We will help you determine the purpose for ANY talk, presentation or meeting quickly and easily and show you how to engage your audience regardless of how complex your topic.

Today we will:

• Provide you with a framework for developing content and messaging that is clear, concise, and understandable
• Ensure that your topic resonates with your audience so that they are encouraged to take action.
• Shape your presentation so that it flows smoothly and is easy to follow.

Unit 1 – Simplify your communication

• Overview of program
• The rules of engagement - how to get the most out of this program
• Meet the Trainers
• Expectations- What do you want to get out of this program?
• Principles of communicating with impact - Embrace these key principles to communicate and get the desired results
  
  

Unit  2– Mindset Ideas and Output

• Mindset is vital when it comes to communicating
• Get clear: What do I really want to share?
• Point of view: How else can I think about this?
• Judge vs Pilot
• What assumptions am I making about myself and the audience?
• How can this be useful to the world?

Unit 3: “Using the Communication Canvas”

• Explore three deceptively simple questions.
• Question #1: What? What is the topic in a word or two.  
• Question #2: How? What actions will be taken around the topic to move it forward in a unique way? 
• Question #3: Why? What is the future state you’ll create? What does it look like? What’s the potential?
• Walk through the structure and how to use the Communication Canvas.

Individual Work / Activities and Exercises:

• Spend time working on your Canvas
• Complete your Purpose Practice
• String it together with transitions
• Dive in and do some research to fill in your support for essential messages

Use our techniques and tools so you can mesmerize any audience.

Today we will:

• Incorporate stories that will resonate with your audience and reinforce your messages.
• Make your content accessible and relatable to any audience. 
• Create a memorable moment in every presentation you deliver so you are remembered.

Unit  4 – “Transform your communication”

• This part of the program will illustrate why storytelling is a powerful engagement tool
• The neuroscience of storytelling
• Stories are everywhere: We explore where to find and how to use great stories

Unit  5: “Building a great story” 

• Introducing The Story Spine, a tool that create a story in seconds
• Telling micro-stories: when you just don’t have enough time
  
  

Unit 6 – The use of emotional language

• What is rhetoric and why it’s important
• Five examples of rhetoric and how to use it
• Putting into practice within your Communication Canvas
  
  

Individual Work / Activities and Exercises:

• Find stories on your own or in pairs
• Craft the stories
• Integrating story and rhetoric into the canvas

Like it or not, when you are presenting, you are a performer. Whether you are on stage, on Zoom, or at a boardroom table, you are in a performance space.

You will learn:

• How to set up your performance space no matter where you are.
• Simple approaches to simplify and enhance your visuals so they pop.
• Know the fundamental questions to ask to create the best visuals you can. 
• Explore your facial expressions and some simple steps and action so you can do to connect with any audience!
• How to use your voice as a tool that can drive audience engagement
• Unique ways to position yourself on screen and on stage so that you are connecting with your audience.

Unit  7– “Perform your communication” 

• Examine the universality of performance. That’s right: no matter who you are or what you do, you’re a performer. 
• How to claim your space and shape your performance, no matter where you are (including online)

Unit  8– Status and body language

• The physical characteristics of status, which can help you show up the way you want to be seen.
• The “fear factor” that kicks in whenever you present and how to harness it
• How to use body language and gestures to communicate without words.
  

Unit  9 –  Facial Expression and Voice

• Exploring vocal tools
• Volume 
• Pace
• Pitch
• The importance of smiling
• Making eye contact

Unit  10 –  Visuals

• The difference between horizontal and vertical logic
• The five questions you need to ask yourself about each and every slide. 

• Is it additive?
• Will it simplify?
• Will it transform?
• Does it look good?
• Do I need this visual to help me perform? 

Individual Work / Activities and Exercises: 

• Review your performance space
• Complete your communication canvas
• Start rehearsing and practicing 

Today you take the stage and uncover the fundamentals of performance. We will show you how to set yourself up for success and how to hold yourself so you can deliver an engaging presentation, every time.

You will learn:

• Memorization techniques to remember your content and deliver seamlessly.
• A competency model that will help you get closer to the level of confidence you are aiming.
• How to make an entrance, whether it’s on Zoom or in person. 

NOTE: This unit comes after the homework…below

Unit  11 – Communicate with Impact Showcase

• Your turn! This is the part of the program where you get to show your stuff!  And you get assessed on your pitch-ability!
• Each person presents their 5-10 minutes presentation
• Each person receives feedback and a rubric grade
  
  

Individual Work / Activities and Exercises:

• Half day of group rehearsal in trios - peer learning
• Groups of 2-3 - Each person to present (speaker) to the other group members (audience) for 2-5 min
• The speaker identifies what specific areas they are requiring feedback on in advance so peers observe actively
• Peer Coaches provide feedback
• What worked / what didn't only on the areas identified by the speaker
  "What worked well" and "Even better if" - in chat for video coaching
• Speaker actively listens to feedback without judgement

In this full day session we will learn how to:

• Simplify your message in ways that cut through complexity and enhance your leadership
• Discover the science of storytelling and other techniques that improve your ability to cut through the clutter and move people forward
• Avoid “lost in translation” and “broken telephone” traps as your messages flow through your organization

Unit 1: Leadership vs. the Complexity Knot

• Overview of program
• The rules of engagement - how to get the most out of this program
• Meet the Trainers
• Expectations- What do you want to get out of this program?
• Principles of communicating with impact - Embrace these key principles to communicate and get the desired results
  
  

Unit  2: Mindset Ideas and Output

• Mindset is vital when it comes to communicating
• Get clear: What do I really want to share?
• Point of view: How else can I think about this?
• Judge vs Pilot
• What assumptions am I making about myself and the audience?
• How can this be useful to the world?

Unit 3: “Using the Communication Canvas”

• Explore three deceptively simple questions.
• Question #1: What? What is the topic in a word or two.  
• Question #2: How? What actions will be taken around the topic to move it forward in a unique way? 
• Question #3: Why? What is the future state you’ll create? What does it look like? What’s the potential?
• Walk through the structure and how to use the Communication Canvas.

Unit 4: Showing Up as a Leader

• Examine the universality of performance. That’s right: no matter who you are or what you do, you’re a performer. 
• How to claim your space and shape your performance, no matter where you are (including online)
• Integrating story and rhetoric into the canvas

• The physical characteristics of status, which can help you show up the way you want to be seen.
• The “fear factor” that kicks in whenever you present and how to harness it
• How to use body language and gestures to communicate without words.

Unit 5: Transforming with Stories

• This part of the program will illustrate why storytelling is a powerful engagement tool
• The neuroscience of storytelling
• Stories are everywhere: We explore where to find and how to use great stories

• Introducing The Story Spine, a tool that create a story in seconds
• Telling micro-stories: when you just don’t have enough time
  
  What is rhetoric and why it’s important

• Five examples of rhetoric and how to use it
• Putting into practice within your Communication Canvas

Unit 6: Peer Coaching & Sharing

• Peer Coaching Approach
• Group rehearsal in trios - peer learning
• Groups of 2-3 - Each person to present (speaker) to the other group members (audience) for 2-5 min
• The speaker identifies what specific areas they are requiring feedback on in advance so peers observe actively
• Peer Coaches provide feedback
• What worked / what didn't only on the areas identified by the speaker "What worked well" and "Even better if"
• Speaker actively listens to feedback without judgement