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Do you want to polish your upcoming presentation or work on related skills, such as pronunciation?
What are clients saying?
"I learned a lot" from the sessions, reported a director.
FAQ's
Why is learning to speak better so important?
Past clients have reported connecting better with their audiences, winning speech-giving contests within their company and thus gaining notice for future opportunities and promotions. Others say their improved speeches have helped their company gain funding and professional designations.
I am an experienced speaker. Can you help me polish my upcoming presentation?
Yes, I can! You will get the greatest benefit if you have an outline of your presentation and have run through it a few times, and have at least 2 weeks to practice. (If you want to work on your pronunciation, starting earlier would be even better,)
We can also work on making small talk, American style, as well as speech rate, stage fright, body language and communication skills for leaders. Your sessions are customized to your needs.
I have a strong foreign or regional accent. Can you help me with standard American pronunciation? Yes. We will start with a quick skills-gap assessment, to understand your areas of strength and weakness, and go from there. If you are combining this with giving an upcoming presentation, we will work on the words in your presentation first, and later we will work on other sounds and words.
I don't have a strong accent but want to learn to use my speech and voice more effectively.
We can work on your speech rate, diction, pausing and other verbal skills to make your speech more powerful.
I want to work on my communication skills for leadership or sales primarily. We can focus on listening and questioning skills, meeting management and leading powerful idea-generating group sessions, using a research-based protocol. You choose your topics of interest for our sessions!
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Presentation Skills
Pronunciation Improvement
Pronunciation Improvement
Experienced speakers get an assessment of their current skills, as well as coaching on their choice of topics. These might include powerful introductions and conclusions, audience engagement techniques, speech rate, strong wording,
and more.
Public speaking can be combined with pronunciation improvement or communication for leadership, such as learning to run meetings.
Pronunciation Improvement
Pronunciation Improvement
Pronunciation Improvement
Coaching is available in pronunciation improvement for both non-native speakers and native speakers. All coaching starts with an assessment of current skills.
Non-native speakers learn to pronounce sounds not found in their native languages, such as our "th", sounds such as "ch" that may be spoken differently in various words based on etiology (ie cheese, chef, chaos), words with different syllabic emphases (often based on parts of speech), speech rate and intonation, and more.
This coaching is also appropriate for spokespersons or others talking to the broadcast media in American English. The goal, of course, is to get your important message understood as clearly as possible. In this often-stressful situation, it is much more effective to start the pronunciation improvement coaching several months in advance if possible.
American English speakers with strong regional accents may choose to learn Standard American English, especially if they interact with people from other regions of the country. Speech rate and intonation can also be a focus.
Residents of North Carolina may also choose to work on speech impairments, such as lisps and verbal apraxia.
Communication Skills for Leadership
Conversational Skills: Small Talk, Starting, Continuing and Ending Conversations
Conversational Skills: Small Talk, Starting, Continuing and Ending Conversations
Focus on professional listening and questioning skills, expressing ideas clearly and concisely to different stakeholders, and meeting management. Learn basic skills for talking to the media and crisis communication. Discover how to lead a group in the powerful research-based idea generation technique called brain-writing. Those are some of the skills clients can choose to learn in communication skills for leadership!