Professional Presentation Skills Training
$110.00
Our program will develop your professional and effective presentation skills. Our focus includes personalized coaching to improve your individual delivery style. Videotaping is implemented throughout the program.
We’ll help you identify your strengths. We’ll address how you produce specific speech sounds, the tone and stress that are appropriate for getting your point across, effective gestures and your body language.
Our program will emphasize:
- A Strong Vocal Tone
- Clear Pronunciation And Good Speech Rate
- Positive Body Language
- Gaining The Groups Attention
- Using Visuals in Presentations
- Effective Use of Pauses and Gestures
Speaking Successfully will also provide you valuable feedback during our rehearsals to guarantee that your audience will easily understand your presentation. We want you to demonstrate your confidence as well as your grasp of the topic.
We’ll help you develop your presentation by:
- Reviewing its content for Standard English sounds and sentence structure
- Suggesting vocabulary and business expressions appropriate to the topic, audience and your expected outcomes
- Assisting you with the organization of the material to maximize audience interest and comprehension
Improve your nonverbal communication skills
A critical part of effective business communication is understanding both the expressed message as well as the implied message. Use of role-playing will help you recognize the messages conveyed by body language. You’ll learn good rehearsal techniques to build confidence and reduce anxiety.
More than half of all human communication takes place nonverbally. When you speak in public, your listeners judge you not only by what they hear, but what they see. Learning how to communicate your ideas effectively through gestures and other forms of nonverbal communication will boost your overall success as a public speaker.
To develop a natural looking body language that matches the meaning of your words you’ll learn:
- how to position your body to reflect a confident, relaxed attitude
- how to make your body movements easy, natural and smooth
- how to move your body in a controlled, purposeful manner during a speech
- how to be more meaningful through appropriate use of facial expressions
- how to use your eyes effectively when presenting a speech
- how to help control nervousness when speaking
Find out the "secrets" to engaging a conversation and keeping it going, appropriate ways to begin and end a conversation, and how body language affects communication.
Increase your communication skills and you’ll increase self-confidence!
You’ll find our communication classes to be fun, and you’ll enjoy the personal satisfaction that improved speech and conversation skills enable
How’s Our Program Work?
At Speaking Successfully we believe that, regardless of your experience, how well you speak, if English is your second language or which region or country you’re from, you can significantly improve your business communication skills.
No matter your skill level, the program length or class size you select, all our courses include three essential components: a thorough assessment, professional training and lots of practice.
Our Assessment
Our programs begin with a thorough assessment of your business communication skills. For example, we’ll determine exactly how your pronunciation varies from standard American English.
We will also discover which specific areas we’ll need to concentrate on the most. For example, do you speak too quickly, too slowly, do you drop the ending sounds on words, do you mumble, or do you ‘um’ and ‘er’ a lot? This assessment also helps us determine the number of sessions required.
Our Business Communication Specialist begins with an evaluation of your particular business English skills, your workplace and personal requirements and your business communication goals. We’ll assess your use of body movements, facial gestures, related body language and cultural knowledge. Then we’ll design a program tailored to your personal and professional needs.
Employee Benefits
- Greater advancement opportunities mean greater chances for a better career
- Increased professional performance
- Increased customer satisfaction - face-to-face and over the telephone
- Increased confidence: professionally, socially, and personally
- Improved organizational communication and efficiency
Your Training Program
All your Business Communication Improvement is done with a nationally certified speech pathologist. Depending on your specific needs, instruction will specifically address pronunciation, intonation and inflection, pitch, voice projection, speaking rate, grammar and total word production.
When you’ve learned the sounds and principles of Western English, you'll have the tools to master even the most specialized, technical or scientific terminology. You'll gain the confidence in your conversational skills to tackle group discussions and formal presentations.
Our programs also incorporate follow-up coaching. You will see successful results from this unique aspect. This added value may just be the incentive you or your employees need to maintain success!
Our programs are flexible, with training schedules designed to fit the busiest company or executive. Our programs range from 2 to 4 to 7 to 14 hours in length with a variety of manageable schedules. We believe sustained learning occurs over time with consistent input and support.
Lots of Practice
To improve your business communication skills takes a lot of hard work and dedication. It cannot be done in our trainings alone. The professionals at Speaking Successfully will always provide you additional carryover practice work. Typically, there's 30-45 minutes of practice work each day.
You may also work independently recorded personal practice exercises on tape or CD. You’ll also receive tailored assignments using your new business communication skills in real life situations.
When you’ve completed your ‘Speaking Successfully’ program, your speech will be assessed again. The results will be compared to your initial testing so you can see exactly how much progress you’ve made. Past comparison have shown that individuals who attend all the appropriate sessions of a 14 hour program and practice diligently can expect to experience at least a 50% change in their production.
Time and Location
Increasingly busy schedules can make it difficult to find time for the professional and personal development. That's why we present trainings in the convenience of your work site. This proven method allows even the busiest professional to take advantage of our Business Communication Improvement Programs.
All Speaking Successfully programs held at your corporate office or workplace can be scheduled at convenient times throughout the business day. Many clients report that when they can stay in their office or conference facility, they’re sure to make the meetings and they can completely focus on their speech improvement training.
Client and Customer Benefits:
- Your clients and customers don’t have to struggle to understand your employee.
- Your clients and customers can conduct business quicker and more efficiently.
- Your clients and customers have increased confidence that your employee understands their special needs.
- Your clients and customers are more likely to return and refer others to your business.
Having great communication skills is critical to your success in today's business and professional environments. Your ability to communicate effectively plays a tremendous role in whether or not you or your company succeeds. You need to be able to convey your ideas with an impact that is convincing.
We believe you can easily improve your business communication skills and meet the needs of your customers or clients. To understand you, your listeners need you to have clear pronunciation and voice with adequate loudness and pitch variation. They also need you to organize your message and to present new information in a way that makes sense to them.
If you would like to have greater success when you make oral presentations, participate in meetings, talk with clients, or communicate with professional and business colleagues, the services offered at Speaking Successfully may be just what you’re looking for!
We will customize any training program to fit your individual needs. We will also combine any training program to maximize your time and investment. Most of our trainings are available in 2-hour modules. Our fees are billed hourly.
