Confident Communication for Women in the Workplace

• Create the conditions for credibility
• How to build a resonant, physical presence

• Owning and naming your strengths and positive attributes
• Role-play: Presenting yourself from a position of healthy self-esteem

Delegates will have the opportunity to practise and deliver a line from a speech back to the trainer and the wider group to receive bespoke coaching.

• Breath is the key to relaxed, poised credibility
• Body, breath and voice equals personal power
• Acting as if: Performance skills for high-status credibility
• Role play: Archetypal high-status – the language of rhetoric
• Voice and vocal performance skills – pitch, pause and pace for maximising credibility

• Speaking with clarity of intention and impact in meetings: role play exercise

• Trainer will review the day’s learning and the next stages of the course
• Delegates will have time to ask questions and share views with one another

• Resonant versus dissonant leadership
• Avoiding self-sabotage in your language
• Flexing between different communication styles: flexibility is the key
• Reading your team – understanding their communication preferences

• Understand what rhetoric to use
• Be more persuasive by using rhetoric

• Identify best practices to support preparing for an interview
• Understand what it means to be present in the moment to communicate in a flexible and spontaneous way

• Building a practical plan going forward
• Identify areas where we are stuck – consciously welcoming change
• Recognising and naming your strengths and weaknesses with objectivity
• Select achievable goals and objectives stemming from your learning on the course