Communication Skills Boot Camp

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This program will build on the skills you developed in your previous work with us. We will focus on:

Analyzing your stakeholders, structuring your material and visualizing your storyline
Leveraging your physical delivery to engage your listeners with confidence and conviction
Responding constructively to challenging questions

The rest of this page explains how to prepare for the program and provides an overview of the sessions.

Choose material to bring to the program

Bring with you a meeting or presentation that will happen after the program.

It should be important to you because you will improve the content as well as your skills.
You will get the most out of the day if you challenge yourself, so bring in a meeting that involves some complexity — for example, the topic might be difficult to explain or there are very different points of view that need to be addressed.
You can bring work-in-progress. Do not script yourself or over-prepare. You will have preparation periods. Bring your laptop and any visual aids you would like to use.

Tell us who you are and what your goals are

If you would like to use a self-evaluation to think about your skills before answering these questions, click here. Many people also seek input from a few colleagues whose opinions they value.

Name

First Name

Last Name

Role

Since you last worked with us, what has improved in the way you prepare and deliver your communications?

Which types of interactions are most difficult for you?

What three skill areas would you like to improve during the program?

Tell us about the material you are bringing to practice — what is the topic and why is it important for you to practice?

Basic requirements above and session descriptions below

Overview of the sessions

Opening

Discuss the challenging communication situations you face and link the agenda to them.

Morning session

We reinforce the preparation tools provided previously and — depending on which of our programs you have attended — introduce a few new ones.

Either way, you prepare your material by analyzing your stakeholders, deciding a plan, and creating a visual outline of your storyline.

Then you get feedback on your preparation.

You complete your morning practice by verbalizing an executive summary of your storyline.

Afternoon session

You role-play the meeting you prepared earlier, to bring the storyline to life, reinforce delivery skills, and increase listener engagement. We record a video.

One-to-one coaching

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

Plan actions

You identify a few meetings over the next couple of weeks and plan the skills you will apply in each one to increase your chances of success.

Questions?

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

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