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Workshops

Amy has workshops for every level in your organization. Or she can customize a program to meet specific team or individual needs.

 

Presentation Skills

  • Presentation Basics — Full-day workshop to give less-experienced presenters self-confidence and a solid foundation of basic skills. Includes presentation of delivery techniques, practice with peer/facilitator feedback, and videotaping with self-assessment. Ideal for 6-8 participants of similar levels.
  • Beyond the Basics — Full-day program to advance skills of frequent presenters. Participants makeover their presentations by honing content, revamping visual aids and practicing delivery techniques with videotaping and peer/facilitator feedback. They practice handling audience questions using a five-step process. Maximum: 8 participants.
  • Presenting Creative — Full-day session to address content and delivery challenges specific to designers, art directors and copywriters. Participants work to overcome the most common mistakes of creative presentations through one-on-one coaching, videotaping and peer/facilitator feedback. Ideal for partners/teams to attend together. Group size: as many as 8 participants.
  • Top 10 Mistakes of Creative Presentations — One-hour presentation that highlights the most common mistakes of creative presentations and outlines solutions. Maximum: 40 participants.
  • Deck Writing — Half-day workshop focused on using the AIM™ approach to plan presentation content. Working in teams, participants brainstorm content, generate slides and test techniques to engage the audience. The session includes hands-on coaching plus peer and facilitator feedback. (For an additional fee, participants may schedule follow-up deck writing coaching.) Group size: as many as 10 participants.
  • Visually Speaking — Ninety-minute session focused on improving the overall look of Power Point™ presentations. Participants witness the makeover of a presentation based on key copy and visual guidelines. Using those principles, they work in teams to revamp their existing presentations. Group size: as many as 12 attendees.
  • Thinking on Your Feet— Ninety-minute course to practice anticipating and answering questions using a logical, five-step process. Participants also learn tricks to handle hostile and other difficult questions. Group size: as many as 25 people.
  • Presentation Skills Coaching — Tailored sessions to coach individuals or teams for speeches, pitches, meetings or presentations. Amy also assists with review or development of content.

Business Writing

  • Communicating in Writing — Full-day program to hone business writing of the less-experienced writer. Participants craft recommendations using the Persuasive WriteTool™. They then choose the appropriate tone, organize for impact and edit excess content. Attendees also review common grammar and punctuation mistakes. Group size: as many as 8 people.
  • Advanced Writing — Five-hour session for experienced writers focused on business writing fundamentals including tone, organization, editing and grammar/punctuation. Prior to the session, the facilitator reviews writing samples to uncover areas for improvement. In the workshop, the attendees receive one-on-one coaching and peer feedback as they rework their documents. Group size: maximum of 8 participants.
  • Writing Coaching — Customized programs to address business writing needs including deck writing, persuasive writing, email, grammar, punctuation, editing or proofing.

Management Skills

  • Supervisory Skills — Two-day workshop to increase awareness and improve effectiveness in managing direct reports. Participants assess their leadership and communication styles; discuss approaches to conflict; test coaching strategies and practice performance management. Run separately for experienced or first-time managers. Designed for 15-25 participants. Co-facilitated with Mark Harris of the Harris Development Group.
  • Performance Management — Half-day workshop focused on feedback and evaluations. Attendees write performance objectives using the S.M.A.R.T. model, review principles of writing evaluations, and prepare to give feedback by role-playing and reviewing progress against the Performance Management Checklist. Group size: as many as 15 new or experienced managers.

Business Skills

  • Persuasive Communication — Half-day workshop focused on using oral communication to persuade. Attendees work to better understand audience cues, probe effectively to clarify audience goals, choose the appropriate tone to sell and position their recommendations around audience needs and barriers. Maximum: 20 participants.
  • Business Etiquette — Two-hour workshop covering basic social skills of business including introductions, body language, eating, entertaining, tipping, and communicating via phone and e-mail. Group size: as many as 25 participants.