Workshop to help develop behaviours that boost your credibility, and establish you clearly and visibly as an expert in your specialism.
Developing gravitas and the ability to communicate with greater confidence, influence and authority is an important part of working as a professional conservator. On a day-to-day basis we are called to communicate our expertise knowledge to a range of people, both within and outside of our specialisms.
This workshop will help you to develop behaviours that boost your credibility, and establish you clearly and visibly as an expert in your field. You'll practice harnessing the power of your inner critic and coach, using them to translate inner confidence to outward presence. Over an hour and a half, the session with help you to build deeper and trusted connections with others, built on genuine integrity.
By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
- Understand what gravitas is and how to find yours
- Understand the importance of inner confidence and stability
- Understand how to use your inner coach and inner critic to help build your gravitas
- Appear confident and control when delivering a verbal message, no matter how you feel inside
- Use your body language, facial and vocal expressions for maximum impact
- Recognise the biggest stealers of your presence & gravitas and know how to deal with them once and for all
- Understand how to boost your authority
- Have a clear action plan in place that will enable you to demonstrate the behaviours of gravitas and therefore communicate with greater confidence, influence and authority
Apart from a couple of stints working client-side at Travelex and Shell in the Global Brand & Communications department, the majority of Catherine’s working life has been spent agency-side in client services and business development roles. She is passionate about helping agency teams and individuals improve their presentation and communication skills as she believes this can help an agency have that much needed edge over the competition and ultimately win them more business.
As well as her agency career, Catherine has a background in acting and was fortunate enough to learn from directors and actors such as Paul King, Cal McCrystal, Phil Wilmott and Toby Jones. She draws on her work in the theatre and her extensive voiceover experience to give agency staff useful tools and techniques for effective communication and powerful presentations.
Catherine continues to work as an agency marketing and business development consultant, maintaining an insight into the trials and tribulations of agency life.