What can you expect?

Laurie Krauz leads interactive, entertaining and informative sessions filled with skills, techniques and tips that will help you to become a dynamic and compelling communicator – whether it be for public speaking, presentations, media appearances, negotiations, interviews or networking.

Whether your sessions are group or private, in a spirited and friendly environment designed to clear personal hurdles and stumbling blocks, you will learn to: 

• engage your listener(s);
• communicate with confidence whether the goal is to sell a product or to sell and idea;
• be more effective in the development, organization and execution of your ideas so your goals are met;
• develop effective negotiation techniques that will influence the other party to say yes;
• be more effective in getting your core message across; 
• overcome public speaking fears;
• channel nerves into energized communications;
• persuade, influence the listener; and
• develop your own style  – a far easier (and much more fun) task than attempting to shoehorn yourself into a set of arbitrary rules!

Some of the techniques you will develop include: 

• voice control (inflection, intensity, volume);
• skills to improve the development, organization and execution of your content (whether for presentations, media appearances, negotiations or interviews);
• exercises to help you be more engaging and entertaining;
• tips to get you out of yourself and into the minds of your audience;
• body language (yours and your listener);
• exercises to help you infuse more of yourself into your presentation;
• breathing exercises;
• visualization; and
• image and wardrobe evaluation and training.