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\"\"<\/a>The question that empties your head<\/h2>\n

You\u2019re in a meeting. Everything is going fine. Then someone asks a question you didn\u2019t prepare for – a client, a director, a journalist – and for a moment your mind goes completely blank. You know the subject. You could write a report on it. But asked to answer it out loud, in the next three seconds, the words won\u2019t come. If you\u2019ve ever wanted to know how to think on your feet in exactly this kind of moment, the answer isn\u2019t having the confidence; it\u2019s knowing how to structure what you need to say.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the most common, and most avoidable, moments of professional discomfort. And it happens constantly: over 95% of workplace communication is ad-hoc, unplanned and informal, yet most organisations only ever train people for the 5% that\u2019s scripted and rehearsed, like formal presentations. Nobody trains for the other 95%, the meetings, the Q&As, the \u201cgot a minute?\u201d conversations.<\/p>\n

A method born from real speeches, not theory<\/h2>\n

Think on Your Feet\u00ae<\/a> wasn\u2019t invented. Its foundations were laid by Dr Keith Spicer, a prominent Canadian public figure who served as Canada\u2019s first Commissioner of Official Languages and later chaired the CRTC. Spicer learned a three-part method of structured, spontaneous speaking in Paris and began teaching it to senior bankers and accountants who needed to think and speak clearly under pressure.<\/p>\n

In 1985, Roger H.B. Davies acquired the rights and built it into a full professional workshop, which became the flagship programme of McLuhan & Davies Communications in Toronto. From there it went global: one of the first clients, Ernst & Young in Australia, introduced it to the Australian Institute of Management. And its reputation spread from there. Today, Think on Your Feet\u00ae is delivered in over 30 countries and 12 languages, and more than half a million professionals have taken the workshop worldwide (Think on Your Feet\u00ae International \u2014 Our Story<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Indigo Business Services is the exclusive UK distributor for Think on Your Feet\u00ae<\/a>, delivering the programme with the same original licensed materials used around the world.<\/p>\n

How to Think on Your Feet\u00ae: what the workshop actually teaches<\/h2>\n

The workshop isn\u2019t about presentation skills, it\u2019s about the other 95%: the moments when there\u2019s no script. It teaches ten practical techniques for turning a jumble of thoughts into a clear, memorable answer in seconds, not minutes.<\/p>\n

For individuals<\/strong>, that means:<\/p>\n