Communication Skills

Great leaders connect authentically on both an intellectual and emotional level to motivate and inspire others toward a desired outcome. This is the essence of leadership presence.

Presence Essentials

Great leaders connect authentically on both an intellectual and emotional level to motivate and inspire others toward a desired outcome. This is the essence of leadership presence.

Why do professionals need presence?

In today’s complex business world, sped up by technology and challenged by remote and virtual team collaboration, presence—the ability to authentically engage the hearts and minds of others—is a powerful differentiator that advances careers, cements relationships and gets ideas heard and valued.

Presence Essentials is an immersive, asynchronous online learning experience that enables organisations to develop communication skills and behaviours of presence in a scalable way. It is appropriate for early career professionals, independent contributors, new managers and anyone else who needs to show up with impact, influence broad audiences and build self-awareness about the way they interact with others.

Developing Business Skills Online

The Presence Essentials experience provides a carefully crafted multi-modal immersion into the foundational concepts and tools of presence. It is a perfect introduction to the topic of ‘Presence’ and can cost-effectively cater for a wide dispersed audience.

A plan to embed and sustain learning by providing further information, articles and examples to learners to go even deeper in developing their presence. Assignments are completed using a class portal that includes a class blog, video and links to further resources, businesses can get feedback on their results.

An opportunity to revisit the program content for 90 days and can consult 10+ downloadable tools and resources for future and offline reference. Particularly useful for approaching challenges faced back on the job.

Supporting employees in ever-changing workplace environments by taking away skills and strategies that help them to remain flexible in the moment and ready to handle the unexpected. Referring to video and audio stories illustrating benefits and common mistakes associated with varying degrees of presence learners can visualise and prepare for future situations.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, participants will have:

A deeper understanding of the concept of presence including self-awareness of their own strengths and challenges
Practical techniques and tools for applying the skills and behaviours of presence in a variety of business settings
An action plan of SMART goals to continue developing and honing new skills, long after the program is complete

Client Stories

JOHN HOLLAND – ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

“…[The Ariel Group’s] Presence workshop opened my eyes, ears and heart to the things in need to do to show up with presence when I'm with my colleagues, my bosses, or clients.”

ABBVIE – BIOPHARMACEUTICAL SALES TEAM

“I have been on numerous sales training programs over the last 20 years, but I must say the Selling with Presence program was by far the most valuable one I have ever done. I wish I had done this when I was a rookie”

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM

“…many of us were hesitant of speaking up, especially when interacting with senior partners and senior level clients – and that had a significant consequence on the way we worked and how ideas got out or were withheld.”

BAKER MCKENZIE: GLOBAL LAW FIRM

"Some of the most valuable things I learned was to communicate with a passionate purpose and to use my breath and pauses to establish my personal presence in the room."

COMMONWEALTH BANK

“It was amazing to see the changes that took place in some of the more introverted participants, the vocal transformation in the quietest person in the group was incredible and they really opened up.”

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