This is a two-day, interactive program designed to help business people become more effective speakers. Participants will “learn by doing” - generating presentations and receiving immediate feedback and coaching from our faculty.

Participants will learn how to research topics and audiences, identify their own natural speaking style, and tailor their messages accordingly. They will learn how to overcome common fears associated with public speaking and answer questions with confidence. The majority of the program will be spent preparing, practicing and critiquing speeches.

Participants will:
• Deliver a well organized, compelling message with confidence and dynamism
• Effectively analyze audiences and tailor messages to them
• Identify a natural, comfortable speaking style
• Think quickly and make unrehearsed presentations
• Answer questions succinctly and effectively.

Faculty:
Brad Stratton, Director, Center for Business Communication
Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Karen Kalutz, Director, Buckley School of Public Speaking

Your interpersonal skills are essential for successful leadership. Building successful teams and improving performance demands coaching, management, sensitivity, clarity and leadership. Enhancing your people skills will bring you greater success in motivating individuals and teams, and successfully coordinating performance and getting results across department lines.

One of our highest-rated Executive Education programs, this course is designed for both the rising star who needs to expand personnel management skills and the seasoned manager looking for new strategies to build staff performance and collaboration.

You’ll go beyond the basics of managing subordinates with skills that make you more effective with your peers and supervisors. This is also for managers who wish to fine-tune skills and develop strategies for dealing with people-related problems.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Coaching Skills for Maximum Performance targets the unique strategic skill of coaching. It is a powerful course, applicable to all business settings, which delivers the tools managers need to learn, practice and master coaching skills.

This course introduces an interactive model that managers, leaders and coaches can implement immediately in their organizations to promote innovation, accelerate results, develop and retain valuable organizational members, improve organizational communication and team effectiveness and deepen commitment to personal, professional and organizational goals.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

The most successful women have determination, vision and the ability to work in competitive environments without compromising their unique skill sets and personal traits. Research shows that companies with a higher percentage of women in top management also experience a higher return on equity and return on sales.

Based on proven personal senior executive experiences and academic research, Leadership for Women: Strategies for High Potential Success provides individual action plans to improve performance and productivity, while engaging organizations for future development, growth and profitability.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Strong communication skills are vital for improved performance in individuals, groups and organizations. In today’s rapidly transforming business environment, if your message isn’t clear and persuasive the first time, you may not get a second chance to make it.

Using The Birkman Method®, Innovative Communication Strategies for Improving Performance reveals how you behave and react in interpersonal relationships, examines your response to conflict and empowers your decision-making. The first focus helps you understand your personal traits and how you are perceived by others. Once you understand how you relate to others, you will begin to develop the skills necessary for communicating effectively.

You’ll learn how to bring out better communication skills in others and how to become a coach for effective group dynamics.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Effectively managing individuals is tough enough. Managing groups and making them productive and successful is a high-level management skill—one that’s essential to success in a competitive marketplace.

Building and Leading Dynamic High-Performance Teams teaches you proven-effective techniques required of leaders in today’s high-demand businesses. You’ll learn the skills you need to make teams perform including how to resolve disputes, evaluate performance and keep teams on track.  As a team member you’ll gain unique management insights through a 360° view of teams and teamwork dynamics.

Whether you’re already a team leader who needs to retool your strategy or a manager just beginning the process, this program will make you a stronger leader of high-producing teams.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Program Fee, Cancellation and Transfer Terms: 

Program Fee: 

The program charge includes
• Tuition
• Preparatory materials and class materials
• Parking at the  Executive Education Center
• Select meals, refreshments and coffee breaks.

Cancellation Policy:

All travel arrangements and accommodations must be made by the applicant and are not included as part of the program costs.

The registration fee is fully refundable 45 days or more in advance of the program start date.  Due to inherent upfront planning costs and limited opportunity to refill an individual participant’s slot, the following refund schedule will apply:

• 50% of the tuition if canceled from day 44 to day 15 prior to program start
• No refund is possible  if canceled within 15 days of the program start

We can accept transfers to an alternate qualifying program.  All transfer notices must be received AND APPROVED at least 3 weeks (21 days) prior to the start of the program.  Transfer requests received less than 3 weeks before a program start are subject to a $100 US transfer charge.

Substitute participants for registrations can be accommodated with at least one week’s (7 days) advance notice.

By submitting a registration you agree to attend the program and pay the invoice by the due date. Any payments received after the due date will incur a $50 late charge.  Registrations received less than 30 days before the start date of a program are due immediately.

For questions or additional information, please contact us at 803.777.2231 or 800.393.2362.