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If you are a growing SME (2-250 employees) you can get Goverment money to help pay for your training.
The Skills Funding Agency has a scheme where they will match training contributions up to £1000 per company.
Details are available at: Business Link Training Subsidy
While the process does involve a bit of paperwork – the local representatives listed at BusinessLink will help fill in the forms for you.
Contact us to discuss the presentation training to help with your leadership development and we can direct you to a suitable contact to access this subsidy.
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Filed under: HR, Learning and Development
If you want really effective presentations, you need to re-think how you prepare them. If you, like most people, switch to PowerPoint as soon as you hear the word ‘presentation’, then we have something to show you.
We suggest you completely re-engineer how you approach your presentations. Forget PowerPoint.
The best presentations start with a lot of thinking and a blank sheet of paper. Before you write anything, you need to:
Work out exactly who your audience is …
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Filed under: Featured, General Presentations, HR, Learning and Development
While we all want to be liked, did you realise how important being liked is for winning new business?
The Importance of Being Liked
Professor Amy Cuddy, of Harvard Business School was featured in a Harvard Magazine article. She concludes that 80% of our evaluation of people is based on both warmth AND competence. Many professionals mistakenly focus just on demonstrating competence – but this is not enough and you will lose business. Part of our pitch …
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Filed under: Featured, General Presentations, HR, Learning and Development, Investor Presentations, Pitching Success
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