IN-PERSON + VIRTUAL COURSES
Through these professional development courses, you can learn skills that will help you succeed— no matter your career.
Presentation skills
Success in business depends on the ability to present with poise, persuasiveness and conviction in all contexts— from conference calls to town halls. Our sessions will cover those techniques and will enable you to feel and look confident when you deliver your messages. We’ll cover skills such as how to relax, project your voice, craft a concise message, handle tough questions so you communicate with clarity and confidence.
Communication Skills
Communicating well is the most important competency to master — in work and life. It’s the life-blood of change management, team trust, success across cultures, and a crucial part of great leadership. This course will give you the knowledge and skills to manage every interaction. You’ll improve listening skills, effectively structure your messages, understand communication styles, read non-verbal signals, diffuse difficult situations, and ensure that you’re clear and understood whenever you communicate. We’ll also troubleshoot the do’s and don’ts of technology when you connect, and, cover the best practices for virtual environments.
Pitch Coaching and Presenting With Others
Most pitches fail before they start because the team doesn’t follow crucial steps in the pitching process. Winning the business can only happen if you perform as a cohesive team who can communicate their value. This customized session will give client-facing individuals a successful approach to structuring and delivering pitches, private coaching, pitch design support, and influencing strategies that ensures you’re persuasive and heard.
Mastering the art of selling: sales training for individuals + teams
Understanding how to develop business is fundamental to any organization and having a well-trained sales team is the first step toward achieving needed growth and sustaining your customer base. This two-day intensive offers a proven sales training approach to increase sales, achieve team goals, build better customer relationships, manage difficult conversations, influence decision making, and, know when and how to confidently close the sale.
Influence + persuasion
Influence and persuasion go hand in hand and yet need distinctly different strategic and ethical approaches. You’ll learn the tools needed to gain influence, understand the psychology of persuasion, and, how to be influential across many business contexts. We’ll discuss topics such as tactics, how to shape perception, crafting a persuasive message, a principled negotiation, subconscious triggers, verbal and non-verbal signals, and, how to avoid manipulation.
Media skills
We’ll develop talking points that go beyond “sound bites” to a powerful, selling message delivered with conversational ease and sincerity. It’s a customized session that prepares for all national media such as morning shows, prime-time cable, principal NPR programs and printed media. Includes telephone and e-mail follow-up.
Improv
Thinking on your feet and communicating with credibility are necessary skills for anyone who’s had to deliver under pressure with little or no time to prepare. By learning improvisation and performance techniques you’ll have the skills needed to not only land running, but also improve your flexibility to handle tough conversations, reframe thinking, improve morale, build teams, boost confidence, and create a resilient mindset.
Creative Thinking, Innovation, and The Next Big Idea
The only constant is change. Knowing how to manage it and encourage flexible thinking will help you improve morale and resilience, generate better solutions, build teams, and foster innovation. This course will improve your ability to navigate growth and develop a positive approach to ideation. Topics include brainstorming techniques, innovative work environments, strategies to promote creative thinking, developing team flexibility, playfulness for stress reduction and performance improvement, and understanding how to leverage your creative strengths.
storytelling
A well-told story is one of the best ways for anyone to compel, captivate, and inspire others. It’s is proven tool to boost the effectiveness of business, especially in knowledge management, organizational development, coaching, and sales. It’s a critical skill for public speaking and instrumental to building trust in relationships. We’ll give you the key skills needed to develop and deliver business appropriate stories, as well as when and how to use them.
“Nanette— a fabulous coach and one dynamic lady. Thanks so much!”
-Betsy Prioleau, Cultural Historian and Author of “Seductress Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love”