Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills
Now Presenting Your Best and Most Authentic YOU!
Stage fright? Exit stage left. Presentation apprehension? Kick it to the curb. Already a great presenter? Let us help you crank up your awesomeness!
Designed to help you discover your own personal speaking style and develop/enhance your public speaking capabilities, Presentation Skills training helps leaders become better, stronger, more effective persuasive forces for their audience. Transform your ideas into memorable words and improve your presence, credibility, and authenticity by learning:
- The four presentation rules to break before you speak
- How to organize content and ensure your audience remembers your message
- Presentation preparation techniques (whether you have 30 days or 30 seconds)
- Guaranteed ways to grab your audience, read your audience, and drive your message home
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Presence
Presence
Elevate Your Presence Game
Enhancing presence is critical to managing perception in both your personal and professional life. A person with strong presence is known to be “leadership material.” They’re self-assured, composed, and poised no matter what comes their way. They rise to the top quickly and instill confidence in subordinates, peers, and executive leaders.
Through the application of practical skills and intentional focus techniques, ImprovEdge can help you build personal connections and business successes. Take advantage of our Prescence program and discover:
- The importance of presence and how it affects you and your colleagues
- Critical attributes of great leaders with presence
- Ways to “show up” in formal and impromptu settings
- How best to use influence when you don’t have access to direct decision-making power
- Tips and tricks to appear confident, cool, and collected no matter the situation
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Keynote/MC
Keynote/MC
An Experience Your Audience Will Remember
The key to creating an impactful audience experience begins by having an understanding of your audience’s psychographics and customizing an event to meet them on their level. Lucky for you, that’s our bread and butter!
No matter if you want to set the tone and further your event theme, find new ways to motivate business leaders, or introduce and explore concepts that enhance success, ImprovEdge can make it happen.
In-person or virtual, our keynote speakers and MCs work closely with your event organizers to create excitement, boost energy, and ensure your event goes off without a hitch. Should there be a hiccup, our dedicated team is trained to get you back on track quickly—and without drawing attention to the issue.
Take advantage of our Keynote/MC program and we’ll help you:
- Establish a foundation your audience can connect with
- Devise improv exercises and interactive games your audience can apply keynote ideas to
- Ensure your audience walks away with material that can easily be applied to enhance their workplace roles
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Coaching
Coaching
Not Your Minor League Coaching Experience
Forget the once-a-month, cookie-cutter, never-ending approach to executive coaching. With ImprovEdge, everything you need to succeed comes in one convenient package.
Our Coaching program is customized, behavior oriented, and focused on the real-world application of techniques and best practices. It’s all about you! New skills are practiced live for the coach and evaluated to create a pace for implementation and practice of new ideas and improvements. All coaching comes with:
- Fully customized experience agendas
- A dedicated lead coach and experience coordinator
- Input from stakeholder interviews
- Coaching session re-caps with resources and homework
- A fixed fee and fixed timeframe—like a personalized workshop
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Managing Tough Conversations
Managing Tough Conversations
Handle Tough Conversations With Confidence and Ease
Difficult conversations are just plain difficult! But, they don’t have to be. Whether you’re on the giving or receiving end of a tough talk, knowing how to handle the conversation in a way that diffuses the awkward and produces a productive outcome is key to making it through unscathed…and, that’s just what our eLearning program is designed to do.
Managing Tough Conversations explores effective and positive workplace communication techniques that help you confidently prepare for, manage, and conduct important conversations. Our three-step proven framework will help you:
- Build confidence in uncomfortable situations
- Practice how to have difficult conversations that result in positive progress
- Explore techniques on becoming more flexible and adaptable in any unexpected situation
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Team Transformation
Team Transformation
Transform Your Dream Team Into a Reality
Think the process of transforming your team into a powerhouse of success will be a nightmare? Think again!
Whether you’re looking to manage and grow collaborative efforts, build long-term relationships, create a culture of trust, or manage stress and resilience, ImprovEdge has the knowledge, knowhow, and unparalleled expertise to get you where you want to be. Get started with our Team Transformation program and take advantage of:
- Techniques to rethink, reconsider, and have a fresh approach to the unexpected
- Programs and practices designed to teach you how to actively listen, pause assumptions, collaborate in real-time, and manage difficult conversations
- Fresh perspectives on how to remain healthy and calm in even the most chaotic situations
- And, much more
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Programs
Improve Your Business Prowess
with Proven Improv Tactics
Through a combination of research, improvisation, and neuroscience, ImprovEdge provides customized, real-world business training solutions designed to transform your performance.
Our hands-on business training covers a range of topics and offers an exciting, interactive environment where participants learn just how easy it is to become adaptable, flexible, and overall better able to tackle anything that comes their way.
Say bye-bye to one-size-fits-all training and hello to improv training customized to your specific needs and goals.
Contact Us
Contact Us
Address
3982 Powell Road
#314
Powell, OH 43065
Phone
614-793-1738
info@improvedge.com
Formats
The Business Training You Need.
The Format That Fits You Best.
From live on-demand, to live in-person, to previously taped before a live studio audience, ImprovEdge offers variety of super-engaging, results-oriented formats to transform you into the rockstar team member or leader you’re meant to be.
In-Person
Put your hands together for an in-person, live-action training event that is action packed with award-winning performances by none other than YOU (and your team). Offering customized workshop content and exercises to meet your unique needs, these events are strategically designed to teach key concepts that can be applied to the real world in real time.
Virtual
A dynamic, virtual experience that engages participants from start to finish, ImprovEdge Virtual Learning is hands-on fun in a hands-off way. Available on most major virtual platforms, Virtual Learning is a strategically designed, real-time learning experience that helps your people learn the key concepts of improv and how to apply them to their daily activities.
Hybrid
A live workshop experience with multiple ways to experience it. The ImprovEdge Hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds (in-person and virtual formats) to help “get the gang all here.” Dependent on the audio-visual technology in the space available, Hybrid allows participants and/or facilitators to be a part of the action remotely or in person—whichever works best.
eLearning
Experience video-driven, on-demand, interactive content that helps you harness the power of the ImprovEdge in your own time and space. Designed both to stand alone or supplement live workshop experiences, eLearning affords you the ability to gain a competitive edge when it’s most convenient for you.
ImprovEdge
Transform Performance
Agile, inclusive, confident leaders in half the time of traditional business training.
Programs
Through a combination of research, improvisation, and neuroscience, ImprovEdge provides customized, real-world business training solutions to transform your performance.
Business Training with an Improv Twist
Greatness cannot be achieved by being passive. It’s time to rethink the way you approach business training by stepping outside your comfort zone and learning how to think on your feet and confidently respond to every situation. Through a combination of improvisation and neuroscience, ImprovEdge can help make that happen—with customized, flexible business training solutions that give you an edge over the competition.
Our Clients
"Nothing like hanging out w Karen Hough Majidzadeh from ImprovEdge! You’re definitely missing out if you’ve never crossed paths with her and her team. She’s special and what they deliver is meaningful, relevant and impactful in more ways than one. She’s won over every team she’s gotten in front of which is a unique accomplishment here at CCS."
Barbara Escalante Hess, CHRO, CCS Medical
"Our ImprovEdge experience included a full-day Presentation Skills workshop (beyond my expectations!) and 1:1 coaching for some of my leaders (what a difference in three sessions!). Their approach was thorough and customized to each individual – they helped my team leads build a confident, authentic presence for important presentations at our annual sales meeting. ImprovEdge heard our pain points and addressed the challenges in a thoughtful, efficient way."
Nicole Miller, AVP, Distribution Marketing, Nationwide
"These improvisational capabilities allow our leaders to be innovative and flexible and to collaborate on a radical level."
John Brock - Chairman and CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises
"It was fantastic to have Karen with us at our sales conference, she got the team motivated and thinking – we’ve heard a lot of “yes AND” this week. Success!!"
Amy Gath - Vice President, North America Marketing, Formica
"The ImprovEdge Managing Tough Conversations program approach was the perfect solution for my busy team of property managers! Live virtual sessions combined with on-demand resources gave them timely tools to handle the variety of tough situations they face every day with positivity, empathy, and resiliency. ImprovEdge continues to be a great partner for our leadership development!"
Megan McGinnis - Founder and President, Eucalyptus Real Estate
