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Increase your impact when it matters

Edward J Nelson · Practice notes

Powerful Presence

Being good at what you do isn’t enough if you can’t communicate it in a way that connects.

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It starts with you

Whether you’re presenting to a board, leading a team, speaking at a conference or making an important case, your impact depends on more than the words on your slides.

Powerful Presence is a practical training and coaching programme designed to help you become more confident, intentional and impactful when you communicate.

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The 4Fs

The framework helps you prepare not just what you’re going to say, but how you are going to show up when you say it.

  • Foundational Thinking: get clear about why you’re there, what matters to you and what you bring.
  • Feelings: understand your emotional state and the feeling you want to create.
  • Physical Actions: pay attention to energy, movement, body language and action.
  • Future Focus: clarify the change, response or action you want to inspire.
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Presence, message and audience

When how you show up, what you communicate and who you are communicating with work together, your ideas become easier to understand, remember and act upon.

  • Communicate with greater confidence and clarity
  • Prepare yourself for important moments
  • Structure focused, memorable messages
  • Connect more effectively with different audiences
  • Develop an authentic and engaging style
  • Increase your impact when it matters most
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Training and coaching

Powerful Presence can be delivered as practical training for groups, individual coaching, or a combination of the two.

We can work on your overall communication impact or a specific presentation, pitch, keynote, board meeting or other important moment. The emphasis is practical and experiential.

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You don’t need to become someone else

Powerful presence isn’t about performing confidence or becoming a polished version of someone else. It’s about becoming more intentional about what you bring into the room, what you want to achieve and how you connect with the people in front of you.

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Presence in practice

Watch an introduction to the programme, then bring your own important communication moments into the work.

The next step

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