Chrissy Flanagan’s Success Story after Presentation Skills Training with Michelle Bowden, presentation skills trainer. Improve your public speaking TODAY!
The break of up a decade long relationship and subsequent bouts of loneliness have led Chrissy – Sydney’s former Sausage Queen – to solve others’ desire to make adult friends, as well as her own.
It’s often said Sydney is a particularly tricky place to make friends as an adult. If you miss out on doing any of the big four locally or at all – high school, uni, work, kids – it’s hard to bridge the gap, leaving many of us lonelier than we would like.
And yet, as adults we’re embarrassed or too self conscious to use modern tools such as friend networking apps to solve this problem.
Chaotic Social is seeking to bridge that gap, in the form of classes and events where you’re encouraged to roll solo and go home with a few new mates in your phone.
Formerly co-owner of restaurant The Sausage Factory and brewery Queens of Chaos, my notoriously rowdy and long running sausage classes continue.
What did Chrissy say after attending Michelle's Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass?
“I loved Michelle, her expertise, the opportunities for putting the skills into practice, and the logical formula that was simple to implement.”
What kind of presenting do you do at work?
Depends which work! When working for the NSW Government I most often present to large committees of cross-government agency representatives, as we work with communities to build the Western Parkland City.
In my entrepreneurial life I am increasingly a public speaker on entrepreneurialism, and the “slashie” way of life: having simultaneous, multiple careers.
What prompted you to study with Michelle?
I enjoy public speaking but have always taken a very instinctive approach. From my colleagues’ experiences with Michelle I knew she would teach me a more reliable structure to ensure I could put a coherent point across, without fear of the core message being lost.
How did Michelle’s teaching change your attitude to presenting in business?
Michelle’s structured approach gave me the peace of mind to just start. So often with a big presentation you feel like you’re hovering outside it, unsure where to begin. The good news is that Michelle’s stepped-out process took away all that uncertainty. She has made it perfectly clear where to begin and end! That has freed me up to focus more on content rather than form; the form is all tucked away.
In general, what positive outcomes have you achieved from improving your presentation skills?
Since completing Michelle’s Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass I’m now always the first to put my hand up to present. And when Google called and asked me to give a keynote, I confidently said yes! And the feedback from the audience was excellent!
In what specific ways have your presentation skills improved since learning with Michelle?
1. My message is now directed and structured.
2. I have reduced my reliance on instinct.
3. I have greater certainty about how an audience is going to hear and understand my message.
What were your top three take aways from Michelle’s teachings?
1. The structure is your safety net, there’s freedom in working to it.
2. Just because everyone else (who hasn’t done the training) is using slides with 50 words on them it doesn’t mean you should perpetuate the cycle.
3. Just start!
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©2024 MICHELLE BOWDEN is an authority on persuasive presenting in business. She’s run her Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass over 1000 times for more than 13,000 people over the past 25 years and her name is a synonym for ‘presentation skills’ in Australia.
Michelle Bowden is a multi-million-dollar pitch coach to her client list that reads like a who’s who of international business: banking and finance, IT, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications plus many more.
Michelle is the creator of the Persuasion Smart Profile®, a world-first psychological assessment tool that reports on your persuasive strengths and weaknesses at work, the best-selling internationally published author of How to Present: the ultimate guide to presenting live and online (Wiley) and her new book is called How to Persuade: the skills you need to get what you want (Wiley).