Leadership Communication Skills

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This program will strengthen your leadership communication skills — skills that will help you have more successful meetings and presentations, conversations that lead to action, and ultimately progress in your career.

It will strengthen your ability to:

  • Create clear, concise, and compelling communications

  • Use presence and tailored messages to engage and influence listeners

  • Adapt to different listeners / stakeholders and settings

You will build these skills in a full day of highly interactive and practice-intensive sessions:

  • Small working groups will ensure you have a very personalized experience

  • We don’t think there is one right way for everyone to communicate to all listeners. Instead, we will help you strengthen your skills while remaining true to your own personality

  • In one-to-one coaching sessions, you will watch recordings of your practice, so you get a clear picture of your strengths and areas for work, as well as concrete suggestions for how to improve

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

You will practice with your own real communication situation. Pick a meeting or presentation that will happen after the program and bring any slides or notes you may have. The topic you practice should be important to you because you will improve the content as well as your skills.

Do not script yourself or over-prepare. You can bring work-in-progress. You will use your laptop to prepare content during the program and adjust it based on feedback.

Here are a few guidelines to help you choose a good situation to practice:

  • Ideally it should get across a point of view or a recommendation, rather than simply inform

  • You will present up to ten-minutes of content. If the actual material is longer, you can condense it before the program or during the preparation period

  • It can be to a group or individual

  • You have the option to use four or five slides. You can bring draft slides / work-in-progress

  • You will be asked to try different approaches to the messages and structure of the content

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.

Overview of the sessions

Morning

Opening

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

 

Set goals

You set personal goals within our intellectual, emotional, and physical communication skills framework.

 

Increase presence

You practice telling a brief story — expanding your use of eye contact, voice and body language — to increase your presence, confidence and impact. We record your story. Together, we begin the process of giving and receiving feedback.

 

One-to-one coaching

You review the recording of your story privately with the coach.

 

Create compelling messages

You use our preparation tools to work on the presentation or meeting you plan to practice. You analyze your listeners and then create an outline with a clear opening, compelling messages, and an action-oriented close.

 

Afternoon

Deliver engaging presentations & meetings

You present a ten-minute version of the material you prepared in the morning. You practice and receive feedback on your ability to be persuasive and engaging. We record your presentation.

 

One-to-one coaching

You review the recording of your presentation privately with the coach.

 

Action planning

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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