What you can expect

Presentation & Personal Impact, Pitching

It has always been important to engage well with an audience, whatever the culture or context. Powerpoint has become ubiquitous,with the average presentation lasting 250 minutes, with 40 words per slide (source: Microsoft) and for many, the slides are the presentation.

As one of the leading authorities on presenting and pitching, Phoenix International takes a different approach; helping people literally to transform the way they engage and reach any audience. They will learn how to:

• Build rapport within the first 20 seconds and keep it throughout
• Involve and engage every member of the audience
• Be persuasive without being pushy
• Influence with integrity
• Get their message across every time
• Use a structure that works for every type of talk and audience
• Have the confidence to deal with any question or interruption elegantly and professionally, even when they don't know the answer
• Reduce preparation time by up to 90%
• Organise their thoughts in a way that 'programmes' their brains with the content of their talk
• Deliver a totally engaging, structured,eloquent and natural presentation whilst hardly ever consulting their notes
• Free themselves forever from the tyranny of a script
• Free themselves from dependence on Powerpoint
• Vastly reduced nerves and increased confidence
• Appear more professional, confident and in control

Confidence and competence improve exponentially and this often generalises across much of the rest of their lives. Most clients not only achieve but exceed all their objectives for the programme.

Self Management & Personal Productivity

For most of us,the pace and demands of working and personal life are becoming greater by the month. We are expected to do more in less time. Technology has helped enormously to lighten our load, but also creates pressures and demands of its own.

This programme was born out of the needs of senior management, but applies to virtually everyone with time and people to manage.

A very recent survey by Nuffield Health found that 64% of Britons say they are always too tired to play with their children; 73% say they are regularly too tired at the end of the day to have sex. A third wouldn't run to catch a bus, and 15% say they would rather watch a TV show they didn't like than get up off the sofa to change channels.

75% of the reasons that people visit their doctor are for some stress related ailment, and cardiac arrest is the single biggest killer in the western world.

Whilst there are no magic pills, the powerful and pragmatic attitudes and practises of Self Management are highly effective in dealing with some of these pressures.This one day programme teaches proven, sensible and most importantly actionable tools and ways of thinking that have transformed lives over 2 decades.

Those attending can expect to:

• Increase their productivity by between 10-30%
• Understand more of what helps and hinders them
• Procrastinate less
• Learn and apply the 80/20 Rule
• Acquire powerful thinking tools and attitudes for self management & achievement
• Create focussed areas of time for proactive rather than reactive work
• Reduce interruptions
• Achieve more in less time
• Run and attend far better and more productive meetings
• Dramatically improve the quality of delegation they give and receive
• Acquire powerful tools for giving feedback and developing their people
• Increase their job satisfaction
• Leave with a personal action plan to achieve all the above
• Receive a follow up and review after 8 weeks

Most find that they are more in control, less stressed, more proactive and produce a better quality of the right kind of work.

Coaching

The great management 'guru' Peter Drucker once wrote "My skill as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few good questions". This is also an excellent metaphor for a good coach or mentor.

Our skill lies not in knowing the ins and outs of your job and its precise context, but in using our knowledge, insight and intuition to ask you the most useful questions to help you achieve what you want. We will also help you to overcome the obstacles and blocks that are stopping you.

Most of us take part in all types of training and leadership development in our careers. However we are often so busy doing the business that we rarely have the time to reflect on our path. It is even rarer that one has the opportunity to work with a truly objective professional who is totally focussed on you and your outcomes and has only your highest good in mind.

Most of us have been lucky enough to know people in who's presence we've felt affirmed and extended, liberated, energised and stimulated to grow. This is what each client can expect from Phoenix coaching.

Most importantly you will take the action needed to achieve extraordinary results.

"The obstacles to high performance are sometimes external and sometimes due to lack of skill, but the most frequent reasons are internal blockages, self-limiting beliefs and interference." Tim Galway, author 'The Inner Game' series

Verbatim feedback from a recent client after just 3 sessions

"Since our last session I have made several changes, decisions and found myself looking at me differently. I have made the following list of statements which encompass what exploring myself, realising my worth and making decisions has led me to:

• I'm happy
• More content
• In a better place
• More in control
• More focussed
• Happier in my own skin
• Got a plan
• More control of my future
• Feel like a weight has been lifted
• Satisfied - done what I set out to do at work in 2008
• Feel like I want to make the most of myself both inside and out
• Tidier life
• Purpose

All of the above explain best how I am feeling, thinking and acting differently."