When you are ambitious and producing results, you’ll get noticed, qualify for growth opportunities and be promoted.
You’re happy to be promoted and you realize that you’re not 100% ready – if you’re honest with yourself.
That’s okay. You might struggle with the imposter syndrome and that’s normal. That could be a good sign because you recognise that you need to get better. And that’s another good sign because you’ll look for and embrace opportunities to improve your skills.
There are many skills that you as a promising executive need to improve. The most important might be communication and presentation skills because that is how you lead your team.
They will notice how you communicate with them and others. The result might be respect, cooperation and positive results. Or they might be mocking you behind your back.
What can you do to quickly improve your presentation and communication skills?
You could search for books to read. You might troll YouTube for instruction videos and when you really want to improve, you’ll find a course that offers presentation skills training for executives.
You’re not a university student. You’re not a first line manager. You are an executive that needs to exhibit executive presence and superior presentation skills.
When you speak, you want people to listen understand and act on your message.
You can’t wing it. You can’t afford to waste time and opportunities while you stumble through your learning curve.
Recognize your need and goal. Then get the best help to transform your presentation and communication skills.
You want instruction and practical advice from an experienced executive coach and confidant.
Why consider me, George Torok for this critical role?
Among my three decades of coaching and training experience I instructed the Effective Executive Speaking training program for the Canadian Management Centre over 12 years with two esteemed colleagues.
The program combined training with group coaching.
We successfully instructed hundreds of executives from both private and public sector to transform their presentation skills. My colleagues included two astute communicators starting with Peter Urs Bender, author of the bestselling, Secrets of Power Presentations.
Peter was Swiss born who came to Canada at age 18 to learn English. He loved the country and stayed. He never spoke perfect English, retained his Swiss accent, yet he became known in the press as Canada’s Presentation Guru.
My other colleague was John Robert Colombo a Canadian literary icon. He has published over 200 titles or literary works as an author and editor. He received the Order of Canada for his literary success. He recognizes the power of words and oral communication.
As you can imagine, I learned much from working with these two thought and action leaders. They did more than think, they acted and demonstrated their communication lessons. Although we agreed on the principles and techniques, we each had our own personal strengths and styles. That helped the executives in the classes recognize that they could leverage their individual strengths and personalities.
We three instructors observed and learned from each other along with offering feedback and constructive feedback. Every class we were teaching and learning.
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I was very impressed with your style of presenting. You have command, yet still show warmth for your audience. George you were outstanding!
Peter Urs Bender, Canada’s Business Presentation Guru and author of Secrets of Power Presentations
I have known George Torok for close to a decade. The two of us work side-by-side to deliver courses at the American Management Association’s Canadian Management Centre in Toronto.
After a session with George, I find I have picked up at least one new fact (or novel approach) to a problem (or a possibility) in spoken (or written) communication. So I value our association over and above our work as a team.
One of George’s special talents is his ability to bring out the best in other people. He is able to put his finger on the key passage of a speech or a report and right away find a better way to express it in words, tones, or gestures. He regularly works on a one-to-one basis with senior business managers and corporate executives to assist them in the drafting and the delivery of their messages in the most effective ways possible.
What surprises me the most about George is his ability “to turn a negative into a positive.” Because of his background in business and marketing, and because of his experience as a course leader and an executive coach, he shows genius in taking an ordinary, neutral, or negative statement and immediately transforming it into a message of hope, power, or achievement.
John Robert Colombo, C.M., D.Litt.
President, Colombo & Company; author of “Colombo’s Canadian Quotations,” editor of “Canadian Global Almanac,” and other popular reference books
www.colombo.ca
Who were the corporations that entrusted George, Peter and John with training their executives?
See the list of those clients here:
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