Workshops

The Big Comedy Weekend

Do you want presentations and pitches that put you way ahead of your competitors? Do you want your staff to present professionally in a manner that brings out their best self? Do you want these improvements to be long lasting? 

Then let us devise a workshop that suits the specific needs of your staff and organisation.

Transfer the skills of the hardest presenting job in the world - stand up to the work place. Learn tips of the trade such as body language, connecting with an audience, passion, appropriate use of comedy and creative solutions for making your pitches the best they can be. And then find out how to apply these to your next presentation.

PRESENTING YOU 
ADVANCED
A new course and already proving hugely popular. This is for Anyone who has participated in Jack’s “Present Yourself” workshops and who wants to take their presentations on to the next level! The workshop is particularly suitable for those who want to step outside their comfort zone, enjoy a challenge and who wants to take the next leap forward in fulfilling their potential as presenters.

If you’ve attended one of Jack’s presentation courses then you will have seen colleagues make massive improvements in a very short space of time. Jack aims, through encouragement and pushing, to help you make the same improvement again. 

TEAM BUILDING
This highly-acclaimed workshop is inspirational, supportive and fun.

The goals are two fold:

1. BUILD BUSINESS LINKS, PERSONAL CONNECTIONS and IDEAS FOR COLLABORATION BETWEEN DELEGATES.

2. Build confidence within the group and bond, by having fun while successfully completing team building comedy exercises.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS THROUGH STAND UP
Delegates prepare their own five minute stand up routine and then perform it in a Comedy Club!

STAND UP WORKSHOP
Includes: delivery - body language - the seven basic jokes - timing - connecting with an audience - opening lines- making your humour work and rant and rave.

CONFIDENCE BUILDING
Build confidence and be more intuitive.
Fear is the greatest inhibitor of new ideas. Let the workshop help you access your creativity. Relieve stress or negative vibes in the work place through comedy. Spontaneity, intuition, confidence and the talent to improvise are just some of the skills passed on. Learn to take risks and trust yourself.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Understanding You and Your Colleagues 
We have long been taught that emotions should be felt and expressed in carefully controlled ways, but in truth emotion is not just important, but absolutely vital for us to make good decisions, take action to solve problems, cope with change, and succeed. Jack Milner’s course takes delegates through a practical four-part hierarchy of emotional skills: and show how we can employ them to solve our most difficult work-related problems. 

Jack’s unique workshops are about employing creativity, humour and emotional intelligence exercises that helps technically astute business people emotionally connect both with themselves, with their work and with their audience.

JUST FOR YOU
A tailor made workshop to suit you.
Let us write and produce a comedy training day using our skilled comedy performers and writers. Whether it's through leaflets, e-mails, copy, manuals, internal memos.

CLASSIC COMEDY
A workshop for beginners.
Work in teams and learn to devise your own hilarious comedy sketches, using techniques based on Commedia dell'arte.
Workshops include: timing - cruelty in comedy - building the classic sketch; ideas, set up, pay off, cruelty in comedy, exaggeration, and comedy characterisation.

STRESS BUSTERS
Relieve stress at work through these wonderful stress busting workshops, and discover the universal truth for yourselves, that laughter is scientifically proven to remove stress.

BUSINESS AND PLEASURE
Fear is the greatest inhibitor of new ideas. Let this workshop help you access your creativity. Relieve stress or negative vibes in the work place through comedy. Spontaneity, confidence and the ability to think "outside the box" are just some of the skills passed on. Improve your productivity and start making work fun!

SUCCESSFUL SPEECHWRITING 
Jack has transformed the speechwriting skills of some of Britain's top PR, media and blue chip companies. Why not book a taster workshop and find out how?
 

LEADERSHIP THROUGH STAND UP
Who Should Attend:
Anyone who believes that leadership is about accepting responsibility, “followship”, clear communication, taking control, listening, being receptive to change and being brave!

"We had a wonderful and memorable day and the event has already helped the way we do our pitches. The teams are doing a much better job at getting their natural selves to come through which is what I wanted from the day." 
Chris Hewitt CEO, Berkeley PR