Presentation Training

We believe that the art of good communication is a skill that can be taught.

In essence it requires good background knowledge, clear thoughts, the ability to use language in a natural and relaxed manners and control of nerves.

The courses help you to provide information quickly, accurately and succinctly. Training is carried out in small groups, ideally no more than three delegates per tutor and include:

  Preparation
  How to use your research
  Analysis of your own personal style
  Time management within your presentation
  Flexibility
  Listening skills
  Interpretation skills
  Selling yourself
  Specific tailor made courses meet your immediate needs for:
  large conferences
  boardroom presentations
  competitive pitches
  speech making
  overseas presentations
  video presentations staff
  meetings

We cover all aspects of presentation skills with detailed analysis and instruction at each stage of your chosen course. We pay particular attention to the hidden messages.
Specific timetables are prepared to your particular requirements.

Selling Skills

All middle and senior managers who take part in presentations under pressure have to provide information quickly, accurately and succinctly. Few achieve all three. The Vertex short courses on effective sales and pitch techniques are geared to dissemination and delivery of the right information to achieve the best possible hit every time. Each course is available to a maximum of three people per tutor.

Our tutors are experienced trainers and some work as financial journalists. They understand the way the City, commerce, and industry works and can, in addition, provide an insight into the way the British media finds and uses material, so giving an access point for you in the future.

In addition to the basic Presentation training, these sessions include:

  Preparation and research
  Analysis of individual team strengths
  Time management within your presentation
  Promoting your messages singly or in a pitching group
  Staying power
  Interpreting and enhancing the message
  Closing

This is a specific course for anyone who needs to sell a concept, a strategy or a product. It helps to develop a self analysis programme which can be reworked in almost any forum. Once the course is completed, we offer you a follow-up service, visiting you 'on-site' as requested to give further advice in the real situation.

Influencing Skills

Building Teams

The Vertex Group provides a two-day residential course on Influencing Skills and a more comprehensive three day course on Team Building, for middle and senior managers, and directors working in teams. The course is designed to give those in authority the ability to motivate others while encouraging them to assume responsibility for the decision-making process.

The course covers:

  Identification of their positions within their own organisational team
  Awareness of themselves and their motivation
  Intensification of listening skills
  Analysis of language skills
  Definition of objectives/targets
  Motivation in a non-threatening manner
  Building confidence

By the end of the course the delegates understand how to analyse business problems constructively, know how to develop a full problem analysis by themselves, be able to form a view without needing to know the answers; understand the need to identify the motives and fears of their own teams, be able to assess the negatives and risks; reduce the need to impose authority but to demonstrate trust through the building of teams.

Office procedure – people
and project management

Half day course includes:

  Understanding the role of junior manager
  Analysis of daily workload
  Schedule planning
  Prioritisation
  How and what to delegate
  Forming resolutions
  The dynamics of group meetings
  Body language
  Understanding the verbal and non verbal messages
  Information placement
  Effective use of language
  Observation

Half day course:

  Assessing one's place within the structure
  Encouragement of others
  Learning and teaching skills
  Carving your niche
  Building support from above and below
  Specific project briefing
  Gathering project ideas
  Putting together a plan
  Encouragement of ideas
  Learning the delegation rules
  Dividing and dumping
  Reaching the goal

The Video

Your message on the small screen

All our production, camera crews and post production teams are top professionals. We work only with Broadcast quality equipment and all finished products are held in our library on high quality 'master-tape' which can be re-edited at a later date. There are a number of different ways you may wish to access video:
  as your communications medium
  as a training film
  an information package
  a sales tool
  for general promotion

We can convert a document into a video - turning the written word into moving pictures. Or your video can be used alongside the printed word. A video or film has many advantages.

   It can be dedicated to one message or product
  It can be adapted as products and personnel change
  It is portable
  Access and understanding can be monitored
  It can be translated into any language
  It can be converted to any viewing format
  It can be used internationally
  Video production is as an efficient means of transferring information.
  And it isn't as expensive as you think.