PROGRAM SCHEDULE

EXECUTIVE PRESENCE 1.0

The schedule below helps you navigate your customized program with helpful tips and deep dives into the subject matter for each component of your day. Don't forget to check out the add-ons at the end to further customize your program based on relevant content for your employees. ​

Executive Presence Run of Show

90 MINUTE WORKSHOP

WELCOME

WHY: Learners need a clear moment of embarkment, and a roadmap to know where they’re going, why and how.
ACTIVITY: The session begins with a moment of surprise and story-telling to engage. We set expectations and offer a roadmap, so participants feel comfortable they’re in the hands of a trustworthy narrator and challenged by the session’s ambition.

VIRTUOUS CYCLE OF GOOD COMMUNICATION

WHY: Both What you say and How you say it are important, and they’re connected — both in ways obvious…and not so obvious.

HOW: We examine the relationship between Content and Delivery. While most communication training examines (and even debates) the ratio of which matters more, we focus on how to unlock a virtuous cycle in which better delivery actually unlocks.

ACTIVITY: The instructor illustrates how the Virtuous (and also Vicious) Cycle evolves, using a high-stakes speaking scenario as the example.

CONTEXT:

SEE HOW OUR TRAINING HELPED KENJI USE THE VIRTUOUS CYCLE TO ELIMINATE “UMS” and “URS”

WATCH A QUICK PRIMER ON THE DEFINITION OF THE VICIOUS AND VIRTUOUS CYCLES OF COMMUNICATION

BREAKOUT 1
SELF-LED (Baseline)

WHY: Participants need to know where they’re starting from.
HOW: Learners establish a baseline by presenting to their colleagues in breakouts groups of six or less.
ACTIVITY: Each participant has opportunity to deliver the pre-work; each participant gets equal time. ** note: for the first breakout there is no peer feedback.

CONTEXT:

WANT TO READ A TESTIMONIAL FROM A BREAKOUT SESSION? 

THREE SURPRISES

WHY: Surprises engage listeners’ minds; spoken communication has three fundamental ones.
HOW: Participants learn GK’s 3 suprises about good communication: 1. it comes from using more of yourself, not less; 2. it comes from being focused on the other person; 3. you do not need to feel confident to project confidence.

ACTIVITY: Participants consider the bandwidth with which kids communicate; they complete a thought experiment about 4 one-to-one communication scenarios and embed the key realization with a mneumonic exercise; participants lay the groundwork for liberating themselves from the “confidence trap,” via volunteer or call-and-response if live or chat feed if remote.

CONTEXT:

THIS IS A GREAT REMINDER OF HOW TO THINK ABOUT STAYING FOCUSED ON THE OTHER PERSON.

To learn more about the confidence trap and the twin hazards of thought suppression and distinction, watch the first 5 mins of our 10-year anniversary company message. SPOILER: if you’re telling yourself not to do something, you’re already doomed to fail…:-)

THINKING, FEELING, AND DOING

WHY: Not all activites are created equal. Speakers often obsess over negative thoughts and insecure feelings, at the expense of simple, actionable “Doings.”
HOW: Participants consider the three activities Thinking, Feeling, and Doing, and the merits of each for improving one’s spoken communication.
ACTIVITY: With an instant show-of-hands activity (if live) or rapid poll (if remote), participants vote on which activity they have most control over. Spolier: most participants get the right answer; all participants learn.

CONTEXT:

THIS IS A GREAT REMINDER OF HOW TO THINK ABOUT STAYING FOCUSED ON THE OTHER PERSON.

A colleague at Columbia Business School, Adam Galinksy, studies the concept of Thought Suppression. Watch his TED talk on How to speak up when you feel like you can’t if you have a moment…

WARM-UP

WHY: Communication is a physical art; preparing and priming your physical and vocal communication instrument is just as essential for the communication athlete as the competitive one.
HOW: Participants learn: why warming up is an essential daily preparation; an intutive, easy to memorize physical warm up; and tongue twisters that challenge enunciation. Participants receive access to GK’s warm-up video library

ACTIVITY: Participants complete a group warm up exercise and recite customized tongue twisters in unison.

CONTEXT:

VIEW OUR ONLINE RESOURCES FOR VIDEO WARM-UPS TO GET YOU STARTED 

CHECK OUT GK LIVE DAILY WARM-UPS OR WATCH ARCHIVED VERSIONS ON YOUTUBE

TRANSPARENCY

WHY: Handling mishaps and challenges with transparency and lack of defensiveness demonstrates agility, command, and authenticity.
HOW: Participants learn the Three F’s of Transparency: Fake it, Feature it, and fix it.
ACTIVITY: After learning the alliterative 3 F’s framework, participants craft a “Transparency phrase” they can use to navigate challenges and mistakes

CONTEXT:

Watch a 90 second explainer.

3 F's In Action

GK President, Michael Chad Hoeppner, walks you through the basics of how to use Transparency to your advantage.
Watch Here

WANT TO KNOW THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND TRANSPARENCY? WATCH THIS 2 MINUTE EXPLAINER.

VOCAL VARIETY

WHY: Vocal variety — the musicality in the human voice — indicates both meaning (please pass the red pen) and intent (please pass the red pen!!!). It need not be learned de novo, but rather constraints must be unlearned, as humans have used the musicality of sound to communicate ideas since time immemorial.
HOW: Participants learn the importance and origin of vocal variety, and understand it using the GK Training 5 P rhubric to evaluate it along 5 alliterative dynamics (Pace, Pitch, Pause, Power, Placement).
ACTIVITY: Participants map each of the P’s to the effect on an audience, as outlined in research (conducted by GK Founder Michael Hoeppner and colleagues at Columbia Business School, UCLA, Univ of Chicago, et al) on the impact of the 5 Ps on political audiences.

CONTEXT:

CLICK IMAGE TO READ THIS STUDY

LEARN MORE:

WHAT CAN YOU LEARN ABOUT VOCAL VARIETY BY READING TO KIDS?

KINESTHETIC LEARNING

WHY: For many adults, bad habits – whether in speaking, writing, selling, or leading — are so engrained that trying to change them with a mere lecture is not only useless but often counterproductive. To achieve actual behavioral change, it’s far more effective to teach not just their brains but their bodies new tools to break bad habits using kinesthetic learning and embodied cognition.
HOW: For many adults, bad habits – whether in speaking, writing, selling, or leading — are so engrained that trying to change them with a mere lecture is not only useless but often counterproductive. To achieve actual behavioral change, it’s far more effective to teach not just their brains but their bodies new tools to break bad habits using kinesthetic learning and embodied cognition.
ACTIVITY: Here is a sampling of drills that you can expect at your workshop. 

CONTEXT:

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LEARN MORE:

WATCH THIS KEYNOTE PRESENTATION FROM MICHAEL CHAD HOEPPNER

BREAKOUT 2
SELF-LED

WHY: “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.” — Socrates
HOW: Learners practice the program’s lessons in breakout groups,
ACTIVITY: Each participant has a second opportunity to deliver the pre-work from the session and note improvements; colleagues offer feedback and observations. Each participant gets equal time. ** note: for self-led breakouts, the instructor hand-off is exceptionally clear,

CONTEXT:

CHECK OUT A TESTIMONIAL FROM A BREAKOUT SESSION. 

HOMEWORK AND
NEXT STEPS

WHY: Now matter how good
HOW: Learners find out about GK’s follow-up and reinforcement process and tools, and gain access to them.

ACTIVITY: The session wraps up with a preview of the reinforcement emails each participant will receive, an introduction to GK’s interactive practice app Question Roulette (participants receive access to a custom version), and guidance on HW.

CONTEXT:

THE GK PRACTICE APP “QUESTION ROULETTE”

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VOCAL VARIETY

WHY: Vocal variety — the musicality in the human voice — indicates both meaning (please pass the red pen) and intent (please pass the red pen!!!). It need not be learned de novo, but rather constraints must be unlearned, as humans have used the musicality of sound to communicate ideas since time immemorial.
HOW: Participants learn the importance and origin of vocal variety, and understand it using the GK Training 5 P rhubric to evaluate it along 5 alliterative dynamics (Pace, Pitch, Pause, Power, Placement).
CURRICULUM EXAMPLES:

WHAT CAN YOU LEARN ABOUT VOCAL VARIETY BY READING TO KIDS?

ACTIVITY: Participants map each of the P’s to the effect on an audience, as outlined in research (conducted by GK Founder Michael Hoeppner and colleagues at Columbia Business School, UCLA, Univ of Chicago, et al) on the impact of the 5 Ps on political audiences. 

 

They receive technqiues to modulate each of the 5 P’s independently and multiple kinesthetic exercises to increase vocal variety, including the GK tools Silent Storytelling, Impediment Drill, and the Four Archetypes.

CLICK IMAGE TO READ THIS STUDY

TRANSPARENCY

WHY: Handling mishaps and challenges with transparency and lack of defensiveness demonstrates agility, command, and authenticity.

HOW: Participants learn the Three F’s of Transparency: Fake it, Feature it, and fix it. They learn and use six essential “transparency phrases”, as well as Transparency via embodied cognition using a balancing exercise.

CURRICULUM EXAMPLES:

Watch a 90 second explainer.

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3 F's In Action

GK President, Michael Chad Hoeppner, walks you through the basics of how to use Transparency to your advantage.
Watch Here

ACTIVITY: After learning the alliterative 3 F’s framework, participants craft a “Transparency phrase” they can use to navigate challenges and mistakes

Using the set of Transparency cards from GK’s Conversation(TM) Card Game, participants learn and deploy 6 different GK transparency phrases, intergrate their own original one, and practice using them to navigate “mistakes”.

Participants deepen the learning with the use of Transparency cards from GK’s Conversation(TM) Card Game and add a kinesthetic exercise titled “A Mistake is not a Mistake,” in which participants are quite literally thrown off balance to instill a muscle memory experience that mistakes are only mistakes if a speaker treats them as such.

GK TRANSPARENCY CARDS