The courses below have been specifically designed for our GSA eligible clientele.  Although the format and much of the content of these courses mirror the offerings available to our commercial customers, details of the training are geared to agencies and organizations rather than the corporate environment.

Also, GSA eligible customers enjoy discounts from our commercial price list of 16-22% off similar courses in our commercial schedule.

The following programs are listed in GSAAdvantage! 

Advanced Presentation Skills                          

All great speakers share a common trait: They learned to be great by studying those that went before them.  Although we are enamored by the oratory skills of public figures from time to time, none was born with the ability to persuade or inspire.

Instead, what makes them good is the depth of their desire to study and learn the basic skills that set great speakers apart. 

Speaking well is not about having the right genes.  Unlike basketball or the violin, no inborn talent is required.  Speaking well is a skill, comprised of physical behaviors, learnable by anyone who cares enough to succeed.

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More good news: you can also forget what they’ve always told you about “practice, practice, practice”?  A presentation designed and delivered with our 3-Step method never needs to be scripted or memorized. 

Advanced Presentation Design                          

For years, businesspeople, clergy, military and government personnel have been designing PowerPoint presentations to look like those they've seen before. Not based on any understanding of how audiences process visual information, and without the knowledge of just how much (and what kind of) information people can absorb and comprehend per unit time.

The result is a current level of "acceptability" in presentation design quality that leaves little room for true knowledge transfer.  Worse, most organizations believe that computer- based presentation software is so easy to use that it doesn't warrant the expense of training people to know how to use it.  

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Unfortunately, good software alone does not make for good presentation design.  In fact, quite the opposite!  There are strict rules to designing presentations you must follow, and innumerable pitfalls that will sap the strength of even superb speakers, ruining an otherwise well-delivered show. 

Briefing Techniques - Beginner / Intermediate

Through a series of interactive exercises that parcel proper briefing skills into their numerous elements, participants secure the skill base to speak before groups of any size with poise and confidence they might never have thought possible.  

Unlike Presentation Skills training, Briefing Techniques training concentrates on delivery skills specifically attuned to delivering a series of facts, situational awareness, safety, or operational information critical to performing the mission, civilian or military.

Participants learn to use proper eye contact, which is the basis upon which all subsequent skills and knowledge are based. 

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Audience comprehension soars as briefers learn to deliver content with techniques that both inspire and guarantee retention. 

Briefing Techniques - Advanced

This 2-Day course builds upon the skills learned in Briefing Techniques – Beginning. Through a series of interactive exercises that parcel the elements of advanced briefing techniques into their numerous elements, participants secure the skill base to speak before groups of any size with competencies that place them with the top 5th percentile of public presenters.

Course content, which includes a facilitated workshop on the second day, is divided into modules that thoroughly cover Advanced Delivery Techniques, Speaking Impromptu, Presentation Design & Development Workshop, Handling Tough Questions and Maximizing Audience-based Content.

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The result is outstanding increase in audience attention, retention and comprehension.

Executive Writing Skills                

Even in the relative meritocracy in which we work and live, people still judge others to a large extent by the quality of their written words.  Consciously and subconsciously, clients and colleagues make determinations about another’s education and competence when reading their correspondences. 

This course was created to enhance the image of the organization and the advancement of the participants by addressing the common mistakes that signal lack of written language skills. 

The skills to becoming a persuasive and effective writer are broken down into modules that can be easily absorbed at each step. 

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In either a one-day or half-day format, participants will secure the skill base to compose and refine written communications that both get to the point and reflect well on themselves and their organizations. 

90 Minutes to Killer Presentation Skills - DVD

Although speaking to a group is reported to be the Number 1 human fear, the truth is a bit more nuanced.  The presenter in this video, author, speaker and trainer Doug Jefferys, clearly demonstrates that we fear public speaking because our most common behaviors when in the spotlight produce exactly the same physiological responses as when we are genuinely facing a life-threatening event. 

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No drugs, no self-hypnosis, no fuzzy neuro-reprogramming, no reliance on "positive thinking" exercises that fail at the worst time.  The process that takes you from a speaking zero to a speaking hero is one that simply involves modifying three things that you've done since your first stand-up book report in grade school. 

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