DAVE SCHWENSEN 

   Consultant  *  Trainer  *  Keynote Speaker  *  Author

Dave Schwensen

 

 

 


 

 

You're Talking - But Is Anyone Really Listening?
5 Steps to Memorable and Productive Conversations

 

 

How do YOU get someone's attention and hold it long enough for them to remember what you say? How can YOU break the "ice" and make a memorable first impression when meeting someone new? What separates YOU from anyone else offering superb customer service, increased sales, improved teamwork, or training as an educator, administrator or supervisor?

 
You could hand someone a million dollars - that would get my attention! But if you're not Donald Trump, you need a better plan. It's time to open the lines of communication.

 
"Success starts with the word hello. What you say and how you say it matters more now than ever before."

 
The simple truth is that successful people know how to start and continue conversations that are not only heard - but listened to and remembered. Colorful emails, high-tech websites and expensive flyers may open the doors to communication, but eventually you'll have to meet face to face, pick up the phone, or look into a camera during a video conference. These are all opportunities for YOU to separate yourself from the rest of the pack - your competition - and build successful and productive relationships with clients, co-workers or students. Are YOU prepared? (Hint: It's more than just saying hello).

 

 

Letter of Recommendation

 

Letter of Recommendation

 

 

  • The key to superb customer service is relating to your clients

  • The key to success in sales is separating yourself from your competition

  • The key to teamwork and networking is building stronger relationships

  • The key to learning is relating to your instructor

 

Dave Schwensen shows you how to have memorable and productive conversations by employing personal creativity and politically correct good humor as communication enhancements without distracting from your message. These personality-driven conversation techniques are also the basis for courses he has designed and instructs in communications and presentation skills at Cleveland State University and other "halls of higher learning."
 

During his informative, energetic and entertaining keynote presentations and training seminars, Dave includes handouts from his course workbooks and audience participation to demonstrate how successful conversations are developed by following Five Simple Steps:

 

 

  1. The foundation for memorable and productive conversation enhancements includes truth and affection. Observe what is truly going on around you and view it with a positive attitude.
  2. Explore your personal creativity and humor. Understand why you are attracted to a particular brand of conversational humor used by others, or apparent within various situations or events. When you are interested, you become more interesting.
  3. Be aware of positive and humorous observations, experiences or thoughts you will have in common with your listener. Relationships are built when people relate to each other.
  4. Set the tone by employing creativity and humor to help relieve personal stress or ease stressful situations.
  5. Share your creativity and good humor as conversation ice breakers and to make memorable first impressions. Listen and follow with comments using enhancements without lessening the impact of your message.

 

Dave's programs provide practical and useful information on how to benefit from improved conversational skills. But what truly separates his presentation style from others is his skillful use of humor, along with entertaining stories of how these five simple steps were used by famous celebrities during Dave's career as a television talent coordinator in Hollywood and New York. 

 

 

Audiences leave with a new awareness of what they already possess - personal creativity and sense of humor. Participants will also have an understanding of how to utilize these talents as successful communication tools. The results include:

 

  • Better professional relationships 

  • Effective customer service 

  • Improved teamwork 

  • Improved teaching skills 

  • Increased productivity and attendance 

  • Positive networking 

  • Successful sales presentations, (one-on-one or group)

 

Letter of Recommendation

 

Letter of Recommendation

 

 

Dave Schwensen's professional background enables him to bring unique solutions to common problems. A veteran of the fast paced and high stress entertainment industry in Hollywood and New York, he worked behind the scenes as a talent coordinator and consultant for television networks, film studios and live performance venues. With egos and star power often clashing on a daily basis, Dave developed an innovative style of business communication skills to promote teamwork and meet deadlines through his relationships with many of today's top stars and production companies.

 

Author Dave Schwensen has been featured on PBS Television and Radio, Chicago Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hollywood Reporter, InsideBiz.com Magazine, Ohio Magazine and many others. He has also made numerous national and regional television and radio appearances as a communications consultant and author.

* Keynotes and training seminars include audience participation and selected handouts from university workbooks.

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