Case Study - Barton Hill Settlement

Barton Hill Settlement

Art of Presenting


 
 

The situation

 

The Barton Hill Settlement is a Bristol based charity established over 100 years ago to help build communities in the East Bristol area.  Their valuable work is reliant on successfully securing funding from a variety of sources. 

 

Where we came in

 

Barton Hill’s Chief Executive got in touch and asked us to deliver 2 high impact presentation skills training days for a cross section of their staff and associates.

We love this kind of work – a great cause, with real positive impact, and an enthusiastic staff team.

The group consisted not only of full time employees from across the organisation, but also volunteers and service users.  We needed to be able to adapt and tailor the training in the moment to meet the hugely diverse levels of presenting experience and confidence in the room. 

The great thing about our training style is that it is a real leveller, and an excellent team-builder.  The participants worked at their own level but within a shared context, so while everybody’s learning differed, everybody’s training experience was shared.

By the end of the 2 days’ training the staff were very lively and enthusiastic about the new presentation skills they had learnt and, just as importantly, about each other.

We know that our playful delivery was the reason for the good vibe – it’s vitally important to us that people feel positive and buoyant about themselves after an Opposite Leg training session.

 

The results

 

Not long after we delivered our presentation skills training the Chief Executive of Barton Hill contacted us to say that, thanks to the skills they had learnt and the confidence boost we had given them, they had successfully presented before a funding commission and secured a very large sum of money.  Her exact words were:
 

‘I just wanted to let you know that your training helped us secure a lot of money yesterday... We had been asked to give a presentation to a large committee and had planned moods, approaches and how to keep the tempo up and enthusiastic as well as how to engage with a difficult group of people. When we got there they had changed their minds and wanted to ask a series of difficult questions instead of a presentation which, on top of keeping us waiting for an hour, could have finished us off however we were able to roll into it and use our planning to achieve the right mood and dynamism as originally intended - it worked!’