Course curriculum

    1. What does a bad presentation look like?

    1. What makes a great communicator?

    2. Looking and sounding confident

    3. Engaging with your listeners

    4. Controlling your hands and body language

    1. The fight/flight response

    2. How to deal with your mind going blank

    3. How to deal with common symptoms of stress

    1. The importance of effective preparation

    2. Key considerations when kicking off your preparation

    3. Adopting a clear structure

    4. Attaining authority

    1. Presenting with others

    2. Working with visual aids and notes

    3. Using the space around you to connect with people

    4. Dealing with Q&As

    1. Ten key takeaways

    2. Advocality

Delivering effective presentations and managing nerves

  • 18 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Why is this the best course on presenting and managing nerves?

In short, because Peggy Forell's unique background in theatre, coupled with her decades of experience training thousands of professionals from top international firms, has enabled her to develop highly effective teaching methods and frameworks that can make all the difference.

  • The most comprehensive online course specifically designed to improve aspiring lawyers' abilities to present effectively.

  • Led by one of the most sought after communication and presentation coaches in the City.

  • Packed full of detailed (and often hilarious) personal anecdotes to give context to the guidance offered throughout.

  • Specific focus on a broad range of symptoms of nerves and stress, with practical advice on how to mitigate these.

  • Covers a range of business pitch and presentation scenarios.

  • Includes much of the content from our Business Presentation Handbook.

Instructors

Business presentation expert Peggy Forell

Peggy Forell is the founder of Advocality, a consultancy born out of a passion for teaching presentation skills. These are the skills that go into delivering a message to a group of people (including interviewers!), with the intention of making them glad they heard it. Peggy has worked mainly with lawyers over the years and was employed by one of the City’s magic circle law firms to teach lawyers how to better communicate, structure and deliver presentations. However, Peggy is not a lawyer. In fact, this is her USP. For many years, she trained for the stage, after achieving a Degree in Speech & Dramatic Art with the University of Iowa. When her dazzling career in performance didn’t eventuate, she diversified into working with non-actors on their verbal and non-verbal communication skills: an actor’s bread and butter. Today Peggy works with lawyers in the City and in numerous other countries, at all levels of their careers…from law students to senior partners. www.advocality.co.uk

Commercial Law Academy Founder & Ex-Freshfields Lawyer Jake Schogger

Jake Schogger is a qualified lawyer, career coach, entrepreneur, author, copywriter and consultant. He is the founder and CEO of City Career Series, a publishing company that has sold ~50,000 handbooks designed to help students secure City careers, including the critically acclaimed Commercial Law Handbook and Training Contract Handbook. He also founded Commercial Law Academy. He trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and now acts as a legal adviser to start-ups and scale-ups, whilst also working as a career coach and delivering career-related presentations at universities across the UK. In addition, Jake works with tech start-ups and runs a variety of his own businesses. Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

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5 star rating

Excellent, bite sized learning

Natalie Dunn

I really enjoyed how the course was broken down into manageable sessions, it was easy to digest the message before moving on to the next section. Being fairl...

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I really enjoyed how the course was broken down into manageable sessions, it was easy to digest the message before moving on to the next section. Being fairly new to presenting it was a relief to understand the physical symptoms of stress when presenting were more common, and more importantly, OK to feel that way! I will certainly remember the advice on presenting on my next attempt at delivery training. Thank you

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