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If you are required to communicate your ideas at work and feel anxious and inadequate about speaking to groups of any size, you are not alone! Public Speaking is still the #1 fear for most people. From Psychology Today, “Surveys about our fears commonly show fear of public speaking at the top of the list. Our fear of standing up in front of a group and talking is so great that we fear it more than death, at least according to some surveys.”
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COMMUNICATE FOR SUCCESS
Communicate with confidence and credibility for positive business results.
Communicate for Success is a two-day workshop that will help you speak with confidence. It is an absolute MUST for people who want to succeed in business and advance in their careers. Through skills, tools, and practice, anyone can overcome this fear and begin enjoying the art and science of becoming a successful communicator and presenter.
Who should attend this workshop?
Communicate for Success is intended for professionals who must verbally communicate at work. If you must influence others with or without authority, attending the workshop will be a game-changer for you! Your confidence level will increase by lunchtime of the first day! You will be given all the tips and techniques to becoming a successful communicator. It is all about replacing distracting habits with new ones that create a “super-highway” to your all-important content.
Experiencing the impact of effective use of the skills and tools from the audience’s perspective is invaluable! During the workshop you will receive feedback from your peers about the impact of your style and content. You will see the power for yourself via video-recorded practices and interactive coaching from your instructor.
The workshop is for any professional including: executives, senior leadership, managers, individual contributors (technical, sales, sales support, marketing, manufacturing, etc.) It is designed to help professionals who engage in everyday communication at work including meetings, customer discussions, project updates, quarterly business reviews, presentations to senior management, the board of directors, or speaking in your own communities.
What about large speaking events? Communicate for Success will prepare you to “kill it” speaking on stage at key events such as sales, marketing, or manufacturing kickoffs, conferences, user-groups, advisory boards, and to any large audience. You will practice the skills that create an instantaneous connection with your listeners no matter how many are in the audience.
How will it help you?
- You will quickly improve your communication/presentation skills during the workshop.
- You will learn and practice the essential skills needed to present ideas and communicate with confidence, competence, clarity, credibility, composure, and conviction.
- You will gain awareness and learn skills to immediately begin the journey for improving your effectiveness via digitally recorded feedback, self-review, and expert coaching.
- You will learn how to eliminate distracting habits and replace them with new engaging ways to delight your listeners and audiences of all sizes.
- You will learn the secret of connecting individually with any audience making you authentic, approachable, and memorable.
- You will represent your organization in the best possible light as a reflection of your outstanding skills and targeted content.
- Your executive presence and polished delivery skills will give you credibility in all situations.
Course Specifics:
- 12 participants maximum
- Instructor-led with several individually coached, video recorded exercises.
- In-person or virtual workshops (Zoom or WebEx platforms)
- Learn and practice the skills for immediately establishing trust and credibility.
- Receive intense individualized professional coaching.
- Practice authentic delivery skills (calm confidence: posture, eye contact, pausing) and enthusiasm: (purposeful walking, gestures, facial expressions, vocal variety, volume, etc.)
- Create listener-focused content for a work-specific topic to a relevant audience.
- Learn and use the ©Presentation Map with the SPOKEN opening model.
- Learn PowerPoint design principles and practice effective use.
- Q & A: learn and practice the managing difficult questions with confidence
- Practice instant audience rapport-building techniques
- Receive coaching and use behavioral fixes that redirect feelings of nervousness with positive results.
- Receive post-course practice recommendations to develop new skills/habits in just 21 days!
- Workshop tools, and reference materials
Methods:
- Video-recorded exercises
- Video playback and analysis
- Skills practice
- Coaching and reinforcement
EXECUTIVE PRIVATE COACHING SESSIONS
(3-4 hours face-to-face or virtual ongoing 90-minute sessions available)
Goal Setting for Session (pre-call with professional coach to determine specific needs)
- Baseline video assessment/review of prior speaking engagements
- Focus on keynote or other upcoming presentation.
- Self-evaluation
- How do you want to be perceived?
- Determining your leadership style
Compelling Content
- Analyzing the audience
- Developing and organizing content using ©The Presentation Map
- How to be clear and persuasive
- Introductions and conclusions
- Effective use of notes and slides
- PowerPoint dos and don’ts
Dynamic Speaking Skills Including:
- Delivery Skills/Executive Presence (calm confidence: stance, pausing, eye connection; enthusiasm skills: walking with purpose, gestures, facial and vocal variety)
- Practice Methodologies
Question & Answer Techniques
- How to encourage questions
- Managing tough/hostile/irrelevant questions
- Finding opportunities during Q and A
- Handling questions to build credibility.
CONNECTING WITH EXECUTIVES
(Two-day or one-day classroom or virtual; Maximum 12 participants)
- How to prepare for a critical executive-level meeting or presentation
- Learn to navigate this time-starved audience
- Establish credibility immediately when you open the meeting or presentation
- Convey the right amount of information in the time allotted
- Exude executive presence even without the title
- Earn the right to ask for what you want
- Use our tool to stay on point ensuring executives stay attentive
- Managing difficult questions with diplomacy and tact
- Listen actively and respond appropriately in the moment
- Make a strong impression by not only what you said but how you said it.
LARGE GROUP PRESENTATIONS
If you are looking to add some excitement to your sales or marketing kick-off this year, look no further! Spoken Success would be happy to present “The Secrets of Spoken Success”. Your attendees will learn how to best open and deliver a credible message during this fast-moving, fun, eye-opening “edutainment” session (in-person, virtual, or hybrid).
- “The Secrets to Spoken Success” 1.5-3 hour “keynote” presentation delivered by Spoken Success face-to-face or virtual.
- Tailored to fit in with large-event meetings: sales or marketing kick-offs, etc.
- Delivered with humor and high energy, fast-paced and fun!
- “Edutainment” helping sales/business professionals to build awareness of effective speaking skills and content creation.
- Learn an easy-to-use framework for quickly creating content focused on the listener.
- Learn how to turn an audience from a “multi-headed blob of humanity” into a series of individuals.
- Make presentations more exciting!
- Learn tools and techniques to get results and succeed.
COMMUNICATE FOR SUCCESS IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD
(1-2-day workshop for a maximum of 12 participants. 4-hour requirement per person per day)
Most professionals today have no choice but to speak at meetings and deliver presentations over a virtual platform. This can be extremely challenging as most attendees look at virtual events as opportunities to multi-task. This 1–2 day session will help your business leaders and professionals communicate with confidence, clarity, and conviction turning a flat two-dimensional medium into an engaging 3D experience for the audience.
- Zoom or WebEx-based training.
- 2.5-hour main session followed by 3 small group 90-minute skills practice labs.
- Learn the tips to being effective in a two-dimensional or hybrid world.
- Practice exhibiting executive presence turning a flat 2-dimensional experience into a 3 D encounter!
- Create effective openings, closes, and make your content interesting throughout.
- Learn how to keep your audience’s attention using interactive tools and techniques.
- Receive expert coaching on content and delivery skills with video-recorded feedback.
Why Spoken Success?
Spoken Success LLC offers a variety of coaching sessions, seminars, and workshops designed to help groups or individuals become more effective presenters and communicators.
Can Spoken Success Help Me/My Team?
Spoken Success is perfect for anyone who has to speak one-on-one or to any size group about anything that matters. We have worked with Business Professionals, Top Executives, Banking Professionals, Sales Executives, Account Managers, Customer Support Professionals, Human Resource Managers, Marketing Professionals, New Hires, Job Seekers, Lawyers, and more. If you are interested in what Spoken Success can do for you, contact us today.