The fastest way to become a better writer or presenter
You can make the most of your own or your team member’s talents and technical skills with business communications coaching.
In your coaching sessions, I’ll share the techniques, tools and tricks-of-the-trade that the best communicators use. I’ll help you or your team member to develop your strengths and tackle the problems that are holding you back.
You can choose the type of coaching that will best help you achieve your goals:
- Business writing coaching for reports, white papers, strategies, emails and other corporate communications
- Copywriting coaching for marketing, public relations, business development, sales and internal communications
- Presentation skills coaching for presentations and speeches
Develop your own skills with business communications coaching
For individuals, coaching can help you develop the strong writing or presenting skills that your employer and clients require.
You’ll be able to communicate or create with greater impact. You’ll no longer have to rely on the academic techniques you learnt at school or university. Instead, you’ll have robust professional skills which will last your whole career.
Develop your team member’s skills with business communications coaching
For leaders and managers, coaching can amplify the value that your team member brings to your organisation.
I’ll show them how to share their ideas effectively and manage their work better. Then, they’ll be able to produce stronger communications more efficiently. Critically, they’ll be less reliant on others to review and fix their work for them.
Achieve long-term results with bespoke implementation resources
At the end of the coaching sessions, you or your team member will receive the following implementation resources:
- Bespoke Handbook with your checklist, notes and all the slides
- Implementation Guide for You with tips for practising what you’ve learned while you do your day-to-day work and projects
- Implementation Guide for Your Manager with tips to help them support and coach you as you develop your new skills
Then, you or your team member will have the knowledge, skills and resources needed to produce impactful communications that work for your audiences.
Coaching Sessions
Coaching for individuals
Coaching can help:
- Employees who need to develop their skills or overcome a problem
- Self-funded professionals who want to strengthen their skills for career development
- Self-employed people and entrepreneurs who want to improve their business’s performance
Coaching for groups of individuals
Some clients ask me to coach each person in a team to raise the team’s overall performance.
For presenters, I typically work with groups who are delivering their presentations together at a conference or a client meeting.
For writers, I can coach individuals after a training programme if requested. This helps them quickly embed their learning in their work.
AI tools for communications
If your team member is using AI, such as Copilot or ChatGPT, we can incorporate these tools into their coaching sessions.
We’ll focus on making the most of their expertise, enhancing their creativity and increasing their efficiency by combining best-practice traditional techniques with AI tools.
Coaching formats
- Teams or Zoom for writing and virtual presentations
- Face-to-face sessions for in-person presentations
Confidentiality
If you would like to share confidential documents with me, we can put a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in place.
Your coaching sessions will include implementation resources and support to help you or your team member make fast progress.
Testimonials
As an organisation specialising in policy and public affairs, the quality of our written work is critically important. Margaret has coached our team members to help them plan, design, draft, review and proof their own copy.
The feedback from team members who have received coaching from Margaret has been exceptionally positive. As a result of her support, we have seen considerable change in the quality, clarity, and brevity of written work across the organisation. In addition, colleagues are now more confident to support each other and to act as a ‘critical friend’ when drafting written work.
I’m more than happy to recommend Margaret. She has made a real difference.
Malcolm Harrison, Chief Executive, Company Chemists Association
It was a pleasure and a great benefit to have Margaret coach our team on copywriting. Margaret’s thorough preparation meant that we were really able to tailor the sessions to the needs of our organisation and the objectives of our team. We worked on examples of our own copy and understood how to improve them in very practical and tangible ways.
We came away with a comprehensive but approachable toolkit of techniques and tips. This meant that we could put what we had learnt into practice straight away, helping us write better copy from day one.
Isabelle Almeida, Head of Marketing and Communications, City of London Corporation
I had been delivering speeches for over two decades but had not received any formal guidance or development.
Margaret was excellent in coaching me in a structured approach — both from a content perspective and also on delivery and engagement. She is excellent at interpreting and disseminating technical detail and converting it to on-message delivery for specific audiences.
My style, confidence and, in turn, positive feedback have increased thanks to her guidance and advice.
Will Bentley, Programme Controls Director, High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd
My coaching draws on my 25 years’ experience as a business writer, presenter and communications professional.
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I’m based in London and work with clients
across the UK and internationally.
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If you’re looking for a coach to help you develop your business writing or presenting, please send me a message.