Your speaking voice can represent or misrepresent you all day long, and it has the power to create or destroy confidence, momentum, credibility, trust, respect and your success in business. It can keep you from being heard and taken seriously, closing sales, winning proposals and receiving raises and promotions. It is imperative that your business voice be your strongest asset, not your biggest liability.

Communications Training:

• Your Vocal Advantage...Use Your Everyday Business Voice to Your Advantage 
• Self-Introduction Business "Commercials"
• Go "NUTS" Networking, "Network YOU to Success"
• "Excite, Motivate and Invite" with Powerful Previews, Overviews and Presentations
• Business Talk to Couple’s Talk, Don’t You Use That Tone With Me!
  See below for a description of each topic.

Seminars – Public Locations or at Your Office or Event
Public or private, personalized training in a seminar environment. Topics described below.
Training - Individual or Group
Private individualized training or small group training at your location or mine.
Phone and In-Person training available. Seven days a week, including evening hours.

SEMINAR DESCRIPTIONS:

"Your Vocal Advantage"  Use Your Everyday Business Voice to Your Advantage.
Few things can be more of an advantage or detriment to your career than the sound of your voice. In business, you speak to people every day. Each and every day, you need a powerful, confident professional voice when you're speaking with your employees or the public, you're managing or training staff, closing sales, leading meetings, giving presentations, answering phones, recording outgoing and incoming voice messages, working your company’s trade show exhibit, presenting or receiving awards, introducing yourself at networking events or giving a speech to your professional association. So your business voice MUST BE a top notch communication tool, an asset...your vocal advantage.

Learn to define your specific message; edit your speech or presentation; voice quality and effective delivery; vocal variety, adding excitement and life to your voice using variety in pace, pitch, rhythm, volume, tone; the 5 “W’s” and “How” of speaking; audience analysis; articulation, phrasing, timing and rhythm; correct breathing and projecting the voice; greetings and courtesies; professional body language; correct microphone usage; attending networking events and introducing yourself; importance of preparation, practice, warm ups; controlling your fear; overcoming the "um" factor; things to avoid to take care of your voice; voice mail, an extension of yourself (outgoing and incoming recorded messages).

Your Self-Introduction Business "Commercials"
If you have to introduce yourself to potential clients, at networking events, over the phone, and to people you meet anytime and anywhere, then this is THE seminar for you. Learn how to be confident and specific, and not sound like you're rambling, scattered and desperate for business. Time is MONEY in advertising and business! A 30 second commercial during the 2009 Super Bowl cost advertisers $3 million dollars. So, how much are your self-introduction business "commercials" costing you?

Lauren Bishop will teach you how to make spectacular self-introduction "commercials." Learn about:

the importance of being concise, precise and how to entice, Memory Ticklers, what should be in your 15 and 30 second commercials and your 1 and 2 minute commercials, adding vocal variety to your commercials, how to use a microphone correctly, proper breathing, projection and stance, the importance of preparation and practice, how to avoid giving too much information (TMI), making your commercial memorable and repeatable.

Go "NUTS" Networking! Network YOU To Success!
Everywhere you go, people should know, who you are and what you do. Learn how to Go NUTS Networking, and Network YOU To Success! Find out how to focus and target your LIVE and in-person networking effort, time and money. Learn the best places and best times to network, the difference between formal and informal networking, what to say and how to say it, crucial professional presence issues, the power of a smile and positive attitude, the best questions to ask, how to start a conversation or break into a group, what to take with you, goal setting, follow-up and follow-through, etiquette, taboo topics, what to wear, what to eat, what's in it for you (WIIFY) versus what's in it for them (WIIFT), best groups and places to network, and so much more.

"Excite, Motivate and Invite" with Powerful Previews, Overviews and Presentations!

Description to be posted soon!

Business Talk to Couple's Talk, Don't You Use That Tone With Me!
It’s hard to leave business matters where they belong, at the office. And after a hectic day, it can be hard to transition from communicating in a business environment to communicating in our personal life. At work, the way we speak with others differs immensely from how we speak with our romantic partner. Or at least it should! There should be a dramatic difference in what and how we say things.

Lauren Bishop will give practical, smart, and yes, romantic ideas on how to transition from business talk to kinder, gentler couple’s talk using: vocal variety, adding life and excitement to your voice; greetings, pleasantries, praise, courtesies; work-free zones; don’t you use that tone with me; ASK, don’t tell; “You” versus “I” or “We”; timing is crucial; location, location, location; adult "breathers" and “time-outs”; personal body language; plan, prepare and practice what you're going to say, and how, when and where you'll say it; the importance of dates.