Join us on August 25 at the Holiday Inn at Madison Square Mall for a day filled with two distinct workshops. Choose to focus on Design or Delivery and enjoy a full-day workshop in your chosen concentration.

Focus on:  Design

Get ready to become a Subject Matter Expert in Design with SFC Robert N. Coppage facilitating: The Systems Approach to Training

The Systems Approach to Training (SAT) is the Army’s training development process.  It is a disciplined, logical approach to making collective, individual, and self-development training decisions for the total Army.  It determines whether or not training is needed; what is trained; who gets the training; how, how well, and where the training is presented; and the training support/ resources required to produce, distribute, implement, and evaluate those products.  The SAT involves five training related phases: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.  It determines whether or not training is needed; what is trained; who gets the training; and how and where the training is presented.

We will be discussing a systematic decision making process based on the training needs of Army or your organization. In order to make these decisions, you MUST BE a Subject-Matter Expert (SME) in the area that you are developing the training.  

About SFC Coppage

SFC Robert N. Coppage has over 20 years of Military experience, which includes three Combat Tours in Iraq and six years serving as an Army Instructor. In his current position, he serves as a Senior Instructor responsible for  the instruction of  U.S. Army Enlisted, Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Department of Defense Civilians, Joint Service, and Multi-National students in the Support Cadre Training Course (SCTC), Small Group Instruction (SGI), Systems Approach to Training and the Army Basic Instructor Course (ABIC) supporting the 59th Ordnance Brigade and all garrison Initial Entry Training (IET) support personnel; Serves as Course Manager for SGI; Inspects and tracks instructor packets in the Ordnance Munitions and Electronic Maintenance School (OMEMS) in the Instructor Development Program totaling over 300 personnel at 5 different remote locations.  As a Platoon Sergeant, SFC Coppage is directly responsible for the training management of his Soldiers.

SFC Coppage is married to Kayoko Coppage and they have two sons, Khalil and Kamardi.

Focus on:  Delivery

This exercise driven workshop is perfect for anybody who wishes to become a more engaging & influential communicator!  Get ready for a groundbreaking, interactive and lecture-free  Pinnacle Performance Company Performance-Based Training® workshop:  Performance-based Communication Skills for Leaders and Presenters

Participants will learn how to ensure their words, attitude, body language and intention tell the same story in order to engage and influence others and to get their audience to react the way they want them to! Participants will learn to engage their audience with passion, confidence and credibility.    

The Pinnacle Method utilizes a “building blocks” approach to provide a unique, intensive, customized training that focuses on analyzing and improving upon the delivery of each participant’s individual communication with respect to their message, their audience, and their environment.  

Please see our website for additional information on this workshop.

Following this Workshop you will be able to:

    * Learn to convey a strong first impression
    * Engage your audience from beginning to the end
    * Speak with confidence, credibility and conviction
    * Learn to be clear with objectives
    * Ensure your body language supports your words
    * Handle tough questions and unpredictable audiences
    * Ensure the audience reacts the way you want them to!

Goals, Objectives and Requirements

    * Improve overall Communication & Presentation Skills
    * Learn to speak with purpose and INTENTION
    * Learn to deliver exactly what your audience needs to hear
    * Convey subject matter expertise with passion and purpose
    * Control the audience and ensure they are paying attention
    * Speak to Motivate, Persuade, Engage, Empower
    * Build Trust with Audience
    * Improve Communication & Expectations Management
    * Learn how to handle the tough questions or objections
    * Improve facilitation skills (Stay on track, set ground rules)
    * Increase credibility and confidence in group settings.
    * Improve energy, dynamics & assertiveness when presenting
    * Reduce/eliminate nervous habits and tension when speaking to larger groups.
    * Improve body language and vocal quality
    * Improve communication skills and confidence in “non-familiar” or “non-engaging” settings
    * Appear truthful, knowledgeable, confident, engaging & approachable when speaking

About G. Riley Mills

G. Riley Mills is a Co-Founder of Pinnacle Performance Company and has trained executives from major companies across North America, Asia and Europe. He has also worked as a professional actor and writer since 1987. Television credits include episodes of ER, Early Edition and Missing Persons. Film credits include lead roles in The Home Coming from World Wide Pictures and the award-winning 35 Miles From Normal, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Mills has also appeared in television commercials for Nike, McDonald's, Lincoln-Mercury, Levi's, Pacificare, and Morningstar Farms, among others.

As a writer, Mills and his frequent collaborator, Ralph Covert, have twice been awarded the Joseph Jefferson Citation (Chicago’s Tony Award) for Best New Work. Mills began writing for the professional theatre at age 17. Since then his work has been produced on stages across the country and as far away as Australia. He has two published books, Sawdust and Spangles and A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas.  Over the course of his career, Mills has worked professionally with the likes of Michael Jordan, Ewan MacGregor, Juliana Marguilies, Fisher Stevens, Scott Lowell, Penelope Milford, Kyle Chandler, Scottie Pippen and Jason Alexander, among others.

Mills received a BFA from The Theatre School, DePaul University. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Pinnacle’s extremely satisfied clients include Allstate, Walgreens, Oracle, HSBC, Barclays, Chase, Apple, IBM,  Yahoo, Kodak, HealthNet, CITGO, Intel and many others!