Sonya Hamlin - Business Communication

What Sonya Teaches

Creating Great Speeches
Presentation Skills for Delivering Great Speeches
Communication Skills so Others Can Understand You
One-On-One Communication: Peers, Staff, Management and Clients
Meetings: How to Lead and Participate Successfully -- and Be Memorable
Understanding Group Dynamics; Handling Different Personalities
Conflict Resolution and The Art of Persuasion
Negotiation Skills and Secrets

What You'll Learn from Sonya's Lecture-Demonstrations, Seminars and Workshops
Sonya presents in an informal, hands-on style with audience involvement, role plays, visual materials and humor. Covering all the material above she customizes each program to the specific needs of the audience she is addressing. Topics include:

New communication and presentation techniques
Great warm-ups and openings
Enhancing your natural communications style
Presenting yourself as a leader
What it takes to get others to listen
Sonya's "Pre-Think" strategies
Sonya's "Know-Your-Audience" Checklists: -- what makes people listen
Handling Being Questioned: Discovering great answers
Closure: Getting to Agreement and Action

Sonya's Presentations, Seminars and Workshops are totally customized for your group's needs.

What You'll Gain from Personal Coaching/Consulting
Today's tech-savvy world is making talking and listening obsolete, but you cannot sell a product, a service or yourself with personally connecting with your audience of one or many. Sonya's coaching and consulting will help you find your own best ways to deliver your message - and help you understand what goes into successful communicating today. Format includes role playing, editing and re-writing as well as videotape and replay.

Topics include:

Personal Presentation Skills

Conquering stage fright
Understanding audiences and how to motivate them
Making your message visual - graphically and verbally
Improvising and spur of the moment answers
Organizing material: the secret weapon
Explaining, persuading and anticipating needs

Management and Relationship Skills

Solving individual issues
Developing new communication skills for today
Becoming compelling and persuasive in your natural style
Cultivating leadership skills
Handling hostility, boredom and indifference
Establishing credibility
Criticizing effectively and giving bad news
Motivating and inspiring
Getting at the truth

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