We regret to announce that the Executive Seminar is
at this time sold out into September of 2007.
Anyone seeking emergency training before September 2007 should inquire
about private coaching. For more information, kindly call
Karen Kalutz, the Director of the Buckley School of Public
Speaking.
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Just as there is a course of
study in our universities, there is a well thought out path at The
Buckley School for people who want to improve their speaking and
writing:
The
Buckley School also offers custom training:
--- Call for more information ---
Our Flagship Course
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The Executive Seminar
in Communication Skills: designed for middle, senior, and top executives
& professionals:
The 2 1/2 day workshop
eliminates fear, promotes brevity and clarity, and produces stylish
and persuasive speakers. Limited to no more than 14 participants,
the program is conducted at the Buckley School in Camden by Mr.
Buckley and his expert faculty.
You benefit from:
- 19 hours of expert
practical instruction, of which 11 or more hours you are on
your feet performing
- defending yourself
in television interview and press conference situations
- a superb faculty,
all trained personally by Reid Buckley, plus guest pros in writing,
speaking, press relations, television, and business
- a take-home kit
of valuable reference materials, including a personally inscribed
copy of Speaking in Public: Buckley's Techniques
for Winning Arguments & Getting
Your Point Across
- a handsome (and
much prized) certificate of accomplishment, which singles you
out as one of the select cadre (only 168 annually are accepted)
to have dared to become better than you ever believed was possible
- a VHS tape of your
performances in all the training exercises--invaluable for continuing
self-instruction at home and a wonderful way to delight family
and friends
- an invitation
to join the Buckley School presentation and debate society
(the "Forensic Society"), membership in which offers
students continuing support at low cost as well as discounts
on private
coaching and other programs
- a detailed follow-up written critique with precise recommendations
regarding your platform personality, strengths and weaknesses,
and what to do to eliminate the second while reinforcing the
first is optional for an additional fee
Held in conjunction with
the Executive Seminar,
Organization
of Materials Workshop
This
3-hour workshop is taught personally by Reid Buckley (in his
home) on the morning of the Executive Seminar.
This
remarkable three hours with Reid will give you the processes
and disciplines
that are essential to organizing and delivering the most
effective written and oral communication. The workshop builds
on Reid's
principle that you can only speak as well as you write. To
succeed at both, you must hone your ability to organize your
materials and thoughts. At the conclusion, you will learn
how to answer tough questions on the spot in lucent and cogent
fashion."
"I've been a business writer and speaker
for 30 years. The Organization of Materials Workshop gave me
the missing links I needed to make my writing and speeches focused
and organized to ensure that my message is understood and long
lasting." NEIL DUCOFF,
Founder & CEO STRATEGIES PUBLISHING GROUP, INC.
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Writing
to Make Your Point:
Wit, Style & Persuasion
This
scintillating 1-day crash course was handcrafted for the Buckley
School of Written Expression by nationally syndicated columnist
and USA Today feature writer Kathleen Parker, who taught
it through May of 2002. It is now taught by veteran newspaper
journalist Bill McDonald and other professionals selected
for their talents as writers and teachers, with a prolegomenon
(this IS a Buckley School program) by Reid Buckley. No
more than six participants are admitted, who are shown how to
clean up turbid commercial and professional prose. The course
takes place on Tuesday before each Executive Seminar.
The Executive Seminar,
Writing to Make Your Point and
Organization of Materials are
taught on consecutive days, making it possible to complete them
all in one visit to the Buckley School.
Discounts
are available to students who register for all three.
--- Inquire for more information ---
New for Young
Professionals & a Memorable Gift for Graduates
• The
Excalibur Young Executive Workshop:
 A
condensed version of The Executive Seminar, The Excalibur
Young Executive Workshop was created for entry level executives
and recent graduates. Excalibur is conducted by the Buckley
School faculty and provides training in speech preparation.
It stresses economy, clarity, and persuasiveness, putting polish
on young executives and professionals. By design, Excalibur
seminars are both intensive and economical. Seminars can travel
to companies, further reducing both the time and expense of
training.
For individuals,
and for companies with only a few employees to train, the Buckley
School offers open Young Executive workshops in Camden several
times a year.
Excalibur participants
receive:
- 1 ½ days of instruction
in speaking and writing, with both extemporaneous and rehearsed
performance opportunities
- hands-on instruction
in classes limited to 10 participants, conducted by two coaches
from the Buckley School faculty
---
Call for more information ---
• The
Advanced Seminar in Communication Skills
For those who have
completed The Executive Seminar and have practiced those techniques
for one year, the Buckley School offers this two-day advanced
program. Heightening the powers of persuasion is what this course
is all about. Speakers concentrate on the fine points of oratory,
enhancing their platform presence. Conferees conclude by preparing,
rehearsing and presenting a speech on a topic of their choice.
--- For more information, telephone Karen Kalutz:
1-800-344-4681 ---
•
Disciplined Thinking
Seminar in Communication Skills:
This
is your doctorate in verbal and written expression, an advanced
program for graduates of The Executive Seminar and other
participants selected by Reid Buckley. Disciplined Thinking brings
together nationally known scholars to debate a theme of critical
importance to professionals and executives.
The Disciplined Thinking
Seminar is a biannual production. This year we are proud to host
as a guest lecturer Sir Alistair Horne, whom many consider to
be the foremost living historian in the British Isles, and, again,
Eugene Genovese, whom many consider to be the foremost living
historian in the United States
 Sir
Alistair Allan Horne is the author of eighteen books, the most
recent of which is The Seven Ages of Paris (Alfred
Knopf, 2002). Others include A Savage War of Peace: Algeria
1954-1962,
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?:
Napoleon 1805-1815.
 Participants
develop arguments and speeches under the instruction of some
of
the country's leading thinkers, such as Professor of Law Gerard
V. Bradley (Notre Dame), McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Robert P. George (Princeton), or Hadley Arkes, Edward
Ney Professor of American Institutes under the direction of the
brilliant
team of Professors Elizabeth Fox and Eugene Genovese,
then rehearse their presentation with the aid of Mr. Buckley
and
the Buckley School senior faculty. The program culminates in
a public debate, in which both the visiting scholars and students
participate. This extraordinary workshop is offered just once
every two years.
Consulting Directors of
the Disciplined Thinking Seminar,
Professors
Elizabeth Fox and Eugene Genovese
--- For more information, telephone Harriet
DuBose: 1-800-344-4681 ---
Other
Seminars
•
2-Day Professional
Writing Workshop--- Available upon Request
| In September
2004, the Business Roundtable reported on the crisis in
American business
because of the inability of executives and professionals
to write plain simple English.
They base their conclusions on a report by the blue ribbon
National Commission on Writing. Joseph M. Tucci, president
and CEO of EMC Corporation and chairman
of the Roundtable's task force stressed that despite the fast pace of today's
electronic communications: " ...the need to write clearly and quickly
has never been more important than in today's highly competitive, technology-driven
global economy." |
Kathleen
and Priscilla
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This deficiency is costing the economy every year hundreds of
millions of dollars--and maybe billions of dollars--in lost time,
in mistaken actions, and in bad thinking.
We are not talking here about high literature. What concerns
everyone is the ability to put one's thoughts down clearly
and concisely, so that other people--colleagues,
subordinates, superiors--understand what is being communicated. The Business
Roundtable concludes that it is urgent that business across the land take
the time and make the effort to improve the writing skills
of their executives.
Good writing is terse and efficient. Bad business babble
is windy and inefficient. Good writing helps the writer
put across his thoughts. Bad writing frustrates
the expression of those thoughts. All the hard energy that went into
conceiving those thoughts is lost if they are not articulated
so that others can understand
them. The business suffers. Any professional or executive who permits poor writing to handicap
him is in trouble, not only on his personal account, but in the
view of his bosses, inasmuch as business is now presumably alerted
by the Roundtable report to the high cost of tolerating poor
writing in executives. And any business that continues to tolerate
poor writing in its executives or professionals is asking for
trouble, big time. Send your executives some place where they
can acquire the basic principles of decent, clear, cogent, and
lucid writing. Send yourself to such a school or institution.
The Buckley School of Written Expression offers two options:
- A
1-Day writing workshop every month, preceding the Executive
Seminar in Communications Skills;
- The extraordinary 2-Day (information in this section) and
3-Day (see section immediately following) writing workshops
once a year.
Two star writers and specialists in how to make corporate and Hi-Tek
mumbo-jumbo clear, simple, and attractive teach this workshop:
from France, Priscilla Buckley Illel, prize-winning expert
in technical and business writing, who for over ten years covered
European topics for such magazines as Smithsonian, Travel
and Leisure, and Reader's Digest; and the charismatic Kathleen
Parker, 1993 winner of the prestigious H.L. Mencken Award,
a nationally syndicated columnist and a feature writer for USA
Today and Time magazine. In just two days, these two pros instill years of
writing experience into the class of no more than 20 participants.
They inculcate the techniques that make the most complex subject
clear, the dullest interesting. They show how the imagination
can be enlisted to get one's point across.
The scintillating
Ms. Parker, who claims she can make an atheist pray, claims also
to be able to make any corporate or professional wonk human. Her
approach to technical and business writing is not to teach it,
because she is civilized. She says, "My distilled wisdom is that
bad writing is bad writing in any field, and good writing in any
field should be persuasive and interesting and make little work
for the reader." Says Priscilla Illel, "Good writing eliminates
the gap between you and your reader…Its purpose is transparent,
its construction spare, its railing solid and precisely where
one reaches for it. Above all," she says, "good business writing
is humble. Its sole aim is to render the crossing between author
and reader so smooth that only the destination is remembered."
--- Call for more information ---
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3-Day Professional
Writing Workshop -
Available upon Request
 Writers
and media specialists L. Brent Bozell, Christopher Buckley,
John Buckley, Priscilla Buckley Illel, and Kathleen
Parker bring their wide experience and extraordinary talents
to this workshop. Those attending learn to entertain as well as
instruct, departing Camden three days later with a style that
is free of the g-uh-mmed up verbiage too common in business writing
today. Participants confer with both visiting faculty and Buckley
School staff for individual guidance in composition and revisions
of what they have written until their work acquires clarity and
polish.
We asked participants
in the May, 2002 3-Day Professional Writing Workshop to rate what
they had experienced. Here are excerpts from the critique of one
participant (a German PhD and industrialist):
Priscilla Buckley
Illel's Critique of Writing Sample: "Excellent…Highly
Constructive."
Christopher
Buckley
- Best Selling Author
Priscilla
Buckley's presentation: "Excellent…Solid
and experienced perspective on technical writing…respectful
to the audience and reassuring in one's posture."
 Brent Bozell: "Excellent…Perfectly
structured and full of valuable insights - a model of an experienced
and practical summary of approaches to corporate communication
tools…"
Kathleen Parker:
"Surpassing…exudes superiority
and mastery of written communication - I was enthralled…"
Christopher Buckley:
"Surpassing…I was simply spellbound - I have never seen a
more perfect combination of intelligent wit and mastery of language…"
Christopher Buckley's
Critique of Writing Sample: "Excellent…Quick
and to the point - a highly productive session…"
John Buckley: "Excellent…an
absolute professional - the link between core message and quality
of writing was a most valuable insight to reflect on."
John Buckley's Critique
of Writing Sample: "Excellent…impressed
me with the speed and focus in improving my writing sample."
Reid Buckley's speech:
"Surpassing…[his] 'Ode
to Language' mesmerized me…"
Reid Buckley's Critique
of Writing Sample: "Surpassing…specific
and highly relevant corrections and suggestions…"
Overall Value of
Seminar: SURPASSING…A WORLD-CLASS
FACULTY…SUCCESSFULLY COVERED A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF WRITING
APPROACHES AND SKILLS WITH SUPERB AND CONCENTRATED INDIVIDUAL
TRAINING. IT WAS A UNIQUE AND MOST VALUABLE SEMINAR THAT I ENJOYED
TREMENDOUSLY.
-Dietmar Meyersiek, Meerbusch,
Germany
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L. Brent Bozell
Media Management and Damage Control Workshop: A Production
of
the Buckley School of Public Speaking
Limited to Six Participants
 No
leader in the public policy community or business today can
succeed
without mastering the art of communications through the media.
The successful television appearance or the radio interview
can
propel your company and you to extraordinary heights of glory,
prestige and good fortune. Fail in that interview and the
consequences
can very well be…fatal.
The L. Brent Bozell
Media Training and Damage Control Workshop will prepare you
for your Andy Warhol moment of fame. One of the foremost experts
on the media in America with a quarter of a century's experience
and thousands of media appearances under his belt, Brent Bozell
(shown above) will teach you all the tricks of the trade.
 With
special presentations by Reid Buckley, CNSNews.com Executive
Editor Scott Hogenson (shown ar right), and a team
of media experts at your side from start to finish, you'll
learn how to
conduct the perfect print, radio, and television interview; how
to conquer the press conference (especially the one with
two dozen
reporters out to destroy you); how to avoid the many landmines
the media will place in your path in the hope you'll step
on one;
and how to work with the press behind the scenes to ensure your
story is reported the way you want it.
In three days we will
teach you not just how to survive the press but to master it.
How confident are we of that? WE'LL BACK THAT PLEDGE WITH A FULL
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED, IF THAT'S NOT EXACTLY
WHAT WE DO. So you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
For more information
telephone Karen Kalutz at 1-800-344-4681
Reid
Buckley's Orator-in-Residence Program
In October of 2001,
Reid Buckley inaugurated the University of Richmond's "Orator-in-Residence"
program. It was a stunning success. And it has since been adapted
to small colleges that may be interested in an intensive 2½-day
course in writing and speaking skills, conducted by Reid Buckley
personally. This can be a "fund-raising" special event for colleges.
"Reid
Buckley does not simply speak to his listeners---he engages them
at every turn. He bridges gaps in experience and ability, interest
and motivation. By his remarkable energy the students became convinced
that he is 'a kid at heart.' But through the power of his vast
array of examples and stories, which he recounts in captivating
manner, every member of each audience understood that his wisdom
is well founded and his advice worthy of their trust and reliable
to act upon…Our hopes could not have been better realized."
Linda
B. Hobgood
Speech Center Director
and Faculty Member,
Department of Rhetoric
& Communication Studies
University of Richmond
Custom Training
The Excalibur Young Executive
Workshop
 For
years, CEO’s in our Executive Seminars have asked whether we could
bring a similar program to their companies. The Excalibur Young
Executive Workshop is that program. Ideal for young executives
and professionals, Excalibur can also be adapted or expanded to
meet a company's needs - as, for example, to include a writing
course or media training. Excalibur is conducted by experienced
Buckley School faculty. Using methods similar to those used in
The Executive Seminar, the basic program focuses on instilling
the principles of public speaking and clear expression.
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For more information telephone Karen Kalutz: 1-800-344-4681
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Private Coaching
Many who have attended our Executive Seminar find that private
coaching is beneficial, either to further their improvement as
speakers or to prepare for a specific occasion. Others may elect
private coaching because they desire confidentiality.
Mr. Buckley is still available for private coaching sessions
at the school in Camden and on rare occasions can provide private
coaching at the client's site…at exorbitant fees.
His hand picked and superbly competent master coaches (with as
much as 15 years of training under him) are meanwhile available
to give their expert instruction in the Buckley Method.
In addition to assisting with individual speaker development,
coaching teams are available to help prepare:
- Oral Presentations for IPO's, Contract Bids, Reviews by Securities
Analysts and Annual Meetings
- Media Crisis and Damage Control
- Political Speeches and Debate Preparation
- Vocal Training
- Writing and Editing
You don't
need nobody to teach you nothin' about making a pitch?
The Boeing 777 circles St. Louis's arch once and then heads
due west to your destination two hours away. Sitting there in
the suede-soft solitariness of business class, you are breaking
out in a cold sweat. Everything depends on how well you do,
and what you know is that you....aren't....ready, your presentation
isn't good enough, you're somehow not making your points the
way you want to make them, they're not clear, they're not sufficiently
persuasive, Mama mía!---you're going to embarrass
your entire company, fail to close the bid, mess up the biggest
contract of your life, maybe lose your job your livelihood because
your gut and every naked nerve in your whole body is shouting
at you that you are not...ready, that your presentation isn't
good enough, the awful presentiment drilling into your skull
that it's dull pedantic discursive totally inadequate and that
you ...
You are going
to crash....
Man or woman, if you have ever suffered such qualms as these,
come to the Buckley School... or let our skilled coaches come
to you.
Buckley School Forensic Society
The Buckley School Forensic Presentation and Debate Society
provides an inexpensive means of continuing one's education in
written and verbal expression. Available only to graduates of
the Excalibur Young Executive Workshop and the Executive
Seminar in Communication Skills.
Members of the Society congregate twice yearly for brush-up coaching.
The meetings are hard work but also convivial.
Every couple of years members congregate in a foreign country
to compete for the fabled Trophy of the Silver Tongue.
Previous sites have been Cancún, Mexico, Lanzarote,
Canary Islands, Madrid, Spain and Florence, Italy. The next tournament will
be held in
February 2008. Inquire for further details.
Benefits:
- Members of 12 months standing get discounts on further services
by the Buckley School.
- The network. It is impressive.
--- For more
information telephone Karen Kalutz: 1-800-344-4681 ---
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"SLAUGHTERING
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