The Message Business
STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD
You want your products, services and people to stand out from the same-old crowd. It's our job to help you design and deliver simple, memorable messages to your stakeholders. We help you sharpen your sales pitches, add power to your product launches, find focus for your internal conferences, transform your training courses, and make the most of your meetings. Everything is better with impact. We are the Message Business, it's what we do.
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About Us
Experience in Every Sector on Every Continent - Except Australasia!*
We are a consulting firm with decades of experience helping companies in: consulting, manufacturing, pharma, software, fashion, beauty, retail and healthcare create and deliver powerful messages for their stakeholders. From writing compelling sales and marketing campaigns, namingbusineses and products to shaping conferences, product launches, and internal events, our expertise helps you make certain your message lands and sticks.
*We're still not sure why Australians don't want us.
Communication Strategy and Unforgettable Training
Beyond communication strategy, we train training leaders, executives, and consultants in essential skills to win work and build long-lasting client relationships. Our training covers consulting, presentation, pitching, leadership, and communication, ensuring you have the confidence and capability to succeed.
Global Experience
We have worked extensively across the UK, Europe, North and South America. Our clients stay with us for decades, a testament to our original thinking, client-first approach, and unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional results. At The Message Business, we believe in the power of good work—and the value of long-term relationships that come from doing good work.
What we do
Pitch Writing and Coaching
Sharpen your sales winning work; starting with the words, adding visuals and training you team.
Communications Training
Give confidence, skills and charisma to your Executives, Salespeople and Professional staff.
Conference Design and Sharpening
Design and facilitate memorable internal conferences and external events.
Message Creation
Create powerful, compelling, and memorable messages for your business.
Product Launch
Develop and run effective product launches for retail partners, the press and public.
C-suite Coaching
Help your C Suite present at their best on their most important appearances.
Our Brilliant Clients
Consulting Group
www.mercer.com
Fashion & Fragrance
www.puig.com
SaaS Business
www.esgglobal.com
Pensions Advisory
www.xpsgroup.com
Consulting
www.mottmac.com
Blood Products
www.grifols.com
Reinsurance
www.pacificlifere.com
Pharmaceutical Research
www.alexion.com
How we Work
We have spent 30 years working with clients to see what works in the real world.
You don't need to understand Aristotle on Logos, Pathos and Ethos because we do. You don't need to know the importance of the three-act story in every culture all across the world, that's our job. You never need to read neuroscience research on memory and information retention because we have.
In every presentation, pitch, or product launch, every conference, sales campaign or brand launch, we help create, we follow tried and time-tested principles of communication that make messaged land and stick.
Yes, we innovate and yes, we bend the rules a little - like every artist- but we do it to help you stand out, every time your team stands up to speak.
Our Model:
We help you FIT your message to your audience. FOCUS the message so that it is as simple as possible, and easy to understand. And add verbal and visual FINESSE to make sure that it lands and sticks.
It's our job to make your messages unforgettable. If they're unforgettable your audience doesn't need to work to remember, they just do.
Sales Training
We make our skills-based training programmes harder than the real-world experience. We create realistic scenarios and make sure that your people get a change to practice those skills rigorously and repetitively with feedback. This means that when they return to their day job they are ready to perform. Our sales training uses:
Training for the Real World of Sales
Sales is simple, practise is important. If your training courses aren't harder than the real world of sales then they're probably not worth doing. Top professionals deserve (even if they don't want) testing and proving on the training ground. All of our sales training follows the latest thinking in performance psychology from the world of sports.
Relationships as the Foundation
Anyone who has ever read a book on sales understands that relationships are the foundation of enduring sales success. Our sales training gives practical, tested tools and techniques in how to build lasting and deepening relationships that are the basis of sales success.
Persuasive Communication
If you haven't found empathy for your audience, you can't hope to influence their choices or behaviour. Learn to influence and inspire others with tried and tested approaches from the world of business, sports and entertainment. We can help your people find empathy, show understanding, identify opportunities, create compelling arguments (as in arguments that move hearts and minds), uncover objections and inspire people to action.
Challenging Feeback and Helpful Coaching
Feedback is the most valuable and least understood performance development tool.
We pride ourselves on giving honest and constructive feedback to all of our clients.
Top performers want to know their strengths but they want to know what they can do to get even better. Great feedback and coaching must challenge and support their development.
Here's how we do that.
Consulting Training
We work with some of the biggest consulting firms in the world, training their people in the foundational skills of effective consulting. Whatever the technical specialism. We run three programmes that are targeted at Chartered Consultant level.
Consulting Fundamentals
Understand the HOW, WHY and WHAT of consulting. Explaining the purpose, approaches, tools and mindset of the successful consultant.
Consulting People Skills
Building skills in empathy, listening, perspective, communication and presentation required by effective internal and external consultants.
Consulting Projects
A real-life consulting project for clients from scoping through to project presentation. With coaching and feedback throughout.
Course Content
Connecting with Client Needs
First principles of structured client meetings
Project Scoping
Scoping, costing and planning a client engagement
Delivering Value
Building hard, firm and soft measures of success into your plans
Engaging Stakeholders
Learning how to manage, engage and leverage stakeholder support end-to-end
Effecting Change
Understanding strategic narratives and change strategy that inform every consulting project ever undertaken
Consulting Tools and Techniques
Frameworks and tools to help in decision-making, problem-solving and strategy development
Service Mindset
The mindset of the most successful consultants and step-by-step ways to deepen client relationships
Commercial Thinking
How to build a profitable and worthwhile career, practice or business over the long-term
Professional Skills Training
Communication Skills
Everyone has charisma inside them, they just need to know how to unlock it.
Learn how to hold a room, motivate a crowd, engage 1-1 and inspire a team.
Professional Facilitation
Run meetings that people actually want to attend. Understand how to plan, prepare, run and follow-up on meetings that make a difference.
Graduate Development
Help your graduate talent hit the ground running. We have developed a comprehensive suite fo courses from commercial acumen to consulting skills, problem solving to personal impact.
Management Development
We think that great managers need to help their team be good at 4 things. Finding Focus, Creating Structure, bringing Discipline and delegating Ownership in every area of their team's work.
Negotiation Skills
Bring wisdom, perspective, flexibility and confidence to your negotiating game. Negotiation expertise from strategy to tactics.
Executive Presence
Develop an executive presence that gets you noticed. Learn to fit in and stand out in any group. Understand the tricks and tools of master communicators.
Presentation Skills
Learn how to turn a dull topic into a fascinating story. Convince a room full of doubters, inspire a crowd and explain a complex concept. Turn nervous energy into powerful delivery.
Personal Impact
Build your confidence and charisma for added influence. Understand how presence, empathy and influence are the keys to unlock any audience and smppth challenging situations.
Transform your people's professional capabilities with The Message Business. Contact us today to discuss your training needs.
Original Thinking
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The Power of Moments:

This document explores the parallels between captivating storytelling in film and impactful sales presentations, highlighting the importance of creating memorable moments that resonate with your audience.

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Our Training Approach:

Tactical Periodisation is a training philosophy primarily developed for sports, particularly soccer, by Portuguese coach Vítor Frade. Its primary concept is that all aspects of training should align with the tactical demands of the game, integrating physical, technical, psychological, and strategic elements into a cohesive training system. Rather than isolating different components (like physical fitness or skill work) in separate sessions, this approach emphasizes developing all aspects simultaneously, centered around the team’s tactical framework.

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FREE Resources
We like to give back a little by sharing our ideas with the world, to help people communicate their ideas with real impact.
Presentation Guru
Our free website to help you create stronger stories, better visuals and a more charismatic presentation style.
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Our Industry Insights
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