What will you learn in this course?

1. Bedrock Habits and the Basics: The importance of warming up the voice and body before important meetings, how to achieve an upright posture without tension or strain, and tips for making "eye contact" when remote.

2. Three Surprises for Effective Communication: The trap of "professional mode," the importance of other-focus, and some tough love on the idea of confidence.

3. The Five P's of Vocal Variety: How to use Pace, Pitch, Pause, Power, and Placement to engage your audience and make your professional material more memorable.

4. Interjecting with Intention Get your voice into the conversation without interrupting, while avoiding crosstalk and other remote communication traps with this three-part structure.

5. Camera Technique Fundamentals Tips for improving how you look on camera using Lighting, Angle, and Background.

6. The Semiotics of Dress: What you wear affects how you stand, sit, move, and speak.

7. Transparency: Use the Three F's of Transparency—Fake It, Feature It, Fix It—to navigate technical difficulties, interruptions, and other unexpected events.

8. Remote Communication Stamina: Keeping your vocal and physical health front of mind while communicating remotely.

9. Kinesthetic Tools: Two of GK Training's most useful physical drills: Finger Walking, for eliminating filler language, and the X-Marking Drill, to help with pausing and clarity.

GK Training is a boutique communications training company serving Fortune 100 companies, universities, and individuals around the world. Using unique kinesthetic learning methods, GK teaches specific, actionable, and repeatable skills in speaking, writing, selling, and leasing to everyone from high school students to U.S. Presidential candidates. Founded in 2010 by CEO and President Michael Hoeppner, GK Training now works with US Ivy League Universities, 45 of the 100 largest global law firms, 2 of the 4 US professional sports leagues, and individuals in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.