Introduction
This highly interactive Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact training course is designed to strengthen your leadership influence, enabling you to connect and inspire others through a powerful, charismatic presence. You’ll gain the skills to project authority and a commanding presence, whether addressing small groups or large audiences, ensuring your message resonates with impact.
Through this engaging and hands-on course, you’ll learn essential skills and techniques, including how to influence effectively, deliver with impact, build confidence, manage emotions and anxiety in presentations, handle disruptive individuals, and apply advanced communication strategies from expert communicators. By incorporating these vital leadership communication skills into your approach, you’ll lead others with confidence and presence.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Master the art of leadership through powerful communication
- Techniques for communicating persuasively and with influence
- Skills to project confidence and handle challenging situations effectively
- Building strong workplace relationships founded on trust and connection
- Flexibility to adapt to new and changing situations
- Self-awareness to foster personal growth and continuous development
Who Should Attend?
- Mid to senior-level managers seeking to enhance their leadership presence
- High-potential employees transitioning into leadership roles
- Executive team members looking to refine their communication impact
- Business leaders who want to develop a more authentic and influential voice
- Professionals responsible for leading teams or major initiatives
- Change agents who need to influence across organizational boundaries
Course Outlines
Day 1 – Building Your Leadership Voice and Confidence
- The importance of communication and Leadership
- Modes of Persuasion: mastering the art of impactful communication
- Expressing your leadership brand and establishing rapport
- Overcoming your presentation fears and controlling inner emotions
- Confidence-building through mindful self-awareness techniques
- Strengthening assertiveness and projecting a powerful presence
Day 2 – Mastering key Elements for Effective Message Delivery
- Four Key Elements of executive presence “excellent message delivery”
- Preparing and structuring the message: 6 Key components
- Importance of Body language, non-verbal, verbal, vocal and visual communication
- Mastering active listening and effective questioning techniques
- Using compelling questions to elicit emotions and responses
- Creating vision through storytelling and emphasizing the “why”
- Emotional intelligence in leadership communication
Day 3 – Presenting with Impact
- Techniques for controlling your voice to command respect
- Awareness of our perception: how to own ‘the spot’
- Strategies for building trust and influencing others effectively
- Visualization and thinking positive: projecting your inner strengths outwardly
- Keeping your audience engaged and focused on your message
- Proven methods and insights from expert communicators
- Practical presentation exercises with constructive feedback
Day 4 – Controlling and Managing Audience and Environment Effectively
- Changing behaviour behavior by designing the right environment
- Making it work: choosing the right location, equipment and situation
- Using assertive communication to control situations
- Handling challenging questions and difficult audience members
- Managing information flow within time constraints
Day 5 –Effective Communication within the Organization and Beyond
- Business communication: choosing the right methods and formats
- Clarifying purpose: aligning goals, aims, objectives, and targets accurately
- Essential elements of strategic models
- Structuring an effective plan
- Engaging key stakeholders’ interest and securing their support
- Review, summary, and feedback session