Professional Presenters Are Hard To Find

When you are thinking of hiring a presenter, the first question that goes through your mind is usually, "Are they any good?" You know that it doesn't matter how well they know the content if they can't capture the attention of the audience. Now, I could just give you a list of testimonials from happy clients, but I know that you want to make up your own mind.

So below is a video of a presentation that I recently did. Please forgive the quality, it was shot on a home camera and was only intended for me. You see I like to video myself doing new presentations so that I can improve on them. I have cut in the powerpoint and videos that I used so you get the full picture.

It's a long video - about 40 minutes so may be slow to load depending on your connection speed. Watch as much as you need to make your mind up that I can WoW your target audience! As you do so please remember this was created as a presentation for a conference, not a training program.

Qualifications

If you are reading this bit then you have watched enough of the video to know that I can deliver spellbinding presentations. But what about qualifications?

I have quite a few - these are the ones that may interest you!

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • Association for Project Management Professional (APMP)
  • NLP Master Practitioner
  • Certified Master Results Coach
  • Certified Performance Consultant
  • Trainer of NLP & Neurological Repatterning
  • Master of Ericksonian Hypnosis
  • Graduate of Christopher Howard's Presentation & Platform Skills Training
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Development
  • BPS Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing (Level B)
  • Professional Diploma in Management
  • Member Chartered Management Institute (MCMI) No. 2287963

So as you can see, I take my own personal development very seriously. It is this mix of qualifications and experience that allows me to deliver diverse programmes that are tailored to meet the needs of my clients. Just to be clear, I can develop training events as well as deliver them.

Subjects That I Am Proficient In

Some people wonder how I can have expertise in such a wide range of subjects. Well for me they are all related. As well as being a presenter and trainer I am also a business coach. Simply put, I need to know about all these areas. I develop my own training materials and course outlines which also means that I am continuously learning and refining my materials and approach to delivery. My golden rule is always to know far more about any subject than the level to which I train. That means I am always able to answer questions and tailor the material to meet the needs of the audience.

And let's be honest, we expect our leaders and managers to know all this stuff, so why would you want to hire a trainer that only knows some of it? A trainer today not only needs expert level knowledge, but also how that knowledge fits in with other tools and models. There isn't one model that works for everyone, so you need to ensure that you hire someone that is flexible.

I have several 100 gigabytes of training materials on my harddrive. As you can imagine I also do a lot of research in my subject areas. The result is that I can quite easily bring knowledge from one area into another as appropriate. The video above combines NLP, Leadership, Self Belief, Networking Skills, and Influence Techniques. If you missed them, watch again and see how I capture an audience using enrolment techniques, stories, metaphors, stage anchoring, tonal anchoring and Satir archetypes.

Using my unique mix of NLP and business skills I have developed and delivered training in all of the following areas:

Leadership Development

Leadership Means many things to many people. However, the list below provides the basic fundamentals.

  • Self Awareness
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Strategic Analysis and Visioning
  • Mental Toughness
  • Effective Influence
  • Confidence & Self Belief
  • Understanding People
  • Developing Teams
  • Coaching skills

Management Skills

Management is different to Leadership. As a manager you are responsible for ensuring that the systems, processes and people are all acting and working as they should. This requires a different skill set.

  • Staff Training
  • Change Management
  • Systems Thinking
  • Resource Allocation
  • Project Management
  • Process Management
  • Performance Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Creative Management

People Skills

Both Leadership and management mean getting things accomplished through people. Here are some more specialised areas that you may find useful:

  • Personality and Behavioural Profiling
  • Communications
    • Transactional analysis
    • Active Listening
    • Milton Model and Meta Model
  • Motivation
  • Effective Negotiations
  • Influence Techniques
  • Presentation Skills

Team Development

There is more to team development than just sticking a group of people together. As well as the Leadership, Management and People skills, the following are aslo very useful:

  • Understanding Team Dynamics
  • Creating a shared reality and purpose
  • Team roles and their development
  • Environmental leadership
  • Action Oriented Leadership
  • Delegation and skills assessment

Business Skills

Having the above skill set is not enough if you are running a business. You also need to get trained in the following:

  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Business Accumen

It seems like a lot - but don't we expect our managers to know all this? If so then shouldn't you use a trainer that can match the training to what they already know?

Clients

No profile would be complete without a list of some of the clients I have done work for, so here's a list:

  • Activity Wales
  • Atlas Electronics
  • B Reohorn Automatics
  • Barclays Bank
  • Blackburn Rovers
  • Business Connect
  • Call of the Wild
  • Career Wales West
  • Chartered Management Institute
  • Children & Youth Partnership
  • Colleg Morgannwg
  • Crown CDC
  • Dyfed Powys Police
  • Enterprise Mouchel
  • Farmix
  • Gallu
  • Global Marine
  • Go Wales
  • General Teaching Council
  • HP
  • Jay-Griffith Consulting
  • Jelf financial group
  • Jersey Port Authority
  • John Lewis
  • Kronospan
  • Lead Wales Programme
  • Macintyre Care
  • MBDA
  • Milford Haven Port Authority
  • Moyrah Gall Photography
  • National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (NLIAH)
  • Network Rail
  • One Stop Financial Services
  • Pembrokeshire Business Initiative
  • Pembrokeshire Business Network
  • Pembrokeshire County Council
  • Planed
  • Prudential
  • Purple Hat Making Rainbows
  • Safeway
  • Safeguard Security
  • Signspeed
  • Standard Life
  • Swansea College
  • Swift Garden Rooms
  • Sytner (BMW)
  • Tanyard
  • The Development Company
  • TT electronics
  • VT Training
  • Web Adept
  • Women In Rural Enterprise (WIRE)
  • Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
  • Zifa

As you can see it is quite comprehensive and covers multiple sectors. If you are a training company looking for an associate trainer then let me be bold and say that we need to meet.

Please call me on 0 1 6 4 6 + 6 9 9 0 9 2 or drop me an email at eric @ eric sutherland . biz

(The spaces are to stop the web crawlers spamming me!)

I look forward to hearing from you.

Eric Sutherland