go beyond words — training and development for educational, corporate and personal effectiveness
workshops
Nonverbal Boardroom is proud to offer the following workshops:
Charismatic Communication
Recommended for anyone who is interested in becoming a successful presenter or communicator.
Learn to increase your success in interviewing, facilitating meetings, and presenting to groups through the effective use of nonverbal communication. Revamp your personal communication style and increase your charisma.
Learn:
- Essential nonverbal skills to improve how others perceive you
- The one nonverbal technique that increases your success in the workplace
- Ways to increase your circle of influence through personal charisma
- Nonverbal strategies for successful interviewing, meetings and presentations
- How to get and maintain the attention of the listener
- How to develop congruency between verbal and nonverbal messages
- How to identify various nonverbal cues and when it’s appropriate to use each
- How to use gestures that lend meaning and intensity to verbal presentation
- The use of various locations to assist in delivery
- Adjustments of voice speed and volume
- Utilization the pause
- How to direct others to look where you want them to look
- How to go visual with information
- How to read the needs of an audience
- Ways to use influence instead of power to get others to cooperate
- How to increase nonverbal intelligence
- How to become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
- Ways to enhance personal effectiveness
Cats & Dogs
Recommended for business professionals who are interested in understanding themselves and others and creating relationships of influence. Emphasis on creating and/or improving relationships with difficult personalities.
If you call a dog, it comes. If you call a cat, you get its answering machine. It’s the cat personalities that are hard to deal with! Anyone who has ever owned a cat and a dog instinctively knows the differences between their personalities. By using the analogy of household pets, this training examines behavior in terms of cat “traits” and dog “traits” applying intuitive knowledge of animals to people. Learn how to better understand difficult personalities and create relationships that work.
Learn:
- How to identify the hidden motivation of others and increase understanding
- When you can use the Golden Rule in relationships and when it will backfire
- The surprising mistake we continue to make when dealing with difficult personalities
- How to increase your charisma by blending your “cat” and “dog” personas
- Labels for specific behaviors to improve perception and reduce surprise
- How to establish and maintain relationships by “teasing” cats and “pleasing” dogs
- Specific nonverbals to entice difficult personalities to cooperate
- How to create a functioning team that works together without problems
- How to increase nonverbal intelligence
- How to become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
- Ways to enhance personal effectiveness
Don’t Shoot the Messenger!
Recommended for anyone who has to relay negative information. Emphasis will tend toward colleague-to-colleague interaction and the unique struggles of those in management positions.
Delivering bad news at a staff meeting. Colleague-to-colleague interactions. Telling a client the order will be late. Having to deliver negative information is what all business people have in common. It is purported that the Romans, on hearing bad news, took their frustrations out on the messenger by killing the person; hence, the phrase, “Don’t kill the messenger.”
Learn:
- How to avoid hurt feelings and becoming the “bad guy” when delivering bad news
- The one thing you must always have when delivering negative information
- How voice volume, body posture and eye contact impact the delivery of bad news
- Ways to decrease the likelihood of an interaction becoming volatile
- How to preserve the relationship while delivering the negative message
- Ways to reduce stress and increase influence
- How to mediate conflict effectively
- Ways to increase the efficiency of meetings
- How to go visual with information
- How to use voice patterns systematically
- Ways to increase permission
- How to increase nonverbal intelligence
- How to become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
- Ways to enhance personal effectiveness
Leadership Through Nonverbal Intelligence
Recommended for those in leadership positions or anyone interested in increasing his or her personal effectiveness.
We tend to think of leaders as people who take control, yet the only way to influence others is by controlling ourselves. True leadership has more to do with flexibility. In other words: You don’t get to decide your reality; you get to decide your response to reality. Leadership isn’t necessarily about solving problems, but about creating more options. When we can predict what might happen, we avoid being surprised. Surprise is the enemy of competence. We’re able to reduce our surprise by becoming nonverbally intelligent.
Learn:
- How your nonverbal communication affects the outcome of any situation
- How to predict what might happen and reduce surprise
- Why influential leaders operate from both position and person
- How to deliver negative information while preserving the relationship in the process
- How to accommodate various situations, so good communication can happen
- How to manage different types of personalities
- How to develop congruency between verbal and nonverbal messages
- Ways to use influence instead of power to get others to cooperate
news
Sari’s appearance on pdxfm.com
Sari was interviewed on pdx.fm’s Exceptional Women NW program on July 16th, 2010. Listen online at http://exceptionalwomennw.com/.
Willamette Week profiles Sari
Beth Slovic and Amanda Ingram wrote about Nonverbal Solutions in Willamette Week on December 2nd, 2009.
news
About Sari
Sari de la Motte, who has been described as a “guru of the unspoken,” is the CEO and founder of Nonverbal Solutions, whose motto is Go Beyond Words.
client quote
“Sari was fabulous. I was very impressed by the level of relevance to my work. I will use this right away!”
— Workshop Participant
ASTD Regional Conference
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