Our Teaching
Overview
We aim to set up our students for success in real-life situations where effective communication proves invaluable: job interviews, relationship building, cold emails, pitching business ideas, workplace cooperation, and even advertising and addressing large audiences.
We focus on teaching humor, negotiation, oration, and leadership while grounding our lessons in our philosophy.
Our lessons involve short, interactive lectures and fun, immersive games based on the ideas of leading social scientists, psychologists, and negotiation experts.
Confidence
Before looking at external aspects, we help our students get into the mindset of a speaker.
We then build off this mindset and help our students recognize how to portray assuredness and control through their body and voice.
Humor
Humor is a skill crucial in all forms of communication. If you want to catch someone's attention, or if you want to loosen some tension, a good joke could save you.
We take things a step further from joke-writing and teach improvization.
Joking and improvizing helps people to think on their feet, push through anxiety, and foster creativity, positivity, teamwork, and confidence.
Negotiation
Usually, a negotiation involves two parties bargaining over how large a portion of a pie they're willing to give away.
Not only does this prove a lose-lose situation for both parties, it's also a highly ineffective way of reaching a solution and maintaining a relationship.
We teach our students the best mindset for a negotiation, the best strategy at getting what they want, and the best ways to diffuse a tense situation and get the other side to like them.
Audience Relations
“[W]e like speakers to talk with—not at—us.”
—Dale Carnegie
Most people think of public speaking as a way to win over an audience or defeat an opponent.
We help our students focus on fostering a relationship with their audience by establishing common ground and employing open physical and verbal communication.