Public speaking workshops & communication skills
➤ Build confidence
➤ Increase impact with audiences
➤ Improve stakeholder relationships
Boost your team’s impact
Increase effectiveness of presentations and meetings with colleagues and clients.
Our interactive & practical workshops will help your team to be more effective communicators
Key information
➤ Duration: Workshops and lectures can range from 60 minutes to multi-session activities.
➤ Locations: A venue of your choice or online. We deliver workshops across Australia, Asia and Europe.
➤ Team size: We cater to teams of all sizes and have interactive lecture-format versions of these workshops for audiences over 100 people.
➤ Price: Please send us an email or book in a discovery call for pricing information.
➤ Modifications: We will adjust workshops or lectures to your specific requirements.
➤ Experience level: Workshops cater for a range of levels, from absolute beginners to experienced teams.
Specialisations
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Strengthen your team’s ability to inspire audiences.
Improve stage presence and your ability to hit the right tone when speaking about yourself and your projects.
Learn how to win over crowds more quickly and disarm critics.
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Improving your storytelling will help your team to connect more effectively with audiences.
This will help them to hook listeners in, enabling them to better understand your core values.
Advancing storytelling skills can provide your team with the charisma boost that will help them to capture the attention of colleagues and clients so that you can achieve your strategic goals.
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Improving your team’s communication skills will enhance their ability to forge impactful relationships with stakeholders.
It will help your team to be more persuasive, gnerating wins and fostering collaboration with even the most challenging clients or partners.
Workshop subjects
Each workshop involves teaching a communications framework that can be applied immediately by your team members.
Topics include
➤ How to be more confident speaking about yourself.
➤ Using small talk effectively to bond and build rapport with stakeholders.
➤ Techniques to win over crowds and disarm critics.
➤ Storytelling methods that inspire others and generate sales.
➤ Improving influence through physical presence hacks.
➤ Speechwriting and accelerating presentation preparation.
➤ Media training and building a personal narrative.
➤ Crowd work, quick thinking and techniques to respond to difficult questions.
Practical, interactive & fun
These workshops are entirely practical and will get your team on their feet practicing communication techniques straight away.
We prioritise action-oriented training that is fun and engaging as this improves learning outcomes and skill retention.
Developed by David Crisante, the Director Sydney Comedy School, each workshop is based on his lived experience in journalism, diplomacy, stakeholder engagement - and of course, show business.
Since 2010, David has trained thousands of people to be more effective communicators, and has highly practical and instantly implementable techniques that will give your staff greater confidence and an advantage over teams.
Each workshop can be modified specifically for your team
We align our workshops with your strategic goals.
All of our practical exercises and techniques to help your team achieve results - whether it be to increase sales, manage difficult interactions, or present more confidently during meetings.
➤ Improving presence and clarity
➤ Techniques for presentations and daily interactions
➤ Methods to win over stakeholders and build stronger bonds
Our skills & expertise
The Sydney Comedy School has combined communication and public speaking techniques used by MCs, journalists, stakeholder managers and comedians.
We have generated easy-to-follow methodologies that will generate immediate results for you and your team.
All workshops have been developed by David Crisante, who has over 20 years of experience in public speaking and training communications.
David combines the fun with serious - bringing show-business techniques to corporate settings.
His career includes both working across war-zones, as well as teaching theatre and dance to children in Italy.
In these workshops, you will learn from someone who has lived experience presenting to audiences, generating results through closed-doors negotiations, and training others to be more impactful communicators.
David’s clients include ASX-listed organisations, government departments and non-profits.
Director’s experience
David Crisante, the Director of the Sydney Comedy School, will help your team to be more effective communicators. His workshops fuse together his experience in strategic communications and the arts.
➤ Reporting: David was a TV, radio and print journalist at the ABC, SBS and as a foreign correspondent in Tokyo.
➤ Speechwriting: He has been a speechwriter for numerous politicians including Foreign Minister, ambassadors, C-suite executives and public figures.
➤ Training & development: For more than a decade David has trained others to be more effective public speakers. He also trains people in the arts including comedy, theatre and dance - and specialises in improving their stage presence.
➤ Diplomacy & crisis resolution: stakeholder relations: He is an expert negotiator who was in the world of diplomacy for five years where he worked on kidnappings, wars, planes disappearing (MH370), and international trade deals.
Stakeholder relations: He worked in stakeholder relations within health and non-profit organisations, raising more than $30 million in funding via partnerships that he brokered.
Case study
The Science Comedy Program
Australia’s only public speaking & comedy program
In 2023-24, we have trained more than 100 scientists across Australia to give a presentation that is 20% humour and 80% science.
This 5-workshop program culminates in each scientist speaking for 10 minutes in a major festival across Australia.
Scientists are taught story-telling techniques, how to develop a strong opener, foolproof joke-writing, crowd work, and public speaking methodologies.
The program, developed by David Crisante, who was head of media and communications at organisations such as WWF-Australia, NSW Rural Doctors, icare and Neuroscience Research Australia, also helps the scientists to simplify complex topics and connect more effectively with public audiences.
The scientists, who featured in festivals including the Sydney Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe, have since gone on to be featured on TV and have had their projects funded by major donors.
If we can empower scientists with humour and effective communication techniques, imagine what we can do for your staff - and the impact this will have on achieving your team’s and organisation’s strategic goals.
Interested in bespoke training?
We provide 1:1 sessions, including a structured 5-session course where we will delve deep into your communications style.
Throughout the course we will train you in techniques to increase your presence, deepen your impact and reduce nerves.
For more information, contact us today or see our public speaking training page.
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