PSR™ Method
(Presentation Skills & Reading)

Who needs the PSR™ Method?

Anyone involved in presentations, public speaking, sales, press, public relations and teaching:
  • Corporate executives – to improve communication on the phone, shareholders meetings and facing the press

  • Sales staff – for presentations in person or on the phone

  • Call centre operators - a vital part of a successful business, the nerve centre for future success. This is why the PSR™ Method is essential because their communication skills can make or break your reputation

  • On-hold telephone system voiceovers

  • Television and radio – newsreaders, reporters and presenters

  • Lawyers – to win cases by convincing judge and jury

  • Air traffic controllers – where professional communication can be a matter of life or death

  • Politicians – to sell their policies and get more votes

Stage fright

It’s all very well being confident when chatting to friends and family, but it’s a different ballgame when you have to deliver a speech or presentation.

Even people with a dynamic personality often become nervous when faced with an audience of shareholders, a potential customer, the press, a microphone or a camera. Their natural energy and enthusiasm can easily diminish in these circumstances.

It might surprise you to know that even celebrities or actors with two years’ training at stage school very often have the same problem, as they have not learned a specific technique.

I recently saw an excellent documentary at the Kennedy Space Centre about the space programme. It was narrated by Oscar-nominated Tom Cruise (probably paid $100,000 or more). He delivered the words without energy or enthusiasm, which spoiled this otherwise wonderful production.

Dyslexia & the PSR™ Method

Many people attending the PSR™ Method course during the past 15 years have told me they suffer from dyslexia. This can be a serious, disadvantage at job interviews and in written tests. Many sufferers reported that there was a considerable improvement when they finished the course. The same improvement was noticed when people stumbled over words.

I am not suggesting that the PSR™ Method is a cure for acute dyslexia, but it certainly helps with the milder forms. Basically, when we are reading, half our brain is reading ahead as a kind of rehearsal. The other half is reading what's in front of us. Quite often people stumble over simple words. I ask students to read part of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. The sentence they read was: “The scene, if I may ask you to follow me, was now changed."

Three out of ten students stumble over "…if I may ask you…". At first it seemed strange, until I realised that they had taken them for granted because they were simple short words, so they had not concentrated.

If the sentence had started with an unfamiliar word like ‘sesquipedalian’, they would have looked much closer and concentrated. One of the advantages of the PSR™ Method is that it helps people concentrate and analyse what they are reading. This is why the PSR™ Method helps children to read earlier and retain a higher percentage of the information.

Most people don't listen to themselves when they read or talk. So, if they don't listen to themselves, no one else is going to listen to them either.


Lavender Hill Mob drama club
“We run an inclusive theatre group in Hunstanton, in Norfolk. Many of our children have learning difficulties and social problems, ranging from confidence, bullying and other 'labels', such as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), as well as, of course, dyslexia.
The PSR™ Method has helped not only the children's reading confidence, but also the adults who attend.We use the booklet that you gave us as a constant guideline.
Some of the parents of our 'labelled' children have commented on how their children's behaviour, both at school and at home, has improved.”
Les Miles and Tim Rock