Communication and Leadership

The Body Language Workshop

Do you want to improve your communication skills, your confidence and being able to think on your feet?

François Teyssier and I run the Body Language workshop since 2008.
Open to anybody who wants to develop congruency and confidence in any situation where you need to convince, persuade or motivate your audience.
May it be an interview for a job, a presentation in your company, your best man speech or simply with your children or family members.
The Body Language workshops are for you. They are done in very fun atmosphere (check out the slide show on the right).
François is a Director, an Actor, a Trainer and a Coach. I have been working with him back in Paris - France in his theatre (Le Theo Theatre). He and the troupes that I met taught me improvisation techniques that were fitting well with my public speaking experience.

Check out the ACTING ADVANTAGE website or on Facebook and register to attend the workshops. You'll be wondering why you haven't attended them sooner!

Leadership and Self Development

I have always been passionate about Self development techniques. Back in 1988, I discovered NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and other techniques that I found fascinating.
Since I am in the UK, I found that Self Development is a big thing in this country and almost all English speaking countries.
I attended many trainings and presentations and I have signed up with Christopher Howard as I am impressed by his teaching which fits very well with my professional objectives.
I followed the Fast Track program that Chris proposes and I am now a NLP Practitioner. I was blasted my his Platform and Presentation Skills training where I learnt so many additional tricks for engaging the audience and having a great time when I am on stage or doing a presentation.
I recommend you to attend on of his amazing weekends -Breakthrough to Success - where all these techniques are explained and demonstrated.
Yes, you will experience all these techniques during the 3 days by yourself and I guarantee you'll feel awesomely well at the end and will certainly sign up as I did to know how he does this and how I can do that as well.

Good news: Using the link below, you will get 2 tickets to attend for FREE one of the Breakthrough to Success weekend (BTS).

Wealth Dynamics: Find out your profile

Roger Hamilton has developed the Wealth Dynamics profile. It's a tool to help you uncover what are your natural talents and how you can recognise the talents of others.
According to his model, there are 8 personality profiles which define the way you act and react in many situations and especially in Business.
If you are already managing your own business or if you think about starting your own or simply if you are puzzled sometimes by the way you react or the people around you react, check out the Wealth Dynamics website and take the Profile test.
For me, it was eye opening as I tried to make my own business 3 times in France and failed. If I had had this information at that time, I would not have acted like I did. I would have been much smarter, selected my business partners more wisely and maybe, have a successful Digital Media business in which I would have fully used my Creator profile.
My secondary profiles are Star and Mechanic, which does not come as a surprise for me as I love Public Speaking and complex IT projects.
Have a go to the Profile test and I am sure you will find it extremely useful to your continual success.

Toastmasters: Develop your Public Speaking and Leadership Skills, and make friends in a supportive and fun environment

I joined Toastmasters International in 2007 in 2 clubs, Woking and Guildford.
Since I have performing loads of speeches and attended trainings, contests and social events. I was thrilled by how much the people joining the clubs where so friendly and supportive, as it is a not-for-profit organisation and everyone is there to improve their communication and leadership skills and at the same time support each other.
I made so many good friends and we organise together a lot of social events to consolidate our relationships.
That's one of the best experience I have ever done. Now I have a network of friends that can help me in any projects I come up with. They always say present when I need them for advices, feedback and directions.
Check out the Guildford Speakers website and you can find a Toastmasters Club near your home.
The good thing is that you can join as many clubs as you want and it would not cost you an arm and a leg.

Below are some of the videos I have filmed and some of my own speeches.

The page "About me" contains as well the video of my 10th speech (Motivational speech).

The Body Language Workshop

With my friend and Business partner, we run a regular Body Language Workshop in Woking, Surrey, UK. Check out this link to attend one of these funny and valuable trainings in communication skills.

Free coaching video from Christopher Howard

Are you looking for work or new customers? Have a look at this video from Christopher Howard.

Get your free tickets below for the 3 days weekend Breakthrough to Success

Wealth Dynamics: What is your profile?

In this 5 mn video, Roger Hamilton will describe what is the Wealth Dynamics and Wealth Spectrum. If you are interested to attend one of the live trainings and presentations, click on the link below to reach the Triumphant Events website and make a reservation. They also have a lot of Business orientated seminars that are worth a look.

Wind up yourself every morning

Tony Robbins is one of the most powerful and authentic speaker that I know. He is one of the most famous self development coach living today. Watch this video about the power of Incantations. Incantations are a bit more than affirmations. You will see why.
Listen to this and practice every morning. Il will wind you up for the full day. Thanks Tony for this gift.

In fact, you can practice that everywhere and especially in your car...

PUBLIC SPEAKING AND LEADERSHIP: The videos

Guilford Speakers: Presentation This presentation video was produced in 2008. It gives a 360° view on the different activities that we go through at almost every meeting. 20 persons in average will have a specific role during the evening and it is not only the speakers. That what constitutes the leadership development on top of the public speaking skills. Roles include the toastmaster (master of ceremony), timekeeper, grammarian, evaluators, etc. Each new member will receive 2 manuals: one which describes how should be constructed the first 10 speeches, the second describes the roles and the leadership skills required. We need to stick to time and everything gets evaluated so every person will receive valuable feedback on his/her performance and can improve in a safe environment. Of course, there is a lot of laughter and it is a very relaxed (yet serious) atmosphere.
Evaluation Workshop by Hilary Briggs This is the first video of a series of 7 that I produced in May 2009. Hilary Briggs is a very experienced Toastmaster and she is an Evaluation Champion as she won the Evaluation Contest in the UK. Giving effective and genuine feedback to someone is a skill which every leader should master. Hilary gives a simple formula to fit the 2 minutes feedback format imposed at Toastmasters. Now could you imagine being in a position to give this sort of powerful feedback in any situation of your life, at work, in the family, with friends,...
A warm up demonstration by Francois Teyssier (ActingAdvantage.co.uk) This was filmed during a Toastmasters Speech Contest in Dorking. Warm Up is very important in order to prepare the speakers but also the audience and this is rarely performed in meetings. Think about it, if the people listening to you are still focusing on the problems and situations they were going through before your speech, do you think their level of attention would be very high? Do you think they may remember more than 5% of what you said? Probably not. So why not making sure they are ok, relaxed and ready to listen by performing a short warm up?
Speakers Club Social and fun evening Francois Teyssier and myself were performing this short and fun act during the Christmas party in 2008. In each club, we organise frequent social meetings like that. It can be simple having drinks and a chat or do what we love: Speaking and Performing. As a member of a Toastmasters Club, you can organise your own social events, to celebrate something or maybe more interestingly, to test your own project by asking several members to come to support you and give feedback on your personal presentation, even if it is related to your job or something not connected to Toastmasters. And I find that invaluable.
Story Telling in Farnham (Surrey) Another very different and challenging exercise: Speaking to entertain young children! This project was done with François Teyssier and other friends from Toastmasters Guildford. This time, the body language was paramount to retain the attention and involvement of the young audience. Not to mention, we had a lot of fun doing these sessions in Farnham.
Books a-live: Story Telling - Karaoke Books I produced this richmedia clip from the performance of François Teyssier and Vanessa Meister back in 2005. The concept is to allow young children to read a story in French with video and graphics supported by a real time text animation that looks like a real book, but much more fun. This one is a famous French story from Alphonse Daudet " The Goat of Monsieur Seguin". François Teyssier proposes to schools in the UK to perform story telling on French. I added sounds effects to make it even more entertaining and real.

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