Research has shown that a large percentage of the impact we make in communication is via
how we carry and move our bodies as well as our voice and tone.
A far smaller percentage of our impact is made through the information we convey.
But that small percentage is the whole point! We need to have our information heard and understood.
If we seek to influence others, we need to address those areas of body and voice.
OVERVIEW
This workshop covers each of the techniques that will bring you greater confidence and success as a communicator, whether your "audience” is one or one hundred.
Having taken the overview, which includes a taste all of the following modules, you have the option of delving deeper into one, some, or all of them:
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RELAXATION MODULE: Nerves - make them work for you.
An holistic approach to achieving the physical and mental relaxation which makes you comfortable and your audience receptive.
FLEXIBILITY AND SPONTANEITY MODULE : You can count on you.
Fear is of repeating past failures and creating future ones. There is no fear in the present moment. Improv teaches how to be in the moment.
Cybernetics’ Law of Requisite Variety states, “In any system, the element with the widest range of variability will be the controlling factor in that system.”
Flexibility is power. Improv hones flexibility.
VOICE MODULE: How “Listenable” Are You?
Addresses technical aspects (tone, clarity, volume...) and presentation aspects (pace, pauses, dynamics...).
'MAKING IT Y0URS' MODULE: Utilizing the Best of YOU
Facts and persuasion fall on deaf ears when delivered without personality.
How to utilize fully what you've already got going for you.
How to change what isn't working to your best advantage.
Becoming aware of how you are perceived versus how you want to be perceived -and doing something about it!
WORKING WITH YOUR WORDS: “The Nitty Gritty”
What do you have to say? How will you say it in order to keep your audience’s attention? Applying the technical to the aesthetic in delivery, whether off the cuff or written.
The loathsome "um" .
“It is an excellent workshop, engaging and thought-provoking, a very interesting slant on your basic idea of ‘delivery’. It offers tangible strategies to be effective and even inspiring, to put a human face on presentation. I see countless venues to use these presenters’ skills.”
Liz Sloane, Educator