Preparing the future leaders of the Adecco group
Presentation Skills Training & Storytelling Engagement Workshops
This year we returned to help the future global leaders of The Adecco Group boost their confidence on camera and grow their impact on screen.
Bespoke self-development programme
Alongside Rachel Kepinska-Smith, an independent Brand Consultant I have worked with for many years here in St Albans, I hosted two days of interactive workshops for the giant recruitment and people development organisation.
We guided a 20-strong cohort of future leaders preparing for their final presentations (coming this June) to five Executive Business Leaders within the group. The crescendo to an intense 6-month business impact project designed to fast-track talent and instigate change within the organisation with a prize of a coveted place at the upcoming international leadership conference.
Great to work again with Bani Sodhi, The Adecco Group
“Thank you so much for yet another successful run with us and for this awesome partnership to truly create value for the cohorts year after year. I loved the innovation you brought in the sessions this year. So a big genuine THANK YOU!”
Presentation preparation is key
The delegates are in the same position as many of my clients - months and months of work (or possibly years) boiling down to their performance in one presentation or meeting.
It’s the ‘big pitch’, the ‘grand finale’, a presentation that could make or break your reputation and pave the way for future success.
Live team workshops online
To help the cohort, we embarked on a bespoke series of live online workshops focused on presentation style and engagement with the audience; two out of five criteria their judging panel would be scoring.
Rachel and I partnered to deliver two-rounds of live interactive group sessions and breakout exercises to the delegates, located worldwide.
Teams from across the world joined to suit different time zones
Boosting confidence and credibility on camera
The aim was to boost their confidence on camera, grow their credibility and add impact authentically. The programme involved workshops on how to ‘look, act and sound like a leader’, how to engage an audience using empathy and storytelling, and will be followed up with a series of team rehearsals and feedback.
Positive delegate feedback
The response from the client was transformational. Our programme has been rated 9/10 by the delegates in an anonymous post-programme survey:
“Karen & Rachel engaged and energized the audience. Maybe I was a bit sceptical during the first ten minutes of the workshop, but it was extremely helpful!”
“This session was very interesting and important for all of us because having good EQ or mindfulness of leadership helps us work on ourselves and work well with others.”
“This series was better than I expected and very timely given our presentations. The topic is valuable and I would love to see more of this. Karen and Rachel are great facilitators and they used their time wisely.”
“I’ve been on a lot of online training programmes and this has to be the best I’ve ever been on!”
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Engaging audiences through storytelling
While the programme built upon already well-honed presentation skills, this cohort learned the importance of using empathy to engage their audience, storytelling to maintain that engagement and consistency as a team to create the best possible experience for their audience and outcome for them.
When you are up against the best, it is incremental gains that will get you ahead. A secret weapon that every team should have to engage their audience, using empathy to make a connection that lasts and for good business to be built upon.
Read our summary of the workshop here and contact me if you or your team have ‘one-shot’ to deliver the performance of a lifetime and would benefit from presentation skills training online or in person.
I hope to hear from you soon,
Karen Witchalls-Plunkett
Presentation Skills Coach, Businesses On Screen
