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Management fundamentals

Overcome your nerves and present with confidence

Presenting can feel daunting for many of us. This session offers practical ways to organise your thinking and manage nerves. It gives you practical tools to help you focus on getting your message across and connect with your audience. You’ll leave feeling more confident and ready for your next presentation.

Date Wednesday, 27 May 2026 14:00 PM - 15:30 PM
Where Details Online Online - MS Teams
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What you’ll learn

  • How to prepare presentations with a clear purpose and tailor them to your audience
  • Ways to organise content so it feels focused, relevant and easier to deliver under pressure
  • Simple techniques for bringing your message to life using stories and examples
  • How to handle common challenges such as blank moments, difficult questions, dominant voices or technical issues
  • Practical breathing and grounding techniques to steady nerves and feel more in control
  • How to develop a natural delivery style that helps you connect with your audience, online or in person

Who is this webinar for?

This webinar is for anyone who feels anxious, under‑confident or simply unsure about presenting. It will be particularly useful if you have to speak in meetings, share updates or deliver information.

Lead facilitators

Anna Thame

Anna is a senior communications professional with 30 years’ experience. Anna has held Director of Communications roles in national organisations across the public sector, in healthcare and education at organisations including the Design Council, and an acute Trust, where she led significant service change and reconfiguration communication programmes for eight years. She has advised senior teams, developed and delivered strategic communications reviews, led insight-gathering programmes and stakeholder engagement. She is a qualified educator and experienced facilitator and enjoys facilitating in person and online. She keeps her knowledge current as a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Anna is currently an NHS Elect Associate and independent consultant.

Anna has extensive experience in supporting organisations to develop their communications strategies as well as enabling teams to develop their communications skills. As an experienced facilitator and qualified educator, Anna also offers facilitation to support workshops, meetings and events and provides communications training. As a trusted communications expert, Anna supports teams with their engagement planning for change, stakeholder insight gathering, strategic communications reviews and content development.

Richard Horner

Richard is an Associate at NHS Elect, working three days a week with the team and at a coffee shop in Reading he owns for the remaining two days.

He spends the majority of this time facilitating sessions on topics such as Resilience, Leadership, Teams and Difficult Conversations. Prior to joining NHS Elect, Richard worked with the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust where he qualified as a mediator. Prior to this, he managed a leadership programme for a university.

Richard's passion lies in helping people to improve their capacity for self awareness so they can help themselves to greater self leadership. He believes this ultimately leads to a greater capability for people awareness and better organisational leadership.  Richard uses techniques for better breathing, mindfulness and gratitude to improve the foundations of self awareness.

What participants say

95%

95% of attendees agreed the presenters delivered the session effectively.

“Fabulous presenters really demonstrating the teaching, loved the ideas of how to put story telling into practice.”