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Be Bright. Be Brief. Be Gone.™
We’ll Cover:
- Why is it more difficult to communicate today?
- Why is it more difficult to get a buy-in for change?
- What questions do you have regarding your ability to lead and activate others?
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Information: key success factors in communicating to others through effective messages
- Overall, more confidence and comfort when communicating
- Enhanced leadership ability to get results from people
- A short, cost effective skill development program
This is an in-house program.
Speak Up & Be Effective™
Learn How To:
- Think on your feet.
- Project more confidence.
- Manage nerves.
- Get your point across.
Benefits to You:
- Self- awareness of how others see you
- Increased comfort and confidence when communicating with others
- New skills to effectively communicate your message
This program may be brought in-house and customized for members of your organization.
Facilitation Skills
You’ll Learn To:
- Move things forward faster
- Build in 100% participation
- Generate a wide variety of creative ideas
- Enhance collaboration and get a buy-in for change
- Reach a timely consensus
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Reduce meeting time
- Improve quality outcomes in process improvement, planning, problem solving, and decision making
- Build relationships
- Enhance your credibility as a leader
- Take your organization to the next level
This program may be brought in-house and customized for members of your organization.
Speak Up & Be Effective™ - Advanced
Learn How To Communicate with Impact:
- Demonstrate the 10 characteristics of powerful presentations
- Prepare focused, concise, and activating messages
- Project the style and presence of today’s leader
- Enhance your confidence and credibility as a leader
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Self-awareness of how others see you
- New strategies and skills to activate your audience
- Increased confidence in your presentation ability
This program may be brought in-house and customized for members of your organization.
The Exceptional Leader™
Facilitated and coached by Nancy Skinner and an Assistant Coach
The first job of a leader is to define the future with vision and with
strategies. Then the leader must align others’ performance and inspire
action to lead change. The leader’s message must be simple and compelling.
It must permeate the organization with consistent clarity, passion, and
energy. The messenger must be up to the message.
Learn How To Lead Change:
- Key steps to create change
- Communicate change
- Inspire action
- Enhance your confidence and credibility as a leader
This program may be brought in-house and customized for members of your organization.
Public Speaking from a Stage™
You’ll Learn:
- Attention grabbing openings
- The special dynamics needed for large audiences
- How to engage and energize the back corners of the room
- How to be more comfortable and confident in the spotlight
- Inspiring closes
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Communicate effectively with large audiences
- Get a buy-in for change faster
- Enhance your credibility as a leader
- Take your organization to the next level
This program may be brought in-house and customized for members of your organization.
Mastering Media Interviews™
Grow your reputation with key audiences through effective media interviews.
You’ll Learn:
- How to best prepare for an interview
- How to get your points in
- The dynamics of an on-camera interview vs. radio and print media
- What to do when you can't or don't want to respond
- The biggest mistakes and how to avoid them
- Mock interviews with feedback, focused coaching, and videotaping
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Be ready for the media's toughest questions
- Communicate effectively
- Position you and your organization as a leader
- Represent your organization with pride
This is an in-house program.
The Art of Business Dining
Learn How To:
- Plan an effective business lunch
- Use appropriate dining etiquette
- Mix and mingle with confidence at cocktail receptions
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Eliminate dining faux pas that could rob you of credibility
- Increase confidence and comfort when dining
- Enhance the image of your company and your personal credibility
- Build business relationships in a social setting
Productive Conversations
Learn How To:
- Identify key principles for effective communications
- Learn a communication structure and talking points for several types of productive conversations
- Identify the benefits of emotional intelligence and how it applies to productive conversations
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Information: key success factors on how to have productive conversations with direct reports, peers and managers
- New skills and strategies to effectively communicate productive conversations
- Increase comfort leading to more effective communications
Leading the Sale
Learn How To Communicate With Impact:
- Understand the new sales model for selling long-term relationships and how to apply it to your targeted customers
- Build trust and credibility with your customers
- Project confidence through non-verbal communication
- Improve listening skills
- Plan and present solutions for customer buy-in
- Project the style and presence of a sales leader
Benefits to You and Your Organization:
- Self-awareness of how others see you
- Increased comfort and confidence when selling
- New sales strategies and skills to influence others
- Improved performance and personal productivity
Individual Assessments & Consultations
SKINNER SCAN™ - Presentation Skills Assessment
Participant brings a prepared communication up to 5 minutes in length and
is critiqued on their presentation skills. We evaluate both the clarity of
the message and the credibility of the messenger.
This service is open to:
- those who have attended one of our programs and would like to know how they are doing, and
- those who have not attended any of our programs and want feedback on their communication skills.
Benefits:
- Self-awareness of how others see you
- Assessment of your communication strengths and weaknesses
- 3 tips on how to improve
- Recommendations for personal development
Individual Coaching
This service is only available to those who have participated in our
Speak Up & Be Effective™ programs or The Exceptional Leader™
program. Participant answers a brief questionnaire, then prepares a
presentation in advance of the coaching session for a special event of other
important presentation and receives one-on-one focused coaching.
Benefits:
- Increased comfort and confidence in communicating with others
- Tips on how to be you at your best in general and/or for a specific objective, audience, occasion, or medium
- Performance improvement
Executive Coaching
Package Purchase Includes:
- Coaching time and video taping to individual goals and upcoming key communications, presentations, public speaking
- Scheduling
- Preparation of content and methods
- Personalized materials
- Follow up reminders for practice and performance improvement
- Telephone consultations
- Occasional reading assignments
- Occasional meetings with your script writer, PR firm, and/or Staff
Skill Development:
- Communicate with impact per the unique:
- Communication Objective
- Audience
- Occasion
- Medium
We suggest 2-4 hours of coaching with videotaping every other week as a minimum practice level for performance improvement.
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