Picture the scene: You're about to walk into the most critical board presentation of your career. Tomorrow's hostile shareholder meeting demands rock-solid leadership communication. Your first televised interview looms, and you need your executive presence to shine through.

These moments can define careers. And they're exactly why we created the Presence Audit: a focused 30-minute communication coaching session that transforms how business professionals communicate in high-stakes situations.

Improve Business Communication Skills with Theatre Techniques

When actors rehearse, they work with directors who spot the adjustments needed to turn the delivery of lines into an authentic performance worthy of a standing ovation. These same techniques now power presentation skills training and professional development for business leaders at all levels.

Our Executive Presence Audit brings this director's precision to your business communication skills, identifying what's holding you back and how to fix it.

The Actor's Approach: Four Pillars of Executive Presence

During your Presence Audit, our professional coaches assess four critical elements that determine your leadership communication impact:

1. Mind (Intention Setting)

   Your internal state drives external impact. We evaluate whether your intentions align with your message and teach you to project the professional presence you intend. This mental framework forms the foundation of all effective presentation skills training and business communication.

   
   

2. Text (Message Architecture)

   Even brilliant ideas can fail due to poor structure. We analyse how you organise information, ensuring your message architecture supports rather than sabotages your professional authority. You'll learn to lead with impact and build arguments that resonate with executive audiences.

   
   

3. Voice (Vocal Mastery)

   We assess your vocal pace and power, providing specific techniques to ensure your instrument performs at its peak during crucial business presentations.

   
   

4. Body (Physical Presence)

   We evaluate whether your physical presence matches your professional stature, teaching you to embody the executive image that commands respect in corporate communication settings.

When these four elements align, you create experiences that move people to action.

Inside Your 30-Minute Presence Audit

Phase 1: Real-World Performance

At Punch Presentations, where possible, we avoid hypothetical scenarios in our coaching approach.

Bring actual content from your work, such as your investor pitch, next Town Hall address, or the notes for the next presentation. This ensures that our learning and development recommendations are tailored directly to your immediate business communication needs.

Phase 2: Live Diagnostic Coaching

We share with you practical presentation skills coaching in the form of immediate, actionable feedback. If your voice is losing power, we'll show you a breathing technique that helps restore your speaking authority. If you don't know what to do with your hands, we'll give you strategies to keep those jazz hands in check!

Phase 3: Your Personal Action Plan

You'll leave with specific adjustments for immediate improvement in your presentation skills and personalised drills tailored to your communication challenges.

The Immediate Impact Test

One of our favourite stories about immediate impact involves a participant who used to run out of breath early in her presentations. She believed this was due to stage fright.

We showed her the "squeeze the lemon" method.

On her next pass, she immediately showed improvement: her breathing was smoother, her posture was stronger, and she completed her presentation with ease.

It turned out, stage fright wasn't the issue after all.

When You Need More Comprehensive Development

While the 30-minute audit delivers immediate improvements to your communication skills, certain situations require more in-depth work. Consider our comprehensive training programmes if you're:

• Preparing for a promotion or stepping into a leadership role

• Building confidence for high-stakes presentations

• Developing your team's presentation skills

• Preparing for important client pitches or sales meetings

• Leading organisational change requiring strong internal communication

• Building long-term media training capabilities

• Creating a company-wide learning and development programme

• Enhancing your entire team's business communication effectiveness

  
  

Some of our popular extended training programmes include:

• Presentation Skills

• Sales Training

• Media Training

• Advocacy Training