Confident public speaking and presenting are areas that I have a very keen interest in. In my teaching career in ‘Inner London’ and also in a former life in the Pharmaceutical industry, I have given many presentations to large, and often, very challenging audiences and have also been privileged to have refereed a National League Basketball Cup final at Wembley Arena in front of TV cameras and 8,000 people. I know from first hand experience how … and how not to, connect with an audience. It is through this extensive first hand knowledge am able to pass on these skills, hints and techniques that I know work in terms of how you connect effectively with all of your audience. This experience can’t be gleaned from a text book – you’ll need to be shown first hand – and that is exactly what you will experience when we work together.
Help with :
- Preparation for interviews
- Effective interviewing
- Professional presentations
- One to one presentations
- Group presentations
- Wedding speeches
- Group co-ordination skills and techniques
- Selling skills
- Leading and organising an important event
Client experiences,
“David, Just to let you know about my ‘Best man’s speech’ – I was nervous but the speech went amazingly well. The feedback has been great and the groom loved it… Thanks for all your help!”
James, Cheltenham.
”David, Just a note to say thanks for the help and encouragement you gave me over our four sessions. I have always found public speaking difficult and our sessions helped me recognise and deal with my anxiety. Your approach was pragmatic and considered. I am no longer spending my professional life avoiding public speaking.
Thank you.”
Harriet, Cheltenham.
I contacted David again as part of my interview required me to do a ten minute presentation to the interview panel. Although I hadn’t finalised what I was going to say, David encouraged me to go through what I could remember and then helped me to structure my presentation and highlight the main points that I wanted to make. This made it so much easier for me to remember, as before I tended to panic under pressure, but we practiced key techniques so that I could recite my presentation backwards and forwards! Whilst also building up my confidence levels, David tried to replicate what the interview would entail, so that I could be as prepared as possible and take the presentation in my stride. I am pleased to report that my interview was a success and I start my course later this year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank David for all his help, tips, techniques and support in order to prepare me thoroughly for my interview. I strongly recommend David to anybody else who is in a similar situation.”
Catherine, Tetbury.
“I contacted David within the run up to my wedding, there was about a month to go to the ‘Big Day’ and I was getting increasingly uneasy about the prospect of delivering my groom’s speech to a large group of people. Public speaking had always bothered me and was something I actively avoided since school days, going cold at the very prospect. However, I was determined that this feeling would not spoil the most important day of my life or the build up to it, and so I took the decision to take some positive action and so took the step to contact Ethical Minds. After the first very session and following some of David’s advice and ‘seemingly simple’ exercises, the feeling of unease all but disappeared and we were left to maintain this and build on other practical skills during a few subsequent sessions. David is an extremely trustworthy and affable individual and brings an unprecedented ease to the proceedings. Through his great knowledge and experience he is able to tailor the remedial course completely around the individual, thus providing a significant advantage over alternative, ‘one size fits all’ approaches offered by some other practitioners. So effective was David’s advice and treatment that when the Big Day came I was able to fully enjoy what was the happiest day of my life, delivering the speech in a relaxed and confident manner which still draws many extremely complimentary comments even now, some weeks later, with several saying it was genuinely one of the best they had seen and heard. Without David’s help I know that I would have been unable to unlock this potential and I cannot recommend his service highly enough to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation.”
Neil, Cheltenham
You’ll also be please to know that Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help you too by improving your self confidence and your recall as you relax and focus the positive aspects of your environment. In addition to the hypnotherapy element, I often augment the session with the use of an extensive range of advanced NLP techniques – a ‘belt and braces’ approach really.
This means you can be sure to give your very best and most effective performance, safe in the knowledge that you will feel calm, self assured, knowledgeable and confident before, during and after the event.
Rather than sit there worrying about the outcome of your specific event, be proactive and take control now. Give me a call and we can talk through your optiions in confidence and you can discover how my approach could help you.
I’m here to assist in your success and most importantly, in a way that makes sense to you…
To contact David - Telephone: 01242 211382 Mobile: 07726 789214
Email david@ethicalminds.co.uk