Presentation Skills Training
Help your team present with confidence and land the message – in person or on screen.
Our training has sharpened the presentation skills of thousands of professionals at some of Australia's most respected organisations:
Magneto Communications runs presentation skills training that helps enterprise teams present with confidence and land their message – in person or on screen.
Since 2005 we’ve coached presenters at organisations including CBA, Telstra, NSW Government and Woolworths Group to structure ideas clearly, manage nerves and win the room.
Our programs build real skill through practice and personal coaching:
- Presenting with Impact – the foundation – for confident, engaging delivery
- Presenting with Influence – the advanced masterclass – for experienced presenters who need to persuade and lead change.
Both run as full-day group training, tailored to your people and the presentations they actually give.
Bad presentations kill good ideas.
You’ve seen it. A brilliant proposal. Solid numbers. The right call. And it dies in the room because the person delivering it couldn’t hold the audience for 90 seconds.
The idea wasn’t the problem. The presentation was.
Presenting isn’t about the slides. It’s about the room. Whether you’re pitching a board, briefing the exec team, or reporting up the chain, three things decide whether you get the nod or the polite nothing.
Land the message
Say it so it sticks. Clear structure, no waffle, the point landing first – not buried on slide 14 where nobody’s still listening.
Win the room
Confidence isn’t a personality you’re born with. It’s a skill. We’ll show your team how to hold an audience, in the boardroom or on a Teams call where half of them have their cameras off.
Get the decision
Being right isn’t enough. You have to move people. The best presenters don’t just inform – they shift what the room does next.
Presenting with Impact and Presenting with Influence teach your team to do all three – in a tailored, one-day masterclass.
Who is this training for?
Anyone whose ideas live or die in front of an audience. Your team doesn’t need to be terrible at presenting to get a lot out of this – most of the people we train are competent, capable professionals who just never get the room the way they want to.
It’s especially powerful for the experts: engineers, analysts, technical specialists who know their stuff cold but lose people the moment they stand up. Brilliant on the page, invisible in the room. We’ve coached presenters across banking and finance, energy, government and professional services – from graduates finding their feet to executives pitching boards.
Whether your people freeze up or just fall flat, we meet them where they are and take them further.
Our presentation skills programs
Presenting with Impact – the foundation
Format: Full-day in-house masterclass (9am–5pm), or two 3-hour virtual sessions ■ Group size: Up to 14 people ■ Delivery: At your workplace Australia-wide, or via Microsoft Teams globally ■ Tailoring: based on the standard of your group and what they need.
Presenting with Impact teaches you to engage audiences with any content, either face-to-face or online.
In this practical program, you’ll learn pro tips, techniques and insights to being an interactive presenter who people love listening to.
Whether you’re pitching an idea, sharing information, or reporting updates to your senior leaders, Presenting with Impact will give you the skills and confidence to do it with flair.
Who is this course for?
Presenting with Impact is for anyone who needs to effectively present or pitch their ideas to internal or external stakeholders.
Learning outcomes
- Confidently present and pitch your ideas, content and insights to a range of audiences.
- Develop your ‘engagement’ toolkit – a selection of techniques to get and keep attention, both in-person and via video conference.
- Plan and structure presentations for maximum impact.
- Develop an outline of your own presentation while on the program.
Delivery formats
- Live program (face-to-face OR virtual)
- Self-paced online
- The AI advantage: We’ll teach you both the human skills and the AI smarts relevant for presenting.
Program focus
Prepare
- Quickly get your head in the game, brainstorm content and create a compelling story.
- The why and how of audience research: Standing in their shoes.
- Get a check-up from the neck up – are you sold yourself?
- Turn fear and procrastination on their heads.
Produce
- Your ‘engagement’ toolkit: Strategies to hook audiences and build rapport.
- How to efficiently structure presentations to maximise impact.
- Build your cred. Then raise the stakes for your audience.
- Best-practice slide design in a data-rich, complex environment.
Present
- Insights into the psychology of great presenting.
- Learn by doing: Apply and embed your new skills in practice sessions.
- Goodbye monologues: Making your presentation interactive, whether live or online.
- Be ‘sticky’: Storytelling structure to making your points unforgettable.
- Dealing with nerves, technical hitches and Q&As.
Professional Development: 8 hours
Presenting with Influence – the advanced program
Format: Full-day in-house masterclass (9am–5pm) ■ Group size: Up to 14 people ■ Delivery: At your workplace Australia-wide, or via Microsoft Teams globally
When the stakes are high, being able to present isn’t enough.
You have to influence on your feet. Strategic changes to your content and style can tip the balance in your favour. Get the decision you want. Win them over.
Presenting with Influence is a highly interactive, hands-on masterclass that teaches principles of trust and influence for in-person and virtual meetings and presentations.
Who is this course for?
Presenting with Influence is for experienced presenters who need to influence action, drive decision-making or lead change. If you’re already confident on your feet, this program will seriously boost your performance.
Learning outcomes
- Influence others: Have a range of frameworks to help you change the opinions and decisions of others.
- Use a selection of engagement techniques to get and keep attention in both face-to-face and virtual presentations.
- Elevate the standard of your presentations, your confidence in the preparation process and the results you get.
Delivery formats
- Live program (face-to-face OR virtual)
- The AI advantage: We’ll teach you both the human skills and the AI smarts relevant for presenting.
Program focus
Leading change
- Apply insights from persuasion science to deliver messages that get audiences nodding yes, not nodding off.
- How perceived complexity kills trust. And how to fix it.
- Persuading people with different personality types and different attitudes to your message.
- Get action and handle objections with the king of motivators: F.B.I. (implications).
- How to overcome the ‘backfire effect’, where proving someone wrong only embeds them further in their initial belief.
Visual communication & storytelling
- Your ‘engagement’ toolkit: Planning your presentation structure to build fast rapport and make your ideas stick.
- Visual communication: Strategies that designers, filmmakers and artists use to create compelling visuals and ‘show, don’t tell’.
- Building story: How to engage non-technical audiences in technical content.
- Data storytelling: The anatomy of a good story and how to ‘cut-through’ data complexity with the most human of approaches.
Learning Bites
Sometimes a shorter session for a larger group is what you need to inspire change and get everyone ‘on the same page.’
We can tailor this Learning Bite to your audience, whatever your goals or industry:
- The 8 Habits of Pro Presenters
Ideal for: team days, conferences or keynotes, lunch-and-learns, 20–120+ people
Self-paced & online
Presenting with Impact is also available as a self-paced online course – the same proven content, completed anytime, anywhere.
Trainees will receive:
- highly engaging video training focused on boosting your results at work
- comprehensive, full-colour reference manual rich with proven writing ideas, principles and techniques.
Ideal for: When the learning is just for you, or for a small group that doesn’t yet fill an in-house session.
What our trainees say
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I choose ‘Presenting with Impact’ or ‘Presenting with Influence’?
The right choice depends on where your team is now:
- Presenting with Impact: The right starting point for most teams. It builds the foundations – structure, confidence, and the engagement skills to hold any audience, face-to-face or virtual. If your people present or pitch but don't always land it, or get nervous, or lose the room, this is the one. Suited to all levels, from graduates to the C-suite.
- Presenting with Influence: For experienced presenters who are already confident on their feet and now need to influence the outcome – drive a decision, win buy-in, lead change. It's about persuasion under pressure, not presenting basics. If your people can hold a room but need to move it, this sharpens their edge.
Not sure which fits? Tell us about your team and we'll point you to the right one.
Can you customise the training for our organisation?
Yes, every program is tailored to your company, the individuals attending and the learning outcomes you need.
What are your recommended group sizes for presentation skill training?
We have training options for both individuals and large enterprise teams. One size does not fit all so contacting us and discussing what you need is a great first step. We have solutions and experience with all scenarios.
Presentation skills full-day programs: Given we run this in a very practical and personalised group coaching format, these programs are limited to 14 people.
Learning Bites: Our shorter 1-2 hour ‘Learning Bites’ sessions are more flexible around numbers. They range from 20 people workshop style up to 120 and above for keynote or conference style sessions.
Is virtual training as effective as face-to-face?
Absolutely! We design every virtual session to be highly engaging using multimedia, real-time collaboration, and active discussion.
Virtual has emerged as the preference for our enterprise clients because their teams are mostly dispersed globally and the virtual training format is a winner thanks to our unique delivery style.
Do you offer post-training support?
Of course! The learning expands back into the workplace.
Participants receive extensive post-training resources and access to ongoing learning tools.
Interested in our presentation skills training?
Tell us about your team and training needs below. We’ll get in touch so you can learn more about our course and how it will benefit your people.
BONUS: We’ll also send you our ‘8 Habits of Pro Presenters’ infographic straight away, that you can share with your team.