Presenting ideas clearly
Help your team get to the point, structure their thinking and explain what matters to their audience.
TAKE THE STAGE / ORGANISATIONS
Capable teams.
Clearer communication.
Practical communication training for businesses and organisations.
Help your team present their thinking, listen to one another, contribute ideas and communicate when it matters.
Take the Stage provides tailored training built around your team, their working context and the communication skills they need to develop.
Discuss training for your organisation
THE EVERYDAY WORK OF COMMUNICATION
Communication affects how work gets done.
The presentation. The team discussion. The client conversation. The unexpected question.
Your staff can be excellent at their jobs and still struggle to explain their thinking. Good ideas can go unheard. Unclear messages can lead to misunderstanding and repeated work. A discussion can involve plenty of talking without enough listening.
These moments matter to your organisation. They affect how your team works together, how decisions are made and how clearly customers, clients and colleagues understand what is being said.
Take the Stage gives your team practical opportunities to work on those moments, developing ways to communicate with greater clarity, confidence and presence.
BUILT AROUND YOUR TEAM
What does your team need to practise?
Listening and collaborating
Practise paying attention, building on colleagues’ contributions and responding to what someone has actually said.
Speaking up and contributing
Give your staff space to practise sharing their perspective, asking questions and contributing to discussions.
Thinking on their feet
Work on responding to questions, adapting when a conversation changes and continuing when things don’t go to plan.
Storytelling and presentations
Find the message, make it relevant and communicate it without becoming dependent on a script.
Confidence, presence and communication under pressure
Explore how voice, body language and delivery influence the way a message comes across.
Built around your team and their work.
Training can be shaped for teams, leaders, graduates, apprentices, emerging leaders or employee networks.
We start with the situations you want to improve. Where does communication become difficult? Which members of your team would benefit from training? What do you need them to be able to do?
That context shapes the training, so participants can connect what they practise with the conversations, presentations and interactions they encounter at work.
THE TAKE THE STAGE METHOD
From overthinking to taking the stage.
Get out of your head
Use play and improvisation to let go of getting everything right. Listen, respond, adapt and practise thinking on your feet.
Find your voice
Explore voice, body language and presence. Practise speaking up and communicating without hiding behind perfect wording.
Tell your story
Understand what you really want to say. Shape your message, find the story and communicate it without becoming dependent on a script.
Take the stage
Put it into practice. Speak. Present. Record. Pitch. Share. Be seen and heard. Keep going when it isn’t perfect.
KNOW YOUR MESSAGE.
NOT YOUR SCRIPT.
PRACTICAL BY DESIGN
Less theory in isolation.
More practice together.
Speak. Listen.
Respond. Adapt.
Communication rarely follows a perfect script.
Drama, improvisation, storytelling, voice and performance provide ways to practise listening, responding, adapting and communicating when the next moment isn’t entirely predictable.
Participants speak, try different approaches, notice what happens and try again. The purpose is to develop communication skills they can take back into their working day.
Training is led by Zanya Sesay, whose nearly 20 years across theatre, education and facilitation inform a warm, structured approach to learning by doing.
Tell us where communication needs to work better in your business or organisation. We can explore training built around that need.
Talk to us about your organisation’s needs