Training Programs
At Kopco, we assume that you couldn't care less about training....except to the extent that it improves performance on the job. So, our programs are: Outcome-focused. Practice-, not simply knowledge-based. Customized for your participants in your environment with your objectives paramount. Fun and interactive - because fun and interactivity lead to increased retention and depth of understanding.   Some of our most popular training programs include:   Take the Stage: Charismatic Communication for Business Leaders More than a "presentation skills" course, this workshop introduces the participants to the actor's secret tools for captivating an audience. The workshop explores the following questions: How can I command focus? How can I influence and inspire my team? How can I become more aware of my own goals and objectives, and how can I align my intention with performance?   Topics include:	"Our experience with Kat Koppett greatly exceeded our expectations. Kat's team provided deep facilitation skill building using unique and engaging techniques." "Our audience was a diverse group ranging from individuals who had never facilitated before to those who are extremely effective facilitators. Each of them walked away with many new skills that they could turn around and apply immediately. I would recommend Kat to any organization looking for an engaging and valuable skill-building experience." -Natalie Wu Training Consultant Eli Lilly USA Leadership Development
Understanding and meeting the needs of your "audience" Creating compelling stories Enhancing physical and vocal presence Understanding and using status dynamics Discovering personal values Developing integrated presentations Creating a motivating environment

Make it Up: The Art of Improvisation in Business

Think fast. In a pitch, at a client meeting, during a brainstorming session, how flexible you are can make the difference between rousing success and total disaster. Professional improvisers have developed rules and exercises to respond on the spot while enhancing creativity, interpersonal connection, and collaboration. In this highly interactive, practical workshop, you'll explore the secrets of improv... and how they apply to the world of business.

 

Learn how to:

• Build trust
• Increase your capacity for spontaneous creativity
• Recognize, accept, and build on "offers"
• Improve listening and awareness skills
• Enhance communication and influencing skills

 

Training to Imagine: Improv Techniques for Trainers

Based on Kat's book of the same name, this course details the use of improvisational theatre techniques for trainers. Along with basic, fundamental facilitation skills, this program provides participants with a foundation for engaging learners more actively, increasing retention of content, deviating from the instructor's guide, rapid instructional design, and activity delivery. This program can be customized for two-, three-, and four-day designs.

 

Participants will learn:

• To recognize and satisfy various learning styles
• To create a motivating and supportive learning environment
• To employ experiential learning activities
• To use stories and storytelling activities to enhance understanding and retention
• To enhance their personal presentation and facilitation styles

 

Once Upon A Time There Was A Storytelling Workshop

This session explores how stories change learning and increase retention. Participants look at a myriad of story applications, from icebreakers to gap analyzers, retention enhancers to closers. They are presented with tools that aid in story creation, and discuss the potential uses and benefits of storytelling. This program is either a one or two day workshop.

 

Participants will learn:

• To maximize learner retention through storytelling
• To apply storytelling differently to meet learning objectives
• To use The Story Spine, an story structuring tool
• To enhance meetings, training, and coaching sessions
• To apply storytelling in product training, technical training, skills-based training, and concept-based training
• A series of unique storytelling activities that make learning more enjoyable
• A bunch of cool stories

 

Creating Value: Improv and the Art of Selling

Great salespeople know that in order to make a sale, they must meet a client's felt needs. After all, the only reason anyone every buys anything is because she perceives it  as having value to her.

 

In this workshop participants practice how to:

• Build relationships
• Enhance trust
  
• Listen so people will talk
• Uncover needs
• Align features and benefit to felt needs to create value
• Adapt the sales performance to the specific audience at hand

 

Soft Skills for Hard Topics: The Art of Listening in a Technical Age

Most technical and product information is specific, difficult to understand, and useless if it's not precise. Whether you are a trainer, a manager, consultant, or systems engineer, you have a responsibility to deliver information (data, schematics, network information, etc.) accurately. This full day program delves into the mechanics and technology of listening and communicating complicated messages. This workshop contains role-plays, storytelling, games and experiential activities that provide participants with the opportunity to maximize learning.

 

Participants learn:

• To discover the best techniques for them to use when engaging employees, customers, managers, and peers
• To develop skills that close the gap between what is said and what is heard
• To relate to the listener's/speaker's communication needs
• To "Read between the lines"
• To recognize that even though technological information is scientifically constant, people interpret it differently
• Skills to enhance interpretation and perception skills
• To check for understanding and meaning