Presentation Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Media Interviewing & Body Language Skills

Coaching Contract ~ Online Coaching Payments ~ Contact Patti

Private individual coaching or group coaching with Patti Wood, one of the nation's top communication experts.  How much could you do if you had your own personal coach? Enhance your presentation, interpersonal, media interview, job interview and relationship skills through personalized one-on-one coaching.  Patti works with top executives, salespeople, regional directors, CPAs, lawyers, financial professionals, engineers, scientists, technical professionals, entrepreneurs, professional speakers adn others. She can start working with you right away.

If you are interested in how Patti's coaching programs can help you reach your goals, contact her today to discuss your situation and to schedule a consultation.

In the meantime, you may want to complete the online questionnaire or read some free presentation tips.

Recieve personalized feedback and coaching so you can:

• “Read” people to enhance your success
• Improve your working relationships
• Help you write a speech
• Enhance your delivery skill
• Be confident in a job or media interview
• Make your speech funny!
• Get your message across clearly
• Improve your first impressions
• Take your overall communication ability to the next level

Coaching choices to suit your busy schedule:

• Meet with Patti face-to-face
• Recieve coaching over the phone
• See yourself on videotape
• E-mail her a speech or your PowerPoint presentation for her expert guidance and advice. 

Patti can be listening to you!

Patti will be your support, your ally, your personal expert, your guru, your own personal cheerleader, the person you can count on to be looking out for you in your travels through life.
Patti, the corporate people “reader,” is recognized internationally as a body language expert and has been seen on CNN, Fox News, and E! Entertainment and the Discovery Channel. She is called, “The Babe Ruth of Body Language” by the Washington Post. She has earned the designation of Certified Speaking Professional*(CSP), an earned designation of the National Speaker’s Association designed to recognize masters in the speaking industry and held by less than 400 people in the world. She was the national spokesperson for Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum and Benadryl, and was Canada’s national spokesperson for Vaseline Intensive Care. She hasd coached politicians, CEOs, CFOs, executives, politicians, professional speakers, sales people, lawyers, law enforcement officers and more.

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Your potential Coaching Content includes all of Patti's training and speaking topics from public speaking, interpersonal skills, supervisory skills, teambuilding skills, time and project management skills, relationships and dating skills and marketing skills. Ongoing coaching on Public Speaking includes a copy of Patti’s public speaking book, the Easy Speaking and her Speech in a Box kit. Ongoing Coaching in interpersonal skills of any kind includes a copy of Lying to Know You and The Conflict Cure.

Coaching Contract ~ Online Coaching Payments ~ Contact Patti

If you are interested in how our coaching programs can help you reach your goals, contact us to discuss your situation and to schedule a free 20-minute consultation about your speaking needs.

In the meantime, you may want to complete our online questionnaire or read some free presentation tips.

Frequently requested coaching sessions include:

Speech Coach

• Writing a winning speech
• Creating engaging content for a presentation
• Making your presentation funny
• Engaging and interacting with your audience
• Confident presentations meeting management and training
• Mastering the Secrets to powerful PowerPoint presentations
• Handling questions and difficult audience members with poise and confidence
• Getting Started as a Professional Speaker

Speech Writer

• Writing content that flows and is understood
• Creating stories, examples, method, analogies
• Adding humor to make your speech funny!
• Creating exercises and interaction tools
• Critiquing your PowerPoint slides to prevent audience boredom and create excitement

Media Coaching

• Forming your main messages
• Creating your three most important talking points
• Handling the tough questions
• Smoothly switching the subject
• Getting the most from your media interview

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Choose one or more coaching formats:

Face-to-face personal & group coaching sessions can be held in the offices of Communication Dynamics in Atlanta, Georgia or in your office. Face-to-face coaching can include writing your speech together, live practice and live videotaped practice with immediate feedback audio taping and feedback, handshaking and first impression assessment, public speaking and social anxiety reduction exercises, PowerPoint critiquing and more.

Personal coaching over the phone.  Yes, you can receive very helpful coaching - even nonverbal communication coaching - over the phone. This coaching is accessible to you wherever you are in the world. Patti takes you through your sessions based on your goals and objectives, walks you through helpful exercises and gives you homework assignments to encourage follow -through and new skills practice. Patti can coach you on your voice, articulation, style of communicating and you even if you can’t meet face-to-face you can send a videotape so she can give you body language coaching as well.

Videotape, audio tape and www.readmyphoto.com coaching. Send Patti a videotape, audio tape or relationship photo of you giving a formal presentation, informally speaking at a meeting, being interviewed by the media or informally communicating with fellow workers, friends or family. Tell Patti what you’d like feedback on and what your goals are for improvement. She will analyze your communication and give you specific strategies and recommendations for improvement.

E-mail coaching. Send Patti specific scenarios of communication problems, time or project issues, or public speaking problems you are experiencing. These can be in the form of specific dialogues. I said, “….” And she said,”…” then I said.... What should I do now? Patti will then reply to you with specific recommendations as well as making big picture, long-term recommendations. They may include what she views as the real issue”, why the interaction may have ended as it did, and what you may wish to do next. You can try them out or even seek phone rehearsals with Patti. Patti can even give you homework and deadlines to help you follow through.

Other Services & Fee Schedule

• Fees to be paid in advanced, click here to pay now.
• Videotape, audio tape or photo credit card details to be received and charges to be made in advance.
• Coaching hourly rate  or custom packages available.
• Speech writing (from the ground up)  (Patti can give you an estimate or you can cap the hours you need)
• Speech Editing – includes adding interaction, exercises, humor and suggestions for editing PowerPoint slides.
• Attending your speech or meeting locally– includes watching you in action, making an assessment of you and of others when requested. Regular fees apply to giving you feedback at that time or at a later time in writing or face-to-face. Client will be responsible for travel expenses if speech is out of the greater Atlanta area.

Once you've discussed your coaching needs with Patti please download, read, complete and sign the Coaching Agreement and then:

• email it to pattiwood@mindspring.com,
• fax it back at 404-315-9255,
• Or bring it to your first session.