Skills + Experience
Skills + Experience
What if you could improve the performance of your key people,
and make a powerful impact in your community?
The Skillset Company combines high-level professional development with social responsibility.
For every individual class, group package or onsite program purchased, another is donated to a nonprofit
Invest in your people and do great things for nonprofits you support.
Solutions for professionals
Executive Presentation Skills
Become significantly more effective at crafting and delivering a compelling message whether you are speaking with one person or 1,000. In Executive Presentation Skills you will build on your strengths while identifying and filling gaps in your public speaking and communication skills and executive presence.
You will receive actionable, high-level feedback throughout the program from an experienced coach as well as from peers in a collaborative learning environment.
You will finish the program with greater presence and confidence to engage and inspire large groups and you will be better prepared to represent your organization, run a board meeting and motivate clients, employees and executives.
Created for professionals with public speaking experience.
Available as an open-enrollment program or customized and on-site.
Maximum of 8 participants for open-enrollment and 10 for on-site.
Presence and Public Speaking
The ability to speak up in client or team meetings, make powerful recommendations, communicate your ideas with confidence, and deliver powerful presentations are essential in any profession.
In Presence and Public Speaking you will quickly become more comfortable and effective in your conversations and in public speaking situations. Developing a growth mindset around public speaking is a key part of the program. While you are developing stronger skills and learning practical strategies that improve your performance and your confidence, you will also begin to think differently about public speaking.
You will finish the program more confident and better prepared to speak to any size audience and have the tools for continual improvement.
For people with limited public speaking experience or reluctance to speak in meetings.
Available as an open-enrollment program or customized and on-site.
Maximum of 8 participants for open-enrollment and 10 for on-site.
Effective Communication and Feedback for Emerging Leaders
Growing organizations know that long-term success depends on consistently building a leadership pipeline. Effective Communication and Feedback for Emerging Leaders prepares first-time managers and rising leaders for today and the future.
Through presentations, exercises, role-plays and discussion, you learn how to deliver and receive constructive feedback, coach and inspire others, communicate ideas, goals and information and become a more effective presenter to clients and management.
By developing a more growth mindset while developing stronger business skills and leadership knowledge, you will finish the training better equipped and more confident for new opportunities and challenges.
Created for professionals transitioning to their first leadership role or higher-level leadership.
Available as an open-enrollment program or customized and on-site.
Maximum of 12 participants for open-enrollment and 15 for on-site.
One Simple Habit: How to Reduce Your Filler Words, Speak with Power and Build Greater Presence
The ability to speak clearly, concisely and assertively can transform a person's credibility and influence. For a young person, this ability also significantly elevates their self-confidence and presence. The foundation of all this is the simple art of reducing your filler words.
One Simple Habit was created because most young professionals we work with identify reducing their 'um', 'ah', 'like', 'you-know' and other filler words as a top priority for them. CEO's tell us they want their key people to reduce filler words to build greater credibility when speaking with clients and senior management.
The program includes reinforcement digital learning to learn, practice and make permanent the ability to speak with power and build executive presence.
Created for anyone whose filler words undermine their confidence or credibility.
Available as an open-enrollment program or customized and on-site.
Maximum of 18 participants for open-enrollment and 30 for on-site.
Building Profitable Client Relationships
If sales is not your primary job you might not be very comfortable selling. Building Profitable Client Relationships is for business and nonprofit leaders who want to develop the skills, strategies and mindset essential for representing their organization.
Through a mix of consultative selling, presentation skills and storytelling, you will become more effective in: Meeting preparation; Asking strategic questions; Communicating the value proposition for your organization, services or program; Making persuasive recommendations: Handling objections; Gaining commitment and more.
You will finish the program with a mindset that leads to better preparation for meetings and better results.
Ideal for professional services and nonprofit development officers and executives.
Available as an open-enrollment program or customized and on-site.
Maximum of 9 participants for open-enrollment and 12 for on-site.
Storytelling to Influence
Storytelling is a fundamental building block of communication. Storytelling to Influence was created for nonprofit organizations to help you find and develop the stories that influence people and reach their hearts and minds.
You start by identifying the stories you want to share. Then you refine them, practice and receive feedback, not just about your communication style but also to what extent your story inspires your audience. After the program you will have a bigger 'toolkit' of stories that you can continue to refine, practice and deliver.
The result: You will become a more confident, authentic speaker in your development and board meetings, facility tours, media events, gala's and celebrations. You will better showcase the powerful impact your organization is making.
Created for nonprofit professionals and board members.
Available as an open-enrollment program or customized and on-site.
Maximum of 9 participants for open-enrollment and 12 for on-site.
The Program for Socially Responsible Leadership™
Create a more diverse workplace, develop your future leaders and make a powerful impact on nonprofits with this first-of-its-kind program.
The Program for Socially Responsible Leadership™ will improve your people, your culture and your relationships with the nonprofit leaders you support in ways that you, your employees and your community will love.
The program is fully customized, includes a mix of your employees and nonprofit leaders you invite and delivered at your company. Please contact us for more details.
Bruce's company helps us grow our company and make a big impact on the nonprofits we partner with.
-John Hailer, Former CEO
Natixis Global Associates
Thank you for everything you do for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. Your support of our members, staff, advisory board, and me is invaluable.
-Andrea Swain, Executive Director
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
Bruce has worked with a number of my teams. He is an exceptional coach for young professionals.
-Andrew Wheeler, CEO Skyword
Invest in your key people while helping nonprofits and under-resourced kids.
With our one-for one match you support nonprofits by providing capacity-building professional development for nonprofit executives, staff and boards, and by helping under-resourced teenagers prepare for college, interviews and the workplace.
You can also bring together your emerging leaders and nonprofit executives for a professional development program sponsored and hosted by you. Develop, reward and retain your key people, help the nonprofits you support do the same, and demonstrate authentic social responsibility that your employees and clients will admire.
Learning options
Executive coaching
Executive coaching is designed for emerging leaders and senior executives. Areas of coaching include preparing for a key speech, presentation, board meeting or media interview, as well as general leadership development and public speaking coaching.
Please contact us to learn more.
Customized onsite programs
Multiple options are available for small, medium and large companies and nonprofit organizations.
Customized programs are an effective way to bring together teams for collaboration and learning that your employees will appreciate.
Depending on your goals, available time and financial budgets, options range from a 2-hour large group workshop to multi-day programs
Programs are customized to your objectives and delivered at your organization or a preferred off-site location. You choose scheduling.
Please contact us to learn more.
Open-enrollment programs
Open-enrollment programs bring together young professionals, emerging leaders and senior executives from some of Greater Boston's best companies and nonprofit organizations.
Small class size ensures greater attention and participation for each individual. Programs focusing on public speaking and presenting are limited to a maximum of eight participants. Programs in leadership development, sales and storytelling are limited to twelve.
Please contact us to learn more or to receive updates schedules.
Digital programs coming soon
About our learning environment for business and nonprofit professionals.
High-level. Relevant. Interactive. Fun. From research and experience, we know those are the pillars of a high-performance learning environment.
But high-performance learning requires a catalyst. In our programs that catalyst is an environment that encourages and challenges people to repeatedly move outside their comfort zone in the classroom then to have the tools, strategy and reinforcement to practice inside and outside the workplace so that those skills become permanent.
Our clients develop professional and personal skills and habits they can use every day. 100% guaranteed.