{"id":3759,"date":"2016-06-02T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2016-06-04T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:06:13","slug":"the-need-for-presentations-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/the-need-for-presentations-training\/","title":{"rendered":"The need for presentations training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before you ask, yes, I know I’m biased. I’m a presentation skills trainer, so of course I think it’s important to be trained in giving decent presentations. I’d like to think that I’ve got sufficient integrity to mean I’d not do it if I didn’t think it was important, though.<\/p>\n

And its seems I’m not the only one. The 2014 survey of recruiters<\/a>\u00a0(who were looking at recruiting MBA) reported on the GMAT website (http:\/\/www.mba.com\/<\/a>) is pretty clear. Communication skills are critical (according to the 6000 recruiters surveyed). In fact, it starts to look as though they’re about twice as important as things we think of as traditionally important – management skills. Now there’s obviously a grey area here, because you need to know what you’re talking about before you can talk (unless you’re Donald Trump) but the pattern seems pretty clear. (Thanks to\u00a0@StaceyHankeInc<\/a>\u00a0for drawing my attention to this survey, via twitter, by the way.)<\/p>\n

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How important are the soft skills? Looks like they’re about twice as important as technical skills!<\/p><\/div>\n

And then there’s working coming out of Australia too… (Thanks to Antoinette Oglethorpe<\/a> for the reference which is unfortunately behind a paywall at no less an august body than the Australian Financial Review<\/a>. The better news is that there are other reports, such as this Facebook photo of the report… The headline is (as all headlines are) a bit of a simplification, but it’s basically sound…
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