Executive Communication Skills

DAY 1

• Present yourself
• Self awareness : how to optimise your image by using communication techniques
• The OASIS approach
• The right way to get the audience’s attention
• The first 2 minutes : Ice breaking & Hook

Personal introduction exercise recorded on video. Analysis and discussion of the visual image as intended and as perceived.

• The speaker’s gestures
• Positive and negative gestures in front of an audience: body language
• Cultural codes, pitfalls to avoid
• Visual parasites that obscure the message
• The picture of confidence : the message sent and the message received
• The risk of distorting the message : Leavitt exercise

• Oral expression: Adding highlights to a presentation
• Enhancing your elocution
• Re-punctuation : mastering your intention and delivering it with your own personal style
• Breaking up monotony – Emphasising key words …

• Preparing an amusing speech
• The FOFIR approach : Fact – Opinion – Feeling – Intended action – Ramification
• Prioritising and ordering arguments to get to the point
• Short and precise

Exercises recorded on video: how to defend a point of view which is not your own – Analysis and discussion.

DAY2

• Preparing a professional speech
• 4 kinds of speeches
• Structuring the arguments (CDI : conclusion – development – introduction)
• Specify your conclusion to clarify your goal
• Organise your speech : prioritise arguments, adjust the reasoning to the target audience, apply the FOFIR approach
• Prepare your opening and your introduction

• Using note cards
• Key words to recall ideas
• How to put together your personal aids

• Using visuals aids
• Preparing PowerPoint presentations
• Synthesising ideas or highlighting them

• Making a professional presentation to the group
• Five minutes to convince
• Using note cards and visual aids
• Applying communication tools
• Basic rules for Q & A

Each trainee’s presentation is recorded on video. Analysis and discussion, individual advice.

• Discussion and debate: the golden rules
• Typology of troublemakers
• Tools to avoid being put off balance
• Responding to objections
• The art of a persuasive response
• Reformulating and synthesising