Programs

Effective Presentations

Giving a confident, organized, interesting presentation that grabs and retains attention is the key to persuading an audience. Verbal Communications Inc. advocates a fresh, unique method to ensure that you command the presentation and that your audience hears – and retains – every message you deliver. Every time.

Effective presentations are critical to the success of our business’ success, which is why we hired Verbal Communications Inc. to coach each member of a global proposal team who had never previously worked together. Your ability to revise content and visuals while developing each person’s personal style was incredible. You helped create a top-notch team in no time.”
– Fortune 100 Company

In this seminar or during one-on-one coaching, you’ll learn strategies to:

Prepare an organized presentation without wasting time and effort
– Create key messages your audience will remember
– Adjust your message to your audience
– Use emotional accelerators
Control every part of your presentation
– Use opening statements that grab, and keep, audience attention and keep it
– “Humanize” your presentation by using examples and anecdotes
– Present visual aids that will enhance, not detract from, your message.
– Produce conclusions that leave your audience energized and motivated
– Read and adjust to the audience
– Answer even hostile questions with control and aplomb.

Leadership Skills

This really fine professional communications coach knows how to enhance your skills and create a supportive, functional team atmosphere.

Leadership skills don’t come naturally to everyone. In our case, Verbal Communications Inc. helped one of our aspiring executives change her entire approach to the business environment – her behavior, her attitude, even her appearance. Everyone noticed and was pleased with her transformation. She was consequently promoted to a high level executive position within eight months. I would unequivocally recommend this unique company.”

– Fortune 50 Company

Through one-on-one customized coaching, you’ll learn to:

Maintain consistent command over communications to get desired results
Create a supportive functional team atmosphere
Learn to listen – and hear – in an organized manner
Project messages with powerful impact
Accurately read others’ messages
Manage your emotions
Motivate others
Empower and collaborate vs. command and control

Verbal Communications Inc’s executive communications coaching style is based on years of hands-on experiences with executives from a variety of industries. Whether you want to polish and refine your existing skills or make major changes, you will receive – and practice – specific techniques to achieve your goals. Equally valuable, you’ll understand when and where to apply them.

Meetings and Conventions

Meeting and convention programs can be deadly dull. Not yours! You offer enjoyable, interactive seminars that give people valuable techniques they can use in either their professional or personal lives. Your programs consistently rank highest of all on our participant feedback. That’s why we’ve asked you to return so many times.”
– 30,000-Member” Association Executive Director

View a demonstration of a Meeting and Convention program below.

Three Programs: Professionally/personally valuable. Customized. Participatory. Enjoyable (2.5-4 hours)

In this seminar, you will learn:

Speak the Language of Success: (Effective Interpersonal Communications Techniques) Request our 6 minute DVD
– Organized listening, meaningful conversations, motivating, developing cohesive teams, dealing with challenging people. Business attendees, teams and families can all participate equally.
Speak the Language of Success Part II: (More Interpersonal Communications Techniques) Request our 6 minute DVD
– Body language, strategic thinking, creativity, practice using techniques in real life professional situations.
The Memorable Speech: (Demystifying Great Public Speaking)
– Techniques that allow people to consistently give a presentation that grabs – and keeps – the audience’s attention: Strategic content, visual aids, delivery, controlled answers, alleviating fear.

Team Effectiveness

Working as a self-managed team can be one of the most difficult yet rewarding things a professional can do. It can make or break your success in day-to-day business management, new business development, new product development and a whole host of other business challenges.

Team effectiveness can be tricky to achieve. In our company, two of our groups were at each other’s throats. Distrust was rampant, egos were bruised, and hastily spoken words had created barriers. Verbal Communications Inc. came into this costly quagmire and gave us a common language. Cooperation and respect was created out of chaos. The best part is the results have lasted. Thank you!”

In this seminar or during one-on-one coaching, you’ll learn strategies to:

Prepare for effective group meetings
Set and gain agreement for meeting objectives
Establish and maintain time priorities
Manage and leverage group dynamics
Elect and empower team leaders
Control the use of emotion packed words
Diagnose and change unwanted or counter-productive group behaviors
Create and sustain an environment where teams can be successful
Create a common language that all groups can share

Influencing Investors

When presenting to potential investors, you are demonstrating what kind of leader you are as much as giving them key facts and figures. Analysts and investors are generally inundated with information. Many are impatient, bored and cynical – they’ve heard it all and they can be unimpressed by titles or a presenter’s experience level. These are “table stakes”. To get their attention quickly and hold it throughout your presentation is critical. You will generally get only one chance to succeed; the challenge is to make the most of it.

Influencing investors can be nerve wracking. When we tried to sell our company, our COO was unable to present himself in a manner commensurate with his position. Investors were disinterested because he projected insecurity. After you coached him for only a few hours, he spoke with such authority and confidence that reluctant investors became enthusiastic. Many thanks.”
– Mid-Sized Manufacturing Company

Through one-on-one or group coaching, you’ll learn to:

Understand what the investor really wants to hear
Investigate each potential investor before the presentation so you can tailor your messages to their needs
Grab attention and hold it throughout your presentation
Get to the point quickly
Reduce redundancies
Use visual aids that illustrate key points while allowing the investors’ attention to remain on you
Balance facts with examples that show your mastery of all elements of your business
Control the investor’s questions and interruptions and turn them to your advantage

Creating Relationships That Build Business

Relationship management is critical to business success. It does not matter whether one is a lawyer, a CPA or a banker, we all still need clients or we won’t have anyone to bill. Increasingly, firms require professionals to develop their own business. If we recognize that clients need us as much as we need them, we can view relationship management success as a set of skills that simply allow us to connect with others to whom we are mutually attracted.

“Relationship Management for Business Development has changed the way we do business. Verbal Communications Inc. reminded us that clients still want us to know them and their businesses in a more intimate way – and showed us how to develop those relationships step by step. Clients really do hire firms they know and trust!”
– AmLaw 100 Firm