With so many industries using virtual meeting platforms, this session covers the best practices for using online platforms to conduct meetings.

During this workshop, participants learn strategies for effective communication skills to aid in building professional relationships, sharing content, and becoming more sought-after employees.

Listening is an important communication skill, but there is a difference between the activity of listening and the process of hearing. This workshop focuses on the differences, learning the listening steps, exploring the five types of listening skills, and completing a self-evaluation to determine listener IQ.

Employees across the USA are adopting the “Quiet Quitting” mentality because they are rebelling against a “Performance Punishment” culture and life that has no work-life balance. In other words, it is a way to quit working endless hours each day for no additional pay. It is a way of setting boundaries. This is a must-have session for managers and administrators.

This workshop focuses on the four types of speeches, overcoming the fear of public speaking, steps for planning a speech, common design for the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion, strategies for impromptu speaking, extemporaneous speaking, manuscript speaking, and memorized speaking.

Albert Mehrabian’s research breaks down the three primary areas of communication to help us understand the importance of nonverbal communication with the messages we present. This session helps participants understand the nonverbal cues that we use to communicate messages necessary for building relationships in our personal and professional lives.

During this 4-hour workshop, participants will learn why some colleagues can be difficult in a work environment and how this causes a negative impact to the organization. Discover how to act instead of react, recognize personalities of difficult people, explore leadership strategies to bring out the best in others and build positive relationships to improve teamwork with co-workers.

Understanding exactly what employers want will motivate participants to pay attention to the soft skills needed in today’s marketplace. This workshop breaks down how soft skills are found in our intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intercultural skills.

When you only have a brief amount of time to get the attention of someone who could help you reach the next level, what do you do? What do you say anytime someone says, “Tell me about yourself.” This session will give you all the tips and tricks to create, rehearse, and present a winning elevator pitch that sounds unrehearsed, but has been strategically planned.

This fun one-hour workship focuses on how to bring a radical transformation to your speechwriting. From something hard and unyielding to something that is as spectacular as a simple piece of popped corn, we will explore the potential, identify the environment and motivators, and learn how to add the experience that makes your presentation POP!

This mini-session allows participants to learn effective ways to introduce themselves in small, medium, and large groups so that people will remember you.

Learn to discover a better way to manage your time. Participants in this workshop will explore strategies to make time, save time, and spend time in pursuit of personal and professional goals.

Learn how to face the challenge of speaking to multi-generational audiences. During this session, participants will learn about the various generations found in our audiences and will learn to plan content and presentations that embrace the diversity and culture of ALL audience members.

This one-hour workshop for teachers shares the problem of missing the crucial step of covering expectations on day one and offers a solution by incorporating tips and tools that you can begin incorporating immediately so you can realize the positive results of setting expectations on the first day of class.

While it is difficult to get someone to change their mind about something they’ve spent years deciding, you CAN follow a persuasion strategy that will help you get results. Participants in this workshop will learn how to present their case in a way that will ensure they are heard.

Learn to think like a professional speech writer when crafting and preparing a speech. Whether it is impromptu, exteporaneous, manuscript, or memorized, follow this format and you will always have a well designed speech that communicates your message in a way that keeps the audiences interested and wanting to hear more.

Students, young and old, enjoy using educational apps to add value to their lives. This session demonstrates a classroom activity that can be used in Speech and Communication courses to motivate students to search, evaluate, and use apps.

Socratic Leadership is a way to ask open-ended, guiding questions that lead to more detailed and thoughtful answers. Participants in this workshop will learn how to do this and will produce more effective coaching conversations. These conversations help determine if your employees are curious, have the capacity to perform and improve, and the type of attitude they have towards work. These are things every manager needs to know.

Employers recognize the importance of human connection including an understanding of social and emotional intelligence for the workforce. Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication Skills are demonstrated through Social Intelligence as workshop participants exhibit their understanding of paralanguage, kinesics, proxemics, chronemics, and haptics. Emotional Intelligence is discovered through self-awareness.

During this workshop, participants will learn leadership strategies for coaching employees to set and achieve actionable performance improvement goals in keeping with the company’s mission and vision.

During this session, participants will learn about the different types of resumes, how to write a resumé that stands out, what to do and what not to do when writing a resumé, understanding the purpose of a cover letter, and how to design a cover letter that will be noticed.

Do you know the difference between hard skills and soft skills? During this session, you will learn the definition of each and why they are the skills most in-demand. Explore skills to add to your resume and learn tips to enhance your soft skills.

Identify different types of interviews, the purpose and ways to prepare for the interview. You’ll also learn how to use nonverbal communication during an interview, and how to ask and answer questions that enhance your credibility.

Learn the definition of effective email etiquette, the importance of this type of communication, and what to know about sending and responding to emails.

Good manners are appreciated and noticed whether in your personal or professional life. Learn how to show your good manners when speaking on a telephone, sending and responding to emails, and participating in group or dyadic meetings.

How do you want others to see you? Create a personal brand that identifies narratives to communicate who you are. This includes reputation management and an awareness of how your online reputation reflects values and behaviors that affect your personal and professional life

Learn what you need to do to win a local, state, or national public speaking competition.