Master Your
Communication Style
with Maryanne O’Brien
USD $1,495.00
Next course runs: September 12, 2024 – February 20, 2025
Communicate effectively. Build trusted relationships. And create a better life!
Communication is an essential skill for leading teams, resolving issues, and building trusted relationships. However, most of us are not very effective communicators.
We avoid difficult conversations. We fail to listen. We say things under stress that erode trust and damage our relationships.
We can do better!
Effective communication is a skill that anyone can learn. The key is to learn how to master your communication style and build conscious practices to deepen authentic connection and raise your level of well-being.
The better we understand what drives the way we communicate, how we impact others, and how stress affects the way we communicate, the faster we can build the skills that allow us to create healthy, successful, and satisfying lives.
This 6-month training and coaching program teaches you how to transform the way you communicate––one skill at a time.
In this course you will learn to:
Communicate calmly and effectively under stress.
Express your thoughts with clarity, confidence, and kindness.
Listen on a level that reduces misunderstandings and deepens connections.
Build trusted relationships and elevate your influence.
Successfully handle those difficult conversations you dread (or avoid).
For: Individuals, Teams, and Leaders
Live training sessions: 60 minutes on Zoom.
Online training: 1 year access to video lessons, downloads, and resources that deepen skill-building.
Reflection exercises: Downloads help you to surface personal insights and build your daily practice.
Personal Coaching: Two, 60 minute 1:1 coaching sessions to provide added personal support.
Monthly group coaching: Stay accountable, share insights, celebrate progress, and learn from on another.
Class Size: Limited to 8 participants.
Dates: Thursdays from 12 - 1PM (CT), beginning September 12.
Over the course of 6 months, you’ll experience 12 live and interactive training sessions designed to elevate the way you communicate and take care of yourself. The biweekly design keeps you inspired and accountable as you build new skills each month.
Module 1
Elevate the Way You Communicate
Module 2
Communicate at Your Best Under Stress
Module 3
Elevate Your Listening Skills
Module 4
Flex to Bridge Style Tensions
Module 5
Build Trusted Relationships
Module 6
Effectively Handle Difficult Conversations
Studies show that 90% of the information you learn in a training is forgotten within a week, and 70 % of that loss happens within a day. We have a remedy for that!
We maximize skill development by combining live training and coaching, with effective tools and practices that deepen understanding, surface insights, and inspire growth.
Live Training
One hour, monthly classes teach you what you need to know to build new skills and activate what you learn to deepen understanding.
Reading & Reflection Exercises
Reading and reflection exercises surface personal insights and guide you to activate intentional strategies through daily practices.
Coaching Circles
One hour, monthly group coaching sessions to share insights, celebrate progress, and deepen skill building.
Online Training
On demand video lessons, tools, and resources reinforce each skill and deepen your understanding.
FAQs
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Each class has recommended reading and reflection exercises to help you deepen your understanding, surface personal insights, and build your daily practice.
The assignments typically take 30-45 minutes to complete.
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Our goal is to create a safe space where people feel comfortable sharing personal insights and experiences, so we do not record the live training and coaching sessions.
However, every lesson is supported through our on demand video training program, so you can stay on track if you need to miss a live session.
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Yes! Your employer can register you for the program. There are tips for doing so here.
Or you can enroll yourself and submit your emailed receipt to your employer for reimbursement.
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Before the program begins, you receive a 1-hour personal coaching session to help you identify your personal goals for the program.
This course design also includes live group coaching every month, where you can ask questions and address any issues you’re comfortable sharing in a group setting.
If you’d like additional personal coaching sessions, you can purchase them as needed or buy a package for consistent support.
If you’d like to book personal coaching sessions, let’s talk about your needs.
You can schedule a time for us to connect here.
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You receive a full year subscription to our on demand training program with enrollment, so you can continue to revisit the lessons and deepen your understanding and practice.
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Yes, we provided tailored programs for organizations with customized content to support your needs.
We develop learning goals and can put metrics in place to measure progress.
And we design a schedule that works well for your team.
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Our goal is to offer this program at 1-2/x each year.
If you join our waiting list, we’ll send you a note as soon as the next program is being offered.
One-time payment
USD $1,495
Using your organization’s tuition assistance program? There are tips for doing that here. Or simply reach out, we’d be happy to help!
“This course has provided me with a framework for identifying the strengths and weaknesses in my communication styles and for better understanding others. These insights have focused my awareness and approach to how I communicate.
On a deeper level, the coaching sessions revealed more specific, personal challenges and provided me with the language and strategies to successfully shift thought patterns and address issues––vastly improving my relationships!”
––Melody, Lawrence, KS
Hi, Maryanne O’Brien.
I’ve spent my entire career working in the field of communication. And for the past 15 years, I’ve been educating, training, and coaching leaders and teams to consciously communicate, strengthen well-being, and deepen trust.
The key to it all? Learning to master your communication style by building the skills that transform the way you express yourself. It’s a practice and I’m here to teach you everything I know.
Course Schedule
Each month, we focus on learning, activating, and integrating a new communication skill. The curriculum is strategically designed so that each communication skill you learn lays the foundation for the next. We’ll also be building new well-being practices, so you have the energy and patience you need to communicate at your best.
Week 1
Live Training
Learn what you need to know to develop each communication skill.
Week 2
Activate Daily Practice
Tools to develop your daily practice and learn through experience.
Week 3
Live Group Coaching
Deepen understanding, share insights, and celebrate progress.
Week 4
Expand Daily Practice
Turn your daily practice into a habit to build stronger communication skills.
Module 1
Elevate the Way You Communicate
Live Training
Gain insights into each style, as you discover what drives the way you communicate and see the impact you have on others. Identify your needs, motivations, talents, and areas for growth. And decide what kind of person and communicator you want to become.
Understand the scientific principles that make behavioral change easier and expand your daily practice build stronger skills and positive habits. Activate a self-awareness practice.
Group Coaching
Live Training
Deepen understanding of the four communication styles to help you better understand yourself and others. Share personal insights, learn from one another, and celebrate progress.
Share tips and techniques to deepen your daily practice and expand your self-awareness to make it easier to build stronger communication skills and positive habits.
Module 2
Communicate at Your Best Under Stress
Live Training
Learn to recognize the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that “tell” you when you’re communicating from your style under stress. Activate strategies to be more intentional about what you say and do when you’re under stress.
Instill a daily practice to help you identify stress reactions and patterns, so you can choose a new response. Develop strategies to elevate your stress response and instill simple, calming rituals to manage stress and break free from the cycles of stress once you’ve been triggered.
Group Coaching
Live Training
Learn to recognize the impact you have on others and take responsibility for the interpersonal tensions you create. Make it a habit to resolve issues while they are small before they grow and erode trust. Identify your limiting beliefs, triggers, and stories.
Commit to activating your self-reflection practice within 24 hours. Discuss how to instill practices that support higher levels of self-awareness and understanding, and allows you to recognize when you need to clear the air with someone.
Module 3
Elevate Your Listening
Live Training
Become aware of your listening habits and instill intentional practices that keep you tuned in. Learn techniques to expand your self-awareness, EQ, and empathy to elevate your listening skills, communicate more effectively, and cultivate trust.
Commit to activating one of the techniques you learn to actively listen. Learn how to instill daily practices to elevate your listening skills, ability to understand others, and deepen personal insights through reflection.
Group Coaching
Live Training
Learn how to read the room, listen with empathy, and expand your daily practices to strengthen your listening skills. Share personal insights, learn from one another, and celebrate progress.
Expand your daily practice to strengthen your EQ and become a better listener. Instill a reflection practice that expands your self-awareness and surfaces personal insights.
Module 4
Flex Your Style
Live Training
Learn how to flex your style to close style gaps and reduce the tensions that make communicating with different styles more challenging. Identify which styles create the most tension for you and implement strategies to create more ease and build trust.
Commit to activating one of the flexing techniques you learn within 24 hours that will help you to bridge style differences. Learn how to develop your daily practice and build better relationships as you strengthen your self-awareness, EQ, and curiosity.
Group Coaching
Live Training
Deepen understanding of style flexing strategies and how to flex in the moment when conversations become tense. Share personal insights, learn from one another, and celebrate progress.
Learn a new technique to renew your physical, emotional, and mental energy to help you manage your stress, raise your level of well-being, and communicate well.
Module 5
Build Trusted Relationships
Live Training
Learn about the six character traits that build trust and identify your trust bias. Discover where you “dip below the line of trust” most often. Commit to take responsibility for what you say and do and the impact you have on others.
Commit to activating one “staying above the line” strategy within 24 hours. Learn how to create your daily practice to elevate your expression and take responsibility for what you say and do. Use reflection techniques to expand self-awareness, EQ, and curiosity.
Group Coaching
Live Training
Deepen understanding around the importance of building trust and how to recognize what other styles need to feel heard, valued, and safe. Share personal insights, learn from one another, and celebrate progress.
Learn a new technique to renew your physical, emotional, and mental energy to help you manage your stress, raise your level of well-being, and communicate at the level of trust.
Module 6
Handling Difficult Conversations
Live Training
Learn how to prepare to effectively handle difficult conversations and resolve conflict in ways that have the potential to deepen your relationships and trust. Recognize the impact that avoiding difficult conversations has on your energy, stress, and team.
Commit to identifying a difficult conversation you’ve been putting off within 24 hours and identifying a timeframe for addressing it. Review the reflection materials and questions for intentionally preparing to step into the conversation and reach agreements that address the issue and repair the relationship.
Group Coaching
Live Training
Deepen understanding around how to effectively connect with each style. Share personal insights, learn from one another, and celebrate progress.
Learn a new technique to renew your physical, emotional, and mental energy to help you manage your stress, raise your level of well-being, and communicate well.
I’m looking forward to working with you!
One-time payment of $1,295