Do you want to gain positive attention with your next oral messages including public speeches, team meetings, and one-on-ones with colleagues, customers, and consumers?

Effective oral communication is a learnable skill vital for success—yet most people feel anxiety when asked to speak in the presence of others. The six classes in this bundle give learners the tools to become dynamic and relatable speakers in a variety of situations.

Here’s how to improve your oral communication skills: Enroll in these 6 short oral communication courses--drawn from teaching over 500 business communication classes for a consumer products company known as the business communication and business logic capital of the world. They will give you original insights and actionable strategies to equip you for successful oral communication.

Led by a nationally known expert, learn time-tested principles and practices that will allow you to prepare for oral presentations quickly and effectively on your own time, with fast feedback from the instructor to evaluate how well you have translated the lessons into actionable oral messages.

If you want to plan, organize, compose, and deliver messages that have impact and proposals that move your career ahead, this is this business communication program is for you.

Enroll now in your first class: Answering Questions Effectively for $49.

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Tom describes each of the Oral Communication courses

By completing this program, you’ll learn techniques to

  • Establish executive presence

  • Showcase knowledge and insight

  • Speak positively and confidently

  • Prepare visually interesting and relevant presentation slides

  • Use two storytelling templates to create engaging and logically coherent visual and verbal presentations

  • Plan and manage team meetings effectively, and

  • Anticipate and handle difficult questions and objections

Who can benefit from these Oral Communication courses?

Managers and administrators who communicate frequently with co-workers, clients, and other stakeholders.

Employees across industries and functions, including research & development, technology, sales & marketing, human resources, finance & accounting.

What’s the value of effective business communication to you and your organization?

Here’s what a top manager says

When a former student at a company renowned for its business communication excellence moved to assume a sales management role at a Fortune 10 company, he said,
I use the concepts I learned from Tom’s CommuniSkills curriculum on a daily basis. It is the single most important training of my professional career. It was so valuable to me at my prior job that I introduced Tom to my new company and his communication classes were incorporated in its leadership program curriculum. Tom’s communication training is a “must have” for professionals who rely on written and oral communication to influence others

And he is not alone. See what other top executives have said about the importance of outstanding business writing skills.

Testimonials on the impact of Dr. Tom Clark’s oral communications coaching

  • Scientist at a Fortune 50 Company

    After attending a meeting in which I answered one too many questions in which the answer was on page 12, I signed up for Dr. Clark’s business writing course, followed by his oral communication course

    The tools I have acquired in Dr. Clark’s courses have helped increase my efficiency and effectiveness as I am able to quickly distill mountains of information into quality, easily read, one- to -two-page messages. I have and continue to leverage these tools in my oral communications as well. My career has greatly benefited. Thanks, Dr. Clark.

  • Human Resources Manager

    I became a better listener by committing to apply listening skills in daily work meetings, and then discussing with Dr. Clark how to further improve those skills. I now “listen” to more than just words or nonverbal communication. For instance, in a face-to-face meeting I am aware of the different types of behaviors used by the other participants, and I react accordingly.

  • Sales Representative

    I improved my speaking skills by rehearsing real-life work questions from top management and answers with Dr. Clark on video. By analyzing these videos with Professor Clark, I learned to address the specific customer needs, organize my thoughts before speaking, and project an overall positive and socially productive image.

  • Scientist, ESL

    In terms of persuasion, Dr. Clark was remarkably effective in showing me how to turn potential real-life work conflicts into manageable win/win interactions, where showing respect for the other party is essential to achieve my own objectives. I was recently appointed to be a representative of my large company in meetings with the US FDA, a long-waited dream of mine. This is due in part to my noticeable improvement in communication skills. Attending an FDA meeting is a significant achievement for anyone in the organization, and even more so for someone like me who is not a native-speaker of English; I credit Dr. Clark for helping me achieve this goal.

  • Marketing Specialist

    I appreciate the excellent job you did delivering the Communication Training Series these past couple of months. It exceeded my expectations. Specifically, you took an immense amount of information, distilled it down to key training elements, and delivered the training in a series of five “bite-sized” sessions. This has made an immediate impact on my e-mail and presentation communications as well as the communications that I receive from my co-workers. So in short, thank you for a job well done! This is much appreciated.

  • Mechanical Engineer—Public Speaker

    Thanks so much. Everything went even better than I had hoped. We all did well, and we received so many compliments and comments from the attendees, our coworkers, and other business leaders who were there to recruit. Amazingly, I wasn’t nervous at all before my part….and I know it was only because I was SO prepared!

    I told Susan over and over how worthwhile it was to have you come down for the day. You really helped us make this event successful. Thank you again for everything….as long as it’s in our budget, I’m sure you’ll get calls from other members whenever something like this comes up. I look forward to seeing you again in the fall.

  • Civil Engineer—Public Speaker

    The presentation went perfectly. We were really confident--and we were true professionals. We owe you a lot of thanks for your time and effort. I appreciated everything that you did for us. I am looking forward to your class in the fall.

  • Technical Sales Support—Public Speaker

    The presentations were absolutely great!!! We all received outstanding responses from our manager, peers, and complete strangers. Countless attendees at the social presentation said that I did a phenomenal job, and I remember one saying, “clearly in the top 10% of pitches he’s seen.” My manager said that I looked and presented as if this were my full-time job. I wanted you to know that it would not have been possible without your time and efforts. Congratulations to you as well!!! You were definitely a part of this! Take care and I look forward to hearing from you.

Teaching Approaches

  • Autonomous learning

    Self-paced education, in your space, on your time, with workbooks (for 4 courses) and video resources you can pause, rewind, and review. Many have found it valuable to download and print the workbooks or to use two screens, one for the video and one for the workbook.

  • Multiple application exercises

    Each course has application exercises to allow you to practice the skills you are learning during and after the workshops.

  • Immediate feedback

    Most classes include an optional post-class exercise that the instructor will review with comments within 48 hours of submission.

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What you will learn in the oral skills sequence

  • 1. Answering Questions Effectively

    Learn to use mental rehearsal and prior knowledge of your audience to anticipate questions, formulate responses, and revise them for clarity and audience appropriateness. Deliver answers that are logically complete, easily understood, and adapted to your listeners’ expectations and needs. Video & workbook

  • 2. Delivering the Presentation

    Become a confident public speaker--delivering lively presentations to audiences of one to a hundred. Learn to use positive mental attitude and physical relaxation techniques before and during the presentation to assure a fluent delivery, one without verbal tics, such as ums and oks, and to use eye contact, facial gestures, and body language to project confidence and dynamism. Do exercises to assure you speak with authority, vocal variety, clear precise diction, and at an appropriate rate of delivery. Video & Workbook

  • 3. PowerPoint

    No more Death by PowerPoint! PowerPoint is a visual not a text-centered medium. Learn how to select appropriate visual content and to limit text to short phrases in parallel order. Complete exercises to become skilled at gaining a positive first impressions visually and verbally. Learn to create a visible presentation agenda to share with listeners. See how to improve data storytelling by examining before and after bar graphs. Use a content template to guide your creation of meaningful slides for a progress report Video only

  • 4. Storytelling

    Learn to structure your ideas into persuasive and impactful narratives using a sound combination of storytelling principles and creative thinking. Use time-tested principles of organization, content, and design to create a presentation updating listeners in words and visuals on your progress in achieving project goals. Video only

  • 5. Managing Team Meetings

    Be known as the team leaders whose meetings make a difference! This workshop focuses on achieving 1) team task success: Agenda Preparation, Participant Preparation, Opening Statement, Success Criteria, and Follow up and 2) interpersonal success with an emphasis on Hospitality, Productivity, and Enthusiasm. Video and workbook

  • 6. Positive Communication

    Crucial to effectively motivating others is building trust, connection, and understanding. Practice positive communication behaviors in everyday face-to-face, e-mail, text, and telephone communication including creating positive first impressions, using effective listening skills, and recognizing the talents co-workers with meaningful praise statements. Video and workbook

Meet your Instructor

Thomas Clark, PhD

Business Communication Coach

I founded CommuniSkills, a company for which my co-workers and I have taught over 500 business writing and oral communication classes for the Procter & Gamble Company. We have also served Meta, Microsoft, General Electric, AK Steel, Nestle, General Cable, and SC Johnson Wax among other clients. I have authored two books, Power Communication and Career Strategies, and over 65 articles on a variety of business communication topics. I earned my PhD at Indiana University.

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Introducing Yourself to Others

Self-Assessment

Creating Bar Graphs in PowerPoint

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Order both writing and oral skills bundles at the same time for $375, an additional $50 savings over ordering each bundle individually and a savings of $325 compared to ordering each course individually.

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