Workshops

Speaking With Impact Workshop

This Workshop features real-world scenarios taken from current headlines and business situations to prepare students to proactively present themselves and other issues in the best possible light and to respond to challenges and even to hostile questions.

A results-oriented workshop designed to train participants to deliver impactful, persuasive verbal communication.

Participants acquire the skills essential for successful speaking in order to forcefully present Israel's case in the most clear, structured and articulate manner, whether in public or in the broadcast or online media.

This workshop is based on Lilyan Wilder’s 7-step program for communication excellence:

  • 1 Experience your own voice
    The first step toward becoming an effective speaker. Participants discover their own voice's true quality, its range, its power, and its subtleties. Using techniques designed to help participants relax and breathe properly, the participant and the trainer work together to produce a voice which is strong, easy to listen to, lively and compelling.
  • 2 Get a response and structure your thoughts
    Participants learn to structure and plan their remarks — whether an informal discussion, a formal debate, a presentation or a lengthy speech — with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Participants also learn useful techniques for eliciting feedback from their audience.
  • 3 Establish a dialogue
    Participants learn to make their words come alive by engaging the audience and making each listener feel as if he or she is being spoken to personally. It is a way of establishing a sustained human connection with the listeners. This step will allow the speaker to abandon talking at their audience and begin speaking with them.
  • 4 Tap your creativity
    Participants are taught to use their innate creativity to express what they think and feel. The trainer works with participants to help them tap into their own uniqueness and embrace their five senses to make presentations engaging for the speaker and therefore the audience.
  • 5 Learn to persuade
    Participants learn to move the audience to empathize with the speaker’s message. Workshop participants understand that persuasion is a way to connect to their own core ideas and utilize that understanding to convince the audience to relate to what really matters.
  • 6 Achieve your higher objective and
  • 7 Give the gift of your conviction
    Participants learn to clearly identify their objectives, to make a convincing and persuasive presentation. In expressing conviction, participants learn to speak from the core of what is meaningful, experience the resulting strength, and move to a higher level of communication excellence.

Advanced Speaking with Impact Workshop

Hands-on advanced training designed specifically for successful representation of Israel’s message

Students who have previously completed the first course, “Speaking with Impact,” will benefit from this advanced course in successful public speaking techniques.

This results-oriented workshop is based on the Lilyan Wilder Method for Communication Excellence and is designed to elicit each participant’s unique self to enable delivery of impactful, persuasive verbal communication.

The Advanced Speaking with Impact Workshop includes real-world scenarios taken from current
eadlines to prepare students to proactively present Israel and Jewish Issues in the best possible light and to respond to challenges and even to hostile questions

In this workshop, participants practice and hone previously learned skills essential for successful speaking based on Lilyan Wilder’s 7-step program for communication excellence:

  • 1 Experience your own voice
  • 2 Get a response and structure your thoughts
  • 3 Establish a dialogue
  • 4 Tap your creativity
  • 5 Learn to persuade
  • 6 Achieve your higher objective and
  • 7 Give the gift of your conviction.

Participants are led through a program designed to enhance their public speaking skills through a series of instructor-led exercises and drills designed to optimize the skill set of each student.

Workshop participants will:

  • Prepare a short talk on a topic of current interest to persuade the audience.
  • Receive feedback and critique from the instructor to sharpen their skills.
  • View video recorded progress while receiving valuable coaching and pointers.
  • Benefit from multiple opportunities to speak and improve.
  • Learn new techniques for effective communication:
  • How to be an effective communicator during a panel discussion
  • Responding to audience questions while persuasively delivering your message
  • Handling challenging or hostile questions

This workshop is scheduled as a one day intensive session.

Impactful Media Interviews Workshop

Hands-on training designed specifically for successful representation of Israel’s message to the media

This results-oriented workshop is based on the Lilyan Wilder Methodology and is designed to enable delivery of impactful, persuasive verbal communication during a variety of media interview situations.

The Impactful Media Interviews Workshop includes role-playing and real-world scenarios taken from current headlines. Participants prepare to present Israel in the best possible light during the media interview.

In this workshop, participants acquire the skills essential for successful media interviews:

  • Lilyan Wilder’s 7 Step methodology for impactful communication
  • Guiding principles for successful media interviews
  • Identifying and developing the key messages
  • Skills and techniques for successful interviewing
  • Preparing for media interviews
  • Conducting a successful media interview
  • Your television image
  • Techniques for handling difficult questions
  • Mock Interviews using real-world scenarios

Each participant will be videotaped and receive constructive critique during the role-playing sessions. Participants will receive a copy of their own on-camera interviews to continue developing and improving their media interviewing skills.

The workshop can be scheduled in a variety of different formats such as two evening sessions, one daylong session or other mutually convenient arrangements