Visible Improvement
Let’s face it. Not every investment in talent development pays off in ways that others can see.
A leader may say they enjoyed a training. They may say they love their coach.
But the goal isn’t just a good experience. The goal is improvement their audiences can see.
Mark moves leaders from hypothetical exercises to the communication challenges right in front of them — helping them develop, practice and deliver messages that they plan to deploy right away.
That’s visible improvement.
Training That Takes
What's Your Point™ workshops
2½ days. Up to 10 high-potential leaders. Same organization, different functional roles. Three presentations they can each put to work immediately.
Leaders develop real communications they will deliver to real audiences. They learn a repeatable process for understanding audiences, developing messages, getting feedback and refining their ideas. They see their own confidence improve as their messages get clearer.
Leaders also learn from each other. By giving and receiving feedback throughout the workshop, they learn how other functions think. They learn how together they support the entire enterprise. They build a broader — and deeper — network.
Individual meetings with each leader and supervisor — before and after the workshop — connect workshop insights with immediate communication opportunities.
Leaders emerge with stronger communication skills, a broader perspective of their organization and alignment with their supervisor on their immediate opportunities.
That's why this is training that takes.
Coaching That Connects
Private Leadership Communication Coaching
Senior leaders often benefit from a longer-term relationship with a coach they trust — someone who gets to know them, their audiences and their goals.
Mark is a Speak by Design Certified Leadership Communications Coach. He helps leaders develop messages, practice delivery and learn from the feedback they receive following their actual communications.
Coaching engagements are tailored to the leader and the need. They may combine focused in-person work with shorter follow-up sessions, either in person or virtually. Alumni of What’s Your Point workshops can also use private coaching to continue their development.
Coaching often begins with an immediate communication challenge — an important meeting, presentation or conversation. But the work can evolve as a leader takes on a new role, faces a new audience or prepares for a larger opportunity.
The goal is not simply to prepare leaders for their next communication. It is to prepare them for what comes next in their careers.
Custom Keynotes and Other Engagements
Built around your audience, your objectives and your organization.
Mark did not move into formal training and coaching until he had delivered for many audiences exactly what they needed. For their team. For their existing program. For their moment.
Mark works with organizations to create custom engagements — often drawing on methods from What’s Your Point workshops and his private coaching.
The starting point is the need, not a predetermined format. Mark works with the organization to understand the audience, define what success looks like and build an experience to reach that goal.
Tell Mark what your team needs. He'll develop the experience.