Communication Skill Boosters
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Forte Communication Skill Boosters

 

What?

Interactive, experiential 3-hour skill building sessions run in-house for up to 20 team members.

Who will benefit?

Teams and individuals where:

  • effective communication is critical to role and results
  • communication is a challenge or barrier to performance
  • there's the need to improve in a particular area of communication (eg planning, persuasion, performance)
  • effective business writing is a must
  • or where called upon to speak at conferences, internal or external groups.

The 3-hour Booster sessions:


Power of Planning
Power of Persuasion

You need a plan for every meeting, presentation and piece of writing. In the Power of Planning learn how to:

  • Analyse your audience
  • Determine up front the response you want
  • Structure messages – for impact and audience recall
  • Use a simple planning tool - to easily and effectively
    map a powerful message
  • Develop a clear and compelling call to action

Find out what to say, to whom and how!

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Persuasion is at the heart of almost all communication. To convince your audience to decide, approve or do something you need to:

  • Determine your strategy
  • Use logical arguments to support your case
  • Use words that work harder eg urge vs suggest
  • Harness your voice and body language
  • Focus on benefits

Achieve maximum power through this most essential ingredient: persuasion!

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Power of Performance
Power of Women’s Voice

As a busy professional called on to stand and deliver your organisation’s message you need to learn what actors know
about keeping an audience in the palm of your hand:

  • Deal with nerves
  • Own the room
  • Harness powerful words
  • Vocal power, eye contact, body language
  • Speak from the heart rather than by rote more impact

Find out how to plot, ‘stage manage’ and polish your performance for best results!

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'Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick.
Those days are over.'

Bella Abzug (1st US Congresswoman)

The voice is a vital tool for communicating who we are, our needs and contribution in a generally male dominated business environment. Explore both the literal and metaphorical voice of women in the corporate world:

  • Identify individual habits that compromise assertive communication
  • Discover techniques for a more persuasive, powerful voice
  • Develop techniques for more assertive presence when speaking
  • Practice performance techniques to establish personal
    power in meetings
  • Assert your right to speak without sounding aggressive

Express your message with vitality and passion in order to be heard and valued!

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Power of Business Writing
Power of Public Speaking

To create focused and persuasive written communications you need to:

  • Plan what you’re going to write, to whom and how
  • Create well structured messages for impact,
    reader focus and recall
  • Inject persuasion into your letters and documents
  • Write to be read and understood
  • Polish, punctuate and proof-read your written word

Find out how to plan and polish your writing for best results!

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To influence people and outcomes more effectively, you must identify your audience and deliver a persuasive message:

  • Plan what you’re going to say, to whom and how
  • Plot, ‘stage manage’ and polish your performance
  • Inject persuasion into your presentations
  • Make the best of your personal forté

Discover how to get the right response to your message!

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