Think on your Feet^®
Think and communicate with clarity, brevity and impact
1 or 2 Days.

Verbal communication skills are essential in today's business environment - formally and informally.

Whether in a meeting, one-to-one, addressing a colleague or making a presentation, Think On Your Feet^® provides you with techniques to home in on issues, organise ideas, reduce preparation and response time and handle awkward questions.

This practical, intensive programme will dramatically improve your oral communication skills, enabling you to get your point across clearly, concisely, persuasively and memorably.

Content

The programme is filled with practice, coaching and feedback. It provides you with a set of practical, powerful techniques to assemble your thoughts and communicate them effectively during any spoken communication, including:

	How to Achieve Clarity - Learn how to structure your ideas by understanding how to use both the left and right side of your brain. Discover how to simplify complex information, making even complicated technical topics easy for everyone to understand
	The Importance of Brevity - Learn how to condense your thoughts, get straight to the point and deliver a memorable message
	Creating Impact - Discover how to become more persuasive by taking into account the listener and their interest and core concerns. Add memorable structure and examples to produce lasting impact

Benefits

	Structure - develop a structure to use when communicating
	Get your point across clearly and persuasively - create a lasting and memorable impression
	Present with greater impact - deliver clear and straight to the point messages
	Be more confident during any verbal communication - by structuring your ideas, you will find it much easier to communicate and never be lost for words again
	Handle objections positively - become more persuasive and lucid
	Answer questions confidently and effectively - condense your thoughts into one coherent, impressive message
	Deal with hostile situations and emotional issues - by delivering a clear, direct and persuasive message

Who Should Attend?

This programme will help anyone who needs to get their point across clearly, concisely, persuasively and memorably. If you do any of the following then this is the programme for you:

	Respond to questions of any sort
	Handle objections
	Influence or persuade
	Carry out presentations
	Public speaking (including media questioning)
	Attend/chair meetings
	Conduct interviews
	Hold ad-hoc discussions

Continued Professional Development

As part of our continued effort to help you make the most of your new skills we have a FREE TOYF^® past attendees website. Here we provide additional resources to aid your learning, including: interesting and informative articles; helpful hints and tips and coming soon, a chance to test yourself on how well you have learnt the techniques.

Visit the Communicate with Impact website

 

Course Information Attendance can count towards CPD credits Public Workshops 2 day (£845 + VAT) 25-26 June 2008 - Central London 17-18 September 2008 - Central London 2-3 October 2008 - Central Manchester (NEW 2008 VENUE) 21-22 October 2008 - Central London 12-13 November 2008 - Central London 9-10 December 2008 - Central London

Rounded Thinker Award

Communicate is the core skill covered by this programme. Attending this programme awards one credit towards the Rounded Thinker Award. For more information please visit www.illumine.co.uk/roundedthinker.htm