"Content rich seminar. EES participants leave the seminar with excellent new skills to help them get their point across."

Tom Donaldson,
Director,
Employer Education Services

"I think this workshop will open an individual's mind in a way that it has never been opened before."

Mike Parisien
Credit Analyst
AT&T Credit

"Sherry relates to everyone. We keep asking her back because our people want her back!"

Jenna McGraw
Training Director
The Waldorf=Astoria

 Getting Your Point Across

Overview:

Become a more effective, persuasive and noteworthy communicator that makes a consistently positive impression on people regardless of whether you’re speaking or writing. Learn new techniques for communicating messages that hold more substance, structure and interest so that you grab people’s attention and create the reaction you want.

Highlights:

  • 3 universal templates for organizing communications
  • Essential planning techniques that help you target your “point”
  • Principles for deciding on which medium to use---face to face, meetings, emails or voice mails
  • Creating action by using audience-centered approaches to communications
  • Tactics for avoiding routine rhetoric and jargon so you create interest
  • Learn how to develop your personal voice and style
  • Techniques for practicing the power of positive communications
  • Dealing with resistance
  • Diplomacy tactics

Materials:

  • The workshop workbook, Sweetnam's  Getting Your Point Across

Key Activities:

  • Each participant drafts a personal, job-related communication based on the new skills they have learned
  • For feedback, peers present a draft of their presentation to each other.



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