Workshops
Workshops are designed closely with you to fit your needs in skills development, quantity of participants, time and budget.  All workshops are highly interactive, combining advice, discussion and exercises to gain skills and build confidence.  Workbooks contain the theory for participants to read at their leisure.  With presentation workshops we do not use a video camera at the initial stage, as is popular practice with many other training companies, as the evidence shows that this only serves to crush self-esteem and confidence. However we do recognise the powerful effect of this equipment and do use the camera sensitively throughout the workshop to give greater insight and build self awareness whilst focussing on positive development.

Examples:

• Presentation skills workshop:    This 2-day workshop for 6-8 people was designed for a financial transaction company in 2007 and runs approximately 6 times a year. The workshop is designed to give skills and build confidence in presenting.  It is highly practical with various exercises and mini presentations of increasing demand culminating in a final presentation on the second day which receives 360 degree feedback.  Areas covered are: nerves, voice and other non-verbal behaviour, structure, engagement, visuals, notes, and handling questions.
• Personal impact workshop:  This workshop was designed for a payment systems company.  The workshop was designed to give attendees greater awareness of their own personal impact in terms of voice and non-verbal behaviour, an understanding of the importance of these aspects of our communication and how to adapt their style for greater influence and persuasion.  The workshop comprises of: an initial 15 min recording session per person for analysis, a 1 day group workshop for a maximum of 8 people covering theory analysis reports and practical exercises, and finally a 2-hour individual session for each participant to work specifically on key aspects from their own analysis report.
• Telephone influencing:  This half-day workshop was designed for the finance team of a pharmaceutical company.  Whilst this team is part of the finance function, they are responsible for ongoing client orders of drugs and hence have sales targets to meet monthly and quarterly.  However they have not had any form of sales training before so we designed a half day to give the essential skills and role-play practice needed to impact on their targets
• Media training:  eloquential have been running a very successful workshop on media skills for a components distributor since 2006.  The 1-day workshop is designed for up to 6 key spokespeople from the company to gain the essential skills and role-play experience needed to handle a media interview effectively.  We concentrate on the balance of control between the journalist and the interviewee, getting participants to understand how much control they have over the situation and how to use it effectively.  We also include 2 role-play interviews so that the participants can try out their skills in a safe environment and build confidence in approaching the real thing.

Where relevant we can also provide: video footage from the workshop for participants to review, copies of all written work on a memory stick, non-verbal analysis reports, voiceprints, aide memoirs etc.  After the workshop, we can provide individual and group written feedback, development surgeries, refresher sessions, articles and reminder emails to promote continuous development.