Sand in my Supper - the workshop

Exploring new concepts of team, leadership and achievement with the possibility of extraordinary results.

Training for and participating in the ‘world’s toughest foot race’, the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert taught Jim Ewan a lot about teamwork. In this workshop he combines his experiences of this and other challenges with powerful achievement technologies to examine what is possible for human beings.

Expanding boundaries

Stepping beyond the boundaries of what we think we are capable of opens new horizons and offers the potential to reinvent ourselves and our environment in a more effective way. This reinvention is what is on offer from this programme.

The Workshop

This is not a training course that is ‘done’ to the participants. Instead individuals work together with other delegates and the workshop leader to create and develop a new, personal concept of what it means to be a team and what it takes to be a leader.

The outcome

The promise of this workshop is a new team dynamic producing results way beyond anything previously envisaged.

The ultimate, no bull, practical workshops for small businesses

The workshop for people who have to make speeches or give presentations

“No talent will take you as far as the ability to make a good presentation.”

Tom Peters

From the famous New York Times questionnaire of the 1970s to a Business Link survey last year, numerous reports confirm that making presentations is one of the biggest problems faced by any business person.

This is a chance to enjoy a speaking workshop unlike any you will have experienced before. Led by Jim Ewan, this one- or two-day intensive interactive workshop will equip you with all the tools you need to deliver winning presentations every time.

(Jim Ewan is a keynote and after dinner speaker, past President of the Professional Speakers Association and author of ‘Talk Propper’ -the essential reference for anyone who has to give a presentation or make a speech – especially if you’d rather not!)

Designed for eight to twelve participants, the workshop examines:

Why everyone hates speaking to groups
The DOs and DO NOTs of public speaking
Involving your audience
Memory training tips
Constructing the presentation
Speaking ‘off the cuff’
Business presentations and social speaking
Flip charts and other visual aids
Question and answer sessions
And more

The workshop for small businesses doing their own marketing on a micro-budget

If you share your marketing budget with the tea money; if you want to know the three ways to grow your business and how to exploit them – you need this half-day workshop. It covers:

Tried and tested ideas – with real-life examples of their effectiveness (no airy-fairy, ivory tower theory!)
How to identify and promote your individual strengths – even if you didn’t realise that you had any
How to negotiate the best discounts for your advertising (never pay rate card prices again!)
10 ways to ‘turbo-charge’ your classified ads – a valuable resource that is generally under-exploited
How to get yourself featured in newspapers and magazines, on radio and even television
How to become the authority in your field – even if you are newly qualified
Ways to ‘beef-up’ your literature – brochures, flyers etc. without spending the earth
And more

The small business selling workshop

Made for the non-salesperson, this half-day will arm you with the tools to make selling your products and services, if not easy, at least less stressful. Topics covered include:

Generating enquiries from the right people
Handling enquiries
Mailing and emailing that really works
Publicity (free advertising!)
Questions & objections and how to handle them
The questions you can ask to double your turnover
And more

"Do what you say you will do when you say you will do it."