Extreme Communication Consulting with Brian Walter and Ken Boynton

What in the world is communication consulting for corporate meetings?

You're an expert at what you do. Brian and Ken are experts at making your meeting message resonate with your audience.

You're investing a great deal in resources and time to bring your people together. After the last program finishes, the final evaluation is completed, and attendees head back to their jobs….what if nothing really impacted them? And no beliefs are changed, new insights realized, or new behaviors adopted? What is the true cost of your people being out of sync with your key initiatives and their role in achieving it?

Communication Consulting and infotainment with the Extreme Meeting Team helps your message resonate emotionally, so you can achieve the changes in your audience that you need for a substantial return on your meeting investment.

Communication Consulting is a customized, strategic and scalable process that ensures your audience takes away the key messages they need to be successful. Working in conjunction with your meeting message managers and executives, The Team aligns communication across various elements of your agenda to substantially amplify meeting effectiveness.

They help you determine what actually needs to be communicated. They help you rewrite. They help you visually enhance your messages. They illuminate and bring forward what the audience needs to make a quantum leap of belief or behavioral change.

By focusing on the meeting messaging from the audience's point of view, the Team builds participant understanding—intellectually and emotionally—on key take-aways and business strategy. Employees learn more in a shorter time and come away from the conference with a much clearer call to action.

The process elicits the behaviors, beliefs and emotional shifts required in your work force, tapping into the power of the collective experience of a corporate meeting.

Their approach help you boil down your key take-aways into programming messages, eliminate "data dumping," bust myths, and increase audience buy-in and motivation.

THE PROCESS:

The most successful are built around a central story. Executive presentations must communicate the essential messages (realities, efforts, and beliefs) you want all attendees to internalize and act on. It's not about firing off a series of facts. It IS about sharing a compelling overall story. That story will become the theme…the organizing principle of the conference.

Working one-on-one or in small teams, Brian Walter and Ken Boynton coach speaker(s) through a step-by-step "Manage-Your-Message" system for developing conference keynotes, general sessions and/or breakouts. They provide original ideas and solutions for enhancing your content, as well as "punching" (i.e. re-writing) key portions of the speeches.

THEME-DRIVEN EXAMPLE:

For example, the story might be about how your company is "rising to the challenge." The presentations would then focus on the challenges in key areas and the dynamic actions being taking (some successful and some not).

They would help you celebrate the victories of challenges met, the passion of our struggles, and the lessons learned of our failures. In all cases, we would be communicating about rising…our performance in relation to the challenges.

Brian and Ken will help craft the conference story, and create a template of communication tactics and approaches for the message imperatives in that story. They can also advise on the sequence of the meeting components.

Ultimately the result is a detailed context for all presenters. They will know which part of the story their presentation is responsible for telling, and how their presentation relates to all the others.

RESULTS:

Bottom line: you'll all be revealing "chapters" of one unified, compelling story, and attendees will leave with a higher level of engagement, knowledge transfer, and enjoyment than when they arrived.

Successful conferences are those that go well beyond just clicking through PowerPoint decks. Extreme Meeting attendees are infused with relevance and performance bite.

Your meeting is no longer a meeting, it's a fast-paced, EXTREMELY relevant, results-driven SHOW.

When the Extreme Communication Consulting process is tied to Extremely customized infotainment routines [e.g. parody rock songs, game shows, stand-up style sketches and audience interaction exercises], all elements align together to reinforce each aspect of your story and your takeaways…and raise the bar immeasurably on the quality and impact of your meetings.