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Featured Keynote: The Shaded Habits
Tired of distracting speaking habits hindering potential in your team – or even yourself? In everyday conversations, those habits are at most, annoying. But on a bigger stage like a board presentation, business pitch or conference talk, they are a risk. Our keynote, Find and Conquer Your Shaded Habits, drawn from 35 years of coaching speakers from Fortune 100 executives to a decade of TEDx speakers, reveals the crucial things holding speakers back. Through compelling stories, we’ll uncover these “shaded habits” before they become glaring problems. Engage us to empower your audience with actionable strategies to transform you or your team’s communication. Let’s illuminate your potential, together.
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PROGRAM FOR ANY AUDIENCE:
Find and Conquer your Shaded Habits
Tired of distracting speaking habits hindering potential in your team – or even yourself? In everyday conversations, those habits are, at most, annoying. But on a bigger stage like a board presentation, business pitch or conference talk, they are a risk. Find and Conquer Your Shaded Habits is drawn from 35 years of coaching speakers from Fortune 100 executives to a decade of TEDx speakers, revealing the crucial skills holding speakers back.
Through compelling stories, we’ll uncover these “shaded habits” before they become glaring problems. Your audience will choose (through a brainstorm and voting step) the key exercises that are picked for live coaching and tips, from a collection of nearly two-dozen proven strategies used every day with our clients. They will walk away engaged and motivated to develop into better communicators, immediately.
PROGRAM FOR LEADERS (For their own development):
The Leader’s Mindset for Transformative Communication
Elevate your influence. This keynote reveals the requirements for a transformative communication mindset, empowering leaders to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and directly impact their bottom line.
The keynote covers with stories, strategies and practical tips:
- Craft Compelling Appeals: Design messages with a clear rhetorical plan, leveraging your credibility and blending impactful stories with data to achieve desired outcomes.
- Manage Stress & Pivot Seamlessly: Develop strategies to control your stress response, read the room, and adapt your message on the fly for maximum impact.
- Conquer Your “Shaded Habits”: Identify and eliminate the specific personal communication disfluencies that might undermine your executive presence in critical situations.
- Embrace Relentless Self-Improvement: Consistently seek feedback and record yourself to pinpoint areas for growth and continuously elevate your communication mastery.
PROGRAM FOR LEADERS (For their team’s development):
The Leader’s Blueprint for Building Teams of High-Impact Communicators
Transform your team into cultivating clear, confident communicators that will advance your ideas with more impact and profit. Know that the ability for them to level up their communication skills starts with your culture shifting development strategies.
The keynote covers with stories, strategies and practical tips:
- Cultivate Communication Habits: How to proactively embed consistent communication practices into daily team routines to build lasting excellence.
- Leverage Everyday Feedback: Utilize low-stakes moments as prime opportunities for constructive communication coaching.
- Prioritize Explicit Instruction: Avoid assuming communication skills are absorbed passively; actively teach and guide specific behaviors. Make the implicit, explicit.
- Ensure Rigorous Preparation: Understand how to build in ample time, resources, and rehearsals for all high-stakes speaking opportunities, avoiding career-thwarting missteps.