Communication & Presentation Skills Training for ISC2 Members

About Our Communication & Presentation Skills Training

In Commanding Presence’s highly effective and transformational training courses, your staff will substantially and permanently improve their comfort, confidence, and communication skills. Your staff will receive all the expert coaching, exercises, practice, and video feedback required to learn effective speaking skills in a comfortable and supportive learning environment. Your staff will quickly improve their speaking and presentation skills, from strategy and text preparation to voice quality, body language, establishing rapport, and overcoming speaking anxiety.

We offer our training in-person across North America and virtually if needed in the following workshop formats: two-hour, half-day, one-day, and two-day formats. As you can expect, with the shorter workshops, we provided less personal coaching, fewer exercises, and no videotaping pr video feedback.

What We Cover

Your Information: How to organize your thoughts when speaking impromptu, how to prepare your presentation, how to manage the audience while speaking.

Your Delivery: how to connect with your audience, how to be persuasive and charismatic, how to control the virtual room while speaking, how to manage the audience while speaking.

Your Performance: How to manage your performance anxiety, warm-up your voice, and prepare to deliver a strong performance.

For the past 25 years, we have specialized in highly transformational communication skills workshops, including expert coaching, guided exercises, practice, extensive videotaping, feedback, and individual performance recommendations. Our training will bring about substantial and permanent improvement to your presentation skills. We have developed highly effective techniques for presenting complex thoughts and ideas in formal presentations and “thinking of your feet” in impromptu situations such as large, small and 1-on-1 meetings.

ISC2 Members Get 30% Off All Training & Workshops

We specialize in Corporate Communication Skills Training for senior-level executives, leaders, and other professionals, both new and established, who want to raise their speaking skills to match their high-level writing skills.

Our training is of tremendous value to those who are in the early years of their career, as well as those who are already successful speakers.

Participants of our advanced communication presentation skills training will quickly improve every aspect of their business speaking skills, from strategy and text preparation to voice quality, body language, establishing rapport, and overcoming speaking anxiety.

After our Corporate Communication Skills Training, participants will be able to:

• Speak with more confidence and authority in all business and social environments
• Quickly prepare and deliver memorable, persuasive presentations and talks to small and large groups
• “Think on your feet”: respond quickly and eloquently to questions and inquiries in meetings, on the telephone, and in presentations
• Connect with the audience and establish rapport with different personality types: persuade and influence with integrity
• Develop your authentic and natural speaking style
• Manage personal stress and communicate effectively under pressure

Jim Tull

Along with becoming Commanding Presence’s US Workshop Coach, Jim Tull is a Partner with CMPartners and a globally recognized leader in the field of interdependence management. Mr. Tull has advised and trained top-level government officials and business leaders in over 75 countries.

In his private sector practice, Mr. Tull advises and trains leaders and teams responsible for mission-critical business transformations. With 20 years of professional experience designing and delivering highly tailored workshops, Mr. Tull has worked across a diverse range of international business sectors, including energy, technology, finance, pharmaceuticals, professional sports and food production/distribution. Mr. Tull partners with, advises and coaches top-level executives and their teams to help implement strategies for communication, effective consensus building, high-impact mergers and sustainable dispute resolution.

In his public sector practice, he has provided leadership-level support on national conflicts in Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Venezuela and the Middle East. In addition, Mr. Tull has advised and developed trainings for a wide range of public sector groups, such as OXFAM, Mercy Corps International, Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade, El Salvador’s Ministry of Education, and many of Canada’s First Nations Communities.
Mr. Tull’s academic teaching experience includes leading courses at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Education, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Brandeis University and Cambridge College.

Peter Hiddema

Peter Hiddema is an expert trainer, coach and speaker on business communication skills & presentations skills, negotiation, collaboration, and conflict management and founder of Common Outlook Consulting Inc.

Building on his association with the Harvard Negotiation Project, the renowned research center dedicated to improving the practice of negotiation and conflict management, Peter has taught, consulted, and spoken about the principles of the methodology in numerous countries on four continents since 1996.

Peter has worked in a wide variety of settings. In the private sector, he has trained and advised executives of global Fortune 500 companies on high-stakes negotiations and relationships and has also assisted small local organizations. In the public sector he has worked with the World Health Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, international non-governmental organizations, as well as universities, national and regional government bodies and indigenous peoples. In addition, Peter has been a Visiting Professor in France and Singapore at INSEAD – The Business School for the World, and has lectured at Queen’s University (Canada and the UK), and Harvard University, among others.

Peter began his career in finance and banking. He worked with the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto, Canada and London, England. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce Degree from McMaster University, an MBA from Queen’s University (Canada), and an Executive Master’s Degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD (France). Peter speaks 4 languages, has lived in 6 countries on 4 continents, and has traveled through over 50 countries. He is curious by nature and considers himself a perpetual student in the school of life.

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