Debra Howard Consulting

Communication Intensive

Get Serious

We're not interested in delivering feel-good training programs with cute icebreaker exercises. Instead, we have participants role-play (yeah, they don’t love doing it, but we don’t give them a choice) real-life situations on camera, and then receive feedback immediately from their colleagues and an executive coach as they watch themselves on video. Then we have them do it again. This intensive approach to training is powerful, slightly uncomfortable, and permanently transformational. If you want your managers to confidently handle difficult conversations, to skillfully give feedback, to successfully support diversity and inclusion, and to effectively influence others, let’s get serious.

The Communication Intensive has two parts:

  • Communication Survival Skills Training: an eight-hour deep dive into the best practices of effective communicators (delivered in one day in person, or in four 2-hour modules virtually)
  • Communication Bootcamps: full-day practice sessions (limited to four leaders at a time) using video-based role plays and peer feedback to reveal, correct, and improve long-standing communication patterns

For clients who want to train a larger, mixed group of managers and staff, and give their leaders more in-depth training and practice, we offer the Communication Survival Skills Training to everyone, and then follow up with Communication Bootcamps for select groups of leaders.

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