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Taking the Stage®

Taking the Stage® is specifically developed for women in leadership roles. This program will show women how to take the stage, and speak with confidence, assertiveness, and an influential leadership presence.

This intensive two-day program will show you how to move beyond traditional female behaviours and seek recognition for your views. You will learn how to speak with a clear message, persuasive structure, and strong words. You will discover how to get your points across without sounding defensive or tentative. The seminar will also show you how to achieve a strong leadership presence through eye contact, pace, body language, and voice. If you want to earn the credibility of a dynamic, confident leader, this program is for you. It has been embraced by women in major corporations on all continents.

Who Should Attend

This program is for women in leadership roles who want to be influential and inspirational, and want to have the strong communication skills required of all successful leaders.

Program Outcomes

  • Learn to avoid “minimizing” behaviours

  • Adopt a mindset that embraces the ‘stage’

  • Portray yourself as a leader, not a doer.

  • Convey your accomplishments

  • Develop a style that incorporates the best of “female” and “male.”

  • Use your vocal power to engage others

  • Deliver clear, confident messages

  • Deal successfully with interruptions

  • Confidently drive home your ideas

  • Choose the language of leadership

  • Avoid apologies and mincing modifiers

  • Achieve a strong presence through eye contact, pace, voice, expression, body language and tone

  • Speak as a leader in all settings—formal and informal, and impromptu

  • Achieve influential leadership every time.

Key Program Features

  • The program is only for women leaders

  • You will receive guidance in overcoming. common female vocal and language traps

  • The program creates a collaborative atmosphere in which you will design powerful meeting “scripts” that will persuade others.

  • The course instructor will provide individualized feedback to you.

  • The program will provide opportunities to practise several methods of communication in small groups.

  • You will experience learning where the Instructor to participant ratio is 1:7.


Taking the Stage® is a trademark of The Humphrey Group Inc
 

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Presenting the Inaugural Session of Taking the Stage®

 
Join us this May at the premium Riverbend Inn in Niagara-on-the-Lake, the ideal setting for a powerful leadership experience.

The Riverbend Inn
Niagara-on-the-Lake
May 14-15, 2008

Fee: $3,275, plus GST
Fee includes:

  • Taking the Stage two-day program
  • A two night accommodation package (May 13 & 14) with all meals and non-alcoholic refreshments during the program at the four-diamond Riverbend Inn.
  • A high quality leather Speakers Box
   

About this program

 
This program has been developed and is delivered by The Humphrey Group Inc. in partnership with The Niagara Institute.

Founded in 1987 by Judith Humphrey, the Toronto-based Humphrey Group Inc. is one of North America’s premier firms specializing in developing strong and effective communication skills in leaders. The Humphrey Group works with leaders through both one-on-one coaching and multi-attendance programming to help leaders maintain a strong leadership presence in all types of communication situations, including formal speeches, presentations, meetings, phone calls and Q&A sessions.