Coaching

Individual Coaching

Individual coaching is an intense, customized, one-on-one opportunity to improve any specific area of professional development you want.

Typical Categories:

• Presentation Skills: Competence and confidence in presentation skills is important in conveying credibility and impacting influencing powers. Coaching allows for an intense opportunity to work on the skill set and make improvements.
• Dynamic Delivery: The value of what you say is determined by how you say it. Learn proven techniques on how to be a more dynamic and confident speaker, the kind audiences want to listen to, through your use of energy, vocals, eye communication, posture.
• Compelling Content: Brilliant and creative content is meaningless if it’s difficult to follow or hard to understand. Discover how to effectively organize your content so that it’s concise and easy to understand, and learn how to “humanize” it to make it interesting and memorable.

Other topics can be covered, including effective use of PowerPoint, Media/Q&A, Persuasive Speaking.

In advance of the coaching, I provide a 2-hour audio CD and comprehensive notebook that covers the basics of effective presentations. By reviewing these before we get together, you receive a good grounding in presentation techniques, and we can devote your session to improving your skills. Come prepared with a specific presentation, and you’ll be videotaped and receive extensive critiquing and feedback from me.

Length of sessions varies, depending on your needs. Minimum is one two-hour session. It may be followed up by another session a week or so later. Sessions involve extensive videotaping and instructor critiquing.

Professional Presence

Presence is an intangible quality that can produce extremely tangible results. The Power of our Presence is directly related to how we come across to others physically and vocally.

Over half of the impression you make on others has nothing to do with how smart or capable you are, but rather is determined, simply, by how you look—your nonverbal communication. This includes your posture, facial expressions, body language, attire, eye communication, gestures, even your handshake… Over one third of the impression you make on others comes from how you sound—your tone, rate, inflection.

The intangible qualities of confidence and poise and professionalism are conveyed through nonverbal and vocal qualities. So the good news is, presence is a learnable skill.

One-on-one coaching creates a powerful opportunity for clients to learn and adopt new behaviors and skills in a comfortable, confidential arrangement. Formats vary, but sessions generally can last from two to eight hours. They cover any topic the client wishes to cover. Areas include:

• Personal Image
  • Attire
  • Hair
  • Make-up

• Nonverbal Presence
  • Posture
  • Facials
  • Eye Communication
  • Handshake

• Vocal Qualities
  • Vocal Power
  • Tone
  • Inflection
  • “Fillers”

Coaching Options:

A coaching session up to three hours that involves videotaping and feedback for targeted issues such as image, attire, or presentation skills. There’s a fee minimum for up to three hours, an hourly rate after that.

In-depth coaching that starts with 360º interviews with the individual’s peers, supervisors, and subordinates. The resulting coaching session is customized based on the interview feedback. This option is priced on a minimum of up to 12 hours of total time (spent interviewing and coaching), with an hourly rate after that.

Sessions involve extensive videotaping and instructor critiquing.