CONNECT AND CONVINCE
CONNECT & CONVINCE: BUILD CONSENSUS, INCREASE INFLUENCE & ENHANCE PERFORMANCE
Is your team losing out on valuable business because they lack the skills to influence customers and stakeholders?
Are meetings unproductive or uncomfortable, with the same few individuals dominating all the time?
Are employees afraid, or unable to speak up, resulting in important insights going unexpressed?
When employees are unable to communicate effectively, the outcomes can include:
- Increased mistakes, resulting from a lack of clear instructions and feedback
- Higher turnover rates as frustrated employees leave in search of a more transparent culture
- Conflict and distrust, resulting from ambiguity and mixed messages
- Decision-making delays due to lack of clarity and consensus
- Missed opportunities and reduced innovation when employees don’t have the tools to influence, persuade and share valuable insights
- A lowered bottom line resulting from the inability to communicate effectively with clients and customers, whether internal or external
Poor workplace communication leads to:
- 52% More stress for employees
- 44% Failure to complete a project
- 31% Low employee morale
- 25% Missed performance goals
- 18% Loss in Sales
– The Economist Intelligence Unit
Our CONNECT & CONVINCE program provides workshops and coaching to help your leaders and teams communicate, persuade and collaborate with skill and ease. The program provides participants with valuable frameworks, practice opportunities, and confidence. Workshop topics include:
Impact and Influence:
- Frameworks for speaking up powerfully in meetings
- Strategic communication: Strategies to cut through the noise
- How to ask for what you want
- Tools and frameworks for influence and persuasion
- Develop presence and gravitas
Presentation Skills:
- Presenting effectively in the virtual or hybrid environment
- Presentation skills deep dive using Shola’s AVID framework. Learn how to become a presenter who is:
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- Authentic – speaking with authenticity
- Valuable – with on-point content and a clear structure
- Inspiring – creating a connection and telling powerful stories
- Dynamic – lively, compelling and interactive
- Presentation skills basics
- Intermediate-level presentation skills for conferences and panel discussions
Communication Skills for High Performing Workplaces:
- Delivering effective feedback
- Cross-cultural communication for global teams
- Navigating challenging conversations
- Inclusive communication skills
CONNECT & CONVINCE consists of:
- In-person and/or virtual workshops
- Small group coaching and peer support
We work with you, adjusting our tried and tested curriculum and leveraging your existing platforms to co-create the ideal program for your organisation.
CONNECT & CONVINCE consists of:
- In-person and/or virtual workshops
- Small group coaching and peer support
We work with you, adjusting our tried and tested curriculum and leveraging your existing platforms to co-create the ideal program for your organisation.
What clients say
“Shola created a bespoke 5 week virtual communication programme for our team at 10X Banking. We focused on: communicating on video, frameworks for getting our point across with clarity and precision, personal branding, gravitas and even strategies for hedging effectively when under pressure. We really enjoyed the sessions and learned some invaluable skills that we’re already putting into practice. Sessions were fun, practical and very engaging. Highly recommended and we hope to work with Shola again in the future. “
– Verity Sparling
Senior Legal Operations | 10X Banking
“She led a session for our women’s network on understanding your personal brand and telling your story. It was such an engaging session and thought provoking. It was a virtual session due to current circumstances but despite us all being remote, all participants were actively engaged and participating. Kudos to Shola for achieving this!”
– Odile Wittemans
Senior IT Director | Tate Lyle
