Business Presentation Skills Training
If you are a human resources or talent development professional and you:
✅ Want to boost employee retention
✅ Increase employee engagement
✅ Develop the company’s leadership development/pipeline
Improving how your managers, high potentials, and leaders communicate can help.
Why are effective communication skills so important?
The single biggest factor in an organization’s long term success: Quality of managers and team leaders. (Gallup)
The most important skill related to managerial success: Communication. (ATD)
The #1 job skill American employees lack: Communication. (LinkedIn)
The cost of poor communication: $62.4M average loss per company per year. (David Grossman)
Improved communication skills at every level can affect the bottom line.
Communication affects every level of the company and employee relationship
“He needs to reinforce key responsibilities and challenges so new hires feel comfortable in their new position from day one.” (onboarding)
“She needs to command the room and engage participants so they clearly understand why our safety protocols and procedures are critical to operations.” (employee and vendor meetings)
“He needs to clearly present our initiatives to the board of directors so they feel confident they are getting a ROI.” (executive presentations)
Communication affects every level of the company/employee/partner relationship.
From on-boarding new hires, to managing weekly team and vendor meetings, to presenting at high level board meetings.
Because every communication between manager or leader and direct report strengthens, maintains, or erodes trust.
Communicate with clarity and confidence
Human Resources professionals engage me when they need their future leaders to communicate with more clarity and confidence so they:
- Connect with their teams, vendors, and customers.
- Translate technical into tangible.
- Speak comfortably in public.
- Run a meeting with direction and purpose.
- Tell a story and hold a conversation with engagement.
- Think on their feet in responding to unexpected situations and needs.
- Hold difficult conversations with gracious assertiveness.
Ultimately, they need their managers, leaders, and high potentials to communicate with more clarity and confidence to inspire action.
The communication toolbox
Electric Presence Core
- Increase body language awareness, build leadership presence through posture, vocal dynamics, and gestures, and align them with intention to inspire audiences to take action.
Memorable Messaging
- Organize messages to 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.
Off the Cuff Tough (Impromptu)
- 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 to it doesn’t manage you.
Final Simulation
- Solidify learning and understanding by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
The workshops
Online courses and in-person virtual workshops customized to fit your team's needs and availability.
Electric Presence Core
In Person
2-8 Participants
4-6 hours
Day 1: 3-4 Hours | Electric Presence Core
Day 2: 1-2 Hours | Final Simulation
- Increase nonverbal body language awareness.
- Connect with audiences through open leadership posture and presence.
- Persuade using vocal dynamics, including pace, pause, and pitch.
- Reinforce messages using effective, expansive gestures.
- Communicate purposefully by aligning voice, body, and gestures behind a strong intention to inspire audiences to take action.
- Final Simulation to encourage retention by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
Powerful Presentations
In Person or Virtual
Participants: 2-8 people
1 Day Workshop
5 Days: 3-4 hour workshops delivered once per month
Day 1: Electric Presence Core
Day 2: Simulation
Day 3: Memorable Messaging + Simulation
Day 4: Storytelling + Simulation
Day 5: Final Simulation
Electric Presence Core
- Increase nonverbal body language awareness.
- Connect with audiences through open leadership posture and presence.
- Persuade using vocal dynamics, including pace, pause, and pitch.
- Reinforce messages using effective, expansive gestures.
- Communicate purposefully by aligning voice, body, and gestures behind a strong intention to inspire audiences to take action.
Memorable Messaging
- Take audiences on a journey using a logical presentation flow.
- Effectively share information by organizing for affect.
- Increase message retention and stickiness using rhetorical tools and spokesperson best practices.
Compelling Storytelling
- Forge connections, build trust, and convey values using the most powerful communication tool.
Final Simulation
- Solidify learning and understanding by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
Communicate Like a CEO
In Person or Virtual
Participants: 2-8
Two Day Workshop
7 Day: 3-4 hour workshops delivered once per month
Day 1: Electric Presence Core
Day 2: Simulation
Day 3: Memorable Messaging + Simulation
Day 4: Storytelling + Simulation
Day 5: Off the Cuff Tough (Impromptu) + Simulation
Day 6: Q&A The Spokesperson Way + Simulation
Day 7: Final Simulation
Electric Presence Core
- Increase nonverbal body language awareness.
- Connect with audiences through open leadership posture and presence.
- Persuade using vocal dynamics, including pace, pause, and pitch.
- Reinforce messages using effective, expansive gestures.
- Communicate purposefully by aligning voice, body, and gestures behind a strong intention to inspire audiences to take action.
Memorable Messaging
- Take audiences on a journey using a logical presentation flow.
- Effectively share information by organizing for affect.
- Increase message retention and stickiness using rhetorical tools and spokesperson best practices.
Compelling Storytelling
- Forge connections, build trust, and convey values using the most powerful communication tool.
Off the Cuff Tough (Impromptu)
- 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 to it doesn’t manage you.
My promise
My workshops provide business professionals with immediately applicable communication skills to help them light up the room and deliver more effective presentations.
My workshops are:
Practical
- Encourages skill development by doing and progressively building on previous exercises.
Applicable
- Provides communication tools that can be used for presentations, meetings, one on one conversations, and even emails.
Experiential
- Exercise-driven to encourage behavior change and skill growth.
Customized
- Feedback during and post session focuses on individual areas for development.
Fun
- Interactive, dialogue vs. monologue, and fast-paced.
"Collaborative course and effective results"
"Besides efficient feedback and repetition, Rob involves the use of highly engaging storytelling to retrain the students to attach ourselves personally to each speaking opportunity we have in and outside of the workshop."
"Rob’s ability to engage with his students allowed for a collaborative course and effective results. I went from being extremely nervous to speak in public to being more calm and collective on a consistent basis."
"The consistent message to articulate, be concise, and have fun. I loved the energy from Rob and the passion for communication."
1:1 Coaching
90 Minutes
Do you or one of your employees have a presentation on the calendar and want to know if it's going to resonate with your audience?
Want to know if your message is clear, concise, and compelling?
Are you or they delivering it in a calm, comfortable, confident way?
Is what you or they say and how you say it lining up?
Are you inspiring trust and encouraging action at the end of your presentation?
After our session, you will have a better sense of what's working and what to polish so your presentation is more effective in achieving what you hope to achieve.
"Why Managers Need To Communicate Like CEOs"
Training Industry Byline
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 25 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 20 years of acting experience to ensure business professionals deliver those messages in a calm, comfortable, and confident way (how to say it).
