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Rich
Rich is the resident public speaking skills expert at Further. His focus is on supporting our clients to speak clearly, concisely and confidently when communicating with groups. Rich is a two-time national speaking champion and has been studying communication for over 20 years.
- An expert in all areas of inspiring, persuading, motivating and informing large groups
- Winner of the UK Business Speaker of the Year competition in 2012
- Worked with organisations including the BBC to develop their public speaking skills
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A Presentation Skills Expert
Rich possesses an incredible depth of knowledge on the topic of public speaking and presentation skills. He combines this knowledge with his own commercial experience, ensuring that the skills that he shares with teams and leaders is directly relevant and useful for achieving their goals.
Public speaking and presentation challenges vary hugely across roles, teams and organisations. Rich supports our clients in all areas, from foundation skills for graduates, right through to advanced skills for leaders that want to inspire, motivate and persuade key audiences.
"Rich's training is so warm, practical and supportive. His ideas and tips are all-based on real-life examples, psychology and science. It's a really refreshing approach to public speaking training and confidence."
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Why consider presentation skills training for your team?
Presentations, pitches and speeches - they are all an opportunity to motivate an audience and achieve your goals. Get it right and you can make the sale, inspire a revolution and achieve success.
Get it wrong and your ideas (and your chances of success) will likely be lost forever.
Ensuring that all of your team have the skills to communicate to groups clearly, concisely and confidently will ensure that ideas are shared, communication is effective and that goals can be achieved.
We recommend presentation skills training as essential for both junior and senior teams. Why? Because powerful group communication skills are essential for successful leaders but are most effective when developed and practised early in a career.
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What does presentation skills training cover?
The term ‘presentation skills’ covers a wide range of areas and can include:
Foundation presentation skills, presentation skills for leadership, sales presentations, pitching, technical presentations and so much more.
But the real question to ask is: ‘What does my team need to achieve when speaking to a group?’
Once we know the answers to these questions, it’s easy to map out a presentation skills training solution that gives your team the exact skills they need to succeed.
This is what the team at Further is great at, and we’re always happy to discuss plans with you. Contact us to start the conversation.
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What else does Rich cover?
Public speaking is not just confined to meeting rooms and stages.
Many of our most important presentations now take place online too. All of Rich’s insight, tips and techniques have been adapted and considered for the digital age. He leads a fantastic ‘presenting online’ course and
