Executive Presence and Leadership Communication Training For Managers and Future Leaders
Inspire, persuade, and engage teams, partners, clients, and leadership by communicating with authenticity, purpose, and executive presence to secure buy-in.
Turn foggy ideas into crisp messages
Turn boring lectures into engaging performances
Turn nervous energy into electric presence
Secure buy-in for vision, procedures, and programs
Not getting buy-in on your vision, procedures, programs, or budget from teams, partners, customers, or leadership because your communication is muddy, boring, or weak?
Electric Presence helps managers and future leaders communicate with clarity, impact, and executive presence - even if they don’t have “the public speaking gene”- by combining 29 years of public relations experience (what to say) with 24 years of acting and improv experience (how to say it).
Inspire confidence by speaking at the leadership level
After you speak in a meeting or presentation, does the room know exactly what you’re recommending and why?
Are you influencing decisions or is the audience leaving confused about what you want them to think, feel, and do because the most important information gets buried under too much context and detail?
Does your audience perceive you as uncertain because you’re hedging instead of taking a stand or because nervous body language, voice, or gestures undermine your message?
Change the energy of the room
Electric Presence is the ability to change the energy of the room, change the energy of your team, and change the energy of belief from “No we can’t“ to “Yes we can!”
Learn how to deliver a clear, concise, and compelling message with confidence to light up your audience’s eyes and the room.
Increase your executive presence quickly
My "Communicate Like a CEO" program is designed to deliver results fast.
Customized
- For each organization and individual.
Practical
- Participants can use what they learned as soon as the workshop ends.
Applicable
- Relevant for today’s compressed timelines and scattered attention spans.
Experiential
- Exercise-driven to encourage behavior change and skill growth.
Progressive
- Exercises build off of each other to reinforce and expand participant’s capabilities.
Fun
- Interactive, dialogue vs. monologue, and fast-paced.
Expand your public speaking comfort zone
Exercises designed to help you take up more space
Purposeful Presence
- For each organization and individual.
Memorable Messaging
- Organize messages for influence, take audiences on a journey and increase stickiness for retention.
Compelling Storytelling
- Forge connections, build trust, and convey values using the most powerful communication tool.
Impromptu Off The Cuff Tough
- Increase comfort in responding to unprepared moments by quickly organizing thoughts and communicating with ease.
Q&A The Spokesperson Way
- Confidently answer your audience’s most challenging questions, stay on message, and manage the audience so it doesn’t manage you.
Practical Simulation
- Solidify learning and understanding by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
Connect with relevant parties to persuade, engage, inspire
Tailor messages for relevant parties using the same formula effective marketing and advertising uses to sell products and politicians use to get votes: pains, gains, and transformations.
- Pains: What is your audience tired of, frustrated with, stressed about?
- Gains: How are you going to improve their lives?
- Transformations: What will life look like after you communicate with them?
Turn foggy ideas into crisp messages
Learn how to use the three most important questions to focus your communication:
- What do you want your audience to think (understand)?
- Feel (sad, mad, glad, scared)?
- Do (call to action)?
Learn the same tools I teach tech CEOs and company spokespeople to distill ideas down to their simplest form and share during high stakes reporter interviews.
Learn how to structure information for relevance, how to make sure audiences know where they are in a presentation, and how to create soundbites and highlight specific messages to increase retention.
Engage and inspire with business storytelling
Stories are the most important communication tool because it can capture and hold attention, influence behavior and inspire teams, and create lasting memories. Humans are wired for storytelling.
Learn:
- The one key ingredient that makes a compelling story.
- A simple formula for building effective stories.
- The elements that make stories more engaging and persuasive.
- And the five stories leaders need to prepare to share at any given time.
Turn dry lectures into engaging performances
Managers and leaders undermine the importance of their message when they get nervous:
- Shifting weight, bottling or burning nervous energy, uncomfortable eye contact
- Verbal fillers (ums, uhs, you knows), rambling, or monotone delivery
- Clasping hands, playing with ring fingers, crossing arms
If you want to inspire confidence with your audience, your message and how you deliver it need to be congruent.
- Learn easy-to-use, repeatable formulas for crafting clear, concise, and compelling messages.
- Learn how to deliver messages in a calm, comfortable, confident way.
- Align what you say and how you say it with a strong purpose to exhibit leadership presence.
How I encourage skill retention
I will not drown you in frameworks, principles, cheat sheets, and language so your executive presence doesn’t change.
My program is exercise-driven so participants practice like they’re delivering real world presentations, meetings, and coaching sessions.
I encourage behavior change and skill retention three ways:
Video Record Exercises
- Record exercises and playback to objectively review what is and is not effective.
Individual Feedback Post-Exercise And Post-Workshop
- I provide feedback after each exercise and workshop to reinforce individual strengths and highlight additional areas for improvement to encourage growth.
Action Transformation Calendar
- The best way to build new habits is to work on them every day and track progress over time.
For Individuals
If you want to increase your earning potential, get promoted, or want your colleagues to see you as a leader, you need to communicate with clarity and confidence.
For Businesses
If you are a human resources professional and you want to increase your company's employee engagement, improve employee retention, and develop your leadership pipeline, your managers, high-potentials, and leaders need to communicate to inspire confidence and encourage action.
"Rob’s training was the best training I attended by a large margin."
"His endless enthusiasm for communication is contagious and layer on the tools and examples he shares, Rob makes it a joy to be in training. I have been in a corporate job for 32 years and Rob’s training was the best training I attended by a large margin."
Why Electric Presence
I have provided effective communication skills training to new sales members, up & coming leaders, & senior executives for such companies as Accenture, KPMG, Walgreens, Volkswagen, & CCC Information Systems, among others.
I combine 29 years of public relations experience crafting clear, concise, and compelling messages and preparing CEOs and subject matter experts for media interviews (what to say) with 24 years of acting experience to ensure business professionals deliver those messages in a calm, comfortable, and confident way (how to say it).
Want to expand your executive presence?
I help managers and future leaders communicate with more clarity, confidence, and impact...in as little as four hours.