Communicate with Confidence and Clarity

Communicate with Clarity and Confidence is a bespoke course for your workplace.

See details below and contact us for an informal chat about your requirements.

 

Communicating clearly within your team and to your stakeholders can save time and money and bring you strategic advantage.

Christina Astin from Astin Consulting has teamed up with former BBC News broadcaster Rob Smith to offer a course for organisations looking to engage more effectively in their teams and with external stakeholders. Contact us about your needs, budget, timing etc. We’re happy to have a chat!

This is a bold, practical two-day programme designed to help professionals communicate with impact, structure ideas clearly, and present with confidence in any setting — from high-stakes presentations to everyday meetings.

What This Course Delivers

A practical, energising programme that helps participants become clearer, calmer and more compelling communicators. They gain awareness of self and audience and learn a simple, repeatable framework for structuring messages, managing nerves, and landing ideas with impact.

Core Principles

  • Be Aware Know your communication style and that of your audience
  • Communication is action-driven “The point of a presentation is to lead to an action.”
  • Your audience is the hero Presentations succeed when they focus on what the audience needs to hear.
  • Calm body = clear mind Practical tools to reverse fight-or-flight and build confidence.
  • Everything is storytelling Information becomes memorable when shaped into narrative.

The Matrix Framework

A simple, robust structure for any presentation, meeting or conversation:

  • Hook / Engager
  • Headline
  • Menu (the journey)
  • Three Themes or Picture–Problem–Pathway–Prize
  • Summary
  • SMART Call to Action
  • End Thought




What Participants Learn

  • How to identify your own communication style and that of your audience through a simple profiling tool
  • How to manage nerves through breathwork and habit-building
  • How to simplify complex ideas and avoid jargon
  • How to structure compelling narratives
  • How to design presentations that land (not “death by PowerPoint”)
  • How to engage audiences through voice, body language and presence
  • How to craft SMART calls to action
  • How to use a clear performance rubric for feedback

Practical, Hands-On Learning

Participants will:

  • Benefit from a professional psychometric profiling to raise awareness of self and others
  • Build a full messaging matrix
  • Deliver short presentations with coaching and feedback
  • Analyse real-world examples (Olympics bid, Steve Jobs, Gettysburg Address)
  • Practise performance skills and audience engagement
  • Leave with a personalised communication action plan