Public Speaking Training
Helping you to look good and avoid looking badCommunication training to ensure you always show up at your best
Transform your communications to ensure you can always own the room
Public speaking is a crucial skill for every leader and entrepreneur who needs their ideas to be heard. Whether you’re delivering a keynote, handling a tough Q&A session, or telling an inspirational story, our personalised coaching will help you deliver with confidence and impact. We offer individual as well as group training sessions, delivered in-person or virtually.
Speaker Coaching
Unlock your full potential as a speaker and ensure your message gets through. Our coaching sessions are tailored to your unique needs, helping you to refine your messages, enhance your delivery, and connect with your audience. Whether you’re preparing for a crucial presentation or a high-stakes meeting, we’ll help you stand out and reach your desired outcome.
What we can offer
Personalised 1:1 Coaching
Following an initial briefing call with you, we can offer a series of coaching sessions tailored to your needs. We would apply tried and tested techniques to your real-life communications, ensuring that you show up at your best.
Expert Feedback and Guidance
We can help you to create content that engages your audience, tell stories that evoke change and enable you to persuade and convince your most important stakeholders. The feedback we give will be direct and actionable.
Strategies for Increasing Confidence
We realise that not everyone relishes the chance to speak in public. That’s why we will work with you to plan and rehearse to minimise risks and maximise your confidence.
Enhancing Vocal Delivery and Body Language
It’s all very well having carefully crafted messages, but it’s equally important to deliver them with clarity and meaning. We’ll work with you to discover and enhance your natural speaking skills.
Q&A Handling
Navigate challenging Q&A sessions with confidence. Our Q&A handling training will prepare you to answer difficult questions, manage unexpected challenges, and maintain control of the conversation. Learn techniques to think on your feet and respond with clarity.
What we can offer
Techniques for Handling Questions
When you open the floor for questions, that’s the moment you get maximum engagement from your audience. How can you ensure that you take advantage of this moment and deliver the messages you want them to hear, without being tripped up? We’ll work on techniques that keep you in control.
Managing Difficult Audiences
Some of the messages you deliver may be controversial, or even have a personal impact on your audience. How can you navigate such situations with sensitivity and clarity? We’ll help you to prepare to deliver even the toughest messages.
Staying Calm Under Pressure
Emotions can run high when you’re telling people news they might not want to hear. People may disagree with your ideas. We’ll help you to meet yopur goals, even faced with the most hostile questions.
Practice Scenarios and Role-Playing
We can’t give you a tips sheet and expect you tp perform at your best. Great communication requires practice to continuously improve. The world’s best communicators spend time rehearsing and acting on feedback. We’ll wortk wit you to ensure you’re thoroughly prepared for high-pressure situations.
Storytelling in business
Use the power of storytelling to captivate your audience and convey your message with impact. Our storytelling training is designed for leaders who want to use stories to inspire, persuade, engage and create change. Learn how to craft stories that strike a chord and leave a lasting impact: making you look good and avoid looking bad.
What we can offer
Crafting Compelling Corporate Stories
We are all natural storytellers, but how can we create business stories that provoke action or change? We will help you to identify which stories to use and how to craft them for greatest impact.
Using Stories to Support Your Business Goals
Stories without a goal are purely entertainment. With your business goals firmly in mind, we will explore which stories to use, and help you to deliver them strategically.
Storytelling Techniques for Diverse Audiences
Knowing which story to tell, to which audience, and in which situation is crucial to ensure your communication hits the mark. We can help you to plan your storytelling strategically so that you land your messages in the right place at the right time.
Interactive Workshops to Build and Strengthen Teams
As a universal human skill, storytelling can help to build teams and shape cultures. We can create tailored workshops that explore the power of storytelling and help your team to craft their own individual and team stories.
Why work with me ?
Transforming your communications
Peter Sandbach has almost three decades of experience in corporate communications. Before founding Free Range Communications, Peter was Head of Global Communication Training at Roche, where he established the Roche Academy of Business Communications and trained senior executives and scientists from around the world. He held leadership roles at Syngenta and Novartis, specialising in strategic communication and issue management.
Peter’s expertise in public speaking, media interaction, and storytelling has helped countless professionals enhance their communication skills.
