SPEAK EASILY Training Objectives

BASIC PRESENTATION TRAINING

You will learn how to

  • get your message across with clarity and economy
  • kick-start the process of preparation and save time
  • overcome fear
  • build your confidence
  • remember what you want to say
  • pitch your message successfully to different audiences
  • communicate with your audience and hold their attention
  • breathe well, project your voice and relax your body
  • discover and use your own creativity and imagination
  • develop your own personal style.

For 4 – 6 people, workshops are structured as a two-day course.

For 2 – 3 people the training is designed to be completed in one day

One-to-one coaching is usually a day, but can be scheduled over two half-days.

“Sandy has worked with us now for more than 8 years delivering excellent Media, Presentation Skills and Assertiveness training. The feedback we get time and again is that Sandy is an enthusiastic, approachable and patient trainer who tailors and paces her courses to individual needs.”

Elaine Taylor, HR Executive, Home Grown Cereals Authority

PRESENTATION is PERFORMANCE takes you to a higher level

You will learn how to

  • deliver your message with enthusiasm and originality
  • understand and appeal to your audience
  • exploit your own knowledge and personality – your unique selling point
  • use drama in your delivery – bring your stories to life
  • enjoy communicating with an audience
  • build your own confidence
  • evaluate your own performance
  • make the leap from competent presenter to creative performer

Designed for four people, this workshop takes place over 1½ days

“The course has proved useful both professionally and socially.   Sandy is really a fantastic teacher and the delegates got a lot out of analysing their own and each others’ performances.   My staff really enjoyed the training. ”

Jenny Stringer, Principal, Leith School of Food & Wine

ONE-TO-ONE PRESENTATION COACHING

You can work at your own pace and in private to concentrate on

  • learning the specific skills you choose, which are specific to your need
  • building your confidence
  • growing your voice
  • dealing with your nerves
  • examining your performance on video
  • honing your existing skills
  • polishing a presentation before an important event.

“What impressed me was your ability to analyse and give feedback in such a sensitive and affirmative way”

Jonathan Edwards, Finance Manager, Tate

“After years of speaking in public and STILL finding myself quivering with nerves, it was time to do something! Four hours with Sandy changed my rather earnest and dull presentation into something punchy, entertaining and succinct. I now enjoy public speaking! Thank you so much Sandy for giving me the tools to overcome my biggest fear.”

Elizabeth Clark, Colour Consultant

INTERVIEW PREPARATION offers coaching in personal presentation and an opportunity to think through the interview process and how to deal with it.

You will learn how to

  • approach an interview
  • prepare for an interview
  • present yourself for an interview
  • deal with difficult interviewers
  • control your nerves
  • deal with disappointment
  • get the best from an interview

This programme can include the opportunity to do a practice interview which is recorded on camera for replay and analysis.

An individual training session lasts about 3 hours.

I also provide small workshops specially designed for school-leavers and students going for university interviews or first jobs.   They are an excellent preparation for entering the adult world of work and life beyond school.

A session for a group of 4 students takes half a day.

Please note – this training is not profession-specific.

“Sandy helped me succeed in interviews by giving me confidence in my own abilities.   By making me aware of and able to modestly promote the skills I have in a professional manner, my interview technique was completely transformed. In my first interview after my training I was offered the job then and there.   Having attended a number of interviews previously without success I put this down to the help Sandy has given me.”

Nick Harris – university graduate

“Sandy Collison has run interview skills workshops for university applicants from St Paul’s Girls’ School for many years.  The training gives girls confidence in approaching their first big interviews.  Many successful university candidates have cause to be very grateful to her.”

Elizabeth M Diggory, High Mistress, St Paul’s Girls’ School, 1998-2006


MEDIA INTERVIEWS - Provide an insight in to how to cope with a media interview, how to prepare for it, how to face the camera, how to use your voice effectively, how to control your own responses and get your own message accross.  A camera and video playback is used extensively for this.

“Huge thanks for the training. It was a very good day and we will all  be benefiting from it for years to come.”

Andrew Preston, Exchange Supplies Ltd., TV interview training day

COMMUNICATION SKILLS – designed to develop the ability to handle difficult people and situations and to achieve clear, effective and productive communication with people in your professional and your personal life. This training can incorporate assertiveness and confidence building for times when your self-esteem needs reinforcing.

You will learn how to

  • communicate your own messages accurately and effectively
  • understand what other people are really saying
  • understand the impact of the behaviour other people are displaying
  • control your emotions when dealing with difficult people
  • identify and aim for the best outcome in a difficult situation
  • work towards a mutually acceptable outcome
  • find the best way, verbally and non-verbally, of expressing yourself
  • read the verbal and non-verbal signals other people give you
  • develop skill and confidence in your use of language
  • have the confidence to take your time and not be pushed into saying something you later regret.

This course can be run as a one-day workshop for up to six people or as a one-to-one coaching session.

Sandy’s training enabled me to address confidence issues which I struggled with on every level.   I now have a new job and a new outlook on life.   I encourage anyone who is in difficulties with their confidence at work or in their personal life, or lacks the skills to present themselves effectively in an interview, to contact Sandy. You will find the experience life changing.” Janet A. IT Consultant