About FastTrackSpeaking^®

If you are a mid- or senior-level manager or a senior individual contributor, you are often required to speak to more diverse audiences than most — from junior employees, to peers, to executive staff. We know for a  fact that in today’s fast-paced, competitive environment, presenters need the strategic skills of conveying information clearly as well as creating dialogue and interaction for quicker decisions. FastTrackSpeaking® provides skills and tactics proven to work best with each audience.

FastTrackSpeaking® is a video-based, two-day program that gives you invaluable insights, skills, and practice in the art and science of speaking to junior employees, colleagues, and the “Big Dogs” in the boardroom. FastTrackSpeaking® is a hybrid course. You get the best of the advanced PowerSpeaking^® OR HighTechSpeaking® (dependent upon the participants’ backgrounds) AND Speaking to the Big Dogs®  programs. Like our other courses, it is a lively, highly interactive, life-changing program.

Here are the highlights of what you'll learn in the FastTrackSpeaking^® programs:

FastTrackSpeaking® PS / FastTrackSpeaking® HTS program:

Advanced PowerSpeaking® - In this segment, you’ll build upon your current presentation skills by learning to:

• Ensure you have a clear core message that drives the talk.
• Use stories, analogies, and metaphors to dramatically increase retention.
• Incorporate visual aids strategically.
• Handle hostile and challenging questions with ease.
• Manage the speaking environment.
• Integrate the Q & A with a memorable wrap-up statement.
• Express your ideas with confident, authentic style.

OR:

Advanced HighTechSpeaking® - Here we help you fine-tune your advanced technical presentation skills. We use video examples from world-renowned scientists and engineers to model the skills of success in any technical presentation. You will:

• Construct a presentation for speaking in technical briefings, pre- and post-sales
  customer presentations, and project reviews.
• Use leading-edge visual-aid strategies that are based on new research.
• Handle disruptive audience behavior when you are in charge.
• Modify content for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Incorporate “pattern disruption” strategies to help you keep any audience fully.
  engaged and more apt to retain your message.
• Convey the meaning of the data, not just the facts.
• Express your ideas with confident, appropriate style for technical or mixed audiences.

AND:

Speaking to the Big Dogs® - The rules for successful presentations are way different in the boardroom. This is a groundbreaking workshop for people in middle management who need to make high-stakes presentations to senior management. You’ll learn focused strategies to insure success for your next presentation. Find out:

• Why you must “Make your first line your bottom line.”
• Why the 10/30 rule must be used for high-level presentations.
• How to use the “Elevator Pitch” to deal with the unexpected.
• Why strategy is more important than style in the boardroom.
• Why you may need to dump the middle of your presentation and learn to improvise with the Big Dogs.
• How to build listening skills to deal with Big-Dog chaos.
• Why you need to understand the requirements of advanced preparation.

As with all of our courses, FastTrackSpeaking® is a leading-edge workshop that uses a number of effective approaches to create long-term learning:

• An Effective, Intensive Coaching Model – We purposely have a two-trainer, private coaching model. Why? Intense coaching happens privately, not in front of peers. This model provides the fastest and most long-lasting behavioral change.
• Highly Interactive, Video-based Sessions – In our two-day FastTrackSpeaking® there are eight video-tapings for each person and five private coaching sessions, for maximum feedback and behavioral change.
• Behavior-based Learning – Our entire training is based on a learning theory called behavioral modeling. To teach a new skill, we follow a proven process:

1) Introduce the topic and explain its importance.
2) Discuss any theory and research that is relevant.
3) Demo the skill.
4) Have the participants practice the skill.
5) Give feedback on the practice.
6) Repeat the practice to correct any mistakes.

Each new session follows this flow. The result: presenters leave the workshop confident, competent, and armed with tools and strategies for varied speaking demands.

"I wasn't sure if this would be relevant for my level, but it was invaluable."

Jamie Stark
Category Manager
eBay