Is this you?

We work with a wide variety of individuals; from executives to foreign service diplomats, from entrepreneurs to artists, from professors to professionals involved with NGO's.

Though they have diverse backgrounds they share a clear understanding that the quality of their interpersonal communication is a critical factor to their professional success and personal satisfaction.

They understand that their ability to reach key audiences, be it one person or a thousand people, is essential to move their projects, careers and life paths forward.

However they also understand that this is very challenging. They are looking to get better results from their communication.

They don't quite know how to put together the magic combination of communication skills that make leadership, success and happiness seem effortless, and they don't have the time or the margin of error to go it alone. In this way they realize that having a community of people around them that can give them mentoring, skills and candid feedback in a safe, neutral environment is invaluable.

It is RARE that we work with whole organizations, and whole teams, because our clients must be ultra-committed. This is not a training or coaching that lends itself well to people who attend because their boss told them to do so. Our clients are EXCLUSIVELY WILLING VOLUNTEERS. They are passionate about leadership, and willing to put themselves out for a new approach that will bring them forward.

Typical client perspectives
'Common Sense' is *NOT* Common
Our clients have seen thousands of bad presentations and given their share of bad ones too. They have been bored to death in poorly designed and poorly managed meetings. They have witnessed first hand the damage that inter-office politics bring.They have suffered through too many moments of mediocre communication where nothing was actually said and lots of time was wasted. Our clients are painfully aware that common sense DOES NOT equal common practice. They are looking to ACT on what they KNOW is BEST!

The 'Born Charismatic Leader' is not a TRUE leader
Our clients are tired of 'charismatic' leaders who may look good on the outside, but aren't actually great leaders. Our clients have witnessed many a good song and dance, but realize that sustainable relationships and true leadership is more than putting on a good show.

New fashions don't work but neither do traditional approaches
Our clients don't quite know how to communicate with full effectiveness in the era of over-busyness and information overload. There are precious few people in their organizations, families and circles of friends to whom they can turn to gain the insight they need to adequately address the needs of today.

do you require a new communication approach?

Do you face any of these challenges?

• You could be getting better results from your interactions. Your run into distracted audiences, regular misunderstandings, less than powerful interactions, ineffective presentations,etc.
  
  
• You are not in the top 1% of great present ors. The truth is, the state of presentations today is so poor that if your presentations are not WAY better than most you are UNDERACHIEVING.
  
  
• You don't have a lot of time to figure things out on your own.
  You need solutions now.
  
  
• You have no means of objectively accessing the quality of your communication
  
  
• You get over nervous or even traumatized when in front of groups on in intensive confrontational communication situations
  
  
• Your attention is gets divided even when there is a person standing right in front of you trying to say something to you.
  
  
• You find communication is often exhausting and ineffective
  
  
• You find it difficult to get people's full attention in today's information overloaded communication situations
  
  
• You are unsatisfied with the level of intimacy and authenticity you experience in communication and wish there was something better

If you face any of the challenges listed above, you are not alone.

Leaders throughout the world are looking for new ways to communicate with impact and genuine confidence to their audiences, to go beyond their own distractions so they can listen to others with undivided attention, to create and nurture relationships of trust, to ask empowering questions, to recognize opportunities as they appear and not when the moment has passed, to conduct meetings people actually enjoy going to, to give presentations their audiences actually wants to experience.


We work best with leaders who agree with 4 principles

1. Good communication your choice, every moment
   Our leaders know that while they don't have control over other people's reactions, corporate cultures and such, they do have power over their own communication. They choose to be fully responsible for their reactions and intentions in EVERY communication situation.
   
   
2. Good communication requires work and self-awareness.
   Our clients are willing to put in the work to make themselves successful.
   Great training and coaching alone won't do the trick. They understand this.
   
   
3. Communication leaders support others and receive support
   Everyone sees things differently. It is essential to work with others to help uncover our blind spots and uncover other peoples blind spots. Without a community, there are no communication masters.
   
   
4. The road to Communication Mastery is never ending
   Since communication factors change and evolve throughout life communication mastery is more a process of learning than it is a specific outcome. Yes, there are many great outcomes, and many failures, but our clients are willing to focus as much on the lessons learned in each situation.
   

Now that you have a better idea of the issues, concerns and challenges facing
our clients and the type of clients who are successful with SpeakNow's approach,
click here to discover how SpeakNow serves our clients.

Alan Steinborn, All Rights Reserved, 2003-2008