Consulting

In addition to our customized programs, The McCann Group provides consulting services and offers seminars in the following areas:

Communicating Value, Corporate Presentations and Strategic Communication

  • Communicating value consulting and seminars
  • Presentation and public speaking consulting and seminars
  • Individualized presentation and communication coaching (taking your ideas and turning them into a full presentation and/or pitch)
  • Domain specific presentation training (ad agency pitches, venture capital pitching, finance briefings, pharmaceutical presentations)
  • Presentations for engineers
  • Presentation development (taking an idea and turning it into a compelling presentation)
  • Presenting leadership messages (setting and communicating company direction; aligning people behind direction, communicating company values, communicating company initiative)
  • Persuasive communication
  • Communicating for Sales Success
  • Crisis communication
  • Presenting with data (scientific, financial, academic, etc.)
  • Impromptu speaking
  • Virtual presentations
  • Advanced visual design (including PowerPoint and other) training
  • Team presentation and communication coaching (team VC pitches, agency pitches, etc.)
  • Group seminars in communication and presentation techniques
  • Presentation preparation (structuring, organizing messages for maximum impact)
  • Anxiety training

Team and Work Group Dynamics

  • Teams and Work Group Design for Maximum Efficiency
  • Leadership in Teams and Work Groups
  • Team and Work Group Discipline
  • Team and Work Group Process Management
  • Team and Work Group Decision Making
  • Team and Work Group Motivation and Focus
  • Teams and Identity
  • Meeting Effectiveness
  • Team and Work Group Diversity (Cultural, age, intra-and inter-organizational, and other types of diversity)
  • Virtual teams
  • Seminars in team and work group dynamics in industry specific areas (working with teams of physicians, focus groups, etc.)

Interpersonal Communication

  • Performance Appraisals
  • Delivering News
  • Networking
  • Interviewing
  • Fundraising
  • Interpersonal Persuasion
  • Managing Upward and Across

Leadership & Stakeholder Communication

  • Communicating and Working with Boards
  • Communicating with Investors and Key Stakeholders
  • Setting Direction, Aligning Behind Initiatives, and Moving to Action
  • Influence (Peers, Managers, Subordinates, Customers, and Major Stakeholders)
  • Leadership Style
  • Crisis Communication
  • Employee Morale
  • Conflict Management
  • Motivation
  • Delivering Bad News
  • Communicating High-stakes Reports and Proposals
  • Building Consensus, Cohesion, Buy-in and Team Commitment
  • Leadership Networking and Network Expansion

Age Diversity

  • Intergenerational Communication and Interaction
  • Communicating with Older Workers
  • Age Discrimination
  • Age Culture Strategy
  • Communication Interventions for Geriatric Patients
  • Communicating with the Older Patient
  • Health Campaigns, Compliance, and Age

Communication, Persuasion and Strategic Networking for Financial Advisors

  • How to form strategic and targeted networks
  • How to improve referral generation
  • How to be more tactical in leveraging COIs
  • How to communicate and ask questions in ways that may lead to referrals and create reciprocity
  • How to develop the client relationship into a dynamic, long term, and successful relationship
  • How to create and organize personalized/tailored client messages
  • How to analyze client situations and craft relevant recommendations
  • How to utilize wealth stories into client messaging
  • How to strategically use questioning and listening techniques
  • How to create effective sales/pitch decks
  • How to identify and handle various types of client resistance
  • How to help clients through the challenging process of changing attitudes and behaviors
  • How to appeal and sell to clients of different ages
  • How to craft advisor communication strategies with age as a consideration
  • How to manage workplace age diversity culture and strategy