Train Your Team to Sound Smart, Confident, and More Engaging

Train your staff to speak more clearly and confidently while leading meetings, delivering presentations, or communicating with clients. This course will teach your team how to speak with smart-sounding melody patterns with more vocal variety, moving inflection, and sharper articulation while speaking at a rate that is controlled and sounds interesting known as intonation. Speaking with skilled intonation is the most important skill for effective business communication. Team members will learn how to be more impactful with their communication while looking and sounding more confident. 

By the end of Course One, team members will be able to do the following:

• Speak using the “speech stairs strategy” to sound clear, smart, fluid, and confident
• Speak with improved articulation and diction
• Eliminate poor speech habits such as speaking too fast, sounding monotone, mumbling, trailing off, and using up-speak
• Understand why speaking with intonation is the most important skill for effective communication
• Turn new communication skills into habits by applying the speech notebook, speech triggers, and red-light drill exercises in the real world

Team members will learn how to speak in their optimal pitch range by producing vocal tones that are strong, powerful, and confident while keeping the voice safe from injury due to overuse. Tones that are too soft, weak, high in pitch, or nasal are ineffective and should be replaced with those that are strong and clear. Communication will sound professional and smart when spoken in the optimal pitch range.

By the end of Course Three, team members will be able to do the following:

• Speak with a stronger and more powerful voice
• Utilize multiple strategies for finding the power spot in their voice
• Eliminate ineffective vocal behaviors such as vocal fry or using tones that are too high, thin, or nasal
• Understand the three types of resonance
• Pass the test for nasal speech

After mastering essential communication and voice skills, it is time to apply those new skills to give an outstanding presentation. This course will prepare team members to deliver modern, on-point presentations that will bring actionable results. Team members will learn the crucial skill of delivering information through storytelling, which will keep audience members engaged and help them remember the content. Multiple physical and cognitive strategies to combat fear of public speaking will also be offered. Body language techniques for how to stand, show confidence, and what to do with one’s hands will be revealed, along with numerous tips on how to organize content on a slide (less is more) and manage presentations effectively. By the end of this course, team members will be looking forward to presentations.

By the end of Course Five, team members will be able to do the following:

• Understand how to be an interesting storyteller for every type of presentation
• Learn how to “ground” themselves to appear strong and confident in their presentations
• Develop an action plan for combating stage fright with proven physical and cognitive strategies
• Speak brilliantly without notes with the visual mapping strategy
• Organize slide content with modern principals (less is more)
• Use multiple strategies for answering unexpected questions and managing audience expectations
• Apply a variety of body language techniques that demonstrate confidence and authority for both in-person and online presentations