Maurice Kerrigan Africa - Products

In just two and a half days, our Effective Speaking and Presentation skills course will equip you with all the tools you’ll need to present to any audience – whether it’s to external conference delegates, your team, a board of directors or your colleagues. Above all, you’ll benefit from highly personalised coaching sessions because we take no more than ten delegates in each course. If your job involves communicating to multiple people at once, this course is for you. Whether you’re a business executive with some speaking and presentation experience, or a junior manager tackling the 'beast' as a novice, we’ll teach you effective presentation skills at your required level, and give you the tools to present with more ease, less stress and greater impact. Learn to: • Address management and staff in a way that engages and resonates with them; • Speak with poise and confidence at meetings and conferences; • Give polished and professional sales presentations; • Make effective communication appearances, including TV and radio. At the end of two and a half days, you’ll have a host of new public speaking skills including: • How to create killer presentations in less time; • How to structure your presentations so that your ideas, facts and supportive arguments flow logically and easily; • How to improve your delivery style and projection; • How to present a high impact talk to any chosen audience. This programme is SETA Accredited: Level 4, Credits 4.

Our Business Report Writing course will help you develop the skills you need to write a clear, well-structured business report that presents facts and findings in a logical way, with maximum impact. As part of this, we’ll help you become better at answering the following: • Who are you writing the report for? • Who will read it? • What information will you need to include for the report to meet your reader’s requirements? Taking into account the varying styles and conventions that may be applied in your organisation, we’ll teach you the best practices of business report writing. We’ll also tailor our course to your specific report writing needs such as environmental impact studies or business reports. By the end of the course you’ll be able to: • Identify which types of business reports to use and when; • Clarify the report’s purpose and target market; • Plan and structure your report properly – saving you time and improving the quality of the report; • Implement best practices for introductions, summaries and conclusions; • Use vocabulary and tone that’s appropriate to the business report context and to your audience; • Edit, proofread and finalise your report efficiently. This programme is unit standard aligned: NQF Level 4, Credits 6.

Proposals are a way to persuade an audience through a clear, impactful argument. The best business proposals do this by leading their readers to believe in a problem’s solution through persuasive language, unambiguous facts, and an easy-to-follow structure. Our two-day Proposal Writing course is part of our focused business writing programme. Through it, you will develop the competencies to create accurate, convincing and persuasive business proposals that: • Deliver a business proposition with clarity and brevity; • Build relationships with your targeted reader; • Sell what you want to sell! Taking into account the varying styles and conventions that your organisation may have in place, we will teach you the best practices of planning and structuring a scintillating proposal. By the end of the course, you will be able to: • Identify which types of business proposal to use and when; • Clarify the proposal’s purpose and target market: • Plan and structure your business proposals properly and more efficiently – saving time and improving the quality of your proposals; • Implement best practices for a convincing introduction, summary and conclusion; • Use vocabulary and tone in your proposal writing that is appropriate to its context and audience; • Edit, proofread and finalise your proposal in an efficient way. This programme is unit standard aligned: NQF Level 5, Credits 4.

Our Effective Business Writing – Programme 1 course will give you the practical training you need to improve your English business writing skills. From writing memos and letters to composing emails and writing simple reports, our blended learning approach within a small group environment delivers measured improvement to help you create the right impression with your written communication. Get this wrong, and you risk destroying your brand’s reputation with your customers, staff, internal suppliers and shareholders. Over two days, you’ll complete several practical assignments to put your newly learned skills into practice. You’ll also be given several post-course exercises to complete in your own time. Throughout all of it, you’ll receive personalised feedback and support from your facilitator. By the end of the business writing course, you’ll be able to: Overcome common English business writing challenges, including: • Setting objectives • Targeting the reader • Using correct grammar, tenses and punctuation • Constructing sentences • Communicating with clarity; • Create a logical writing structure for better readability; • Perform routine business writing tasks; • Edit, proofread and finalise your own writing. We know that every business is different, which is why our course recognises the different writing outputs, conventions and styles that you may have to take into account when writing business documents within your organisation. This programme is unit standard aligned: NQF Level 4, Credits 5.

Over two days, our interactive, systematic and practical Creative Negotiation Skills training course will give you the confidence and tools to tackle any daily negotiation challenge. From negotiating contracts, deadlines, allocation of resources, prices, fees and timelines, you’ll learn how to: • Navigate the negotiation process; • Prepare for a negotiation by setting clear objectives; • Open a negotiation by building trust and setting norms; • Formulate proposals; • Cultivate effective listening and probing skills; • Bargain and use concessions to reach goals; • Understand and use body language to enhance your influence; • Break deadlocks and close a negotiation at the right time. This programme is SETA Accredited: Level 4, Credits 8.