Developing Your Communication and Presentation Skills
Speaker: David Beckham
Developing Your Communication and Presentation Skills Speaker: David Beckham
Join David Beckham as he discusses presentation and communication skills; two topics that are essential and invaluable for all change professionals and business analysts. These ‘soft’ or ’people’ skills are frequently overlooked but are a vital addition to everyone’s skillset. David will discuss the challenges involved in all types of communication, highlighting how difficult it can be to get your message across so that people understand and accept it. He will also explain how the techniques used for presenting at large conferences can just as easily be deployed in a meeting between three or four people. Presentation techniques such as planning, preparation and managing nerves can be applied to any interaction and therefore are vital to anybody who runs meetings or interacts with colleagues on a regular basis. David will also discuss some of the techniques he uses regarding creativity, particularly how he constructs his own style of presentations and will also touch on the process of preparing a presentation and the emotional journey this can provoke! The session will conclude with an opportunity for discussion and questions so please be prepared to contribute!
Principal Consultant
ChuDo Consulting
David Beckham has spent his career working in Financial Services, initially at Norwich Union then subsequently with Aviva. His career began in policy administration then moved into IT and he has been a Business Analyst in different guises since 1995. A founding member of the Business Analysis Practice he later had two terms as the Practice Lead. He worked on numerous large change programmes and was heavily involved in building the capability of Business Analysis within the organisation over the last decade. He has regularly presented at the European BA Conference and has had several articles published on Business Analysis topics. Despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2010 at the age of 43 David continues to be a passionate advocate of the profession and the benefits it gives to organisations everywhere. Since 2015 David has regularly spoken on the positive power of change both on a professional and personal basis. David left Aviva in 2019 after 33 years to start his own consultancy.