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Four chapters online, with a knowledge check after each chapter. Plus a pdf with a worksheet and a cheat sheet.
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The one-day course Pitching: your personal presentation. You deliver your own pitch a few times for real, see yourself back and hear what comes across.
€625,- excl. VAT
View the Pitching: your personal presentation course All Presenting & writing courses →Someone asks what you do. You hear yourself say your job title, you add some context, and after half a minute the other person nods politely and looks past you. You had a good story, but it did not come out. That moment comes along more often than you think: with a new client, in the corridor, at the start of a meeting. Pitching is about that one minute, and about everything you can do beforehand to make it work in your favour.
This free online course is the starter for our full Pitching: your personal presentation. In four chapters you first determine what your pitch has to deliver and what you are asking of your listener, then you build your story from your why rather than from your job title, next you cast it in the head-body-tail form with an opening and a closing that you prepare word for word, and finally you practise it out loud until it sounds like you and not like a sales talk. Each chapter ends with a short knowledge check.
The full training course goes on to cover the communication model and the noise along the way, the formula E = K x A, getting to know your audience beforehand, the SUCCES stickiness factors from Chip and Dan Heath, eighteen golden rules, body language, use of voice, self-confidence and dealing with difficult questions. Would you like to work through those parts with a trainer present, and actually deliver your own pitch a few times and watch it back? Then take a look at the Pitching: your personal presentation course.
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IntroductionHow this free course is structured and what you learn in the four chapters.
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What your pitch should achieveThe objective sentence covering know, think, feel and do, the one question you ask and your core message in a single sentence.
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Starting with your whyThinking in terms of story, the Golden Circle from the inside out and the struggle that makes your pitch human.
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Opening, body and closingKISS and how to divide up your minute, claim-evidence-image for each core point, bridging phrases and a closing line that holds.
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Practising until it sounds like youYour pitch on paper, the checklist, the playback question and the transition from pitch to conversation.
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Pitching is communicatingThe communication model, three types of noise and the signals your listener sends back while you are speaking.
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Effective communication with E = K x AWhy a story that is substantively sound can still fail, and the three channels you use at the same time.
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Your audience in viewFinding out the reason behind it, making the brief concrete and matching the mood and the language of your audience.
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The SUCCES stickiness factorThe six principles of Chip and Dan Heath: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion and story.
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Eighteen golden rulesRelationship first, information second, enthusiasm as a selling point and using slides sparingly.
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Body language in your pitchStanding and moving, gestures that carry your story, eye contact and being present rather than performing.
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Working with your voiceBreathing as the basis, speaking clearly, melody in your voice and the power of slowing down.
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Building self-confidenceYour self-image under the microscope, nerves as an ally, the familiar pitfalls and why you are the expert.
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Dealing with difficult situationsAnswering questions without stumbling, having less time than planned and what to do if you lose your thread.
That is the difference with a pdf: there is someone standing in front of the class who answers your questions and thinks along with your own situation.
I found the 'Interview Techniques' course to be good. Nothing to fault. It was also good that Job called beforehand for a short preliminary discussion. You don't see that very often. A very worthwhile course. It also had a strong element of repetition. Plenty of variety, including between theory and practice. Learned a lot, and applied it straight away during the course. And I think these learnings will also help me further when conducting interviews.
Tjeerd J
We took the Outlook, Teams and OneNote course with Roy Nieuwenhuijzen. Good content, and a few days before the course he got in touch with me (coordinator of the course, head of the secretariat). Pleasant that you can fill in the day itself as needed. The booklet for reference is rather dated, but apparently there is little up-to-date material to be found.
Inge Brouwers
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