Skills Training for Business Consultants

Successful internal and external consultants must be smart, quick studies, well experienced in their specialty and accomplished communicators. Regularly in business, the best ideas fail to be adapted because they were not well communicated. No one, particularly those who consult for a living, can afford to take that risk.

Solutions for Business Consultants

Influencing and Trusted Advisor Skills

High-Value Business Conversations - Engagement Skills for Trusted Advisors™

High-Stakes Presentation and Conversation Skills

Influencing and Trusted Advisor Skills

High-Value Business Conversations - Engagement Skills for Trusted Advisors™

When you’re evaluating someone’s ideas, solutions, or recommendations, don’t you need, most of all, to trust them?

Whether it’s a salesperson, a partner, a vendor, or a colleague, don’t you want to know that he or she:

Understands your needs?
Has your best interests at heart?
Can communicate clearly and credibly?

For the same reasons, your own professionals need to display those same attributes if they are to interact in ways that will gain the trust of others. Fortunately, those attributes are based on skills that can be taught.

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High-Stakes Presentation and Conversation Skills

Presenting Your Ideas at the Executive Level™

Expectations are very high. Executives expect presentations made to them to be crisp, clear, and credible, with the content precisely centered on their needs.

They also expect the presenter to display a strong executive presence -- whether the presenter is actually an executive or not!

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Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals™

When a presenter's content is technically dense or highly complicated, audience attention can wander and understanding can evaporate. In this two day training workshop, technical professionals learn how to hold an audience's interest and ensure comprehension of data that may otherwise be considered "dry" or "too technical." This training builds the skills needed to effectively present technical or data-rich information to both technical and non-technical audiences with clarity, confidence, and credibility.

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Think and Speak for Results

Every business presentation is a “moment of truth”

The ultimate success of your best ideas and hard work is often determined by your ability to present to and influence your audience.

Too many deals are lost, recommendations bypassed and ideas ignored simply because the presenter was not able to create engaging high-value messages and communicate them with credibility.

When your moment arrives, be ready to: Be Understood. Communicate Value. Build Trust.

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Creating Clear & Compelling Messages™

Creating Clear and Compelling Messages is a highly interactive, 2 ½-hour virtual workshop, followed by a skills-building lab, designed to teach participants how to create powerful content with a listener-centered story flow to get the results they want in their key conversations and presentations.

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Influencing with Stories™

Learn to differentiate yourself by skillfully weaving the epic power of two-minute storytelling into your presentations, conversations, and meetings. Use short and vivid stories to bring your content to life in the minds and imaginations of listeners and decision makers.

Make your communications more interesting, persuasive and memorable with skillful creation, placement and delivery of short, relevant stories.