Showcase Your Shine

Through Communication Confidence

Are you ready to witness a transformation in your employees' ability to:

  • Make a point with confidence, clarity, and brevity.
  • Present with ease in meetings, onstage, or on camera.
  • Shine in sales, interviews, and networking opportunities.
  • Facilitate effective meetings with grace, tact, and efficiency.
  • Listen with curiosity, composure, and a desire to learn.

Are you ready to witness a transformation in your employees' ability to:

  • Make a point with confidence, clarity, and brevity.
  • Present with ease in meetings, onstage, or on camera.
  • Shine in sales, interviews, and networking opportunities.
  • Facilitate effective meetings with grace, tact, and efficiency.
  • Listen with curiosity, composure, and a desire to learn.

According to a recent Harris Poll, 1.2 trillion dollars are lost annually to U.S. businesses due to poor communication

That’s like giving each employee a day off with pay…every week.

Only they’re still working. 

Poor communication results in high turnover, lost sales, and upset customers.

What can you do?

Invest in programs to increase communication confidence.

According to a 2020 study by Indeed, when employees feel confident, they are 96% more likely to stay, and 98% more likely to be high performers.

Leverage Your Influence; Communicate with Confidence transforms your employees’ abilities to communicate effectively for themselves, your organization, and their community.

Increase your team’s communication confidence in just 10 hours.

Choose an area of focus: Effective Meetings, Powerful Presentations, or Confidence Communication.

Course options: 3, 6, or 10 weeks.

Sample Course Curriculum

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  • Course Overview + Introductions
  • Personal Assessment + Goal Setting
  • Exercise: Introducing Self and Others
  • Homework

 

  • Vocal Warm-Up + Breathing
  • Dynamic Range + Articulation
  • Pause, Pace, and Emphasis
  • Song-as-a-Speech Exercise
  • Homework
  • Vocal Warm Up
  • Our Brain: Senses and Emotions
  • Generating Evocative Word Pictures
  • Magnificent Moment Exercise
  • Homework
  • Steve Jobs Speech Review
  • Facial Expressions and Eye Contact
  • Physical Gestures + Body Language
  • Vocal Variety Exercise
  • Homework
  • Inclusive Presentations
  • Audio + Visual Aids
  • Best Practices: Slides
  • In-Person vs. Virtual
  • Homework
  • Memorable Stories
  • Memorable Speakers
  • How/Where to Infuse Stories
  • Mining Your Message Exercise
  • Assessment/Next steps

Rebecca worked with a broad segment of our staff, many with no public speaking experience, on a journey in confidence building, teamwork, team bonding, and personal growth. We also had a barrel full of fun, and came away with a much deeper sense of connection with and understanding of our co-workers.

Bill Hinkle, Executive DirectorCommunity Action of Skagit County

Virtual and In-Person Programs

Are you disappointed in expensive programs that quickly wear off and fail to deliver?

“Thank you for a FABULOUS presentation. I admire your work and learned new tips!”

Nubia Robles, M.S.
Associate Director for Outreach and Admissions
Whatcom Community College

Bring a transformational experience to your newly minted leaders and high-tech talent. 

Your coaching was a wonderful gift. Leadership Skagit teams took your input to heart and you could see it in the smooth transitions, storytelling, body language, and delivery.  A few people who have been so reluctant to speak in public just blew me away with their polish.

Laura Cailloux, MBA, EdDDepartment Faculty, Leadership Skagit

Single Session Offerings

Build a Better Business Story
Engagement Tactics for Presenters
Facilitate Sensational Meetings
Present Like a Pro

Build a Better Business Story
Craft & tell stories that connect & inspire

Great stories are the building blocks to better business presentations. 

In this session, participants learn a simple method for crafting a compelling story, then practice what they’ve learned to inspire themselves and others. 

This powerfully efficient tool leverages story-crafting objectives for stories used in business presentations, social media, and publications.

Storytellers:

  • Uncover powerful stories to bolster connection.
  • Utilize a simple, repeatable 5-step story method.
  • Craft and share an impactful, inspiring story.
  • Learn and appreciate participants’ stories.
  • Engage in a story-centered group creativity exercise.

Engagement Tactics for Presenters
Deliver presentations with actionable outcomes

Learn tips to ensure your next presentation is informative, engaging, and actionable. Apply a powerful method to infuse and track audience engagement. You’ll set yourself and your audience up for success and leave them wanting more. 

Presenters:

  • Craft a linear, logical presentation roadmap.
  • Deliver a clear, compelling opening and close.
  • Infuse opportunity for audience engagement.
  • Prevent a fire-hose speech by cutting content.
  • Apply the 80/20 rule to structure and delivery.

Facilitate Sensational Meetings
Lead meetings of with ease, tact, and efficiency

A skilled facilitator functions as an invaluable connector between audience and presenter. But doing the job well requires knowledge, experience, and confidence. Whether you desire to lead more productive team meetings or emcee larger corporate or community events, this session sets you up for success.

You’ll learn to:

  • Use the S.P.I.C.E.™ method to project professionalism.
  • Set up participating presenters for success.
  • Handle agenda conflicts with tact, humor, and grace.
  • Apply facilitator know-how that sets you apart.
  • Craft and deliver introductions to inform listeners and elevate presenters.

S.P.I.C.E.™: Show, Project, Infuse, Create, Empower.

Present Like a Pro
Speak with Poise, Polish, and Persuasion

Most humans experience anxiety when asked to speak in public. But if speaking is part of your job, you’d better find a way to overcome this hurdle. 

Present Like a Pro delivers a shift in mindset and methods to harness anxiety and convert it to energy for your audience.

Whether speaking on stage, in a boardroom, or one-on-one, Present Like a Pro tactics leverage your conversation and presentation influence.  

Learn to:

  • Use the C.L.E.A.R.™ method to invite connection.
  • Captivate your audience from your very first word.
  • Transform anxiety into energy for your audience.
  • Master audio projection tools to ensure you’re heard.
  • Identify and overcome small habits that create confusion.

C.L.E.A.R.: Center, Listen, Engage, Allow, Repeat.

Investing in staff personal and professional development results in longevity of employment, loyalty, and better functioning team. Employees who participate in her course received tremendous value!

Tina Tate, CEOHabitat for Humanity

Say goodbye to forgettable training that quickly wears off and rarely pays off.  Invest in interactive training that’s wrapped in an element of fun!

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