What Can Mattson Do For You?
Mattson Communication Training offers two essential services:
1. One-on-One Public Speaking Consulting
2. Public Speaking Workshops
One-on-One Public Speaking Consulting
We work discretely with individuals. We will not publish your name or organization anywhere. We have no need or desire to tell the world how effective we are by using your name.
Rod Mattson can help you organize, write, prepare and deliver your speech or presentation. Organizing and writing an excellent talk gives you the confidence for a strong delivery. You don't have to be a "Rock Star" to deliver a memorable and effective talk. Even the less experienced can shine where many pro's fail.
Public Speaking Workshop
If You Can’t Speak Up, There Won’t be a Place for You at the Table
Public Speaking is the most studied and researched discipline in the history of civilization. Yet, most people would rather have their eyes gouged out than to speak in front of a group. Don’t let your fear stop you from speaking up. Use it to help you.
In this workshop, we will show you how to prepare, organize, practice, and deliver effective presentations. Simply knowing how to do this will take away the majority of your fear. After this workshop, you will be able to deliver a solid presentation right away, and will have an action plan on how to improve your skills over time.
Mastering Motivation Workshop
Get Others to Do What You Want Them to Do Because They Want to Do It
Our approach to persuasion, influence, and motivation is simple—be ethical. It is true that with the right words, the right techniques, and the right strategies, over time, you can convince anyone to do anything. However, we stress that you make sure there is a benefit or benefits to others; otherwise, it is unethical.
How can it be done? In this workshop, you will learn the process of analyzing the needs of others and their disposition to what you want them to do, how to identify individual motives, and select the right strategies needed to set this process into motion. You will learn a step-by-step process on how to do this. Also, you will have an action plan to improve your persuasion, influence, and motivating skills over time. You will learn the power of character, conviction, and passion.
Leadership Workshop
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Every time we turn around, someone is talking about Leadership. Lee Iacocca is asking, “Where have all the Leaders Gone?” Warren Bennis wrote a book “On Becoming a Leader.” What did they mean? Did we run out of leaders? Bennis also wrote, “Managing People is like Herding Cats.” Is managing people today really like herding cats? Does that mean bosses can’t tell employees what to do? If that is true, how do bosses get the job done? What is the difference between leading and managing? Is there a difference?
Ken Blanchard describes leadership in the May/June 2007 issue of Success Magazine, “I would like to get people to lead at a higher level. It should be a process of achieving worthwhile results while acting with respect, care, and fairness to the well-being of all involved.”
That sounds more like a mission statement rather than a description of leadership. “…to get people to lead at a higher level…”? What does he mean?
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The Mattson Philosophy on Training
We are a principled driven organization in the field of public speaking. We operate with the strong conviction that understanding and applying public speaking principles is the key to effective communication. Effective communication is a skill that can be learned and continuously improved by everyone.
It is our duty to stay informed in our field with the purpose of sharing the most current public speaking principles.
Social Science research has shown that there is no ideal way to communicate. What works for one person in a given communication event may not work for others. Therefore, we remain open and flexible in striving for the proper balance of teaching public speaking as a communication event, not as a performance.
Teaching and Training approaches to learning depend on the audience and the situation. This fresh—flexible—approach to communication training for the purpose of improving communication effectiveness for individuals and organizations is grounded in social science research.
Effective public speaking skills substantially benefit organizations and individuals.
For organizations, better public speaking skills can lead to increased productivity, higher profits, better morale, and stronger (consistent, responsible, and reliable) organizations.
For individuals, better public speaking skills can lead to better effectiveness, pay raises, promotions, recognition, better jobs/careers, higher job satisfaction, and better grades for students.
The Mattson Approach to Workshops
We understand that organizations send participants to us for training in order to become more effective, to “walk the walk” of the company’s mission statement and values, and to keep the organization on course in its “strategic direction.”
However, there are costs involved; not only are there the costs of the training, the opportunity costs associated with your people being away from the job must be taken into account also. Therefore, we are serious about your ROI by presenting “meaty” workshops with “concrete” information that can be put into practice today.
Mattson workshops are short in duration; yet, long in content. We take the term “workshop” seriously. Participants will “roll up their sleeves” and get busy in this interactive environment developing applications of this valuable information. In completing the Workshop Workbook, participants will walk away with the information they need and a detailed plan including resources to improve their public speaking skills.