“Opened Dawes” Podcast – Ep 10: Public Speaking – A Skill Not Just for Presentations!

Show Notes

This is the podcast of  “Opened Dawes” Live, which runs weekly as a live video show on YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn at 11 am on Tuesday mornings so that we can throw open the doors and welcome you in for a relaxed sharing of information, tips, thoughts, and answering any questions about public speaking and presentation/communication skills you may have.

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This week’s show looks at the myth that “public speaking” is only a skill for those that stand up and give presentations.  Much to our marketing experts’ disgust, we have found that not only is it a skill and developmental benefit that is industry, company size, and job role agnostic, but it applies to people for plenty of reasons others than presenting, and we will delve into those areas and how it has benefited people even more than they may have realised.

Whilst the discussion will of course include listening and speaking (in a ratio many forget), the title two “sides” in this show are actually EMOTION and LOGIC.  Tune in to see why they are so important, what each of them achieves, and how you can make sure of their presence in your sales communications.

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What is "Opened Dawes" Podcast?

Open Dawes Training is a public speaking, presentation and communication skills coaching company, with the key motivation of the company being to help people open doors that they may not even know exist yet, with increased confidence, willingness, and skills to present and speak in front of/with others. The podcast is taken from the live weekly "Opened Dawes" Live video show, where founder Chris Dawes dives into the key areas that make the difference with "public speaking", whether that is for those who are too nervous to do it or those who want to "up their game", whether that is for presentations, presence and participation in meetings, delivery of training, sales pitches, demonstrations, or even just communication with others in the best possible way. Chris Dawes: "My key ethos when I formed the business is that we are not, and should not be trying to create the mythical blueprint of the "perfect presenter", but unlocking each person's own personality, growing their confidence, helping them to be in control, organised, and of a quality that will make them become asked to do it more often, and no hesitation in their acceptance to do so. Apparently, public speaking is a soft skill, but it is a soft skill that gives your core skills a voice! Everyone owes it to themselves, and it is priceless to all of us that get to listen to them share their knowledge, experiences, passions, enthusiasm, and opinions. It gets them, their organisation, and their product/service recognised and appreciated, and helps us to grow and become more empowered from what they have to share."

Greetings. Welcome to Opened
Dawes Live. My name is Chris

Dawes, founder of Open Dawes
Training. And this is Episode

10. We're into double figures.

Fantastic. I hope you all had a
great weekend. And today's show

is almost what to put the title
is something like, you know, a

dog is for life, not just for
Christmas, but it's

presentation. It's a skill, not
just for presentations. So I've

always battled with what I
should be calling it, is it

public speaking? Is it
presentation skills? Is it

communication skills? And the
honest answer is it's all of the

above. And it really varies what
it is, that is the reason why

somebody wants to or needs to
work on this. What it is the

objectives that I work on with
people when we start the the

training or the mentoring. And
that's probably another reason

why absolutely, absolutely love
it. For me. It's It's where the

name Open, Dawes Training came
from and Yes, fine. It's my

surname, but it is about the
fact that it is a skill set that

is not only used in countless
areas that we'll cover some but

achieves countless things. And
it can open doors that you may

not even know exist yet. So
that's, that was the reason for

the name for that for my
company. And it's so genuinely

true for me, you know,
university, we had to present

but I struggled with it, that
whole idea of, of standing up

and speaking formally with a
structure and getting people's

attention getting the
information over in the correct

way, the best way. I had a real
issue. You know, it wasn't that

I was a shy person, because I'd
be holding court in the pubs.

But once it was, it was a
structure thing, I had an issue.

So I kind of went into myself to
work out what I was thinking,

what I was feeling, and how I
can trick my mind all of those

things and how I can give it
more structure. And then I've

worked on that over the years,
because after university I went

into into business into sales
and marketing, and I was

presenting it solutions, either
in meetings or massive, great

big presentations. And I was
able to take myself on a journey

of what I was trying to achieve.

And I still do it now when I'm
delivering training and

presentations and even things
like this. And the journey that

I've had with people of what it
is they're trying to achieve is

so enthralling, it's really
really impressive. And quite

often it It also has it where
that their original remit might

be one thing. But all of a
sudden, once they're working on,

they're going well actually,
this can help me with this, this

can help me with that. Or we
speak again, some weeks, months,

whatever further down the line,
they go, Wow, do you know what

it's actually helped us with
this as well, especially when I

work with groups of people
within an organization, and

they're all may be different
departments is to see the

variation of what they're going
to get out of it. So I just want

to delve a little bit because
even for yourself, you might

kind of go wow, okay, that would
really help me with with this if

I applied those skills that I
have, or that that I want to

work on, in presenting can
actually help me here, there or

anywhere. Now, yes, it's
obviously presentations standing

up for giving presentations, or
seminar presentations. Of course

it is. It does apply to that,
but not just that. What about in

meetings? Think about it, you've
got to speak up in a meeting. Or

how many times have you been in
a meeting? And I don't know,

let's say there's, there's 10
people in the meeting. And you

suddenly realize, and if you
haven't done this yet, do it in

future meetings realize that
actually, there's one or two

people that aren't really
participating, they aren't

saying anything or, or they
aren't saying a lot. And yet

Think about it. They're from a
particular department. They are

working on particular things,
they have particular experiences

and things like that. And if you
don't involve their experiences,

their their knowledge, their
opinions, your conclusion of

that meeting is going to be
slightly skewed. And I actually

work with people specifically on
that either to get people more

involved, to make the meetings
more productive, or to actually

get people less involved. I
think it's equally relevant to

be honest in some situations,
and trying to get people to get

the level right and encourage
others to get involved. It could

be that they're fearful of
conflict. tension

is a big one, they're fearful of
that they've got senior people

with them. They don't have the
confidence in what they're going

to share with everybody that's
there. Anything like that is

understandable. And we work on
that with people and try to get

people more involved in those
meetings and the organization's

want everybody involved in those
meetings, because it is actually

helping. So it is communication
skills for for meetings as well,

sales pitches, the last show was
specifically on sales

communications. Well, it is very
relevant in terms of sales

pitches, or idea pitches. I've
used an example that I had

someone telling me that they had
to almost pitch to the Board of

Directors when for their
department they needed, whether

it's it's as big as investment
or whether it's operational

changes, or, or reasons for why
something didn't go quite to

plan, whatever it might be, they
are pitching. And so you need to

still give it the structure, if
you have an objective to get at

the end of this request this
pitch, you need to give it the

the time and thought to make it
structured to make it punchy to

really communicate it in a
proper way. So all of the things

that we cover in our public
speaking training, is relevant

to pitches, whatever that pitch
happens to be. If that includes

motivational pitches, you know,
it could be that you, you know,

you need to really motivate the
troops, you know, the staff, the

team, the department, the whole
company, whatever it might be.

And you need to give it the same
structure as if you're giving a

sales pitch because you kind of
are selling to their money

you're trying to get them to buy
in. So even, you know,

motivational pitches, and you
might have somebody that is a

manager or a director, or even a
CEO, I've worked with CEOs that

are kind of like, Well, you
know, I'm an expert in this. And

that's really how the company
came into existence. But I'm not

great at really rallying the
troops or getting the

information across, or I go into
too much detail, I need to step

it back. And we work on
specifics like that. So it very

much is of a very thing in terms
of pitches. And that is

something that we do a lot on.

Even if it's via webcam. Now
obviously on via webcam. Now. I

think we all agree that we've
had almost death by webcam over

over the the lockdown period
that the pandemic forced out on

us. And I genuinely believe that
it's going to stay face to face

meetings has returned and will
increase. But I think there's

gonna be a huge appetite that
suddenly says, Well, we can save

money, we can save the
environment, we can save time,

we can increase productivity, by
instead of suddenly traveling

halfway up the country for a
meeting and then back again and

there's half a day or the whole
day is suddenly you're able to

have multiple meetings or you
have a meeting, you go away, you

do something, you can jump back
on to a meeting, even the same

day, potentially. It won't
replace the face to face

completely. But suddenly out of
those, I don't know, three

meetings for meetings or more.

Over the course of a pitch or a
project, whatever it might be,

is that you know, the first one
and the last one or something

like that might be face to face
and the rest of them via webcam.

But people aren't fully
comfortable with that whole idea

because all we've got is this
lens. And it's about changing

the psyche to suddenly go well
that's the eye contact. This

right here, sorry if I'm poking
you in the eye. But that is the

eye contact and you almost have
to have this change of way of

thinking I have to do it when
I'm doing any pieces to camera

is that you just imagine that
those people I can't imagine

that I can see you watching me
put that down you out there.

Geez. But via webcam. It's still
giving presentations. And we

also work with people in terms
of using the video conferencing

solutions to the best way so I
suddenly want to share a

document of video and audio file
I want to show my software or

whatever it is that you need to
demonstrate. And thankfully I've

been doing that for all Crikey
decade and a half probably

because our software In my
previous role, we had

international clients and
partners. And so I would be

demonstrating via webcam. So
thankfully, this was just a kind

of, Oh, I need to do more of it
that way rather than that way,

but to be able to help people to
feel a lot more comfortable via

webcam and video conferencing
solutions, it really helps a lot

presentations, meetings, even
providing training, and I this

that was a new one for me this
time, because I had to suddenly

be providing my training last
year via webcam. And I used to

make a joke that actually other
than the fact that you can't

throw things at me, it's the
same, you are able to make it

the same. If you convince
yourself No, it's not got the

same on the same connection. And
you kind of just downplay it a

little bit, even
unintentionally. Well, guess

what, that's how it comes
across. So by actually giving it

that maximum, and really
engaging with your audience,

really exaggerate the
enthusiasm, you're still going

to connect with that training as
well. Of course, you know, we

talk about I said at the
beginning presentations and

seminars, of course, being the
biggest presentations that we

tend to do. Well, of course,
webinars is an even bigger word

these days, isn't it a buzz
phrase, and to be able to do

webinars is a big thing as well.

So we work with people to be
able to deliver a presentation,

as they would be comfortable
doing face to face via webcam as

well. It's important. I've
always said that seminars and

webinars are your best way of
sharing your knowledge. With an

awful lot of people at a time,
people will go to seminars,

because they're interested, I'm
not in the marketplace. I'm not

letting you into my business as
a meeting to try and sell to me,

but I want to go and listen to
this and be educated, get up to

speed be updated, whatever it
is. And that is your opportunity

to have this wide array of
people from different

organizations, different
industries, to share your

knowledge to share your
expertise to share your latest

information. And even if it's
not something right then and

there that they go, I have to
have that they have been

informed they go back to their
daily operations. And something

happens a day later a week
later, or a month, a year,

whatever it might be later. And
they'll go Do you remember that

seminar we went to that would
have been really helpful here,

this would have stopped that
from happening here. always had

a phrase that my old man taught
me was if you don't tell you

can't sell and seminars are a
fabulous opportunities,

opportunity to impart that
information. Now webinars to

some extent, you could say,
well, Surely it's not going to

be quite the same. Why not?

Think about it, you might get
more people going to a webinar

because they don't actually have
to go anywhere. They can do it

in between their bits and pieces
that they're doing. Fine. We

work with people to overcome
that. Yes, but I can't see that

they're nodding their laughing
as much. I tried to encourage

people to enable that so they
can see their audience but some

instances you can't find we
switch the the psychology of it

around a little bit. But it's a
great opportunity for them to

see. you're offering your
product, your service, your

expertise, your latest
information. So webinars and

seminars are absolutely
priceless in terms of public

speaking skills. I've the the
the the slogan with Open Dawes

Training is actually
communication skills that remove

limits. And that's what we
really set out to do about

removing limits. For me, it was
very much that it removed

limits, I was able to do these
presentations and get great

success with our software at
meetings and web seminars and an

online demonstrations as well as
face to face. And then progress

to me that the next thing I'm
getting paid to commentate on

motorsport around Europe, as
well as in the UK. Then from

that I've suddenly I'm hosting
awards nights and live events

and still do all of that kind of
stuff. So if anybody's watching

they need, you know, even
business events hosted I do

those kinds of services for
people and presenting on TV,

radio, podcasts, other people's
podcast guests in on those

Master 74 different things. You
know the The things that I've

managed to get into doing has
been quite incredible. And I

still pinch myself and I feel
very, very lucky. It removed

limits that my nervousness, my
lack of understanding, standing

of the preparation that was
required and structures and

engagement levels and all of
that sort of stuff. Well, that

is what happened there. But the
communication skills can be as

simple as having conversations
with people. Now, I've had

people use it, you know, the
training, even in their personal

life. And that's great, I feel
very touched. And I've had some

lovely, lovely emails that were
really quite emotional, where

they fed back the the difference
that it is made to their day to

day life has been significant.

And I absolutely adore that.

Because it did start as a
project of passion, best for me,

because I wanted to help people.

And it still resonates with me
when people are able to help

their life in general, not just
in terms of career progression,

but just their personal life as
well. But bringing those

together is one that comes up
very often is about when you've

got to have that difficult
conversation. And it becomes a

real struggle on how am I
supposed to deal with this I've

got to have, whether it's I
don't know whether it's a

disciplinary, whether it's
somebody who's come with a

request, and you've got to knock
it back, but you need to knock

it back in a positive way,
whether there's decisions are

being made with the organization
that people could misinterpret.

Because it's not just about
having that difficult

conversation. It's making sure
you're having the right

conversation. You know, you are
sharing the correct information

in the correct way. etc.

Jonathan Tennant, were you down
at Brands Hatch at the Italian

day? Absolutely. That was me,
sir. I'll take it. That means

you were done there. Great
event. I absolutely adore doing

that one. And I'm down at brands
actually Saturday and Sunday as

well. And Encarta Kumar Monday,
commentating so thank you for

your comment there. You see, you
can put your comments in, and

they can come up on screen. So
thank you for that, Jonathan.

And another one is taken it
further from from meetings and

presentations is conferences.

And often, thank you very much,
Jonathan. Hugely appreciated. I

love that one. Because it's
entertainment as well as

commentating isn't it, we have a
real giggle with everybody. So

thank you, Jonathan. Much
appreciated, I do enjoy myself

when I'm doing that. Sorry,
conferences, the now that could

be you know, conferences for
your industry with with

potential prospects, that stupid
phrase potential prospects, I

think they're just prospects or
potential customers, aren't

they? So we'll go with that
prospects that are listening to

information at conferences. But
I've done an awful lot with

people high up in organizations,
where their internal conferences

like their big annual
International Conference, or

whatever, or even National
Conference of everybody within

their organization gets
together, updates on everything

that has happened over the last
year is going to happen over the

next year and a bit of training
done on certain elements,

whatever it might be, I work
with people on those. And in

fact, one thing that I did, as
well, last year, was that I

worked with a lovely lady for an
organization up in Manchester,

who she was going to be training
her people that had to give

presentations, both by a webcam
and at these conferences in face

to face as well. And she needed
to have some top up training for

herself on doing all of this.

But also how to then train the
others. And I know everybody

else she spoke to was like,
nope, we provide that training,

we will do it. We're not
training you to be able to do

that. And she's like, Well,
then, fine, we're not coming to

you. We can't it's not up for
debate. You can't convince me

that is not happening. And on an
ongoing basis. big company would

be lovely, of course. But that
it was clear, it was a condition

not an objection. It was not
changing. It was an absolute

condition. And I said, Well, why
Why can I not going to take my

IP or anything like that, I'm
going to give her a bit more

training on presenting on
delivering training. And

then she's able to go and take
something that I'm very

passionate about, that people
can really grow and learn from,

and she's going to help people
and, you know, we still stay in

contact now and do some little
bits and pieces here and there.

And it's really, really nice
that she's been able to do that.

So I've tried a trainer Lot of
trainers, in fact trainings, one

that comes up somewhere and I
think I've flipped over that.

But training delivery internal
for your products or services or

training that you can sell. It's
another area of this. So that

kind of spun on from conferences
to training, because there was a

link up for a customer last year
where it was training people to

present at conferences, and I do
a lot of that. And she did that

with her people. similar vein,
but sometimes a lot more

specific is exhibitions and, and
trade shows. And I worked with

an insurance property insurance
organization that would do a lot

of industry specific trade
shows. But I don't know if any

of you have, if you'd like manda
stand where you have, you know,

an exhibition stand, and you've
got all these people that are

coming past the stand. And
you've actually got to try and

engage them to get them to come
and speak to you. It's great if

you've got something that's just
automatically pulling them in.

But so often people kind of
like, No, I'll just look or you

got the freebie hunters, all
that kind of stuff. I worked

with them, they were the first
one that I did this and created

a whole new module as a result
of, of of the work with them at

their request for being able to
start conversations at trade

shows and exhibitions, how to
take it in a good direction, and

how to then get a conclusion at
the end, you know, probably at

that stage is more likely to be
a you know, excuse me secure a

follow up meeting that kind of
thing. So that becomes another

area that suddenly public
speaking or presentation skills

gives us advantages in other
areas. Networking. I don't know

if any of you may be done.

Excuse me, maybe done. Like
networking, breakfasts, you get

these organizations, or
networking breakout sessions at,

you know, conferences,
exhibitions, and trade shows,

and you have all these different
people from different

organizations. And you get to
have conversations with them. So

they're straightaway having
those conversations instead of

hiding in the corner, I find it
hard to start with. But you get

to meet some wonderful people,
and they can introduce you to

even more wonderful people. And
you invariably get the

opportunity to pitch your
organization yourself your

product, your service. in quite
a short period of time, you

know, it could be a short 60
seconds, you might get five

minutes, and I'll tell you what
I struggle more with, than

having a free rein to be able to
talk. So I work with people on

networking opportunities, or
should I say, people take the

skills that we work on to use in
those environments as well. It's

a great environment,
negotiations, that could be

sales negotiations, it could be
job negotiations, it could, you

know, the list goes endless. But
you need to have those

conversations in a proper way,
including listening, and

thinking at the same time buying
yourself time. You know, having

the conversation steadily
without emotion. Again, the

difficult conversations is about
you know, try not to have, you

know, let the emotion run you
but have that conversation in a

nice chilled out way. Sales
discussions, we've covered

interviews. Now, that could be
job interviews, it could be

promotion interviews, it could
be extended contract interviews,

it could be media interviews,
and I do a whole point on you

know, media is another key area
interviews, live shows, recorded

videos, you know, marketing does
a lot of this, where you do

things to camera, podcasts, or
maybe it's just audio rather

than audio, visual, all these
different things. Now, they

could be interviews. Or it could
be more, you know, job type

interviews, whatever, all about
having those conversations. You

know, I've worked with people
that they're suddenly like,

going, I'm so nervous. I'm so
terrified, and they speak at 100

miles an hour when they're in an
interview. And he's like, just

slow down and have a
conversation with the person

interviewing you. Hopefully,
that person interviewing you is

good enough to also be having a
conversation, which

incidentally, I also train
interviewers, as well as

interviewees.

Because you're going to get more
out of it. If you make your

interview we feel more relaxed
and take it into that

conversation space rather than
right I need to tell you this,

this this isn't this I've done
and I know that and I've done

this. Just come down, slow down
chat about it. Speeches a little

bit different to presentations
because they tend to have more

of a script. You know, I'm very
much about encouraging when you

do presentations or step away
from a script, have key bullet

points that you want to cover,
and then wrap it in the signal

that comes to mind that time,
but with a speech, more often

than not, it's going to be a bit
more scripted. So we might work

on how to read a script, or how
to maybe not fully, you know,

word for word habit, but to
remind you, you're going to talk

about this, but a bit more than
just bullet points, or read

ahead and speak rather than read
speak. And that could be I've

worked with people on like, best
man and what have you speeches,

father of the bride, and groom
speeches as well. But

professional speeches, you know,
they stand up at things such as

conferences, or whatever, and
it's more of a speech than a

presentation. And it might even
just be a short one, but they

needed to be punchy crisis
management, communication was an

interesting one. And that came
to me with someone saying, look,

we have situations where the
proverbial hits the fan, we need

to communicate that with
internal and external people as

quickly as efficiently and with
the right tone. Whilst we're

potentially inside, you know,
like the swan serenely across

the top, but their feet go and
tend to doesn't, doesn't. So

they're not quite relaxed, but
they've got to portray

themselves as relaxed. So I
ended up having a whole other

area that I worked with people
on crisis management

communication as well. And able
to team up with a PR lady as

well that so that we can not
just have my experience from the

communication, the the actual
communication side, but from the

delivery, the the the outsource
in terms of a PR message and PR

sources and things like that. So
that just added a really

interesting additional element
to it as well. In terms of the

where we've also got the why
what could you achieve

motivation, justification,
explanation, there's a lot of

shins there isn't. recognition,
you know, is about people being

able to recognize how much you
know, how passionate you are

about things, how enthusiastic
you are about things, how well

you present, what you know, etc,
as well how well you can train

people and engage with people,
you know, if the only way you're

going to get recognition is
being heard, if you're silent,

you can get overlooked,
unfairly. So recognition is a

big one for me, that could lead
on to things like promotion,

more sales, bigger sales, it
helps teamwork. It helps

innovation, you know, both of
those for me, in teamwork and

innovation. If you don't
communicate with each other, it

isn't going to you're not going
to get the results you deserve.

And so it's critical to take
innovation as an example is

something I love the the notion
of things are not invented

invariably by someone, you know,
we see the cartoons of someone

waking up with the lightbulb
above their head and that Eureka

doesn't often fully happen like
that they might have a Eureka

nucleus of an idea. But it's
then got to be expanded and

everything else. And more often
than not true innovation. And I

don't just mean the, the thank
you to Paul, need to drop out,

we'll catch the last bit on your
uploads. Great talk again, loads

of food for thought. Thank you,
mate. Look forward to seeing you

in a couple of weeks and see if
I can stay at your house on the

Friday as well, actually. But
the you can watch this back,

because it was the recorded
version. And there's podcasts

available as well. So jump on to
Open Dawes Training dot code at

UK forward slash Connect if you
just want the easy bit and

you'll see that they're uploaded
as podcasts as well. Sorry, say

so innovation is that somebody
will have an idea. And if you

share it with somebody, then
they could suddenly

have someone else they'll go
well, I was thinking about this,

but it wouldn't work because of
what you're now so hang on. If

we team together. We could
actually make this work. And

it's the two ideas coming
together. Now what happens sadly

and many of you may suddenly go
Yep, I can understand that. I

have that issue where you won't
share your idea. Because you're

like, well, in principle, surely
that's a good idea. But there's

something missing, that's really
going to make it work. And

that's something missing, by the
way, could be just that

confirmation that yes, it will,
if you share it, and you don't

need to do it all gung ho that,
look at this, this will work.

This is amazing. You kind of go,
this is what I was worth

thinking of working on, I
believe this will happen. And

somebody else goes, yes, it
will, because of x, y, and Zed,

but I was thinking and if we've
I think my ABC with your x, y

Zed, this is going to work. So
sharing it is what enables

innovation. I missed out a
group, another area, by the way,

but it's groups. We talked about
motivation and things like that.

And I've had people in weight
loss or waste management groups.

I've had I've trained personal
trainers or exercise class

trainers, they know they're
good. They're very passionate

about it. But they're really
nervous about being at the front

and being miked up. I've heard
that several times now. And you

know, all sorts of groups,
there's a whole load of areas

where to have that confidence,
to manage your nerves, to know

how to prepare for it, how to
have your information, how to

structure it, how to deliver it,
how to have that connection, how

to manage questions and answers,
you know, all these different

bits and pieces that come
together as part of the public

speaking training. It helps so
many areas, and all you need to

do is go away. And, you know,
think, right, I don't actually

give presentations. But
actually, that that and that

would really be beneficial to
me, or I do do presentations,

but hadn't thought about those
other areas. It's the same as I

work with people that do
presentations, are perfectly

happy giving presentations. But
they want to now take it to a

whole other level. And that is
the beauty of public speaking.

It's such a multi faceted thing.

I think that's the phrase I'm
looking for, that can help so

many areas, it can open doors,
you probably don't even know

exist yet. I never dreamt that I
would be a Motorsports

commentator, and a host of live
events and award shows, you

know, the front in my Dicky bow
and all of that sort of stuff on

TV, radio, podcasts, all that
never crossed my mind. In fact,

people that knew me of old would
go, No chance. Not the kind of

confidence that I had. I've
learned how to embrace it, how

to, to nurture it. And anybody
can I genuinely believe that

doesn't mean that we're creating
a blueprint, what we are doing

is unlocking you, your
personality, your passions, your

delivery styles, your tone of
voice, it's not about changing

accents or anything like this,
it is about unlocking you, so

that you will share your
information, your knowledge,

your passions, your experiences
with other people, it will help

you grow. And it will help those
around you grow as well. Think

about things that you've been
able to listen to, to watch to

attend. And it's helped you to
this day, it's stayed with you,

it's it's helped you grow in
knowledge, etc. There's

countless things that you've got
that can also help others to

empower others. And it empowers
you at the same time. It's it's

like the opposite to a vicious
circle. It's a lovely circle,

where everybody's benefiting
everybody. But if you stay

silent, no one will know you
have those. And you won't be

able to help others with that
information. So that's me that

is Episode 10. of Opened Dawes
Live. I hope it was useful. I

hope it is sort of opened up the
possibilities. Many of you will

think of others you know, and do
drop them. If you've got more

examples. Drop them in comments,
all of the above. Go to let me

just put it up on the screen.

Obviously, if you're listening
back on the I forgot to put the

overview on overlay. Sorry, if
you're listening back on the

podcast,
then you won't see this but I

will read it out is that if you
go to open doors, that's da w e

s training.co.uk. forward slash
Connect. You don't need to put

the connector on that will take
you straight to our website. But

this one just is a very simple
landing page with a whole list

of ways that you can connect
with us. You can listen to

things you can watch the You can
read things, you can download

some free things, all of that
plus, you know, have a look at

our cost, whether that's one to
one for yourself, or whether

it's for groups of people within
your organization. All doable,

whether it's face to face, you
know, in person, whether it's

via webcam. And we've also got
this blended learning now,

hybrid learning face to face and
online, where over six hours and

growing even more of training
videos, audio lessons, practical

exercises, then mentoring direct
with myself, and we have

recorded bits that we're able to
analyze with you so that you

truly take it as development
rather than just training. And

that means where you know this,
where we've identified all these

different areas is that you
suddenly try to implement it in

something else, and it throws up
new questions or new thoughts.

Totally accessible, that we have
that ongoing, you've got 12

months access to all of the
training videos and exercises

and downloads and everything
else. But also that there's a

members only group where you can
be asking questions, you can be

feedback to other people, we get
peer review opportunities, where

you've got a presentation coming
up, you can give that

presentation to other members of
the Open Dawes Training Academy.

And they will be able to
feedback as well as myself and

the team. You can get it from
other members. So it's all about

trying to help you unlock those
doors, open those doors that you

might not know exist. That's it
for me. Thank you so much for

your time being much
appreciated. And I look forward

to seeing you again. Next week.

Just realize I haven't sussed
out what next week's shows going

to involve but we'll check it
out. And I will see you in just

under a week now since we're
past that at that time. Have a

good week. Cheers. Oh,