatre company for training in how to deliver presentations. (Don’t worry, there’s no psychobabble or role-playing. They have taught these skills to groups as diverse as doctors and PR consultants.) Drawing on proven techniques used by actors, this training covers a range of essential skills, including:

• Creating rapport to increase audience attention and trust
• Overcoming anxiety and self-consciousness with relaxation techniques
• Getting your point across clearly with voice control and articulation exercises
• Improving eye contact and increasing energy levels
• Reading your audience using observation skills and active listening
• Being present and alert – how to avoid becoming a ‘presentation robot’

Attendees get immediate feedback on the day after mock presentations. In addition, we give personalised, written feedback by email to everyone after the event.

Why choose Articulate Presentation Training

Most presentations are stressful for the speaker and tedious for the audience. Typical problems:

• Too formal
• Too long
• Talking but not listening
• Humourless
• Focused on the script, not the audience’s reaction
• Too little preparation
• Inappropriate content and images
• Jargon and clichés
• Nerves (often this results in talking too much)

It doesn’t have to be this way. Our presentation training helps people deliver confident, persuasive presentations.

Fees and booking

Articulate Presentation Training is suitable for groups of up to 12 people. The two stages can be booked separately or as a package. We advise booking ahead so we can work around our acting colleagues’ performance and rehearsal schedules.

We charge per session not per attendee.

• The preparation training is a four-hour session given over the course of a morning or afternoon. It costs £750.
• The delivery training runs for a whole day with one director and two actors. It costs £2,500. (With 12 attendees, that's less than £210 per person.)
• The price for both sessions is £3,000 (a saving of 7 percent).

We like to arrange a short telephone briefing beforehand so that we can find out a bit about you, your company, the challenges you face and where, in particular, you need help. This allows us to tailor the sessions to your requirements.

This tailored, intensive training compares favourably in content and price to generic training courses run on a per-attendee basis.

Training is carried out on your premises. We tailor each course exclusively to your needs.

Next steps

Contact us if you have any questions or to book training.

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