Professional Communicators

01/14/2025

It is the season for company kick-offs. People are jumping on airplanes, staying in hotels, and gathering with their colleagues to hear the strategy and goals for 2025. Whether you're presenting to the entire company, department, or team, you need to PREPARE. You might know what you will say, but have you found time to rehearse? Why do you have to rehearse? How do you rehearse?

You’ve got your talking points, developed great strategic stories, written an outline, and built a PowerPoint to reinforce your key messages.  Heck, you’ve even added a few speaker notes to your slides.  But, you’re not finished. You need to rehearse.

11/20/2024

Last week, we were able to work with an incredible group of professionals. The Staff leaders from the Parliament of Ghana understand the power and importance of communication. They were an engaged and thoughtful group that brought a whole new perspective to the table. Thank you to National Conference of State Legislatures for bringing us in to work with this amazing group. We are hoping they will invite us to Ghana for Part II of the training.

11/02/2020

Listening is important. In the virtual communication situation we are in, it is essential we recalibrate our listening skills. Here are some tools and tips to help make you a more effective listener and thus communicator at home and at work.

We sit, we click on one video call after another, after another, after another. What used to be in-person meetings in a conference room are now video calls. While a lot has changed in the last 6 months, one thing has not -- the need to listen.

03/27/2020

Treating video conferences like in-person meetings is a mistake. Professionally prepare yourself and your team for the new reality of remote communications.

The Professional Communicators have the expertise and experience to enhance your video-conference skillset. Using our science-based B.E.S.T! framework, we transform video conferences from average to exemplary and drive top-level outcomes.

03/15/2020

Empathy, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation. It is a decidedly human characteristic, and it also underlies effective communication. That’s because communicatio...

03/15/2020

We need empathy to be effective communicators. During this unpredictable time where businesses and individuals are going to have to deliver tough, emotional, and sensitive information, communicating with empathy and thinking about connecting to your audience is essential. Take a look at our tips to make you a more empathetic communicator.

Empathy, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation. It is a decidedly human characteristic, and it also underlies effective communication. That’s because communicatio...

07/27/2019

Congratulations to our client Nobou Yagai for his Tattered Cover book presentation and signing. “Warrior in the Garden”. Standing room only!!!

06/05/2019

Trout Tank entrepreneurs pitch night. My Wayy = change my habits!!!!

05/03/2019

Do you have a coach for the high stakes presentations in your organization to help maximize outcomes?

From LinkedIn Daily Rundown:

01/09/2019

How do you make your presentations memorable? How do you make your communication opportunities (one-on-one meetings, sales calls, conference calls, internal meetings) resonate and increase the chances people will remember the important information? Look to our ancestors for the answer.

Thirty-five thousand years ago, in a sandy-floored cave illuminated by the flicker of fire light on the tropical island of Indonesia, a human hand reached out of the darkness and began to paint.  Animals, murals, everyday objects, still life, but all…stories.  Whether in art or ora

10/01/2018

Hitting a sales presentation, internal meeting or keynote address out of the park all starts with your audience. Evaluating your audience and thus framing your message to resonate with them to get the desired outcome is essential every time you present.
Take a look at our August Soundbite and see how one firm cashed in on a thorough audience audit that led to a reframing of their message. Go to our website, scroll down, and sign-up for our monthly Speaker Soundbite to get great tips and insights each month to help you become a better communicator.

In 2008, architecture firms lined up for the opportunity to pitch their plans to build a new iconic baseball stadium in the heart of Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.  It was a dream contract, and firms clambered to win it. While many of the pitches focused on design elements and ameniti

10/01/2018

Evaluating your audience and thus framing your message to resonate with them to get the desired outcome is essential every time you present.
Take a look at our August Soundbite and see how one firm cashed in on a thorough audience audit that led to a reframing of their message. Go to our website, scroll down, and sign-up for our monthly Speaker Soundbite to get great tips and insights each month to help you become a better communicator.

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