AMM Consulting workshops can be facilitated through one-on-one coaching in those areas or for a group setting.
Successfully Surviving a Media Interview
Having to speak to the media is one of the most feared experiences of many professionals. If approached correctly, successfully navigating media interviews can increase your organization’s visibility and set a proactive path for you serving as an effective spokesperson. Training includes:
- What to do when the media calls/interview preparation
- How to deliver a powerful written, television and radio media interview
- Learn the Do’s and Don’ts when dealing with the media
- Understand the importance of body language vs. verbal communications
- Learn how to use bridging techniques to get your message across
- Participate in media interview practice sessions simulating live interviews
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Deliver Memorable Speeches and Presentations
Whether you must deliver a speech to an audience of a few or a few hundred, your message and delivery are critical to your success. Many seasoned professionals dread public speaking and can impact their image by delivering lackluster presentations. AMM Consulting provides personal and group speaking training to help you learn how to:
- Deliver a presentation that is powerful, simple and memorable and targets your audience
- Learn the many ways to start and end a compelling presentation
- Make your presentations and language more visual, and less verbal
- Use volume, pace, pitch and tone to engage the audience
- Practice strategies to address nervousness and mental blocks
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Developing Effective Business Communications
In a world of increasing electronic communications, employees occasionally lose the art of effectively communicating with colleagues, customers, and other key stakeholders. This group seminar will improve organizational communications by helping team members to learn how to:
- Define effective communications in the business world – email, memos, letters, and meeting
- Use outlining techniques before you communicate
- Structure communications ensuring clarity and the proper tone
- Tailor messages for the audience
- Use the appropriate tool for what you are communicating
- Practice written and verbal communications for a variety of business scenarios
Build Visibility for Your Cause or Product
How to Get the Most Value by Making Events Successful for Your Organization
Organizations spend significant amounts of resources each year, sending employees to trade shows, professional conferences, and other external events to build organizational visibility and get business. Return on investment is essential when planning these events. Amy has spent years working at trade shows, attending national events, and planning shows and events and help your team:
- Identify the best events for your organization’s priorities
- Build your specific target image and presence
- Develop successful messages
- Prepare for a successful event
- Set goals team participation expectations for a team’s participation at an event
- Practice interaction skills for upcoming events
- Evaluate event and team outcomes
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Make your Organization and Your Message Impactful
Build a Winning External Affairs Strategy that Increases the Visibility of Your Organization
No matter the purpose of your organization, building and increasing your visibility with external audiences is critical to success. Creating a multi-faceted strategy for building your brand is critical in today’s world.
- Build a strategic external visibility plan that defines visibility objectives
- Identify issues that are critical points of connection
- Determine the right tools to reach key audiences
- Identify future partners and define what good partnerships look like
- Integrate marketing and communications into the strategy
- Set realistic team expectations and goals
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Build Trust in the New World of Doing Business
Create a Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
Whether you’re developing a new product, significantly changing an existing process or service, considering a new regulation, or building new infrastructure, engaging the community is critical to the success or failure of your final decision. Today’s public expects to have a voice and perspective. Amy has spent years developing stakeholder engagement strategies for complex issues and has been a featured speaker on stakeholder engagement to university and professional audiences.
- Determine who are the critical stakeholders for your organization
- Examine the benefits and challenges of a meaningful engagement strategy
- Improve your bottom line through engagement
- Build a stakeholder map and strategy
- Engage your toughest stakeholders
- Incorporate feedback into your plan
- Sustain your long-term stakeholder engagement strategy
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