Presenting with Confidence: Communication Skills for Small Business Success

Important note:

All attendees must have completed this to be able to join the workshop. If you have not previously completed a Build A Business Registration Form, please complete after booking your place on Eventbrite.

To be eligible for this workshop, you must be a Greater Manchester resident or the owner of a Greater Manchester located business within the following GM authorities: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, or Wigan.

Please arrive between 9:30-10:00am for networking and registration.

Workshop starts at 10:00am.

Learn tried and tested tools, tricks and techniques to make you a better presenter and communicator, inspire renewed confidence and manage nerves, whether you are trying to build a business or make it grow.

• Do you know your subject inside out but struggle to communicate it clearly when it counts?
• Do you feel a wave of nerves before a meeting, a networking event, or any situation where people are listening?
• Do you avoid opportunities because the thought of speaking up feels like too much?

This three-hour workshop, hosted by Richard Ford, an executive communications consultant, gives you the practical tools to present and the ability to communicate with confidence. Whether it’s a presentation, keynote, pitch or just trying to get your idea across.

At this session you will learn how to:

• Structure what you want to say so it lands clearly every time, whether you have two minutes or twenty.
• Manage nerves and anxiety before and during any presentation, meeting, or pitch.
• Start and finish strongly so you are always remembered for the right reasons.
• Handle unexpected questions without losing your thread.
• Communicate your business, your work, or your expertise in a way that people actually connect with.
• Come across as confident and credible, even when you do not feel it.

This workshop is part of a series. It is strongly recommended that you attend all FIVE core workshops, which include:

• Business Basics: Getting Started
• Know Your Customer, Get Competitive
• Intellectual Property: Protect Your Assets
• Marketing: The Essentials
• Funding Your Business Idea

Plus meet our team and book in for individual 1:1 support.

PLEASE NOTE: The Build A Business programme of funded workshops have limited places. Failure to attend on two separate occasions without prior cancellation will result in you being barred from attending future workshops. This is due to the cost of setting up each workshop and making preparations based on the number of sign-ups. This includes Know Your Customer; IP - Protect Your Assets; Business Basics; Marketing: The Essentials; and Funding Your Business Idea.

For more information go to: www.buildabusinessgm.org

There may be filming and photography taking place at the event to be used by Wigan Council, Build A Business, and their partners to promote activities in publications, presentations, advertisements, press articles, informational material, social media and the website.

If you do not want your image to be used, please make the Enterprise Officer aware upon arrival at the event.

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Wigan Library, The Wiend, Wigan, United Kingdom

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