Enhance Your Team’s Communication Skills and Amplify Their Influence
Unleash your organization’s full potential with our strategic communication workshops. Equip your team with the tools to become effective communicators.
Explore our range of dynamic group training workshops tailored to your organization.
INCREASE YOUR ABILITY TO PERSUADE
Our effectiveness in both personal and professional situations often depends on our ability to convince others to approve our proposal, adopt our approach, or think or act differently. But most of us are never taught the principles of persuasive communication. This interactive workshop shares research-proven persuasion strategies that participants can deploy deliberately to achieve their goals, and the opportunity to test their approach in a safe and supportive environment. | This workshop engages participants in exercises to: 1. Craft compelling messages - frame their ideas effectively and capture attention from the start. 2. Build credibility - strengthen sincerity and enhance authenticity, making their arguments more convincing 3. Connect with the audience - empathize with their audience, and create meaningful connections. |
“All information presented and shared was useful. I appreciated the opportunity to both share and learn from other participants during the staged persuasive approaches to the workshops.”
STORYTELLING TO INCREASE YOUR IMPACT
In today's fast-paced world, storytelling has become an essential skill to capture and hold people's attention.
Equip your team with the skills to craft compelling narratives that resonate with your audience. From connecting research findings to real-life implications to conveying the positive impact donors have made in communities, stories have the power to make messages memorable, relatable, and inspiring. | This workshop engages participants in exercises to: 1. Identify relevant life stories for your target audience. 2. Develop and integrate stories into professional contexts. 3. Craft and deliver stories effectively. |
“Because I’ve never used story-telling in this way. It has me thinking differently about how story-telling can be used and how.”
COMMUNICATE MORE STRATEGICALLY
We communicate multiple times every day and sometimes people on the receiving end respond as we’d like. But, sometimes they don’t. This workshop walks participants through the communication process, invites them to practice applying a strategic frame and gives them research-supported approaches to a wide range of personal and professional communication situations. | This workshop engages participants in exercises to: 1. Apply a strategic frame to enhance their effectiveness in high-stakes communication situations. 2. Critically assess their own and others’ communications to identify and eliminate obstacles to success. 3. Increase the likelihood their communications will be seen and elicit the desired response. |
“We participate in many trainings and I can genuinely say that this was one of the most impactful and valuable – thank you!”
PUBLIC SPEAKING ESSENTIALS
Everyone can become a more effective presenter, and this workshop offers a clear and practical primer on communicating from the front of a room (actual or online) in a way that increases your ability to compel people to listen and act. In this workshop we participants clarify what content to include and how to organize it; provide proven tools for engaging audiences from the very first word; and give concrete direction on how to maximize the impact of visual aids. | This workshop engages participants in exercises to: 1. Strategically frame their presentation so their audience is engaged right from the start and compelled to act at the end 2. Utilize communication principles that enable them to tailor their content for specific audiences. 3. Enhance your vocal delivery and body language. |
“The presentation really made a difference to me, and I’m actually looking forward to my next speaking opportunity!”
TRANSLATE YOUR RESEARCH INTO POLICY IMPACT
This workshop provides insights into how scholarship and research can be communicated with decision-makers to exert an impact on public policy. It gives participants a deeper understanding of how government works, increasing their ability to identify various opportunities to influence public policy and help advance change. | This workshop engages participants in exercises to: 1. Clarify and articulate their policy objectives. 2. Shape their findings into policy asks. 3. Identify opportunities to engage in the policy-making process. 4. Plan a strategy to position their knowledge to influence public policy |
“Academics often don’t know where to begin to translate their research into policy impact. This workshop provides tangible and accessible ideas to get started.”
Workshops are delivered in half-day intensive sessions (4 hours) for cohorts of up to 10 participants to maximize interaction and individual feedback. We also work with larger groups and can tailor our content accordingly.
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