Business Communication Skills for the 21st Century - Creating Your Memorable Communication Experience

What communications experience do you create now? How can you be CERTAIN to reach your audiences? Why is "communicating a contact sport"? Spend 90 minutes with Bert Decker, and learn how you can create a dynamic, focused, listener based "experience" when you communicate - whether presenting in a meeting, talking with one person, leading a seminar, or speaking to thousands. This is your chance to sharply hone your business communication skills. You'll walk away with the ability to communicate more powerfully and on purpose, whether you're in a staff meeting, sending an e-mail blast, making a presentation to a board or having lunch with a key client.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what really counts in communicating.
• List the six essential communication skills.
• Discuss how to reach the First Brain in order to connect with your audience.
• Recognize how to always have a focused, listener-based message.
• Implement SHARP principles to be memorable.
• Identify how to transition from an informer to an influencer.
• List the six skills of a leader and how to develop them.
• Define the 3x3 feedback system for continuous improvement.

Presented By:

Bert Decker
Founder and Chairman
Decker Communications, Inc.

Bert Decker is an executive and entrepreneur. He was also NBC's TODAY Show communication expert on the U.S. presidential debates, a film writer and director, and co-producer of an Academy-Award winning documentary. He is a coach to Charles Schwab, Olympic champion Bonnie Blair and hundreds of other executives, athletes, and leaders. The author of the classic on persuasive public speaking, You've Got To Be Believed To Be Heard, he also founded and built the $10 million international communication training company, Decker Communications, Inc. Bert Lives in San Francisco with his wife, Dru Scott Decker, who is also an author and speaker.