Communication Skills Training & Coaching | Corporate Workshops
Effective communication is at the heart of success in every organization. Whether you’re giving feedback, navigating conflict in a meeting or negotiating a contract, your communication is crucial. We can help you optimize it.
What is GrahamComm Communication Training? GrahamComm provides comprehensive communication skills workshops designed to help teams and leaders navigate complex workplace dynamics. Unlike general "soft skills" classes, our behavior-based training focuses on specific outcomes: resolving conflict, mastering personality styles, influencing stakeholders, and leading with clarity.
Leading Difficult Conversations
When stakes are high, we often perform at our worst. Difficult conversations can end in frustration, disappointment and triggered emotions. This course changes all that.
Mastering Communication Styles
Analytic, Expressive, Driver, Amiable. Each personality embodies a profoundly different communication style. Each also values a different way of being engaged. This training is your road map.
Leadership Training
This course teaches you to become a more influential and effective leader. Understand one another better, share your vision , align your team and motivate people to perform at potential.
The Persuasive Communicator
The most powerful leaders of our time, in business and politics, have one thing in common: their ability to persuade. The good news is, this is a learned skill. We’ll teach you how.
“This was the most useful class I’ve ever taken. The lessons will be applied to my everyday life until I die.”
— Matthew Kim, Analyst, Corporate Strategy, Yahoo! Inc.
Our Process
Our communication skills training & coaching programs are grounded in the principles of adult learning. We deconstruct the communication process, separating it into clear, actionable behaviors. Then we help people create awareness around their strengths and what we call “Quick Wins.” These are the skills that will help each person improve fastest. So whatever level your communication skills are and whatever you’d like to improve, we can help. We’re based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we work with clients across the globe. Whether virtual or in-person, we’ve identified four key elements to successful training and coaching:
Make it Real.
You will learn practical, repeatable skills to help you manage the situations and scenarios you experience every day in your professional and personal world.
Make it Stick.
The challenge with most training is making it last. We teach simple, actionable, repeatable steps that help you continue learning and improving long after your training.
Make it Active.
Our work is grounded in proven principles and experience. In all our programs, you will learn, practice, give and receive feedback over and over. Cuz that’s how you learn.
Make it Fun.
Like your favorite show, our workshops fly by. We keep you active, engaged and laughing to stimulate and anchor your learning. You may just want to binge all of our courses!
Frequently Asked Questions
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These trainings are ideal for teams, managers, individual contributors and emerging leaders who need to communicate and collaborate more effectively. It is particularly effective for teams facing friction, silos, or those undergoing rapid organizational change.
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If you have tension, avoidance or have a hard time delivering feedback: Choose Leading Difficult Conversations to resolve conflict and open up communication.
If you have personality clashes or misunderstandings: Choose Mastering Communication Styles to bridge the gap between analytic, expressive, amiable and driver personalities.
If you need to sell ideas, either internally or externally: Choose The Persuasive Communicator or Presenting to Executives.
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Yes. All four of our communication modules (Difficult Conversations, Communication Styles, Leadership, and Persuasion) are available as interactive Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT).
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Absolutely. Many clients combine Mastering Communication Styles with Leading Difficult Conversations for a half-day or full-day offsite that improves team cohesion immediately.
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We use a "behavior-based" learning approach. Instead of just theory, we deconstruct communication into actionable behaviors you can practice immediately and receive candid, actionable feedback. We focus on "Quick Wins"—small changes that yield big results.
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We teach a proprietary model of Communication Styles (Analytic, Expressive, Driver, Amiable) that shares DNA with popular social style models but is simplified for immediate workplace application.
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Participants consistently rate our training as the "most engaging" and "most practical" professional development they have ever attended. Employees from companies like Yahoo!, eBay, and Cisco describe the environment as safe and supportive, often noting that the skills learned—such as navigating conflict and influencing styles—transform not just their careers, but their personal relationships as well.
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For interactive workshops, we recommend groups of 10 to 20 participants to ensure everyone gets coaching. For webinars or keynotes, we can accommodate much larger audiences.
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Call us at (415) 652-0763 or use the contact form below. We typically return your inquiries within one business day.
