Six O’Clock Advisory’s Six-Star Communication Skills Training and Executive Coaching offers a suite of market-leading courses and modules to equip organisational leaders, subject-matter experts and company spokespeople with the capability and confidence to deliver their message with impact.
Our communication training and professional development modules are designed to enable participants of all capabilities and professional profiles – from board directors and senior executives, to middle managers and team leaders – to achieve a Six-Star standard of audience engagement….
Clear. Consistent. Compelling. Confident. Purposeful. Impactful.
Sessions are delivered by our team of specialist facilitators comprising former senior journalists, spokespeople, government advisers, and communication advisers, combining their real-world experience to offer a highly-customised, immersive training experience in a state-of-the-art studio environment.
Whether it be in a group format or for individual coaching, our courses are tailored to meet varying levels of experience and capability:
- Foundational – focus on developing core skills and confidence
- Proficient – focus on enhancing skills and confidence for consistent performance
- Advanced – focus on honing skills to best-practice
Every module is geared to sector and geography, aligned to organisational values, and grounded in real-to-life scenarios, with performance assessment and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Six-Star communication skills training modules
Media Training
Optimising the media exchange
The changing face of newsrooms and the ubiquitous nature of editorial and digital media means that organisational leaders need to be at their best, every time, across any media platform and interview format.
We prepare leaders to engage with confidence across television, radio and print, including digital, pre-recorded and live interview formats. Training is immersive, scenario-based and delivered in a state-of-the art studio environment based on scenarios that reflect the topics and issues that leaders are managing everyday – from sensitive, sometimes high-profile reputational matters, to key initiatives and major announcements.
Presentation Training
Conveying your story with impact
Using our tried and tested ACED model (Audience, Content, Environment, Delivery), we equip organisational representatives with tools to excel when it comes to addressing industry and community forums, board meetings and presentations, staff briefings and ‘townhall’ meetings, and delivering keynote speeches and panel sessions.
Participants learn to:
- structure compelling, outcome-driven messages
- adapt delivery across one-way and two-way forums
- manage challenging interactions and conflict
- deliver their story with clarity and authority
Our sessions incorporate live simulation and moderated Q&A environments.
Participants learn:
- the art of the exchange
- the importance of clear and consistent messaging
- techniques to optimise performance
- aligning media engagement to corporate strategy
Public Inquiry/Hearing Training
Engaging with public sector processes – policy, legislative and regulatory
Our government engagement training module arms participants with the tools and knowledge to navigate and engage with the workings of Australia’s political, bureaucratic and regulatory processes at local, state and federal level.
Participants learn to:
- navigate political, bureaucratic and regulatory processes
- participate with confidence in parliamentary hearings and enquiries
- conduct briefings for ministerial, departmental and regulatory stakeholders
Community and Stakeholder Engagement Training
Advancing your organisation’s social licence
Securing support from local leaders and decision-makers can make or break a project – whether it’s a key infrastructure initiative, changes to community assets or local services, or major transformation. We equip leaders with the skills to engage constructively with communities, manage competing interests and build lasting trust.
Participants learn to:
- identify key stakeholders, influencers and decision-makers in local communities
- navigate difficult conversations and community opposition
- manage public meetings, forums and consultation processes with confidence
- respond constructively to scrutiny, activism and media attention
- build long-term relationships that strengthen project outcomes and community trust
Social Media Training
Building your voice and influence, online
In an era of rising misinformation and AI-generated content, creating and publishing engaging, thought-provoking insights and perspectives presents a means for organisations and their leaders to shape market perceptions of their brand. Our social media training module enables leaders to build an authentic online presence via LinkedIn that achieves market cut-through and drives stakeholder advocacy.
Participants learn to:
- best-practice principles for the creation of a LinkedIn profile
- develop credible and authentic thought leadership positioning
- use AI tools strategically without compromising authenticity
- create content that advances the organisation’s brand positIoning
- strengthen stakeholder engagement online, beyond traditional offline methods
Modules
Media Training
Optimising the media exchange
Presentation Training
Conveying your story with impact
Public Inquiry/Hearing Training
Engaging with public sector processes –
policy, legislative and regulatory
Community and Stakeholder Engagement Training
Advancing your organisation’s social licence
Social Media Training
Building your voice and influence, online