THE TOOLKITS
Theatre is pre-digital. But sometimes an old technology is still the best technology.
Anyone can describe exceptional Professional Performance. “Be more confident.” “Have more presence.” “Be more persuasive.” But performance descriptors are of little use when the moment becomes live. You need to know what to do.
That is an important distinction.
Confidence is a set of behaviours.
Presence is a set of behaviours.
Persuasion is a set of behaviours.
The actor’s process is concerned with translating intention into performance: How do you actually BEHAVE when the situation becomes live? That is the performance imperative. What behaviours do I use to hold their attention? Create confidence? Be more believable? Make a complex message land? Increase pace and energy? Emphasise what matters? Adapt when resistance appears? Re-engage when interest is lost? Stay effective when pressure rises?
THE TOOLKITS translate competency descriptors into concrete, practical Performance Behaviours people can understand, embody, rehearse and apply in the Critical Performance Moments they encounter.
The secret
You are given a real performance edge when you work with THE METHOD. We are standing on the shoulders of giants. Actors are masters of live communication. For hundreds of years, actors have been evolving some of the most effective techniques we know for how to engage, excite, impact and control audiences of 500+ people, for more than three hours. Whilst making them listen to complex 16th-century verse. Fact.
Think about that. Actors learned how to use their voice, body, energy and presence to engage hundreds of people — live — and make them listen, feel, believe and respond. Most professionals have never been taught any of these techniques. And that is where it gets interesting. Because when you apply the same performance techniques in everyday professional situations:
A conversation with a colleague.
A small group meeting.
A difficult question from a client.
A moment when you need someone to listen.
An important presentation
A moment when you need to influence, reassure, challenge, engage or persuade.
The effect can be extraordinary. You are importing a level of conscious performance technique that simply isn’t normal in everyday professional life. Your voice has more impact. Your presence has more power. People listen differently. You have control over attention. Your messages land with more impact.
And you begin to experience something that can feel like a supercharge to your professional impact. Not because you have become an actor.
But because you are applying performance techniques developed for the demands of an auditorium to everyday professional situations.
That is the secret behind THE METHOD. You are applying powerful performance techniques most professionals have never been taught — techniques most people in the room do not even know exist.
We did not invent these powerful behaviours and skills. We reimagined them for business.
The theatre disappears. The performance advantage remains.
When professionals have conscious access to these Performance Behaviours, something changes.
They have more control over how they perform.
More behavioural range.
More practical choices.
More ability to prepare.
More ability to adapt.
And more confidence because they know what to do when the moment becomes live.
Putting performance power into practice
Each TOOLKIT fuses a different set of powerful performance skills and techniques from the actor’s process with business best practice. That fusion matters. The actor’s process provides the performance discipline. Business best practice provides the commercial context. Together, they create a unique suite of powerful Performance Behaviours professionals can use in the situations they encounter at work.
More than 200 Performance Behaviours. Seven TOOLKITS.
Across more than twenty years, THE METHOD has developed more than 200 practical Performance Behaviours drawn from the actor’s process and reimagined for business.
We organise them through seven TOOLKITS, each focused on a different professional performance challenge.
1. BE MY BEST SELF
Consciously and consistently embody your very best, “high-performing self” and develop a powerful professional profile and reputation to deliver more impact and value, even in difficult or important situations.
2. BE MORE IMPACTFUL
Instantly talk or present with more belief, confidence, charisma and power — to any size audience.
3. BE MORE INSPIRING
Deliver more daring, engaging and memorable messages whenever you present or talk, motivating and persuading others — even with dry or data-heavy information.
4. BE MORE PERSUASIVE
Instantly adapt your communication style to relate to and persuade others, build more equitable relationships and achieve better outcomes — even with cold, distant or demanding people.
5. BE MORE RESILIENT
Handle pressure and deal constructively with adversity, empowering you to remain calm and focused on delivering positive outcomes in challenging times.
6. BE MORE CREATIVE
Structure your thinking to systematically produce more innovative and intelligent business ideas and solutions — even under the pressure to be creative “now”.
7. BE A SALES & SERVICE EXPERT
Consistently engage people in any customer-facing role or situation, develop stronger relationships and sell your product or service with more power, passion and conviction.
Not seven fixed programmes
The TOOLKITS are not seven off-the-shelf curricula that every organisation receives in the same way.
The performance requirement comes first.
What Business Result needs to improve?
Which Critical Performance Moments matter?
A leadership conversation.
A presentation.
A negotiation.
A customer meeting.
A difficult decision.
A moment of pressure.
Once we understand the Professional Performance required, we configure the right capability to build it.
A focused requirement may need one TOOLKIT. A broader challenge may combine several. A bespoke TOOLKIT can be configured around the organisation’s Critical Performance Moments, objectives, messages and culture.