Description
Duration: 5 days
Even the best ideas and strategies are useless if they cannot be communicated. This communication course delivers a best-in-class learning experience via interactive lessons, group assessments, and role-playing activities.
This is a five-day boot camp.
Prerequisites
Individuals looking to sharpen their communication and collaboration skills.
What’s included?
- Authorized Courseware
- Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
- Hands-on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
- Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing- (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
- Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
- Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation
With several convenient training delivery methods offered, The Academy makes getting the training you need easy. Whether you prefer to learn in a classroom or an online live learning virtual environment, training videos hosted online, and private group classes hosted at your site. We offer expert instruction to individuals, government agencies, non-profits, and corporations. Our live classes, on-sites, and online training videos all feature certified instructors who teach a detailed curriculum and share their expertise and insights with trainees. No matter how you prefer to receive the training, you can count on The Academy for an engaging and effective learning experience.
Methods
- Instructor Led (the best training format we offer)
- Live Online Classroom – Online Instructor Led
- Self-Paced Video
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| Start | Finish | Public Price | Public Enroll | Private Price | Private Enroll |
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| 12/25/2023 | 12/29/2023 | ||||
| 1/15/2024 | 1/19/2024 | ||||
| 2/5/2024 | 2/9/2024 | ||||
| 2/26/2024 | 3/1/2024 | ||||
| 3/18/2024 | 3/22/2024 | ||||
| 4/8/2024 | 4/12/2024 | ||||
| 4/29/2024 | 5/3/2024 | ||||
| 5/20/2024 | 5/24/2024 | ||||
| 6/10/2024 | 6/14/2024 | ||||
| 7/1/2024 | 7/5/2024 | ||||
| 7/22/2024 | 7/26/2024 | ||||
| 8/12/2024 | 8/16/2024 | ||||
| 9/2/2024 | 9/6/2024 | ||||
| 9/23/2024 | 9/27/2024 | ||||
| 10/14/2024 | 10/18/2024 | ||||
| 11/4/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||||
| 11/25/2024 | 11/29/2024 | ||||
| 12/16/2024 | 12/20/2024 | ||||
| 1/6/2025 | 1/10/2025 |
Curriculum
I. The nature of communication
Why people struggle with communication
“Language games” and “frames” Fuzzy goals
The importance of the “core” Four common problems
Rush to judgment
Letting emotions run high
Not letting images and ideas “unfold”
Misunderstanding your audience
Simple strategies to communicate well
Stories and journeys
Getting the context right
Thinking in pictures
II. The Golden Rule
The philosophy: Journey
The application: Start strong, finish strong
Using the Golden Rule at all levels of writing
III. Building Blocks
Sentences
S-V-O core
From S-V-O to S-V-WWWWWH
From simple to compound and complex sentences
The right words
The Golden Rule, redux
Paragraphs
Defining the paragraph
Rooms and corridors
Tabloid headlines
The arc of the paragraph
IV. Slotting paragraphs Knowing your audience (part 1)
The mirror and the kaleidoscope
Horizontal and vertical business languages
V. Storytelling (part 1): Visuals
Characters
Setting: the “world of the story” Action and beats
Details VI. Thinking in pictures: Developing great PowerPoint presentations
Storyboarding
Writing for pictures
Slotting ideas
Yo-Yoing
Supplementing presentations
VII. Idea Hunting
Observation identifying possibilities with the Thomas Edison approach
Metaphor comparing observations with past knowledge and experience
Conversation explore different possibilities
VIII. Storytelling (part 2)
The arc of the story
Struggle to encounter brick walls
Suspense creating a sense of uncertainty to resolve
Change showing how things change
Meaning understanding the moral of the story
IX. Shapes, Numbers, and Order
Shapes:
Arc
Arrow
Middle-In-Out (in media res)
Circles
Spirals
Numbers
Ones
Twos
Threes
Four and More
Order
Lists
Inverted pyramid
X. Yo-Yoing Analysis/explaining
The journey
Unfolding ideas
The ladder of abstraction
XI. Knowing your audience (part 2)
Speaking the native language
Start with the core of common ground
Defining tricking terms
Mapping the whole territory
XII. Editing
The Golden Rule, redux
Search and Destroy the system
Working backward
XIII. Emails
Why email is the most important of all writing
The structure of emails
Line by line
The choir system: Challenges/Options/Information/Response
The etiquette of email
XIV. Words
Simplicity
Precision
Emotional punch
XV. Presentations (part 1)
The Dale Carnegie formula
The Golden Rule and presentations
Images and ideas
XVI. Big projects
Knowing the audience
The concept of fragments
Yo-Yoing
Mixing words and images
The choir formula, redux
XVII. Memos and reports
XVIII. Impact strategies
Words
Emotions
Surprise
XIX. Presentations (part 2): Connecting with impact
Presentations as conversations
Thinking in pictures, redux
Finding passion in performance
Dale Carnegie formula, redux
