Clear communication skills are essential
Communication is not just about how you talk and listen. It’s about making connections with people… being a cooperative and trusted team worker… a good friend… someone people can count on… someone they respect and like. This is achieved through effective communication.
Success in your career may also depend on your ability to communicate. In order to exchange information efficiently and accurately, you must speak clearly without sound distortions, struggling to find the words or excessive revisions. You must also read correspondence and write documents that succinctly and tactfully make your point.
At JKS & Associates, you will get practical training in oral and written communication. You will gain useful techniques that will make you more effective with other people – immediately and permanently – and thus advance your professional opportunities.
Who needs intervention?
Individuals who have difficulty speaking to and understanding others and those with reading and writing challenges will benefit from intervention. These programs are especially crucial for those in sales, medicine, law and telecommunications – anyone whose career demands excellent communication
Our programs will enable you to...
Exercise leadership skills and advance in your career;
Get your ideas accepted and implemented;
Make your point without having to repeat yourself;
“Work a Room;” be more confident and enjoy yourself more in social situations;
Master the art of greetings, handshakes and small talk;
Build your confidence and speak with authority;
Give and receive instructions precisely;
Use appropriate body language so your messages come across clearly;
Increase efficiency and productivity by reducing mistakes and confusion;
Improve your public perception by avoiding miscommunications at work and in social situations;
Bounce back from blunders; saying the wrong thing happens to everyone.
Read fluently, comprehend clearly and write proficiently.
Career Enhancement Programs
Voice Improvement
Improve your voice quality and make positive first impressions. Learn to:
Project your voice with proper breathing;
Increase your volume and power;
Use your optimum pitch;
Vary your pitch and intonation patterns to hold the listener’s interest and make your point.
Stuttering
Decrease your stuttering while increasing your fluent speech. You will acquire:
Proper breathing and upper body relaxation;
Appropriate eye contact;
Greater confidence;
Strategies designed to reduce your specific stuttering behaviors.
Pronunciation
Refine your pronunciation patterns and reduce your mumbling. You will speak more clearly by:
Increasing your oral strength and refining the precision of your tongue placement;
Eliminating improper movements and retraining your tongue muscles;
Decreasing your speech rate;
Utilizing proper phrasing.
Accent Reduction
Professional speech trainers will identify the sounds and intonation patterns that reduce the clarity or call attention to your speech. You will then modify these patterns through practical speaking experiences like improving voice mail messages and giving presentations. Students who attend class and practice regularly can expect 50-60% improvement in the clarity of their speech.
Reading, Written Expression and Math
If you have difficulty with reading and spelling, maybe you were never taught to recognize the sound components of words, the skill that enables you to learn phonics. If your challenge is reading comprehension, you may have problems understanding vocabulary, organizing information or visualizing images as you read. Written language challenges are often related to difficulties with the pre-writing processes of brainstorming and organization and the post-writing process of editing. Difficulties with math often stem from the failure to visualize a number line in your head.Weaknesses in reading, spelling, written expression, and math can be eliminated. The speech-language-educational specialists at JKS & Associates will identify the cause of your difficulties and then help you overcome these challenges from the ground up.
Our staff
The instructors at JKS & Associates are professional speech and language trainers, many with 20 years of experience in teaching English. Licensed by the state of California as speech-language pathologists, these instructors have also completed advanced training in accent reduction, voice improvement, the Wilson Reading System (based on Orton Gillingham) and the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes including Visualizing and Verbalizing, the Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program, Seeing Stars: Symbol Imagery and On Cloud Nine Math The instructors' backgrounds and experiences include teaching school, acting, singing professionally, as well as producing speech training videos and writing textbooks.