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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare
a good impromptu speech.”
- Mark Twain
“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on speechmaking
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Few skills are more essential to business success than public speaking. We use public speaking to inform our teams, persuade our colleagues, and sell our products, services and ideas to both internal and external customers. Yet just the thought of public speaking puts many a manager into a cold sweat. And even those who enjoy speaking, sometimes find themselves panicked as they are about to speak in front of a large or new audience. To add to the challenge, most of us were not taught speaking skills in school, and the pervasive reliance on “power point” has taken many of us even farther away from the ability to share ideas effectively in a public forum.
Levy Consulting Group offers a range of services that transform public speaking from a “necessary evil” to a life long path of discovery, capability and enjoyment. Through our training programs and one-on-one speech coaching, we teach how to deliver persuasive, high impact and engaging talks. We empower managers, leaders and entrepreneurs to use public speaking as a tool to create powerful business results.
Many public speaking programs teach students sound fundamental techniques of “good speaking.” However, these techniques are often used in a mechanical manner, failing to create powerful results. By contrast, our approach focuses on combining the mechanical skills of good speaking with each student’s unique speaking presence resulting in powerful communication that inspires, motivates and captivates an audience. Some of the keys to our methodology include helping students to:
- Discover and leverage their unique speaking presence;
- Craft compelling openings that make audiences want to listen;
- Create authentic audience connection;
- Transform stage fright into excitement;
- Develop powerful content;
- Deliver information in a clear and compelling manner; and
- Develop the passion to become a life long learner of the art of public speaking
These programs teach managers how to blend technical speaking skills with their own unique personal style to create compelling talks that inform, persuade and inspire.
The following programs can be offered as 1 or 2 day courses, and can be customized or offered as off the shelf programs:
How To Create Presentations That Inform, Persuade and Inspire Every Time Advanced Speaking Skills for Leaders Using The Power Of Story Telling To Lead, Inspire and Motivate at Work
Whether you are facing that career defining presentation to the executive board, or launching your new product in front of hundreds of prospects at a trade show, Levy Consulting Group will work with you to assure that your speech is a smashing success. We have helped executives, leaders and entrepreneurs design and deliver talks on topics ranging from satellite imaging technology, to channel partner strategies, to customer effectiveness. We have helped executives create speeches from scratch, or performed “speech doctor” services to edit, review and work with executives on delivery of a specific talk or presentation.
These engagements are tailored designed to your needs, and may include phone conversations, in person meetings, and review and revision of slides and speech content. While in-person meetings are sometimes desired, we have done successful speech coaching over the phone without meeting in person. Please call to inquire about how our speech coaching can help you deliver the speech of your dreams.
