Group training, coaching, and design
Our Services
GROUP TRAINING
Elevate your team’s storytelling, design, and public speaking skills. Select a large group seminar to provide foundational skills for everyone, or enroll smaller groups to learn and apply more specialized presentation, storytelling, design, and speaking skills.
Where to start:
If you’re looking to provide foundational skills to as broad a group as possible, start with the Speak Easy seminar. This fast-paced session will shift your team’s mindset on presentations and workplace conversations and give them tools that they can begin using right away.
A subset of your employees may benefit from more immersive, work-based learning and support. Enroll cohorts of emerging leaders, new hires, recently prompted, and individual contributors in one of our signature courses.
What would you like your team to do?
- Give presentations, brief, and run meetings that deliver results, whether they have two weeks or 20 minutes to prepare. Presentation Rx »
- Connect with audiences to establish credibility, demonstrate value, persuade, and inspire audiences to act. Science of Storytelling »
- Re-invent your most challenging presentation visuals and learn techniques to elevate every slide. Design Makeovers »
- Communicate to inspire trust and lead through advanced listening, speaking, and nonverbal techniques. Presence»
INDIVIDUAL COACHING
For speakers who would benefit from longer-term support and skills development and who might not be candidates for group training, we offer a Presence Series.
EVENT PREP
You’re about to launch a new fund, you’re hosting an industry conference, or you want to make sure the team makes its case to senior executives for the annual budget review. Equip your speakers with coaching and design support.
An outside perspective gives executives peace of mind and speakers a resource to accelerate and improve their work. We’ll provide individual coaching or run a group rehearsal based on whatever it takes to give you the confidence that your team is ready. Our design team will elevate visuals so that your brand aligns with your message.
Pricing for on-demand work depends on the number of speakers, events, and level of support.
Our approach
Training is based on your business and the results you seek.
We get to know your business, working with leaders to define and set expectations. Multiple touch-points with speakers and their managers can make the difference between a thought-provoking workshop and transformational, lasting change. Our courses are focused on the kinds of presentations you give, the meetings you run, and the outcomes you seek. As a result, every speaker knows they can apply new approaches and techniques.
Speakers learn + apply concepts using easy-to-use methods.
Beyond empowering speakers with skills, we distill theory and knowledge into practical methods that give them a way to organize their ideas, quickly complete a first draft, and follow a plan to fill any gaps. Presentation Builder, Storytelling, and Briefing tools make it easier for speakers to prepare by following a method that incorporates strategic goals and the audience’s motivations. As a result, our immersive presentation, storytelling, design, presence, and speaking courses are part study hall and part skills development with real-world results.
Sustained support beyond workshops.
We’re with your team when they go to prepare for their next briefing or investor pitch – whether accessing a dedicated portal of learning resources, templates, or our rehearsal studio or if you’d like them to schedule a coaching session before a high-stakes meeting. Transformation occurs in the follow-up, where we help speakers play to their strengths as communicators and offer guidance on how to make a point more compelling, make their point faster, refine a story or convey more gravitas.
“I’ve been giving presentations throughout my career, but each time I take a course or get coaching from Portico, I learn something that makes me better. I encourage everyone on my team to think more broadly about presentations. They’re not just the formal events; it’s every time we interact with our members. We’re putting the training and coaching into play whenever we meet.”
— Membership Director, Trade Association