It wasn’t just that participants responded well to the session. They began to see a model they could adopt. During one Presentations Alive!™ session, a participant wrote: “I wanna be like him one day.” It was a simple line — but it pointed to something deeper. Not admiration for delivery flair, but recognition of a...
The Compact Slides & One-Pagers™ programme was initially scheduled to run just four times with one of our clients last year. By year’s end, that number had doubled to eight. What drove this expansion was not promotion — but pull from the business. The programme addressed a persistent, everyday challenge: cluttered slides and presentations that...
During a programme, a participant from an Oil & Gas company faced an unexpected challenge. Shortly before the lunch break, he shared with the class that a colleague had to take emergency leave. With little notice, he was asked to step in and present on behalf of his teammate — the client being none other...
A routine client meeting, aimed at scheduling training dates, unexpectedly became a strategic inflection point for the client and our team. As a slide outlining “Business Presentations in Your Organisation” was presented, the client’s interest ignited. They revealed plans for similar training tracks in their strategy for 2025-2026. Intrigued, they asked us to align our...
High Performance Presentations Coaching (previously known as Executive Presentations Coaching). He’d been through it before – presentation courses, frameworks, international trainers. He even had a preferred provider – someone he’d worked with, and requested again. But this time, HR suggested a different path. A fresh approach. One-on-one. Tailored to how he thinks, what he presents,...
Since early 2023, we have been integrating AI into our programmes – beginning with prompt-based exercises and progressing to fully customised AI assistants. Late last year, a client asked us to design an AI assistant for a customised programme – but with a catch: they wanted it to be based on their internal AI platform....
In The Business Storyteller™ programme, we begin with a simple yet powerful exercise. Participants are asked to stand on one side of the room if they believe that they are good storytellers, and on the other if they are not. The room is usually divided. This exercise is repeated at the end of Day 2,...
A glimpse into the subtleties of facilitating across cultures. We recently delivered our Compact Slides & One-Pagers programme for a group of senior leaders at a telecommunications company in Eastern Europe. While our team has worked with European audiences before, this was our Tammy Selvam’s first attempt at facilitating a session in Poland. From the start,...
What happens when your key contact suddenly leaves in the middle of a multi-programme engagement? That’s exactly what we experienced with a global energy company last year. In late 2023, we agreed on six programme runs for 2024, including Presentations Alive! and The Case Maker. The first session was delivered successfully in August 2024. A week later,...
When we began training two popular F&B retail chains, I thought I knew what to expect. I was wrong – in a good way. In the first, a beloved local name turned international success, participants came in with wide eyes and open hearts. New to learning and development, especially soft skills, they brought a startup’s...