Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course
From speeches to presentations to media interviews– Suzanne Bates: television personality, executive coach, author and speaker provides the ultimate how-to guide for success!
What is the Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course?
Top executives and professionals pay thousands of dollars and spend months of time working with a coach to push themselves to the next level of excellence.
You may not have the time or resources right now to devote to that.
Still, you want to get started toward your goals right now!
In the Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course, you will discover the same proven techniques that top executives have used to increase their skill and confidence in public speaking.
Top-performing executive coaches spend months or even years walking clients through a step-by-step program customized for their skills, needs and goals. These top coaches start with a complete assessment, and use proven tools to design the perfect program for their clients. This is how private clients are able to move farther and faster toward success.
In the Home Study Course, you can design your own coaching program, using the same exercises and techniques. You’ll be able to assess your skills, set goals, ask yourself thought provoking questions, challenge yourself to take it to the next level, and invest in your own success.
Hundreds of our clients have used these techniques. Still, you may wonder whether a program like this is necessary to your growth and development. That’s a legitimate question.
Why invest in a home study course?
While one-on-one coaching is tremendously beneficial, you may not have the time or resources to devote to an intensive coaching program. You may want to take responsibility for your own destiny by investing in a course that can transform your communication skills.
Here’s a quick questionnaire. Would any of the following statements describe you?
- You are committed to making it to the top of your profession
- You often wish you could feel more confident as a speaker
- You admire colleagues and others who WOW the audience
- You receive “okay” reviews on speaking, but something is missing
- Speaking well would help you find new opportunities, clients, and customers
- Your boss has commented you should work on projecting “presence”
- You’ve given presentations that did not feel like a success
- You would like to have more opportunities for visibility
- You often say no to speaking because you don’t have time to prepare
- You would love to hire a coach but haven’t been able to devote time or resources to it
If you answered yes to ANY of those….keep reading.
The Home Study Course is for anyone, and we mean anyone in business today: executives, professionals, business owners, or entrepreneurs who are willing to take ownership of a process and master a skill set that can change the course of their careers.
How do we know it’s right for you?
That’s simple: It works!
The step-by-step program in this workbook and CD set are the same proven methods coaches at Bates Communications use to help top executives and professionals command the roomwhen they speak!
It’s like having your own personal coach in a box!
If you focus on the techniques in this program you will learn to:
- Speak effortlessly
- Exude confidence
- Enjoy giving presentations
- Receive rave reviews
- Get over feeling overwhelmed
- Walk in well-prepared for anything!
How does this program work when you are busy working a demanding job?
One of the most important aspects of this course is that you can learn on your time, at your pace, when it matters.
- You don’t get stuck in a presentation course that isn’t right for your level of experience, or sit through hours of classroom instruction about things you already know.
- You don’t make a major commitment of time and resources to any part of the program that isn’t important to you now or won’t take you where you want to go.
- You can work on this course at your own pace, when it suits your personal schedule, or when you have to prepare for presentations. You work early in the morning, on the weekends, or at night in the comfort of your home.
- You can return to the course again and again; as you grow in your confidence and skill you challenge yourself to a higher level and continue on the road to ultimate success.
The course is a practical, hands-on workbook and CD set with over 90 minutes of audio and dozens of exercises and worksheets.
You’ll learn the secrets to winning over audiences, establishing rapport, connecting with people, projecting confidence, selling your ideas, creating original, interesting talks and appearing authentic and natural no matter where or when you get up to speak.
So what, exactly, will you find in this course?
Just for starters…
- A complete system for evaluating your skills, including a Personal Communication Assessment and Balance Sheet for understanding your strengths and needs.
- A Trusted Advisor Survey to help you ask the right questions and gain important feedback from co-workers and colleagues who support your growth.
Once you know where you going, we provide tools that will help you keep on track. You set goals each month, keep track of your progress, compile a personal resources guide of stories, quotes, humor and other material for making great presentations that are original.
And, all the while, through this course, you can chronicle your success.
Suzanne Bates, author of Speak Like a CEO, Secrets For Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw Hill) says this about the Home Study Course:
“Perhaps the best thing about it is that you can set your own pace. Just as we do with our clients, you’ll work in real time on projects that matter to you. If you have a presentation coming up, you open the book and find the tools that will help you make it happen!”
When we say you learn at your own pace…it’s really true.
- If you have immediate goals for a big presentation in the next month, the Home Study Course shows you how to get ready fast!
- If you want to learn at a slower pace, you set a course and put in a little time each week to move you steadily toward your goals.
There are so many ways to use this valuable Home Study Course! You’ll find:
- Storytelling techniques: methods for finding and creating original material
- “Quick Prep” methods for handling last-minute presentations
- Project journals for outlining and writing your presentations
And much more!
We promise you….if you follow the course, the Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course will bring you tremendous benefits, whether you are just starting on your path, or moving up to a major role at the highest levels of your industry.
Better speaking skills will help you:
- Position yourself as an expert
- Be seen as a rising star in your industry
- Handle the toughest audiences
- Articulate your vision and values
- Inspire others to follow you
- Get people buzzing about you
- Attract positive attention from the media
- Build business relationships
- Win new business
- Attract opportunity
- Make the next career move
Think about it. After the very next presentation, wouldn’t it be great if you heard your colleagues and friends say, “Hey, you were great! I wish I could speak like that!”
And, as a bonus, the Home Study Course provides worksheets on professional image and non-verbal communication, which is so critical to executive presence.
This Home Study Course will become a personal testimony to your commitment to success in public speaking and your career. As you fill it with your thoughts, you’ll look back and see how far you have come on your journey.
So what are you waiting for?
Find out how hundreds of successful executives and professionals have used these techniques to learn what they need to know to speak well and become stars in their industries. See what you can accomplish by getting started right now. You will never regret developing these skills. You will only look back and wonder why you didn’t invest in yourself sooner!
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"As a result of Bates' training…our executives are far better communicators than ever before, and the results show in our increasingly positive press and ability to move these audiences to action."
Matt Davis,
Corp. Director of Executive Communications,
Dow Chemical Co.
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