Help Employees Present with Structure, Not Just Slides
Presentation and public speaking training is practical training in planning a presentation before a slide is opened, building it around the one message the audience must leave with, delivering it with control and handling questions. GullyHR designs it around the presentations your people actually give. Each participant presents their own material, observed or recorded, and is given feedback against stated criteria.
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Share your requirementsPresentation and Public Speaking in brief
Presentation and public speaking training is practical training in planning a presentation before a slide is opened, building it around the one message the audience must leave with, and delivering it steadily in a boardroom, on a stage or on a video call. GullyHR's programme covers planning, storytelling, delivery, nervousness, voice and body language, and business and online presentations, practised on the presentations your people actually give.
- GullyHR is an HR consulting, HR services, training and software company based in Bengaluru, working with Indian startups and small and medium businesses.
- This page covers one training programme: presentation and public speaking, for employees and managers who present to clients, panels, teams or leadership.
- Practice runs on presentations your people genuinely give — a sales pitch, a monthly review, a client proposal — not a set-piece topic invented for the workshop.
- Participants leave with a planning template, observed or recorded feedback on their own delivery, and an individual action plan.
- The next step on this page is a discussion about a customised training programme.
The starting point
Do Your Best People Go Quiet in the Room?
In many businesses the person who knows the most is not the one who presents. Proposals lose to better-presented ones, updates leave leadership unsure what was asked, and one person presents everything. None of it is about talent; it is about structure and practice.
We build structure and delivery practice around the presentations your people actually give.
You may be experiencing:
- A stronger proposal losing to a weaker one that was presented better.
- A presenter reading the slide aloud while the room finishes reading it first.
- A manager updating leadership at length, and nobody able to say afterwards what was being asked of them.
- The person who did the work going silent at the client meeting, while someone who knows less fields the questions.
- Nervousness becoming the thing the audience remembers instead of the proposal.
- An online review losing the room early, with nobody looking at the camera or checking who is still there.
- One person presenting everything, so the meeting is postponed when they travel.
- A deck with so much text that the presenter reads it aloud.
- A presentation that runs over time and leaves no room for the one decision the audience was asked to make.
- A speaker who handles the content well but is thrown by the first interruption.
- A team that rehearses the slides but not the answers to the questions the audience is likely to ask.
What we can help with
What the Programme Covers
Planning Before the Slides
Deciding the one message the audience must leave with, reading the audience and the occasion, and choosing what to leave out, all before a slide is opened.
Structure and Argument
Sequencing points so each one earns the next, and using a real example to make an abstract point, so the presentation carries an argument instead of a list.
Delivery
Pacing and pausing, signposting where the presentation is going and handling a question without losing the thread, so delivery becomes what the audience experiences.
Speaking to a Room
Standing and holding a room, projecting without shouting and opening with the point, treating public speaking as a skill rather than a personality.
Managing Nervousness
What to do in the minutes before speaking and how to reframe the physical signs of nerves, so nervousness is managed rather than pretended away.
Voice and Body
Tone, pace and volume matched to the point being made, and posture and gesture that support rather than contradict the words.
Business Presentations
Structuring a proposal, an update or a review the way a busy business audience takes it in, rather than the way the presenter built it.
Online Presenting
Camera framing and eye contact, running a screen share without losing the room and reading an audience you cannot see, practised as its own format.
The scope
Topics in Detail
These are the topics the sessions can work through, in plain terms. The needs discussion decides which are used and in what depth for your people.
Knowing Your Audience
Finding out who will be in the room, what they already know and what they need to decide.
One Message
Stating the single point you want the audience to take away, and cutting what does not support it.
Opening Strongly
Starting with the point, the question or the ask, and not with a long introduction.
Structure
Sequencing points so each leads to the next, and closing on a clear request or summary.
Slides That Support
Using fewer words, one idea per slide and visuals that help the audience follow what is said.
Examples and Stories
Using a short, relevant example to make a point memorable, and keeping it to the point.
Pace and Pause
Speaking at a pace the audience can follow, and using a pause in place of a filler word.
Voice and Presence
Volume, tone and posture that suit the room and the point.
Handling Nerves
Practical steps before and during a presentation, and a plan for the first minute.
Handling Questions and Challenge
Listening to the question, answering it briefly, responding to one you cannot answer and staying composed when someone disagrees or interrupts.
Presenting Online
Camera position, eye contact, screen sharing and checking that the audience is still with you.
Rehearsal
Practising out loud against the clock, and getting a colleague to test the questions.
Working together
Ways to Work With Us
Single Workshop
One cohort built around a specific set of occasions: a sales team preparing to pitch, or a project team preparing monthly reviews.
Pre-Event Coaching
Focused preparation for one high-stakes presentation, such as a funding pitch, a large proposal or a board update, for the individuals presenting.
Company-Wide Programme in Cohorts
The same core modules delivered by function, so client-facing, technical and leadership presenting are each addressed.
Module Within a Communication Programme
Presentation delivered alongside communication skills or business writing as part of a wider programme.
Recording is used only where the cohort agrees to it, and recordings are for the participant's own review.
The deliverables
What You Receive
Depending on the scope of your engagement, deliverables can include:
- A participant workbook covering planning, storytelling, delivery, nervousness, voice and body language, and business and online presenting.
- A presentation planning template participants can use on any real presentation, on one page.
- Observed or recorded feedback on each participant's own presentation, against stated criteria.
- A phrase bank for openings, transitions, handling a question you cannot answer, and closing on an ask.
- An individual action plan for every participant.
- A manager briefing note on what the cohort practised and what to look for in the next presentations.
- A baseline and post-programme comparison, with a participant feedback summary.
- A certificate of participation for each attendee, where you want one.
- A rehearsal checklist covering timing, equipment, room or platform and likely questions.
- A question-handling card for answers you do not know, challenges and off-topic points.
Step by step
How We Work
Review Real Presentations
You share a few real decks and, where feasible, a recording of a past presentation. We look for what tends to go wrong, and identify the audiences your people actually present to.
Take a Baseline Presentation
Before the session each participant delivers a short presentation on a real topic from their own work, observed or recorded, so progress can be compared rather than asserted.
Design for the Cohort
Modules are sequenced for who is attending: a sales team weighted towards delivery and handling pushback, a technical team towards structure and plain explanation.
Practise With Feedback
Short input on a technique, then practice: each participant builds and delivers a presentation on their own material and takes feedback, with a recorded review where the cohort agrees.
Present Again and Report
Each participant names the habits they will change. A follow-up session has them present again, ideally on a genuine upcoming occasion, and management receives a written summary. Where it is included in the engagement, a pilot session with a small group is run first and the design is refined from what those participants found.
The difference
What Better Presenting Gives You
A presentation programme helps your people:
We do not promise outcomes. We record a baseline before work starts, covering participants' baseline presentations and the occasions they present on, and report against it, so you can see what changed and what did not.
- Open with the point, so a busy audience knows what is asked of them in the first minute.
- Use slides as support for what is said rather than as a script.
- Answer a question mid-presentation without losing the thread of the argument.
- Settle into delivery rather than accelerate away from it when nervous.
- Hold attention online through structure and delivery, not only content on screen.
- Let more than one person on a team represent the work, so meetings do not wait on one calendar.
- State the one message of a presentation before building any slide.
- Keep to the time allowed and leave room for the decision being asked of the audience.
- Answer a question you do not know in a way that keeps credibility.
- Prepare for a presentation with a rehearsal that tests timing and likely questions.
Find your fit
Who This Programme Is For
Employees and Managers Who Present
People presenting to clients, panels, investors or leadership, including sales, project, technical and finance teams.
People Preparing for an Occasion
Staff preparing for a client pitch, board update or internal review who would rather rehearse with a facilitator.
Technically Strong Specialists
People whose presentations lose the audience even though the underlying work is sound.
First-Time Presenters
Newly promoted managers and new client-facing hires facing a formal audience for the first time.
Teams That Present Constantly
Sales, pre-sales, consulting and delivery teams, where a client notices the difference between two presenters.
Businesses Facing One Big Presentation
Companies preparing for a funding round, a large client pitch or a renewal review with an anchor account.
Sales, Pre-Sales and Proposal Teams
People who present proposals to clients and whose presentations are compared with a competitor's.
Managers Reporting Upward
People who update senior leadership and need to lead with the point and the ask.
Trainers and Internal Presenters
Employees who run briefings or induction sessions for colleagues.
Good to know
How the Programme Runs
Before the sessions
- Needs analysis: a conversation with you about the presentations your people give and the audiences they face, with a review of sample decks or recordings where you can share them.
- Design around your roles: modules chosen from the topics above, with practice built on the occasions your people actually present for.
During and after the sessions
- Delivery: short input on one skill at a time, in the format agreed with you.
- Practice: each participant presents their own material, observed or recorded where agreed, and receives feedback against stated criteria.
- Follow-up: individual action plans, a brief for managers on what to look for in the next presentations, and a second presentation or review where it is included in the engagement.
Nothing is scheduled until you have approved the design.
Good to know
How We Check It Is Working
During and straight after
- Baseline and later presentation: how a participant's delivery compares on the same criteria before and after.
- Participant feedback: which exercises helped and which did not.
In the weeks that follow
- Action plan follow-through: whether participants report using the planning template on real presentations.
- Audience reactions: what managers or clients say about the next presentations, where you choose to collect it.
- Participation: whether more people on a team are presenting its work.
Measures are agreed beforehand. We report what moved and what did not, and we do not claim a programme improved presentation results.
Good to know
Format and Boundaries
Each programme defines
The audience, group size, delivery format and duration, agreed with you in writing after the needs discussion. A workshop, pre-event coaching and a cohort programme are all possible, and each participant needs time to present.
Requires a separate agreement
- Individual coaching for a participant beyond the programme sessions.
- Formal assessments or psychometric instruments, which are scoped and licensed separately.
- Certification or accreditation through an external body. A certificate of participation, where you want one, is a company training record.
- Licensed third-party content or tools.
- Travel, venue and equipment arrangements.
Training is not treatment for anxiety. Slide design, scripting, speechwriting and speaker coaching for a high-stakes event are separate pieces of work.
Good to know
What We Need From You
What we ask you to share
- The roles and approximate number of people who would attend.
- Sample decks, and where possible a past recording, of the kind of presentations they give.
- The occasions and audiences your people face, such as client pitches, leadership reviews or internal briefings.
Sponsor and manager involvement
A named sponsor approves the design and the criteria used for feedback. Managers are briefed on what the cohort practised and asked to give participants a real presentation to apply it to soon after the sessions.
Good to know
Participant Information
Handled by agreement
Before work begins we agree what sample material we receive, who may see it, how it is stored and when it is deleted. Decks that carry client or commercial information can be redacted before review.
Recordings and feedback
Recording is used only where the cohort agrees, and recordings are for the participant's own review. Feedback is given to the individual, and management reports describe the group, with individual results shared only where the participant agrees.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Planning, structure and argument, delivery, speaking to a room, managing nervousness, voice and body language, business presentations and online presenting. The weighting depends on who attends and what they present, which we establish from real decks and past presentations.
Yes. Participants build and deliver presentations on their own material, so the examples are your proposals, updates and reviews. Technical teams and sales teams are weighted differently within the same set of modules.
Only where the cohort agrees. Recordings are for each participant's own review of pace, filler words and eye contact. Nobody is asked to present on camera without agreeing to it first, and recordings are not shared more widely.
Nervousness is treated as manageable rather than as something to hide. The programme covers what to do before speaking and how to reframe the physical signs, and practice happens in stages so the first attempt is not the hardest one.
Yes. Pre-event coaching prepares individuals for a specific high-stakes occasion, such as a funding pitch or board update, with rehearsal and feedback on the real material.
Yes, and online presenting is practised as a format of its own. Observed practice in a room is usually stronger for delivery, so many businesses combine a workplace session with an online follow-up.
By comparing each participant's baseline presentation with a later one against the same criteria, along with feedback and a manager note. We report what moved and what did not. We do not promise outcomes, and the real test is the next live presentation.
Yes, where you want one. Each attendee who completes the presentation programme receives a certificate of participation. It records that the person took part and finished, which is all it can honestly say, and it does not certify a particular standard of public speaking.
After reviewing real decks and agreeing the audiences. The proposal then states the modules, the cohorts, the format and the follow-up, and it is agreed in writing before anything is scheduled, so you can see exactly what you are committing to and what is deliberately left out.
Start with the point or the ask, give the two or three reasons that support it, and close on what you want the audience to do. The programme practises this on your own material.
By building each slide around one idea, rehearsing out loud and treating the slide as a prompt, not a script. Observed practice helps because people can see how much they read.
Yes. We cover camera position, eye contact, screen sharing and checking that the audience is still with you, and practise it as a separate format from the room.
Where possible, yes. Practising on a presentation your people actually have to give makes the feedback useful. If that is not possible, we agree a realistic substitute.
Yes. Participants practise listening to the question, answering briefly, and responding when they do not know the answer or someone disagrees.
It can be, and a smaller cohort or individual format may suit them better. We agree the format with you after the needs discussion.
Pricing depends on the number of participants and cohorts, the modules chosen, the delivery format and whether follow-up is included. Share your requirements and we will send a tailored proposal.
Present the Work as Well as You Did It
Plan before the slides, build an argument, deliver with control and practise on your own material, with feedback against stated criteria.
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