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Becoming a confident and effective public speaker is a great investment.
It sets you apart as a leader and a valuable asset to your organization… someone worth listening to.
And one-on-one coaching is the most efficient way of becoming a confident, stress-free speaker. Direct feedback lets you respond immediately and fast tracks your progress. The focus is on you and you reach your goals that much more quickly.
Whether it’s improving your vocal tone, finding ways to add vocal variety, ensuring you have the right physical presence or being comfortable with your use of gesture, this intensive practical work takes your public speaking and presentation skills to the next level.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING COACHING
Improving your public speaking is an intelligent investment in your ability to deliver both professionally and personally.
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No More Public Speaking
At the centre of the work I do with clients is to stop thinking about ‘public speaking’ and ‘making a speech’ – just saying those words can trigger fear and anxiety. Instead I work with you to embrace a mindset where you are ‘talking with a group of people’, seeking to have a positive impact on them.
When you make this your focus, you can bring your breath, voice, physicality and use of gesture naturally into play to deliver your message.
Coaching takes place in a supportive environment and progresses in response to your evolving public speaking ability. Immediate feedback lets you bring together vocal tone and variety, physical presence and the use of gesture to transform you into a confident and stress-free public speaker.
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WHAT THE TRAINING WILL GIVE YOU
For inexperienced newcomers, the training empowers you to speak confidently and effectively, bringing together your voice and physical presence to deliver your message.
For more experienced speakers, the training will see you lift your public speaking to the next level by working on specific areas, such as physical presence or vocal tone and variation and ensuring that these new skills are integrated into your focused and engaging message delivery.
NEXT STEPS
Before starting any training, I meet with you to jointly evaluate where you are at on your public speaking journey, define your goals and develop a plan to achieve the outcomes you want.
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PRESENTATION CONSULTATION
Presentation coaching is designed for people wishing to hone their presentation skills or to optimise the delivery of an important speech or presentation.
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Where clients are working on a specific project, we can collaborate on all aspects of your presentation, including the development of script and structure, your vocal and physical presence, and the effective use of audio-visual aids.
The aim is to transform your good presentation into one that not only delivers effectively but also stands out from the crowd.
Ultimately, presentations must be engaging, logical and achieve what they set out to do! To this work, I bring over thirty years’ experience as a theatre director, working across a diversity of genres and contexts.
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For more general coaching, we develop a program in response to your existing strengths and weaknesses, as well as your corporate and personal presentation goals. Together we will create a bespoke range of activities that will allow you to take your new skill set forward with you into the development and delivery of future presentations.
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ABOUT ME
I bring to my Effective Public Speaking work over thirty years’ experience in the performing arts as actor, writer, director, and producer.
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ABOUT ME
I bring to my Effective Public Speaking work over thirty years’ experience in the performing arts as actor, writer, director, and producer.
LEWIS JONES
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Whether it’s working with established professional actors or with emerging artists undergoing tertiary training, I have always enjoyed finding ways for each and every individual to bring words to life, to engage an audience, to tell a story.
I believe that the same principles and techniques I have worked with for over thirty years have direct application in empowering people to develop their public speaking skills.
After a time in the corporate sector following graduation from QUT with a Bachelor of Business – Management, I studied acting, again at QUT.
In the mid-nineties I shifted into working mainly as a director and since then have directed over 70 productions across a diversity of genres from Shakespeare to circus, from cabaret to opera.
I am an active member of South Bank Toastmasters and in 2022 and 2023 was awarded First Place in the Brisbane District Humorous Speech Contest.
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WHAT NEXT?
For many of my clients, taking action to overcome their speaking is as big a fear as public speaking. That is why I offer a free introductory session to talk about what you feel your challenges and strengths are and where you want to get to before we even talk about commencing any coaching.
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FAQS
It is hardly surprising that people get nervous. Firstly, they don’t get any training as public speakers; secondly, they don’t get to do it very often and thirdly, when they do get to do it, everyone is watching. Add to that the fact that from the time we are small children, we will have heard people talking of public speaking as something to fear.
Public speaking is a physical activity and as such it can be coached, but to think you can acquire that skill in a short time – particularly in a classroom situation - would be like thinking you could learn to the play the guitar or become a champion tennis player over a weekend.
The work I do with clients is tailored to where they are now and where they want to get to, however, there are almost always some vocal exercises. These are not about developing a more attractive voice, but a voice that is authentically connected to who you are and what you want to say. We also work so you become reacquainted with the many resonators that are available to you, resonators that are often forgotten about as we make our way into adulthood.
You get to know your voice again. And we work on specific material so we can put the theory into practice.
This depends on where you are now and where you want to get to. I recommend a block of at least six sessions to make any real progress. The work is about consistency, rather than intensity, so best done over an extended period. After this initial block, additional sessions are available either individually or in a block at an established client discount. A series of twelve sessions will see most clients achieve their goal.
I don’t offer tips and tricks. The key to overcoming nerves is shifting your focus from ‘public speaking’ to having a conversation with people, whether the group is thirty or three hundred or a thousand!
As you are sending your energy out, you disarm the ‘arrows of judgement’ that you imagine are coming from your audience!
What you hear is not what others hear and it is very unlikely that you have a ‘bad voice.’ What coaching can do though is help you to have a voice that is brighter and more connected and is characterized by vocal variety – monotony be gone! These variations in pitch, tone, volume, and tempo are not ‘add-ons’, but are the result of knowing how you want to act upon your listeners and the strategies you are using to achieve the result you want.
In most conversations, we are subtly shifting our intentions from moment to moment – and it needs to be no different when talking with a group.
I tell clients – and anyone else who will listen – that I am yet to see someone stop a conversation and say, ‘I'm sorry. I can’t go on. I don’t know what to do with my hands’.
How we hold our body and the gestures we make in our everyday speech are rarely, if ever contrived, but stand us up to ‘make a speech’ and we start to worry about what we are doing with our hands. Again, the answer is to shift away from the idea of being watched to focusing on how we want to act upon our listeners.
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