RNIB

Caroline Woodward, Communications Officer, Royal National Institute of Blind People, explains:
“I often give presentations, and also act as a regional spokesperson for media interviews when we do national campaign work, but was looking to improve on my technique, how I sound and just be more 'natural' and uplifting.  My colleagues have similar issues around body language, posture, projecting the voice, breathing, portraying enthusiasm and sounding more confident.

“I talked through what we wanted with Neil at Partners With You and we set up a bespoke 1 day presentation workshop to help us build our confidence, engage with our audience and help deliver messages with impact.”

Simon Nock, one of the actor workshop leaders at Partners With You, comments “The interactive workshop gave the opportunity for the RNIB delegates to present and then receive hands on diagnostic feedback. We helped the group focus on new ways of presenting and shared a wealth of tips and techniques focusing on effective body language, vocal control and managing thoughts, so that at the end, everyone looked and felt more confident and communicated more successfully when presenting.

The team was delighted with the results:

  • “Fantastic. An unthreatening, safe environment and it looks at you, not the content which is so important.”
  • “It was good fun with interactive exercises that helped embed learning.”
  • “A fun and interactive course that makes you feel empowered.”
  • “Gets you to think, visualize and consider what you do is congruent to what you say.”
  • “A fantastic day where you can really drill down on your skills – self analysis as well as learn from the other participants. Great presenters/trainers too!”

Caroline concludes, “The training really made us all think and definitely took us out of our comfort zones... but not too drastically: enough to help us make a marked difference within the day but also plenty too for us to work on and start building in to our techniques from here on. We all went back to work smiling and motivated to get out there and keep it going”.

 
 
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