Public
Speaking

Speak and be heard, listen and be understood

Great business leaders are great communicators. They command attention. They motivate. They lead. They earn respect.

And their No. 1 management and leadership tool is the spoken word.

Regrettably, great business leaders are rare because great communicators are few and far between. This is primarily because we were never taught how to take command of a room and speak in public to audiences large and small. Similarly, we were never taught how to make our point clearly, succinctly and persuasively.

The flipside is that when we do take the stage we tend to become so nervous and obsessed with our own performance that we don’t take the audience into account and adjust our presentation accordingly.

Any wonder why the message we’re trying to get across is so often misunderstood or fails to land at all?

Effective communication is the glue that holds the workplace together, it’s the polish that shines the brand, it’s the fuel that drives revenue. Is your team up to the challenge? Is it delivering the goods? Or are they talking past your key constituents?

Houston … we have a problem

There's been a communication breakdown in American business.

This becomes painfully apparent when business people repeatedly construct their speeches and meeting agendas around lists of features, benefits and statistics, rather than people, narratives, case studies and stories.

When your people take center stage, are they relaxed and authentic? Do they know how to use storytelling, metaphors, similes and imagery to highlight their communication and place it in a real-world context? Do they parade out a litany of raw numbers, or do they talk about what the numbers mean and why they’re relevant?

Ineffective public speaking and verbal communication is a serious issue for any company because the stakes are high. Inability to perform on this front results in:

• Botched negotiations
• Lost sales opportunities
• Poor investor and client relations
• Workplace conflict
• Inability to recruit top talent

Toppling the Tower of Babel

Let us teach your people the power of Conversational Presenting, which will arm them with a well-developed set of public and interpersonal speaking skills.

All it takes is a single person in a small group to start communicating more effectively for a significant impact to be made on the whole. Indeed, a good communicator can bring warring parties together by simply pointing out that they are saying the same thing in different ways.

We use research from social scientists that informs us about how people absorb information, why certain people are heard while others are not, and why such a large percentage of communication is non-verbal.

It’s time to rethink our public personas and the fundamentals of how we communicate with others.

Let's start the conversation. Call us at 925-449-1040. Or, you can send an inquiry to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).