As part of ShopAbility’s comprehensive and customised training service for FMCG and Retail companies and their teams, NIDA-trained presenter Lee McAllistair is delivering presentation skills training with video camera and playback.
- Gain more confidence presenting & communicating
- “Fear-busting” – losing the barriers & defences that hold you back
- Interactive, exercise-based training
- Working with a video camera & playback for maximum learning
- Tailored and relevant exercises e.g. roleplays etc
- NIDA –trained tutor with international experience and FMCG understanding

Training is designed to optimise the presentation and communication skills of your team and is highly interactive and exercise-based.
Modules are either presented as half-day sessions, or full-day workshops with two modules combined in one day.
- Presentation Foundations
- Creative Presentations
- Voice & Body
- Communication & Personal Style
Presentation Foundations is the first course preceding all other optional modules. All courses involve the use of video camera & playback and group exercises
Presentation Skills Training is generally offered in the context of broader training programs including Retailer Negotiation Skills, Category Management, Retailer Category Presentations and a wide range of customised, specific training for companies.
The training involves:
INTERACTIVE GAMES
- Fear-busting & confidence
- Communication reflexes
- Flexibility & responsiveness
- Accessing the right brain / creative side
- Using memory in presentation
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
- Voice & speech
- Body – language & gestures, movement
- Presence
- Communication
- Confidence building
- Mental focus & fear-busting
- Tips for ongoing practice
WORK TO CAMERA
- Amplifies areas of strength and of need
- Enables participant to view themselves for maximum learning
- 360 degree feedback mechanism
- Challenging and fun group work / role plays
- Relevant presentations e.g. elevator pitch
CUSTOMISED DEVELOPMENT
- Individual participants
- Tools & tecnhiques tailored to individual needs
- Take-away materials
- Access to video footage (reference)
- Customised ongoing programs where appropriate (separate scope)
About the Trainer: Lee McAllistair
- As a NIDA –trained presenter and performer Lee has worked internationally across multiple live and recorded communication mediums including television and radio (UK and Australia) and as a live presenter / performer in the UK, Asia and around Australia.
- In addition to her NIDA training Lee holds a Masters in Communication Management, holds more than 10 years’ senior marketing & FMCG experience and is a founding member of ShopAbility for the past four years.
- Her marketing work has won industry awards including the Australian Marketing
- Institute, Public Relations Institute of Australia and she has consulted to clients
- including Coca Cola, Sony Pictures, Blackmores, National Foods
- and Foster’s Group.
- Lee’s performing work has earned her favourable reviews in UK and
- Asian press, having performed at major events including a sold-out five week
- season at the largest Festival in the world, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- (generally known in the Industry as “the slaughterhouse” for how
- unforgiving it can be to performers).
- In a presentation training capacity, Lee’s focus is on pushing through
- the inevitable fears associated with presenting and communicating to
- others, using interactive exercises and the “great amplifier” of all fears:
- A video camera.
For all Training and Company Capability program enquiries please call Peter Huskins on 0412 574 793 or peter@shop-ability.com


