Oxford University Press
Personal Impact
Tuesday 1 July 2025
09.30-16:30
Venue
Great Clarendon Street,
Oxford, OX2 6DP
About the Training
This practical, interactive training session has been designed specifically for Oxford University Press Marketing team’s away day. It will be a chance to reset, refocus, and re-energise. Across the full day you will explore the mindsets, behaviours and skills that build personal impact, strengthen assertiveness and enable more purposeful communication.
You will come away feeling empowered. Armed with the advanced communication skills to manage up to senior colleagues and will have the confidence to make suggestions and gain buy-in. You will learn how to drive conversations, confidently and assertively and present the best, authentic versions of yourselves.
Module 1: Executive Presence
Be the very best authentic version of yourself
Consider how you want to be known
Adapt to connect with others: first impressions, body language, verbal cues
Command trust and respect, by finding the perfect balance between warmth and competence
Stay present and demonstrate active listening to respond, not react
Module 2: Influence and Persuading
Communicate with gravitas and authority, whatever your seniority
Build an irrefutable business case, using the NOSE model
Adopt a ‘value not cost’ mindset; demonstrate the ‘why’ not the ‘what’
Use persuasive, influencer language to make recommendations
Know the power of assertiveness and appreciate its benefits
Module 3. Presentation Skills
Use storytelling to engage the audience, no matter the audience size
Deliver complex information in an accessible, captivating way
Know how to use visuals and PowerPoint correctly
Understand how to use the power of 3
Control your style – volume, tone, clarity and pace
Read and command the room or Zoom; know where/how to sit/stand
Module 4. Challenging Conversations
Learn how to structure important conversations
Identify the five negotiating levers and know when to apply them
Learn how to say ‘yes, if…,’ rather than ‘no, because’
Know your leverage • Demonstrate assertiveness
Preparation
1. What is your key objective for the session?
Please send your responses to Gemma by Wednesday 25 June 2025.
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About Isobel
Isobel is a communications skills and leadership trainer. Her talent is in tailoring training sessions to clients' specific objectives whilst building trust with delegates and elevating their confidence. Her style is known for being energetic, fun and engaging.
She is rated extremely highly by her clients, which include The PHA Group, Nelson Bostock, FleishmanHillard, Four Communications, Lansons Team Farner, Eulogy, 50 Sport, Hard Numbers, Kanda Consultancy, National Grid, British Heart Foundation and many more.
She is licensed in Insights Discovery and has the privilege of being an accredited trainer for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, where she runs training on a range of topics. She is also a founding member of Female Foundes Rise, a mentor with The Girls' Network and a Mental Health First Aider.
Before setting up Camier Communications in 2020, Isobel worked in PR for over 15 years, both agency-side and as Head of Communications for Williams F1.