Supporting Teams
Compelling and concise communications deliver a competitive advantage—which is critical not only for leaders but also for their teams, from entry-level members to senior managers.
Whether shoring up skills or preparing for a specific event, strengthening communication in a team setting builds confidence and ability, fosters effective peer feedback, and enables your most precious resource—your people—to solve business challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
In-person, remote, and hybrid work settings require a range of communication skills: the ability to manage by influence, exhibit presence, navigate difficult conversations, get buy-in, and exchange direct feedback.
I partner with teams of all sizes to improve their communication in any scenario. The core programs listed below are customizable, based on your needs.
Communicating with Executives
Part of a professional’s job is to share ideas with senior management through spoken and written communications. But executives can be tough audiences. By thinking through what makes executives tick, considering how to adjust your approach based on their goals, and reviewing best practices for handling questions (and interruptions), this program strengthens interactions with these key constituents.
Creating Conversations That Matter
One hallmark of a thriving workplace is a team’s ability to create effective dialogue on the topics that matter most. By exploring frameworks for conversations that are psychologically safe and productive—from sharing feedback to navigating conflict—this program offers you the tools to create dialogues that improve relationships and results.
Executive Presence
Executive presence is a by-product of behaviors that command attention and inspire followership with a range of audiences. This seemingly magical leadership skill can be concretized and developed through effective use of body and voice, as vehicles of communication, and crafting captivating narratives.
Persuasive Presentations
Presentations aren’t simply data downloads; they are experiences that illuminate ideas and connect an audience to a speaker—and to each other. This program helps you and your team better understand how to utilize your own style while employing the approaches of the best speakers: audience-centricity, messages that move, and dynamic delivery.
The Purposeful Story
Stories: we’re hardwired to be drawn to them. Stories help audiences picture future successes or better understand past failures, make new ideas stick, and are powerful delivery mechanisms for information. When professionals craft and express stories with purpose, listeners are more compelled to act. Stories create alignment—between people, organizations, and brands—and alignment produces results.
