What We Offer
Business Communication Coaching
This includes improving written and verbal communication skills such as conciseness, content organization, topic maintenance, tone of voice, storytelling, rate of speech, fluency/ filler words, vocal confidence/ energy, intonation variation, volume, posture, limiting unmotivated nervous behaviors, use of gestures, breath support, facial expressiveness, eye contact, active listening skills, appropriate conversational pragmatics, emphasis/ pausing, tactfulness, understanding social cues, improving use of social language, and improving confidence with public speaking.
We begin with an evaluation that assesses all of these components, then devise a course of action to improve perceived areas of deficiency.
Pronunciation Coaching
This is a service that can be offered if an employee presents with an accent that they feel is impacting their intelligibility. Our role is not to eliminate the existence of an accent, but to address the phonological and/or prosodic features that are perceived to be different from the individual’s native accent in comparison to Standard American English.
The primary goal for this individual is to gain confidence in their written/verbal communication skills, help them to avoid miscommunications, as well as reduce the frustration that goes along with having to repeat themselves.
Along with accent modification strategies, we also help to provide advocacy strategies such as educating other professionals about effective listening strategies when communicating with individuals who have accents.
Why should my company invest in communication services with The Speech Effect?
What the research says: The most effective coaching has a coach that has great communication skills and has credibility in the field they work in.
As Speech Language Pathologists, we have graduate degrees that focus on all the intricacies of communication, and we are trained to analyze areas of communicative breakdown, and how to fix them. We have been trained to perform a thorough evaluation, as well as creating objective, SMART goals that are measurable over time. It is important to rely on a communication coach who has these areas of training to ensure that gains will be achieved.
What the research says: Executives consider over 2/3 of meetings to be failures, wasting billions of dollars every year. Employees also spend almost half their workweek clarifying previously communicated information.
Our goal is to improve an individual’s ability to explain themselves in a clear, concise way that clearly states the call to action from the team, and a path to executing that mission.
What the research says: Strong learning and development programs improve employee retention, saving significant costs on recruitment and training.
Our clients report having higher self-confidence, receiving compliments from coworkers and superiors on their improved communication skills, and report feeling more efficient in their current roles.
What the research says: When businesses invest in training their sales representatives to communicate effectively, it will result in increased sales.
Teaching tactfulness as well as content organization and persuasion are all components that can be taught in our sessions, and will have a direct impact on sales success.
What the research says: Individual coaching is superior to group training and self-study in helping participants attain their goals.
It is important to have an individualized program with external pressure and support in order to increase the intrinsic motivation to complete this additional learning and development work outside of their daily job. Group programs have less individualization, and we have had numerous clients state that they tried programs like this, but they didn’t make the progress that they wanted to. This is because they weren’t tailored to meet their specific needs like individualized coaching does.