Confidently Speaking
To be a great leader, you must be a great communicator. To be a great communicator, you must speak with clarity, power and purpose. Whether speaking to 2, 200 or even 2,000, audience engagement is more difficult than ever due to the constant stimuli demanding our attention. This is why being a powerful communicator is more important than ever.
In this program you will learn the secrets great leaders and communicators use from the podium to the boardroom. How they gain perceived credibility, embrace their authenticity and speak to inspire.
Your value as a leader will dramatically increase as your presence, charisma from the platform and command of the spoken word leads to greater results.
Speak more confidently, persuade more easily, and have more fun as you learn the secrets to captivating your audience.
Participant Takeaways:
- Techniques to engage an audience in the first 30 seconds.
- The difference between fear and anxiety and seven ways to overcome fear.
- Attributes every audience wants from a leader when they are speaking.
- Physical skills that will help you transform into a more competent, confident and compelling communicator.
The Confident Communicator
It is no secret that first impressions are incredibly important in today’s competitive market. Whether you are meeting someone in your office or are standing in front of a group speaking about what you do, you have ONE chance to make a positive, confident, and memorable impression that leads to future relationships. This hands on, interactive session will equip you with the communication and body language skills necessary to ensure that your ONE chance is the only chance you need!
Participant Takeaways:
- Become aware of what your body language is communicating before, during and after a conversation with someone.
- Understand how to navigate and enhance communication by paying attention to body language.
- Techniques to engage your listeners in the first 30 seconds.
- Physical skills that will help you transform into a more competent, confident and compelling communicator.
Elevate YOUR Networking Skills
Even if you don’t realize it, you are always networking. Every time you meet someone new and exchange information about yourself or what you do for a living, you are building your network.
When you have these opportunities the question is ‘Are you leaving a positive and lasting impression on those you meet?’ Understanding networking body language, how to talk about your business in a memorable way and how to follow up with the people you meet will ensure that you can easily answer this question. It can also help you build your network and turn your networking efforts into a source of revenue.
Participant Takeaways:
- Understand networking body language skills.
Leave a positive and lasting impression about you and your business while networking and communicating.
- Learn how to approach networking events and how to effectively market yourself and your business at the different types of events.
- Recognize what type of networking is effective for you and your business.
- How to talk about yourself and your business in a memorable and effective way.
- Increase your ROI for the time you spend networking.
Workshops
Knock ‘em Alive Powerful Presentation Skills – Level 1
Although public speaking may not be your favorite thing to do, the ability to persuade and communicate effectively can impact every aspect of your professional life. This workshop focuses on fine-tuning one’s abilities and skills in this arena which is essential to your career success.
Whether you wish to communicate with two or two hundred people, there are specific skills that will make a measurable difference in your overall success. “Knock ’em Alive! Powerful Presentation Skills” is a workshop designed to lead busy professionals through an integrated process of learning to communicate and present effectively. Regardless of previous instruction and experience, participants will find value.
Participant Takeaways:
- Understand and use the behaviors that signal confidence, poise and power in any communication.
- Use of eyes, voice, hands and feet as tools for communication.
- Use of voice to convey confidence and captivate the room.
- Skills that will engage your listeners.
- Understand and manage fear.
What is Included:
- Full day of training for up to 12 people.
- Video feedback for each participant and individual coaching.
- Knock ’em Alive! Powerful Presentation Skills ™ Level 1 workbook.
- Audio links with workshop “key points” designed to assist the participant in future application of the skills.
Knock ‘em Alive Powerful Presentation Skills – Level 2
This workshop begins with a review of the skills learned from Level 1 including the seven attributes audiences find most important and presentation delivery skills. This refresher also includes information about structuring a speech and applying presentation models that are typically called for in the corporate setting. After looking at the structure and model used, we move into how to effectively incorporate visuals into presentations to add the next level of texture. Each participant is asked to bring a few slides from a presentation they have or will be delivering.
Participant Takeaways:
- Identify personal progress in the use of skills presented in Level 1.
- Learn four distinct presentation models appropriate to corporate environment.
- Learn how and when to effectively and appropriately use visuals.
- Prepare visually stimulating and professional PowerPoint slides.
- Practice delivering a presentation with PowerPoint using skills learned in Level 1.
- Present with impact – capture audience attention.
What is Included:
- Half day of training for up to 12 people.
- Knock ’em Alive! Powerful Presentation Skills ™ Level 2 workbook.
Emergenetics® Meeting of the Minds
Everyone has a brain. How we use it, however, is as individual as our genetic code. The Emergenetics® Profile answers age old questions such as ‘Why do they think that way?’, ‘Why do they want THAT information?’, and ‘Why can’t they just think like me?’ While differences often result in conflict, the best teams find that differences are needed and actually contribute to the overall success of the team.
Emergenetics® is based on research that indicates we are born ‘pre-wired’ with traits to act and think in certain ways, and we modify these traits as we interact with our environment. Our experiences and genetics combine and intertwine to form recognizable patterns. It is an understanding and use of these patterns – taught using the Emergenetics® Profile – that helps you and your team to improve communication, productivity and morale.
This fast-paced, interactive program leads you and your team through a learning process that is customized to meet your needs and ensure the results you seek. Whether you are hiring, training, leading, or interacting with your team – Emergenetics® workshops focus on business issues and improved results.
Participant Takeaways:
- Insights into personal and team thinking and behavioral preferences.
- Learn to construct the “perfect” team.
- Creative and comprehensive problem solving.
- Enhanced interpersonal communication.
- Leadership development.
- Learn to value differences.
- Communicate in a way that connects with every audience.
What is Included:
