Communication Programming
Organizational Workshops: Training / Continuing Education / Team-building
Jason will lead your team through an interactive curriculum to build competence and confidence in presenting. Participants receive hands-on experience and come away with practical techniques and specific, actionable feedback, driving immediate impact.
Standard Topics (additional available):
Audience Analysis: Understanding purpose and audience to enable tailoring of message and medium.
Storytelling: Leading with the answer (top-down), translating data into narratives, optimizing the level of detail, and making the message stick.
Slide Design: Creating slides to complement rather than distract from the narrative, adjusting design to match the audience, and avoiding information overload.
Q&A Management: Anticipating questions, applying tools to control narrative / flow, and utilizing an appendix to support.
Presentation Politics: Taking action pre- and post-presentation to secure buy-in, successfully navigating power and influence dynamics.
Physical Delivery: Explaining conversationally vs. reading / reciting, establishing rapport with audience members, and applying techniques for mitigating anxiety.
Timing: Single-day (8-hour) workshops incorporating the above topics are the most common structure, but half-day and multi-day options are available.
Audience: Jason has successfully taught audiences across a range of experience levels, functions, and industries. The most common (and effective) grouping is by experience / responsibility level:
Executive Leadership (C-suite, Director, Vice President): Often communicate externally to boards, investors, and senior customers and internally to other executive leaders or across the entire organization.
Mid-level Leaders (Senior Managers, Department Heads): Typically managers of managers, these audiences communicate up, down, and across internally and potentially externally (customers, suppliers, etc.). Downward messaging requires clarity to equip reporting managers with clear guidance for their respective teams. A frequent challenge is communicating the technical nuances of their function (engineering, accounting, finance, HR, legal) to other groups.
Early Leaders (Managers, Supervisors): Transitioning from individual contributors to leadership adds the complexity of communicating up, down, and across. Managers must translate larger objectives into clear guidance for their direct reports, and communicating feedback is critical. Upward communication often expands to more senior audiences, and lateral communication with other teams / functions requires balancing the needs of the team with the needs of the larger organization.
Individual Contributors / Technical Experts: May communicate internally and / or externally and typically struggle with succinctly translating large amounts of data / detail into insights and recommendations.
Typical group sizes are 10 - 20 students, but larger groups are possible depending on your organization’s objectives. Cross-functional sessions have proven particularly effective in helping teams understand each others’ communication preferences.
Customization: Jason works with your team in advance of a session to align content and exercises with your organization’s culture, business scenarios, and communication standards, ensuring relevancy and immediate application.
Custom Consulting & Speaking
Project-specific Consulting: Jason can work with your team to strengthen a specific presentation or pitch, consulting on story structure, slide design, and delivery (e.g., practice sessions with feedback).
Speaking Engagements: quick hits (30 - 90 mins) on presentation-related topics for team lunches, retreats, etc.