Jill Schiefelbein

No Cookie-Cutter Communication Skills Here

What are the communication challenges that your team, company, or members of your association face? Want to work with someone who can customize a dynamic communication skills keynote or training tailored specifically to your unique needs?

Through needs assessment calls speaker Jill will collaborate to uncover what outcomes you need to achieve to push the needle with your participants, and Jill will create a presentation that’s exclusively yours. Skills and strategies that may be addressed include, but are not limited to:

• Persuasion and influence
• Feedback and performance 
• Active listening
• Digital communication-email, digital presence, and beyond
• Social media tools
• Using video to communicate/sell/market
• Building relationships & Achieving buy-in

Want To Get More Customers? You Need to Know How People Make Decisions

Speaker Jill uncovers the decision-making process—essential for any sales person to know when they’re trying to get a client to buy.

• Examining the psychology of the human mind when it processes decisions—combined with an understanding of the behaviors potential clients are doing before contacting you in the first place.
• Leave with a specific set of questions to use to drive buy-in and decision-making.
• This session can be approached from the marketing, sales, or combined angle depending on the audience.

Communication Strategies for High Impact

This strategy-packed session provides business managers with communication strategies for managing employees, speaking persuasively, and leading with impact. Attendees will:

• Understand the key rules for giving and receiving feedback
• Learn an essential framework for persuasive communication for internal, external, and consumer audiences
• Cultivate a working environment built on principles of equity, and learn how to adjust imbalance
• Examine how not communicating is hurting your image, leadership capabilities, and profitability

Cultivating Innovation: Communication and Entrepreneurial Mindset

Your employees have ideas worth sharing, but does your organization have an environment where these innovations can rise to the surface? Do your employees have the skills to effectively communicate their ideas to you? Empowering people to invent, create, and implement—cultivating a culture of innovation—is key to employee retention and attracting talent.

• Create an environment that inspires your employees to think like entrepreneurs
• Formulate ideas and present them in a way that is aligned with an organization’s mission/vision
• Communicate to achieve buy-in at all levels of an organization

Persuade Me: Speak With Purpose. Speak for Results

Moving others to action is powerful. The capability to deliver a message with passion and purpose is intoxicating. When you combine a well-crafted message with well-executed delivery your persuasive abilities are maximized. Whether you’re communicating to an audience of one or an audience of thousands, understanding how to capture your audience’s attention, deliver a dynamic message, and present yourself with confidence are key. Attendees will:

• Create and organize messages for maximum persuasive impact
• Deliver pitches and presentations using the TEMPTaction model
• Capture attention and deliver with confidence