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Comprehensive Communication Training or Coaching for Professionals
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Services for Professionals
Professional communication training emphasizes the advanced communication skills necessary in today’s professional and corporate environments. In high-stakes interviews, meetings with management, or in front of an audience, how you communicate can make or break your personal brand. We help adults fine-tune their communication skills, thereby allowing qualifications and contributions to speak for themselves.
Professional communication training can sharpen the clarity of your voice, structure of your opinions, and social presence. The degree of change is determined based on the goals and wishes of the client. Change can be significant or subtle, preserving your natural style of communication.
Collaboratively, we define goals for our work, keep track of progress, keep you accountable, and address roadblocks to achieving the goals.
Unlike generic advice, courses or lessons, this work is tailored to your vision, role, and audience.
Together, we build skill-based frameworks that allow for progressive improvement while managing cognitive load. In the end, you can speak with less effort and more impact, whether you are leading a stand-up, briefing executives, or giving a community talk.
Many adults in professional roles participate in some type of professional communication training. Professional communication training with a speech-language pathologist is a confidential and insurance-covered approach to address communication roadblocks.
We frequently help:
– professors;
– lawyers;
– engineers;
– architects;
– podcasters;
– C-suite executives;
– associates;
– managers;
– health professionals; and,
– university students in achieving their communication goals.
Sometimes professionals find us through word of mouth from a colleague who has benefited from our services. At other times, the person searches for “executive speech training” or a similar keyword and then finds us.
Typically, a professional has received a performance review that suggested communication improvements are recommended. Sometimes a professional will become frustrated with themselves, feeling like they could do better.
There are many reasons why professionals might want or need professional communication training.
It could be growth in responsibility, new audiences, cross-cultural teams, self-improvement, planning for a career change, addressing a performance issue, and/or speaking in a second language.
Most often, professional communication goals are rooted in a lack of exposure, practice or insight. Old habits do die hard. We understand that we all sometimes rely on habits that do not transfer well to our lives today.
Many people have not received explicit instruction in how to design spoken messages.
Speech-language pathologists who focus on working with adults in “corporate speech therapy” bring expertise in working with professionals.
By melting insights from art (i.e., acting, improv, performing, singing, negotiating) to the science (i.e., biology, psychology, andragogy, and linguistics), we help professional achieve their goals.
Whether they are speech clarity, prosody, voice presence, and message design. We map your real meetings and build frameworks you can reuse. We coach delivery, pacing, pausing, emphasis and the nonverbal signals that support authority and warmth.
Our role is to create a low-risk space where you can try options, get fast feedback, and select the style that fits you and your audience.
We care about both results and authenticity.
We start with a personal subjective experience analysis: what do you want, what do you need.
We complete technical analysis, where we screen your speech, voice and communication in general while you engage in small talk with us, read passages and participate in role-plays, a mock interview, a mock presentation and perhaps, a skit.
Lastly, we review the contextual needs analysis: audiences, stakes, and upcoming events.
Together we define success metrics and manage your expectations.
Collaboratively, with a shared scorecard, the coaching remains focused on what your work actually requires and helps you see progress week-by-week.
Training covers the areas identified within the assessment. Typically, treatment will involve explanation, demonstration, and practice using different techniques.
Some techniques that are frequently used are:
– Conversational Training Therapy
– Modelling
– Role Play
– Biofeedback
– Voice Training
– Improv and Acting Technique
You will be provided with a “home practice plan” which is advice on what you should do for the next week to maintain your progress.
Common Goal Areas
We offer professional communication therapy designed to help you develop a speech, voice and communication style that feels authentic and confident. Our experienced therapists provide personalized, evidence-based training in a supportive environment.
– Listening skills
– Communicating within conflict
– Assertiveness skills
– Negotiation
– Public speaking, effective presentation
– Presentation delivery
– Cross-cultural communication
– Interview skills
– Small talk skills
Commonly Used Approaches
We have many tools in our toolbox and often customize treatment plans to suit the individual adult’s needs. For professional communication, we commonly use features from:
– Conversational Training Therapy
– Modelling
– Role Play
– Biofeedback
– Voice Training
– Improv and Acting Technique
Assertive Communication
State your needs and opinions clearly without aggression or apology. Practice saying no, setting boundaries, and making requests that get heard. Distinguish between passive, aggressive, and assertive responses so you can advocate for yourself in professional contexts.
Listening Skills
Build the skill of holding your response while genuinely taking in what’s being said. Practice observing nonverbal cues—pauses, posture shifts, facial expressions—that reveal meaning beyond the literal message.
Body Language
Work on aligning your facial expressions, posture, and gestures with your intended message. Learn to read others’ nonverbal signals systematically—what to watch for and what it might mean.
Public Speaking
Build skills for presentations, meetings, and any situation where you’re addressing a group. Practice managing intonation, pace, pitch and volume; and use these features strategically to emphasize and direct attention.
Precise Communication
Master the balance between too much detail and too little. Practice organizing complex thoughts into clear, logical sequences. Develop the ability to zoom out for the big picture or zoom in for specifics depending on what your audience needs.
Confident Voice
Learn to use pauses strategically rather than filling them with “um” or rushing through. Practice varying your tone to match your message: rising inflection for questions, steady pace for important points, emphasis on key words. Build a voice that commands attention without glottal fry.
Communication for Power Dynamics
Develop flexibility to shift your style based on relationship context—deferring to supervisors, collaborating with peers, mentoring junior colleagues. Learn when directness is expected versus when softening language is strategic. Practice navigating feedback conversations, difficult requests, and status differences without ruffling feathers.
Small Talk
Build a functional approach to light conversation that opens doors to deeper connection. Learn context-appropriate topics, how to initiate brief exchanges, and how to exit gracefully. Practice asking follow-up questions that show interest without interrogating. Develop strategies that feel authentic rather than scripted, so small talk becomes a tool rather than a test.
Elevate Your Communication
Discover our tailored coaching/therapy services designed to enhance your professional communication skills.
Learn the Frameworks
Understand how you are communicating now, and how it could be improved using evidence-based concepts and frameworks
Practice with Feedback
Practice a new way of doing it with professional guidance, 1-on-1, tailored to your learning style, context and needs.
Optimize and Refine
Achieve your goal through step-by-step generalization and supported accountability in a safe space.
Our Distinctive Approach to Helping Professionals
At Well Said: Toronto Speech Therapy we have the experience and dedication to help you develop a speech, voice and communication style that you can rely on.
Using a client-centred, evidence-based, and holistic approach, we will work closely with you, incorporating the latest research and adult learning principles in order to achieve your goals as a professional.
Our services are covered by most workplace and education insurance plans. Try our quiz below the videos to discover how you might benefit.
Experienced Guidance
Our skilled therapists provide tailored programs to address your unique speech and communication needs, ensuring effective and meaningful progress.
Holistic Techniques
We integrate a variety of techniques for a comprehensive approach, focusing not only on speech but also on building confidence and reducing anxiety.
Empowered Clients
We believe in empowering our clients through knowledge and skills, fostering independence in their communication journey.
Are These Communication Services for me?
Are you unsure if voice work is right for you? Try our new self-assessment tool by clicking on the box below. A redirect will open to a page with a series of questions. Complete the questions and get a PDF report organizing and visualizing your needs. This report is perfect for clarifying what you need and what your goals are.