THINK ON YOUR FEET®
Clarity • Brevity • Impact
Why Think on Your Feet®?
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Getting your ideas across clearly, concisely, persuasively (and being remembered) is even more vital today. Everyone wants you to get to the point. Quickly.
Think on Your Feet® is a highly-practical, intensive and energizing workshop that will dramatically improve your spoken communication skills. Think on Your Feet® helps you develop the thinking agility and skills you need to speak more effectively in meetings and everyday informal situations, and to handle questions in a more confident, credible and powerful way - on the spot and under pressure. |
Who should attend?
Target Audiences
- Think on Your Feet® is designed for professionals looking to communicate with greater influence and impact. Participants and organizations range in a variety of experience and industries including: senior executives, managers, sales and marketing professionals, technical specialists, financial analysts, scientists, public affairs experts, and customer service.
- Whether you are addressing one person or fifty, Think on Your Feet® provides the techniques to focus in on issues, organise ideas and speed up preparation and response time.
- Improve how you handle questions
- Develop your agility in thinking and responding on the spot - situations such as: on the spot discussions, Q&A sessions, speaking in meetings, elevator speeches, conference calls
- Communicate your expertise and complex concepts in simple ways that non-experts will 'get'
- Move people to new ways of thinking about a topic
How will you benefit?
Benefits for you
- Gain confidence and become more persuasive
- Respond to difficult situations on-the-spot
- Sell the benefits of ideas, products and services
- Get to the point and be memorable
- Deliver sensitive information
- Guide your listeners' responses and stay in control of the conversations
- Improve effectiveness and productivity in meetings and discussion - as people are more effective with what they say in less time.
- Messages across the organization are more to the point, easier to understand and more likely to lead to action.
- Develop a common mindset and approach to communicating organizational expertise, advice and insight in ways that your stakeholders will agree with and act on.
How will you learn?
1. Set the base
Pre-workshop questionnaire to assess current level and identify questions and topics to work on during the workshop.
Tailoring practice questions and topics to the focus of the client organization.
Tailoring practice questions and topics to the focus of the client organization.
2. Push the pace
A two day interactive, tailored and energising workshop filled with practice, coaching and feedback. Materials include comprehensive participant manual, 3D visual aid and memory-jogging cards for after the workshop.
3. Apply & Thrive
Follow-up access to refresher modules, tips, newsletter and social media groups.
Post-workshop self-assessment via follow-up questionnaire.
Post-workshop self-assessment via follow-up questionnaire.
The Bottom Line
1. Be more effective in meetings, one to ones, talking to colleagues and making presentations
2. Build your ability to focus on key issues, organise ideas, reduce preparation and response time
3. Handle awkward questions confidently and effectively, knowing that you have a clear strategy
2. Build your ability to focus on key issues, organise ideas, reduce preparation and response time
3. Handle awkward questions confidently and effectively, knowing that you have a clear strategy