Available Courses (26 Courses)

Persuasion – more often than not, that’s the underlying reason why we give presentations at work. In this module, we will focus on learning how to organize the components of your message to best influence your audience with our Persuasive Message Roadmap.

To convince your audience, you need to build your case one step at a time so that the audience sees that your recommendation is the best recommendation. By this point in your persuasive message, you will have primed your audience enough times to get them to agree with you. You primed them with your purpose, your solution, your benefits and now your evidence. Repetition is one of the most convincing ways to persuade an audience.

From beginning with a clear understanding of the purpose and the intended audience for your persuasive message to the three elements of a strong close are restate purpose, recap main ideas and call to action - this module summarizes the Persuasive Roadmap with key review examples and a comprehensive exercise.

This course teaches you how to effectively apply the Dardis Communications' Informative Message Roadmap to create concise and impactful presentations.

This course teaches you how to effectively apply the Dardis Communications' Informative Message Roadmap by highlighting the significance of focusing on key facts, removing extraneous details, and being ready for audience interaction.

No one wants to deliver bad news, but it comes with the territory. Learn how to deliver bad news in a professional manner by using our proven approach. As a result, you will organize your thoughts, deliver the news, and focus on solutions. This course focuses on the essential skills needed to deliver bad news professionally and confidently.

Equip professionals your employees and staff with the essential skills necessary to deliver bad news in a professional and confident manner. It emphasizes the importance of honesty and timely communication, providing a structured roadmap to help organize thoughts and messages effectively. This course focuses on the specifics of the Delivering Bad News Roadmap.

Most people use hand movements as they describe concepts or explain abstract ideas in presentations, even if the listener can’t see them. Research shows when presenters use hand gestures they form clearer thoughts and speak in tighter sentences with more declarative language.

Gestures provide a visual representation of what you’re saying. Think of hand movements like painting a picture that emphasizes the most important elements of your message. This module covers the importance of gestures and a strong voice in your presentation.

You want to make sure that your signals don’t undermine your message. Beware of body language that implies nervousness or self-consciousness. This module covers the importance of body language during your presentation.

Dardis Communications strongly encourages you to prepare your presentation well. Preparation is the key to success - especially when using technology in your presentation. We recommend you work through the Preparation Checklist presented in this module to ensure success during your next presentation.

Presenting a technology demonstration either in person or online can be a challenge. In order to keep the focus on your message, you may decide to adapt our Dardis Communications principles to technology demonstrations.

This module focuses on the skills that impact your connection with the audience, including how to: connect with Eye-to-Eye, deliver complete thoughts, and to pause between thoughts.

To be successful at Eye-to-Eye, you must avoid predictability by delivering your thoughts randomly. Audiences are sophisticated. They can spot a predictable speaker and tune out within minutes. This module covers delivery skills and includes ideas on how to practice key concepts.

The Eye-to-Eye technique can be adapted for large audiences and even for phone conversations. This module covers these two key areas of communication effectiveness - allowing the presenter to be seen as confident, believable and trustworthy.

This course emphasizes the importance of impactful openings and closings in presentations, leveraging psychological principles to enhance audience retention. It covers essential elements and tactics for creating effective openings that engage and set the stage for your message.

This course emphasizes the importance of impactful openings and closings in presentations, leveraging proven principles to enhance audience retention - covering the essential elements and tactics for creating effective openings that engage and set the stage for your message.

Speaking on the spot persuasively is about grasping a moment of opportunity during a live discussion and making the most of it. You may not have any formal notes or visual aids as support, but you do have the wealth of information in your mind.

The course explores the Speak on the Spot Roadmap, focusing on three key steps: asking for the floor, introducing a point of view, and providing evidence.

You'll learn to use the Speak on the Spot Roadmap when you need to quickly jump into an active discussion. The best way to use this roadmap is to jot down a few quick notes to organize your thoughts before speaking up. You don’t have to write down all four steps – just your point of view and two or three additional notes to use as evidence statements.