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If you are a leader, strong communication skills are key to your success.

Whether you’re leading a team, managing projects, or navigating complex negotiations, improving your communication skills is essential to being successful as a leader, enhancing your career and achieving your goals.

Why Communication Skills Matter in Leadership

“Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.”
Sir Richard Branson

Because communication skills are so important, you can choose from many leadership development programmes and management training courses. These equip you with the skills you need to excel in communication-driven leadership.

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Leadership Development Courses | Boost Leadership Skills Discover effective leadership development courses to enhance business communication and take your leadership to the next level.

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How to Answer Tough Questions From Investors

What’s the most daunting part of pitching to investors? For many, it’s answering the tough questions.

Questions are tricky to prepare for, as you don’t know exactly what will be asked. And, different investors approach questioning in different ways. So how do the most successful fundraising teams handle investor questions effectively?

Having prepared management teams for fundraising for over 15 years, we recently polled our team of expert advisors and identified the core elements of a successful investor pitch.

Whether you are a fund manager, a director of a quoted company or the CFO of a start-up, these ten tips will help you emerge from tough investor questions with a smile on your face:

Mastering Tough Investor Questions: 10 Tips For Success Gain confidence in answering challenging investor questions with our expert tips. Elevate your fundraising game | benjaminball.com | Read Now >>

The 10 Most Common Presentation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Many of us make common mistakes in our business presentations. Often these presentation mistakes are ways of working that seem efficient (but are not) such as:

1) planning your talk with PowerPoint
2) writing your talk without planning
3) skipping practice sessions and
4) narrating dull slides.

To help you avoid common presentation mistakes that many of us regularly make, you have here some examples of the most common mistakes.

The 10 Most Common Presentation Mistakes And How To Avoid Them Avoid common presentation mistakes. Many of us make mistakes when presenting. Expert advice | benjaminball.com | Read Now >>

Too many people, when they hear the word presentation, reach for their computer and switch to PowerPoint. That’s because they feel they are making progress by making slides. They pull information together, they lay out slides and admire their handiwork. Only then do they try to tell a story.

How To Plan A Presentation For Success - 12 Steps How to plan a presentation for success

When you communicate, few qualities hold as much power as gravitas. Gravitas is intangible. It transforms an ordinary presenter into an authoritative figure, someone who commands attention and respect. But gravitas is not something we are born with; it’s a skill that you can cultivate and refine.

Project Gravitas And Captivate Your Audience. Master The Art Of Presentation Gravitas is about the aura you exude, the confidence you project, and your ability to hold your audience. Learn how to build gravitas.

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The 10 Most Common Presentation Mistakes And How To Avoid Them Avoid common presentation mistakes. Many of us make mistakes when presenting. Expert advice | benjaminball.com | Read Now >>

Do you have a winning investor presentation? Do you know how to write one? Could you improve your current presentation?
Successful investor presentations come in all shapes and sizes. But underpinning all of them are a few basic truths.
We’ve been creating winning investor presentations for 15 years and over that time have learned what makes the difference between the just good enough and the great.

How To Create Winning Investor Presentations Winning investor presentations are the bedrock of investor relations. Can you improve your investor presentations? Learn the secrets

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So, you’ve been asked to be a keynote speaker and deliver a keynote address. How do you make sure your speech stands out and gets remembered? And what pitfalls should you avoid?
These are the top Keynote speaking tips from the coaching team at Benjamin Ball Associates, based on our 15 years’ experience of supporting business leaders.

How to Become a Great Keynote Speaker Delivering a keynote address? How do you make sure your keynote speech stands out? Read our top Keynote speaker tips.

How to win new business pitches - top tips from our pitch coaching team.

How to Win New Business Pitches We all want to win new business pitches. For many of us, winning business pitches is a crucial part of our job. Learn the top tips.

How to rehearse for an important presentation. Read the advice from our presentation coaching experts.

How to Rehearse an Important Presentation Do you have an important presentation? Only by rehearing your important presentation can you be assured of success. Read more...

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How better investor messaging adds value to your business

At the heart of a strong investor pitch is a strong set of investor messages. The stronger your investor messages, the more powerful your pitch

But how do you uncover those powerful messages to underpin your investor pitch?
https://benjaminball.com/blog/better-investor-messaging/

How better investor messaging adds value to your business At the heart of a strong investor pitch is strong investor messaging. How strong are your investor mesages? Find out now

How to handle questions after your presentation. Expert Tips

How do you answer questions during or after your presentation? For many people, handling questions is the scariest part of presenting.
Answering questions becomes much easier if you prepare properly. So how do the best presenters handle challenging questions effectively?
Having coached executives for critical presentations for nearly 15 years, we recently asked our team of experts for their top tips.
https://benjaminball.com/blog/how-to-handle-questions-after-your-presentation-expert-tips/

How to handle questions after a presentation | Top tips Give good answers to tough questions. Learn how to prepare for and handle questions after you present. Ten tips to build confidence.

A useful resource for startup pitch decks.

PITCH-DECK LIBRARY: Search over 815 pitch decks that startups including Uber, Postmates, and Airbnb used to raise millions Business Insider has obtained scores of pitch decks used by startups to persuade VCs and other investors to fund them. You can search for them here.

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How to present to investors to win investment You have a great business; you have solid plans. You’re sure you've a killer investor pitch. But how do you present to investors to win?

The definitive guide to raising a blockbuster seed round by leveraging FOMO. FOMO is misunderstood and under-utilised. Learn how to use investor psychology to supercharge your round.

How do you create a powerful equity story? Your equity story is a clear, simple way of describing your business and the reasons for investing in it.
Q: Why is an equity story important?
A: It makes it easier for investors to invest in you.

It makes it easier for investors, journalists and analysts to understand your business
It makes it easier for them to talk about your business
It can help increase the valuation of your business. Yes – if you have a good equity story, you can get a better price for your shares.

How to Create a Great Equity Story | The heart of your investment relations Your equity story is at the heart of your investor communications. Learn how to create a great equity story to up the value of your business

How to write a great investor pitch deck. Mistakes to avoid and things to get right. Learn from the experts.

Eight common mistakes to avoid in your great investor pitch deck.

The greatest pitch deck mistakes we regularly see are:
1. Not talking about the investor
2. Not engaging from the start
3. Making bad assumptions
4. Talking about yourself too much
5. Not having a clear story
6. Confusing features with benefits
7. Not making it easy enough
8. Too many words

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How to Write A Great Investor Pitch Deck – 8 Mistakes to Avoid How do you create a great investor pitch deck? Learn from the mistakes others make. Eight great investor pitch deck mistakes to avoid.