Presentation skills, TED-style

The ‘bite-sized’ option

A high-impact awareness-raising 60-minute ‘bite-sized’ session, structured around the iconic TEDx Talks, the gold standard for public speaking.

Get an insight into the secrets behind making complex and detailed material impactful and memorable.

Discover a step-by-step method to excite and motivate your audience in a short and engaging session.

A fun and challenging session for those who need to persuade, inspire and captivate!

Learning objectives

This session will help you:

  • Understand what an audience needs from you
  • Develop your personal style and learn how to use it
  • Restructure dry text into memorable content
  • Examine techniques and methods used by the professionals
  • Equip yourself with a practical toolbox for delivery
  • Use storytelling to make a powerful statement

In a nutshell – this session will help set you on the way to delivering compelling and influential messages to the people you need to motivate.

Audience

Anyone – up to and including chief exec level – who needs to deliver memorable presentations, whether you are presenting to a large group, a team meeting, face-to-face or virtually.

Format

A 60-minute ‘bite-sized’ session.

Delivered virtually (preferably via Zoom) or face-to-face.

Maximum group size of 20.

Feedback

‘Trainer was fantastic!’

‘Great experience! I really liked the speaker. The course was supported by brilliant examples, and the subject was given in an interesting way.’

‘Do it!  Presenting is not as scary as you think. This course is phenomenal.’

‘Different, fresh, uplifting.’

Breath of fresh air.’

‘It’s more than just presentation skills, it’s a new way of thinking about work and life!’

‘Great tools for improving presentations and public speaking.’

Excellent – knowledgeable, engaging, memorable…’

Fabulous!

Fantastic, really engaging.  Everything she mentioned she was doing and it was really interesting to see.  Used her voice amazingly and very engagingly.’

Superb, compelling, authentic.  Great knowledge, confidence, style and patience.’

‘Engaging, insightful, excellent at what she does.’

Pitched perfectly to the attendees.’

Brilliant!  Really engaging.  Clear and informative, a subject expert, conveys confidence.’

‘Trainer of the year.’

‘Someone I would love to listen to again.’

Outline agenda

1 Finding the story in complex content

  • Analysing memorable messages
  • Evaluating body language and verbal impact

2 Develop your own delivery style

  • Refreshing old ideas, making content ‘sexy’
  • Using humour, energy and timing

3 Making an impact

  • Demonstrating awareness and ability
  • The best of TEDx: How to get it right
  • Present an emotionally charged experience

4 Action planning

  • Identify specific actions to enhance your presentation style
  • Understand how to prepare to perform

If you’ve got any requirements at all around presentation skills – whether that’s for an in-house training programme for a group of people, a bite-sized session, one-to-one coaching or a keynote conference presentation – then please just give us a call on 01582 463460 to talk it through.