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Clear communication depends on three things: what you say, how you say it, and how you adjust.
Executive Presence & EQ
IQ alone isn’t enough to be a successful communicator. This program is all about participants opening up their awareness to using their EQ, or Emotional Quotient, and not just their IQ. In other words, how can being aware of your own emotions and the emotions of others foster connections and positive interactions? How can being emotionally intelligent help you achieve your professional goals? We’ll explore a unique model that makes the answers to these questions easy to remember and call upon. Looking through this EQ lens, participants will then explore how to merge their EQ with Executive Presence, or the impression they form on others. Through using our suite of kinesthetic tools developed over a decade, participants experience what it’s like to apply their EQ when using skills like the 5 P’s of Vocal Variety, the 3 S’s of content creation, the power of transparency, and more.
Hybrid Communications
Hybrid workforces are here to stay. No matter if you’re working in a boutique firm, a Fortune 500 company, or a multinational corporation, everyone needs to know how to make hybrid communication opportunities effective and engaging. This program covers all hybrid situations: leading or participating, in-person or remote, audio-only or video, and more. Participants will learn hybrid best practices like: setting up a roll call at the top of hybrid meetings, narrating your gaze when you’re remote, how to create engaging slides, being a good visuals traffic cop by showing people where to look and what they can ignore, passing the baton skillfully to colleagues, and interjecting with intention. We’ll also explore how to manage communication after a hybrid event and what pitfalls to avoid. Hybrid work can be just as fruitful as all in-person or all remote. The key is knowing which hat to wear – and how many hats at once.
Rhetoric in the Real World
BEWARE! BORING JARGON AHEAD!
Elocution; declination; speech; rhetoric. Students of the past often studied the art of persuasive public speech. Our modern world and current educational curriculums emphasize these less, but it doesn’t mean these tools are any less useful. Far from it! Equipping yourself to use alliteration, repetition for emphasis and contrast, antithesis, personification, and other poetic devices can give the modern professional access to glossed-over but powerful tools to win in a world of words. Participants in this session rediscover time-tested rhetorical tools of spoken language and when and how to apply them in a modern business context where functional jargon like “next steps,” “best practices,” and “stakeholder engagement” dominates our discourse. In this program we’ll also learn the structure and power of stories, perhaps one of the most important rhetorical tools available, and why humans are wired for them. All of these tools, when used with intention, can create powerful communication.
Brevity
Simply put, short and sweet is often better. In our attention-constrained world, more words often just means more opportunities to lose one’s audience. In this session participants learn the value of being brief, what brevity actually is, and specific tools to unlock: simplicity of message, accessibility of language, and importance of vivid vs. passive vocabulary. We also examine brevity in storytelling and explore the shortest possible stories, structural tools to keep stories brief, and frameworks to ensure relevance. Next, we consider the differences between synopsis, summary, and synthesis, and teach skills to accomplish the latter. Then we offer participants techniques to course-correct when they recognize they’re rambling. Participants also get access to a custom world in the GK Training practice app (Question Roulette) focused solely on brevity using a game called “Single Sentence Answers.
Effective Remote Communication
Remote work has changed the workplace forever – and will continue to as technology improves. As the world continues the slow transition to a post-pandemic reality, it’s time to give remote work best practices the attention and refresh they deserve. We start off with how to set your workspace up most effectively with lighting, camera angle, and background. The next part covers the 3 major surprises of good communication and 5 good rules to continuously engage those surprises. Participants will also get acquainted with our highly effective transparency model and why being transparent builds credibility – and doesn’t dent it. Participants also explore the power and effectiveness of Vocal Variety, and why engaging it with intention levels up your remote interactions. Finally, we take a look at content-building tools and how to apply them to keep an audience of one or hundreds engaged, even while remote.
Breathe to Speak
This program is all about releasing the restorative power of breath in the everyday moments of our jam-packed professional lives. Breathing in (and crying out!) is the first thing most babies do upon entering the world. Yet this first and most essential thing we do is woefully under-utilized in our day-to-day as adults. Modern adults breathe less, more shallowly, and with less intention than we could and should. In this program, participants learn: 1) why conventional wisdom to “breathe before speaking” is misleading and counterproductive; 2) how to use performance and meditation breath practices to transform focus and speech; 3) how to release natural breath rhythms, capacity, and coordination; 4) how to use intentional breathing in order to add relaxation and rejuvenation without adding time to workdays; 5) how to use breath to convey poise and gravitas; and 6) how to speak with a supported sound that improves vocal production.
Overcoming Objections
One unaddressed concern, objection, or critique can be the difference between winning and losing – the business, the debate, the negotiation. A repeatable, reliable, and effective process for addressing the things that stand in our way is essential. In this session participants learn a 4-step process for handling objections and doing so without monologuing or resorting to oppositional language. Then they cement the process by mapping the stages to a gestural framework developed from Japanese martial arts to internalize the model and build memory. Participants also are guided in how to use GK Training’s proprietary practice app Question Roulette to practice, practice, practice – on frequent real-world objections like “we’re happy with our current situation,” or custom ones users can add. Further functionality even allows clients to share and disseminate best-in-class responses and align their organization’s messaging.
Content Workshop: Choosing Your Words
The pen is mightier than the sword; but when facing speechwriter’s block or email exhaustion, it can be as heavy to pick up, too. For many, choosing what to say — either impromptu or for a planned piece of communication — can be a toilsome process, the dread of which drives people to either “wing it” and just let words fly haphazardly out of their mouths, or procrastinate to the 11th hour and then dutifully slave away at the keyboard all night creating a document or deck that will be delivered with an equally dutiful and joyless white-knuckled focus on perfection. Sounds fun, no? But creating content doesn’t need to be a grind — and it doesn’t even need to be time-intensive! In this targeted session participants learn a stream-lined process for creating great content fast. Using an alliterative system of S’s (so the system seriously sinks in!), participants learn, use, and memorialize a new way to write or speak better stuff, faster.
Meeting Agendas That Move
Creating and executing a simple, effective meeting agenda is more than half the battle in leading successful meetings. In this program, participants build on GK’s methodology for fewer, better, faster emails by learning a lightning quick, systematic approach to creating meeting agendas. This innovative structure also doubles as an ideal format for effective meeting minutes post-meeting, which shifts the all-important task of taking minutes from drudgery to necessary detail. Participants will examine the four concrete components needed to make an agenda actionable, learn how to quickly create and improve agendas, and practice how their agenda can quickly transform to unlock quick-to-write and useful-to-read meeting minutes. The end result? The rarest of things in today’s work environment: a consistent practice of having agendas and minutes for every meeting in an organization.
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