How We Work

We empower you to a new level of success and
satisfaction in the way you interact with yourself and others

We help clients:

Speak with power, clarity and ease
When you speak from your core to the core of your audience they listen. When you
let yourself get in a powerful flow in front of your audience, You attract their admiring
attention no matter how busy they are. Our unique training and coaching environment
is designed to empower you to speak from your heart of power.

Feel confident and open when it matters most
Once you have mastered the art of being open in front of one audience,
you can easily apply that confidence to every other situation in your life. With
SpeakNow you get repeated experiences of your personal power. This translates
into unparalleled success and satisfaction in your communication in your life.

Get focused on the person right in front of you
By staying focused with the person or audience in front of you, you recognize and
leverage hidden oportunities, you catch potential problems before they become real
problems, you come to agreements with others faster, and best of all, you show
others respect. They return the favor by respecting you.

Attract and nurture relationships that count
Creative, flowing, lucid communication takes place when both parties feel safe to
express themselves without the usual fear of judgment that can come up. Speaknow
offers a unique chance to meet people with an unsual authenticity and to experience
the powerful possibilities that occur when people speak from their heart of power.

Deliver winning Presentations and meetings
SpeakNow's approach to presentations and meetings is unique in that we combine logical and proven methods of situation analysis and contenct development with a delivery method that focuses on what is really going on with you and the audience in the moment BEYOND what is being said. Our clients have used this approach with great results

Whatever the interaction is, it always comes down to the same things:
On the phone, in front of others, when talking one on one, in meetings, at networking
events, sales presentations, in every communication moment there are certain basic
elements that determine the quality of the interaction.

Manage four critical elemants of communication and you will succeed most every time.

1. Your personal presence
2. Giving attention to the attention of your listeners
3. Delivering clear, compeling content
4. Asking empowering questions
   

We help our clients tell their story with impact by helping them to access their heart of power and to speak and listen from that place whenever neccessary.

We also empower our clients with strategic and logic skills needed to say the right words in the right way to the right audience at the right time for the right result.

Clients who use our services typically get the following results:

• You enjoy vastly more satisfying interactions be they presentations, meetings,
  sales calls, one on one conversations.
  
  
• You are relaxed, clear and confident when it matters most
  
  
• You hear people's hidden objections and unknown desires, and give them a
  safe space to voice those desires and objections; thus becoming a valued leader
  
  
• Developing presentations and meetings are faster and easier
  
  
• You make a profound difference in the lives of the people around you, through
  your natural confidence and willingness to live in accordance with your passion
  
  
• You are loved and admired for who you are by those around you by who are. You enjoy trusting, supportive relationships by colleagues, bosses, clients; everybody around you.
  
  
• You experience the secret of great charisma is falling in love with your audience. The greatest communicators throughout history have had an ability to literally FALL
  IN LOVE with their audiences.
  
  

SpeakNow's Three Guiding Principles of Greatness

Principle #1 Personal Presence is the source of your success

All communication begins with you. It begins with your sense of yourself. The saying: "knowledge will set you free" is true when we talk about self-knowledge. Knowing yourself, getting in touch with your center is the first step toward your mastery in the world. The saying 'master yourself and you will master the world' is true.

Based on this principle, our approach is to first and foremost help you discover your heart of power, your place of security and stillness, your place of unlimitied potential.

Our work is geared toward assisting you to master yourself.

From this place of personal mastery, all communication is simple. There is a place inside each person that is completely open and willing to recieve and give attention freely. There is a place in each person where curiosity is more powerful than fear. This is the place each of us knew instinctively as babies.

The Original Master

How is it that a baby can learn to walk and speak and to master a multitude number of physical principles in only a few short years, and most of us stop learning by the time we reach adulthood?

As we developed personalities, we gained an understanding that helps us navigate our complex adult lives, but many of us lost touch with our innate sense of mystery, adventure, curiosity and intimacy with the world we live in.

SpeakNow is dedicated to reviving your native experience of personal power;
helping you become a passionate leader who inspires willing and joyful agreement
with those whom you interact.

Everybody knows when a person is communicating from their heart of power and when they are communicating from a role they are performing habitually.

The difference between a person communicating from their center and a person communicating from the typical place (that of the programmed personality) is dramatic.

Principle #2 Intention is your first strategy and final outcome!

Its quite simple.

The process of going for your hearts desire is the process of revisiting your intentions, your goals and your action plan.

If what you are doing does not work, try something new.

This may seem obvious, but it is astounding to realize that VERY FEW PEOPLE actually try new methods and approaches until they are forced to. They often try harder and harder using the same old strategies which usually produce the same old results.

You can revolutionize your results quickly and easily by changing your strategy.

Our approach is designed to help you recognize what does and doesn't work, and what works
better than you could have ever imagined and leverage the best strategies for your particular situation.

Once you begin applying these strategies, they will set you apart from the run-of-the-mill
results experienced by your colleagues, and produce geometric gains for you.

Principle #3 Keep your relationships primary, situations and outcomes secondary


If you want sustainable success in your communication, it is essential that you master a
fine art that few ever learn, much less master; that of focusing on two things at one time. In addition to focusing on what you are saying and what you are hearing you need to focus on something more subtle but much more essential:

Stay aware of the actual sensory connection you share with the person you are communicating with. This is the key to magnatism, trust, moving the communication forward, energizing give and take. It is impossible to overstate the value of maintaining relational presence with those around you.

But again, it is surprising how few people seem to understand this.

Most people get so caught up in what they are saying, they forget about the ones sitting there listening. When you give EVEN MORE ATTENTION TO YOUR AUDIENCE THAN THEY GIVE TO YOU they will repay you with their committed agreement more often than you ever thought possible.

If you let content be more important than the connection you have with your
audience, you put yourself at an extreme disadvantage.

The Power of Connection:Your connection with your audience, be it 1 person or 100,000 people is the true basis for your confidence and their ability to hear what you have to say.

There is nothing more magnetic and attractive than a person who is in connection to us.

When you learn the secret that great communicators throughout the ages have known, that when you are in total connection with your audience there is NO FEAR, you will be free to show your audience the very best that is in you. Better than you could even imagine. More often than not, they will repay you for your powerful expression with enthusiastic, whole hearted support and agreement.

For several years we have been offering a special training designed to help bring about a state of powerful presence and connection with any audience any time. It has been used by thousands and thousands and the results are nothing short of miraculous for them. With this training they have gone beyond being stuck in their head and letting thoughts and ideas come in between them and the people who matter most to them.

By learning this unique skill, they have gone way beyond stage fright and disconnection to speak with the kind of impact that changes lives.

OUR APPROACH

Systematic -- We utilize proven, time tested systems in approaching your presentation.

Supportive-- People learn more through support than through criticism. For this reason we only use criticism when we are working on something content oriented that requires analysis. Even then we tend to point to positive changes that can be made in the future rather than what was done wrong in the past.

Safe--We have found that people learn best when they feel completely safe. To this end we are committed to creating an environment of the utmost safety. We aim to create an environment where people are free to let down the armor and just be with each other in a relaxed and candid way.

Unusual--Those who come to our training and coaching can expect to feel confused, skeptical and awkward sometimes. The exercises we use can be unorthodox, but we have found that to create the extraordinary results our clients want, we must create an extraordinary experience for them.

Highly Experiential--Our clients can expect to be participating in our coaching and training almost ALL OF THE TIME. In this way they experience tremendous improvement in a short amount of time.

Community Based--It is not an exaggeration to say that many of the participants of our training sessions became good friends after they have been working together for a short time. During one corporate training, an engineer said to his colleagues; "We have been working together for 10 years, and I don't think I have ever really known any of you until today." This is a typical outcome of our training sessions.

Now that you have learned How We Work and the kinds of results to which we are
committed, learn about Our Services and Solutions.

Alan Steinborn, All Rights Reserved, 2004, 2005