Building Leadership Communication Skills

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Part Three will be two half-day sessions, during which you will:

Reinforce the skills you built in the earlier sessions
Add more advanced tools to help prepare for complex and / or controversial meetings
Get best practices and feedback on creating and using visual aids more effectively
Role play an MS Teams meeting with challenging interaction

This page asks you to tell us how your skills have been working and what you will bring to practice. At the bottom is an overview of the sessions.

Choose material to bring to the program

You need to bring one meeting to practice. We encourage you to choose a real upcoming meeting that is complex or controversial, such as:

A meeting on a complicated topic
A meeting where you are likely to face skepticism, active resistance, or passive resistance
A meeting where the other participants do not understand the issue being discussed, they have decided there are different reasons for a problem or solutions to it, or there is not consensus about the importance, urgency or risks involved
A cross-functional team meeting where you need to influence without authority
A discussion with an external partner where the relationship has gone off-track

We know that you are often asked to give presentations that are, on the surface, just informational. If that is the kind of meeting you would like to practice, make sure to decide what you want your listeners to do with the information. We will continue to build your ability to not just convey the information clearly, but to persuade people to act on it.

If you already have slides for your meeting, bring them with you. If you do not, we will ask you to create a few between the two sessions.

Tell us who you are and what your goals are

Here’s a quick reminder of the skills framework, to help you set goals now and share them with your practice group at the start of your session.

Intellectual dimension

Deliver messages that are clear, relevant, and convincing

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Emotional impression

Create a connection, earn trust, and convey conviction

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Physical skills

Engage with presence, body language, and focused energy

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Name

First Name

Last Name

If your role has changed since Part Two, let us know.

In what situations have you used the skills and tools from the previous sessions? What was the result?

What three skill areas would you like to work on during Part Three?

Tell us about the material you are bringing to practice. What is the topic? Why is it important for you to practice?

Basic requirements above and session descriptions below

Overview of the sessions

First half-day session

Opening

Discuss your experiences since Part Two, current challenges, and Part Three goals.

Compelling storylines

We discuss techniques to create stronger storylines — individually and as a team. We conduct a collaborative session to exchange feedback and improve each person’s storyline.

Engaging visual aids

We discuss how to create and use visual aids to convey a storyline in a convincing and engaging style.

Second half-day session

Lead a meeting

You role play the meeting you prepared in the first session. You will get feedback on MS Teams skills and your use of visuals. As in the previous sessions, you will try different approaches on-the-spot, and we will make a recording.

One-to-one coaching

You review the recording of your meeting privately with a coach.

Questions?

Email us goals@mcalinden.com or call us +1 212 986 4950

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