WAVELENGTH TRAINING

Wavelength is a communication skills training company that has been helping clients become more effective communicators by helping their people improve writing, presenting, and meeting skills through instructor-led training, online learning, and coaching. We’ve been in business for over 50 years.

Your team members benefit by learning how to clarify their thinking, craft their communication through an audience lens, and communicate in a direct, professional way.
Stronger communication skills mean your team can:

• Achieve better, more consistent results
• Persuade audiences to approve recommendations
• Increase productivity
• Strengthen relationships with clients, peers, leaders and stakeholders
• Influence others and get buy-in
• Present themselves as capable, confident contributors to their teams

We specialize in providing communication skills training. It’s all we do. We’re passionate about clarity, obsessed with quality and dedicated to helping our clients achieve success through their documents, presentations, and meetings.

We outshine our competitors in the following ways:

Practical solutions
We focus on practical business needs. As a result, you can be confident your employees will learn current, relevant skills that improve the quality of their reports, emails, presentations, and meetings.

Expert facilitators
Our facilitators are adult learning experts with solid organizational and communication experience.

A seamless client experience
We do much more than show up for sessions–we also provide outstanding service and ongoing support. Our team guides you through the entire experience from needs assessment to materials design, from pre-course instructions to follow-up after the session. In other words, you save time and resources while we manage logistics.

We offer virtual and in-person courses in three communication areas: presenting, writing and interpersonal skills.

Absolutely. As a starting point, we tailor all our courses to each client’s specific needs by speaking the language of your industry and profession and by having participants apply their learning to real-world documents, presentations and conversations. 

We do our homework and emphasize how the strategies we teach advance your mission. We ensure our trainers understand the context and audience for each course, what to emphasize and why. We ask participants to share their personal learning objectives so we can address everyone’s concerns and questions. In addition, participants evaluate their own work to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and they apply new skills to a real document, presentation or conversation.

We can add a layer of customization if you have an intact team and you want the training to teach everyone how to convey a certain kind of message. Here’s how it works in a writing course, for example: you provide us with several writing samples. We use these to create before-and-after examples, exercises with suggested answers, scenarios and case studies. You provide a subject matter expert who can approve our revisions, and we embed them into the course. Lessons have greater impact when they’re demonstrated in language that’s familiar. 

Additionally, our courses are modular so it’s possible to combine them in different ways. For example, we can deliver some content virtually and some in person. Let’s get creative! 

The best way to get started is to reach out directly to us. We connect you with a relationship manager, who works directly with your team to understand your needs and discuss pricing. Your relationship manager can then recommend the best and most cost-effective solution for you. 

Your employees become more confident communicators. They gain the skills needed to create and deliver high-consequence documents, presentations, and conversations to get results, build relationships and earn a reputation as an effective communicator throughout their careers.

For virtual courses, you need a computer, preferably with camera and microphone capabilities. Although it’s possible to join virtual sessions on other devices, we recommend a computer or laptop for an optimal learning experience. For in-person courses, you only need your course materials. If you have a printed manual, you need a pencil; if you have a digital manual, you need a computer to view it on.

We recommend starting with the course your employees need right away. Your relationship manager is there to help you determine which course or courses best meet your specific needs and budget.

Our clients often begin with one of our signature courses, such as:

Business Writing Essentials (1 day/7 hours) – Most of us spend time every day writing emails and various documents, so Business Writing Essentials often makes sense as a solid foundation for business writing.

Presenting to Groups (2 days/12 hours) – If you or your team have high-consequence presentations to give.

Making Meetings Work (1/2 day/3 hours) for anyone with meetings to lead.

Communicate With Impact (1 day/7 hours) to help you improve your speaking and listening skills in conversation.

Because our writing, presentation and interpersonal communication courses reinforce each other, the more courses you take, the better you communicate in any situation. We take an audience-focused approach to communication and help participants view their communication through an audience lens, which has transformative results. We also teach you how to clarify your thinking—a skill you apply to any kind of communication.