Presentation and Language
Communications courses including Powerful Presentations, Communication Skills, Strategic Communications in the Workplace, and Project Management training.
Better Business Writing
Use concise, positive language to your advantage. Hone your writing skills into a more powerful communication tool. An interactive approach makes this class extraordinarily engaging and practical. You'll immediately notice the difference from this course.
After this class, you will be able to:
- Describe the key components of audience-centric writing that draw the reader in and deepen the relationship
- Refine your writing by being more concise, using clear, thoughtful structure and language, and adjusting your style to the audience
- Describe effective writing styles and standards for both digital and paper media
- Create your own action plan to improve your writing effectiveness
Class is limited to 15 participants.
Creative Strategy & Visual Thinking
We'll develop your design and problem-solving skills as we explore innovative visual thinking strategies surrounding theory, aesthetics, and practice. Build your creative confidence and sharpen your talents utilizing design tools and applications.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Articulate basic creative design principles, processes, and theory to support in developing and enhancing creative design projects
- Develop visual thinking skills and creative design strategy
- Facilitate a creative visual strategy with effective deliverables
- Develop, analyze and refine creative concepts from initial idea to final product
- Analyze and apply visual thinking and creative design strategies to challenges of specific problems
Executive Presence for the Non-Executive
Develop a specific plan for achieving executive presence: learn to project confidence, demonstrate emotional intelligence, command the room, polish your appearance and more as you strive for that "it" factor to help open executive-level doors.
Completion of a brief, online assessment prior to the course is required; to ensure timely analysis, we recommend enrolling at least 3-5 days prior to course start date. After this class, you will be able to:
- Define and explain Executive Presence
- Develop a detailed plan for enhancing your executive presence in terms of your:
- Gravitas (how you act)
- Projecting confidence
- Speaking truth to those in power
- Demonstrating emotional intelligence
- Excelling in difficult situations
- Communication (how you speak)
- Leveraging DiSC communication styles
- Speaking skills
- Commanding a room
- Appearance (how you look)
- Polish and grooming
- Clothing
- Develop strategies to overcome feedback failures to get honest, productive insight
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Presentations: The Power to Persuade and Inspire
Build confidence in your presentation style via practical exercises, best practices, and constructive peer feedback as you work to take the fear out of public speaking. Strengthen your ability to communicate with words, visuals, and body language.
- Build greater confidence for public speaking
- Learn how to connect and engage any audience by applying the ADEPT model
- Describe the do's and don'ts of great presentations
- Build presentations skills through practice exercises
Strategic Communications in the Workplace
Communication is more than talking and listening. Develop your skills at reading people and see how others interpret your own behavior. Adapt your communication style to increase engagement and create an enduring working alliance among team members.
- Describe the four styles of behavior and describe your behavioral communication style through the DiSC© Personal Profile.
- Recognize the styles of other people through behavioral cues and people reading techniques.
- Increase individual and team productivity by leveraging strengths and the strengths of other team members that may have different styles.
- Determine how others interpret your behavior and monitor and adjust their verbal and nonverbal messages to improve communication.
- Adapt communication styles based on the situation to improve individual and team communication effectiveness.
- Develop specific communication strategies that build a culture of alliance and collaboration.
Good Grammar is Good Business
Create mistake-free documents and avoid common grammatical errors. Strengthen business communication skills and master correct punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, and spelling. Prerequisite: basic knowledge of English writing and grammar Tuition: $375.
After this class, you will be able to:
- Create succinct, accurate documents
- Identify and use the best word choices
- Construct dynamic, grammatically correct sentences
- Implement 10 e-mail etiquette tips
- Write with confidence and clarity