ShopAbility Launches Presentation Skills Training

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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

Presentation Picture

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.

  1. Presentation Foundations
  2. Creative Presentations
  3. Voice & Body
  4. 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