Same Eloquence. Your Context.
Bespoke Communication Development for Organisations & Teams
Your people may know their jobs. They may possess considerable technical knowledge, professional qualifications and years of experience. But can they communicate their value? Can they explain complex ideas clearly? Present recommendations convincingly?
What is Eloquence Incorporated™?
Eloquence Incorporated™ is the bespoke organisational communication-development platform of the School of Eloquence.
It enables organisations to commission exclusive communication interventions for their employees, executives, managers, professional teams, technical specialists and other defined groups.
Unlike an open-enrolment masterclass, where participants from different organisations learn together, Eloquence Incorporated™ is designed around one organisation and its people.
Its defining characteristics are:
Exclusivity. Customisation. Contextualisation. Practical application.
The foundational principles of effective communication remain proven School of Eloquence principles.
What changes is their application.
A sales team does not encounter communication in precisely the same way as a legal team.
An engineer communicating technical findings to senior management has a different challenge from a customer-service professional handling a difficult customer.
A senior executive presenting strategy requires a different application from a project team defending a recommendation.
Eloquence Incorporated™ therefore begins with an important question:
What do your people need to be able to communicate better in order to perform more effectively?
We build from there.
Not an Off-The-Shelf Speaking Course
Organisations are different.
Functions are different.
Communication situations are different.
The intervention should therefore not merely change the name on the front of a generic course manual.
With Eloquence Incorporated™, we determine:
- Who needs development?
- What do they do?
- Where does communication intersect with their work?
- What communication situations create difficulty?
- Who are their important audiences?
- What must they be able to explain, present, persuade, defend or communicate?
- What is currently getting in the way?
- What should improved communication enable them to accomplish?
Those answers shape the intervention.
THE FOUNDATION IS PROVEN. THE APPLICATION IS YOURS.
- THE ELOQUENCE INCORPORATED™ LEARNING ARCHITECTURE
Every Eloquence Incorporated™ intervention draws from the proven speaking, presentation and professional communication methodology of the School of Eloquence.
At its foundation is the communication-development DNA that has underpinned the School’s work since 2006, including the principles developed and applied through our flagship speaking programmes.
We select, emphasise and contextualise the appropriate learning modules according to the people being developed, the communication situations they face and the outcomes their organisation requires.
The Core Communication Curriculum
MODULE 01 — THE SPEAKER
Communication begins with the communicator.
This module develops the personal foundations for confident, purposeful and audience-conscious communication.
Depending on the intervention, emphasis may include:
- understanding speaker responsibility;
- managing speaking anxiety;
- developing confidence;
- overcoming inhibitions around public communication;
- building audience consciousness;
- understanding the speaker’s role in producing clarity and connection;
developing greater self-awareness as a communicator.
MODULE 02 — THE MESSAGE
Purpose • Audience • Structure • Clarity
Knowing something is not the same as being able to communicate it.
Participants learn to convert knowledge, information and ideas into communication that an audience can follow.
Areas may include:
- defining communication purpose;
- analysing the audience;
- organising thoughts;
- developing a central proposition;
- sequencing ideas;
- openings;
- development of the body;
- transitions;
- conclusions;
- clarity;
- relevance;
- emphasis;
- communicating for understanding and action.
MODULE 03 — THE DELIVERY
Face • Voice • Hands • Presence
The message is communicated not only through words but through the total instrument of the speaker.
Participants develop greater awareness and control of:
- eye contact;
- facial expression;
- posture;
- gestures;
- movement;
- vocal projection;
- pace;
- pauses;
- emphasis;
- vocal variety;
- physical command;
- audience connection;
- platform presence.
The School’s practical approach requires participants to speak, not merely listen to discussions about speaking.
MODULE 04 — PROFESSIONAL EXPRESSION
Articulation • Clarity • Language • Precision
Professional competence can be weakened when ideas are poorly expressed.
This module develops the participant’s ability to communicate ideas clearly, appropriately and professionally.
Depending on identified needs, applications can include:
- articulation;
- verbal clarity;
- precision of expression;
- sentence construction;
- appropriate professional language;
- vocabulary;
- conciseness;
- avoiding unnecessary verbal clutter;
- communicating confidently without sounding artificial;
- adapting language to audience and situation.
Where deeper English-language remediation is required, the School may recommend an appropriate intervention through its dedicated language-development track rather than attempting to solve a fundamental language problem solely through a speaking programme.
MODULE 05 — PRESENTATION MASTERY
Planning • Visual Support • Story • Q&A
Participants develop the ability to plan, structure and deliver effective professional presentations.
Applications may include:
- presentation objectives;
- audience analysis;
- presentation architecture;
- opening strongly;
- developing the argument or proposition;
- using evidence;
- storytelling;
- visual support;
- PowerPoint and audiovisual aids;
- presenting data;
- recommendations;
- handling questions;
- closing effectively;
- mock presentations;
- feedback and correction.
MODULE 06 — SPONTANEOUS COMMUNICATION
Think • Organise • Respond
The workplace does not always provide a prepared script.
People are frequently required to communicate in real time.
This module develops greater effectiveness in:
- meetings;
- impromptu contributions;
- questions;
- interviews;
- objections;
- unexpected requests to speak;
- panel situations;
- workplace conversations;
- briefings;
- unscripted stakeholder engagement.
Participants learn to think, organise and communicate under pressure.
MODULE 07 — PERSUASION & INFLUENCE
Argument • Evidence • Credibility • Action
Communication frequently has to accomplish more than the transmission of information.
It may need to secure understanding, agreement, confidence or action.
Applications may include:
- developing propositions;
- structuring persuasive arguments;
- establishing credibility;
- using evidence;
- understanding audience interests;
- presenting benefits;
- handling objections;
- influencing stakeholders;
- making recommendations;
- calls to action;
persuasive professional communication.
MODULE 08 — PRACTICE, PLAYBACK & FEEDBACK
Speak • Observe • Correct • Speak Again
This is fundamental to the School of Eloquence philosophy.
Communication competence cannot be developed by theory alone.
Depending on the intervention, participants undertake:
- practical speaking assignments;
- presentations;
- simulations;
- role plays;
- workplace scenarios;
- individual delivery;
- group exercises;
- observation;
- faculty feedback;
- peer observation;
- video review where appropriate;
- correction;
- repeated performance.
People do not become better communicators merely by listening to communication. They have to speak.
The Eloquence Incorporated™ Method
Bespoke development requires more than changing the organisation’s name on a slide deck.
Our intervention architecture follows four stages.
01 — DISCOVER
Understand the communication requirement.
02 — DESIGN
Build the appropriate intervention.
03 — DEVELOP
Learn by doing.
04 — DEPLOY
Take the learning back to work.
Practical By Design
Practical By Design
The School of Eloquence has always treated speaking as a performance discipline.
People cannot learn to swim by watching a lecture on swimming.
Neither can communication competence be developed solely through slides, theories and note-taking.
Our interventions therefore place deliberate emphasis on practice.
Participants are expected to communicate.
They may be required to stand.
Speak.
Present.
Explain.
Respond.
Persuade.
Handle questions.
Receive feedback.
Correct.
And speak again.
SPEAK • OBSERVE • CORRECT • SPEAK AGAIN
That practical philosophy has been part of the School’s approach for two decades
CONVENIENCE OF EXCLUSIVITY
One of the original principles behind Eloquence Incorporated™ was what the School described as the Convenience of Exclusivity.
That principle remains.
An organisation does not necessarily have to send individual employees into different public classes over an extended period.
Instead, it can commission a dedicated intervention exclusively for its people.
This creates opportunities for:
- common learning objectives;
- shared organisational context;
- relevant workplace scenarios;
- confidentiality where required;
- functional customisation;
- efficient cohort planning;
- organisation-specific practice;
collective capability development.
DEFINED BY YOUR ORGANISATION — NOT BY THE VENUE
Eloquence Incorporated™ was historically associated with the idea of an “in-house programme.”
Today, we make an important distinction.
In-house does not have to mean inside your building.
The defining feature of Eloquence Incorporated™ is that the intervention has been commissioned for, contextualised to and delivered exclusively for your organisation.
The venue may change. The exclusivity does not.
Delivery Options
At Your Premise
We can bring the School of Eloquence learning experience directly into your organisation. This can reduce participant movement and enable the intervention to take place within a familiar organisational environment.
At The School
Your organisation may choose to move participants away from the everyday workplace and undertake the intervention exclusively at a School of Eloquence facility. Available locations include our Lagos headquarters in Ikoyi and Abuja Centre in the Central Business District. The programme remains exclusive to your organisation and separate from our open-enrolment classes.
Live Online
Where geography, travel or workforce distribution requires it, appropriate Eloquence Incorporated™ interventions can be delivered live online. This is not conceived as passive webinar delivery. Where the subject requires speaking practice, participants must still speak, present, respond and receive feedback.
Hybrid
Physical and live-online elements can be combined where the organisation's geography, participant population, timetable or intervention architecture makes this appropriate.
COHORT ARCHITECTURE
There is no arbitrary universal participant number for Eloquence Incorporated™.
A small executive team and a 100-person organisational population require different delivery structures.
For maximum practice and individual feedback, participants may be organised into appropriately sized learning cohorts depending on:
- total participant population;
- learning objectives;
- seniority;
- functional grouping;
- amount of individual practice required;
- duration;
- delivery method;
- intervention complexity.
This enables larger organisational populations to be developed without sacrificing the practical nature of the School of Eloquence methodology.
WHAT AN ENGAGEMENT MAY INCLUDE
Depending on the intervention commissioned, Eloquence Incorporated™ may include:
- pre-intervention consultation;
- communication needs assessment;
- bespoke curriculum development;
- participant profiling where appropriate;
- facilitator-led learning;
- practical speaking exercises;
- individual presentations;
- group presentations;
- role plays;
- workplace simulations;
- presentation development;
- question-handling exercises;
- participant feedback;
- video-based practice where appropriate;
- learning materials;
- certificates of participation;
- post-intervention observations or recommendations where commissioned;
- follow-through development where required.
The precise components are determined during scoping.
INVESTMENT ARCHITECTURE
Every Eloquence Incorporated™ engagement is independently scoped.
Because the platform is bespoke, Eloquence Incorporated™ is proposal-priced rather than sold from a standard corporate price list.
Investment reflects factors including:
- participant population;
- cohort size;
- number of cohorts;
- duration;
- curriculum requirements;
- level of customisation;
- participant seniority and intervention complexity where relevant;
- delivery format;
- delivery location;
- materials and logistics where applicable;
- diagnostic requirements;
- post-intervention or follow-through requirements.
Following an initial consultation, the School of Eloquence develops the appropriate intervention and submits a formal institutional proposal for the organisation’s consideration.
Request an Institutional Proposal.
Two Decades of Corporate Trust
Selected Organisations We Have Served
Since its establishment in 2006, the School of Eloquence has worked with professionals, managers, technical specialists, executives and organisational teams across Nigeria’s private and public sectors.
20 YEARS. MULTIPLE SECTORS. ONE COMMUNICATION MISSION.
THEN WE CONTEXTUALISE
The eight-module architecture is not intended to impose the same curriculum on every organisation.
It gives us a proven communication foundation from which the appropriate intervention can be constructed
Same core. Different applications. Real workplace relevance.
SALES & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
For sales, commercial, relationship-management and business-development teams, communication can determine whether value is merely understood internally or successfully communicated to the customer.
An Eloquence Incorporated™ sales intervention can emphasise:
- sales presentations;
- client conversations;
- communicating value propositions;
- pitching;
- persuasive communication;
- discovering and articulating customer value;
- handling objections;
- responding to questions;
- presentation structure;
- executive presence before clients;
- storytelling;
- credibility;
- persuasive closing;
- spontaneous client communication;
- team pitches.
The objective is not to turn salespeople into ceremonial public speakers.
It is to help them communicate value when selling requires them to speak.
LEADERS, MANAGERS & EXECUTIVES
Leadership is communicated.
Strategy must be explained.
Change must be articulated.
People must be addressed.
Decisions must be defended.
Stakeholders must be engaged.
For leadership and management populations, the intervention may address:
- executive presence;
- leadership communication;
- strategic communication;
- management presentations;
- communicating vision;
- communicating change;
- meetings;
- executive briefings;
- boardroom communication;
- stakeholder engagement;
- persuasive leadership;
- difficult conversations;
- question handling;
- speaking under pressure;
- representing the organisation;
- communicating decisions.
PRESENTATION & PROJECT TEAMS
Some teams know their projects intimately but struggle when required to present them to decision-makers.
Development can therefore focus on:
- presentation planning;
- message architecture;
- defining the proposition;
- presenting findings;
- presenting recommendations;
- visual support;
- PowerPoint;
- data communication;
- team presentations;
- transitions between presenters;
- audience engagement;
- handling questions;
- defending recommendations;
- presentation confidence;
- mock presentations and feedback.
TECHNICAL & SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTS
Expertise can become trapped behind complexity.
Engineers, analysts, scientists, technical specialists and other subject-matter experts often need to communicate with audiences who do not possess their level of technical knowledge.
The intervention can therefore develop their ability to:
- simplify complexity without destroying accuracy;
- identify what the audience actually needs to know;
- translate technical information;
- communicate data;
- structure technical presentations;
- conduct executive briefings;
- present findings;
- make recommendations;
- communicate implications;
- engage non-technical stakeholders;
- handle technical questions;
- speak with authority without overwhelming the audience.
CUSTOMER-FACING TEAMS
Every customer conversation communicates something about the organisation.
Development for customer-facing professionals may include:
- professional verbal communication;
- service language;
- listening;
- clarity;
- explanation;
- questioning;
- audience/customer awareness;
- difficult conversations;
- handling dissatisfaction;
- maintaining composure;
- communicating solutions;
- telephone and face-to-face communication;
- brand representation;
- confidence and professionalism.
LEGAL & ADVOCACY TEAMS
Legal knowledge and persuasive articulation are not identical competencies.
For lawyers and advocacy professionals, the School can contextualise its communication methodology around:
- structured argument;
- advocacy;
- persuasive articulation;
- client communication;
- professional presence;
- explaining legal complexity;
- oral submissions;
- presentation of propositions;
- evidence and reasoning;
- question handling;
- meetings;
- stakeholder communication;
- spontaneous speaking;
- confidence and authority.
Where appropriate, this can incorporate the School’s established The Articulate Attorney methodology within an Eloquence Incorporated™ intervention commissioned exclusively for a law firm, legal department or legal institution.
OTHER ORGANISATIONAL APPLICATIONS
The six applications above are illustrative rather than exhaustive.
Eloquence Incorporated™ can be configured for populations such as:
- senior leadership teams;
- emerging leaders;
- management cohorts;
- graduate trainees;
- subject-matter experts;
- spokespersons;
- communications teams;
- public affairs professionals;
- regulators;
- public servants;
- professional-services teams;
- relationship managers;
- internal facilitators;
- project teams;
- cross-functional teams.
The starting point remains the same:
Who are your people, and what must they be able to communicate more effectively?
Two Decades of Raising Voices
Established in 2006, the School of Eloquence is a specialist institution dedicated to the development of effective spoken communication.
Its work is built around:
- structured learning;
- practical demonstration;
- observation;
- deliberate practice;
- professional feedback;
- application to real communication situations.
For twenty years, the School has developed speakers, professionals, executives, managers, leaders and organisational teams in the art and discipline of effective spoken communication.
Its specialist focus distinguishes it from the conventional general-purpose training provider
Our Difference
- Specialist focus on spoken communication
- Proprietary public-speaking methodology
- Practical, performance-centred learning
- Executive and professional contextualisation
- Individual and institutional development pathways
- Two decades of communication-development experience
Teaching the World to Speak.
THE THREE ELOQUENCE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS
Eloquence Universal™
Open-enrolment development for individuals through School of Eloquence masterclasses and public programmes.
Eloquence Confidential™
Private, personalised one-on-one communication development for executives, professionals and individuals requiring bespoke attention.
Eloquence Confidential™
Bespoke organisational communication development commissioned and contextualised for teams, departments, management cohorts or larger organisational populations.
All three platforms draw from the School of Eloquence’s specialist communication-development expertise.
ELOQUENCE INCORPORATED™ VS OPEN MASTERCLASSES
| Eloquence Universal™ | Eloquence Incorporated™ | |
| Who commissions it? | Individual participant | Organisation |
| Participation | Open enrolment | Exclusive organisational cohort |
| Curriculum | Established masterclass curriculum | Contextualised organisational intervention |
| Examples/scenarios | Broad professional application | Organisation/function-specific |
| Cohort | Professionals from different backgrounds | People from the commissioning organisation |
| Venue | Scheduled SOE venue/format | Client premises, SOE, live online or hybrid |
| Commercial model | Published school fees | Independently scoped institutional proposal |
| Primary objective | Individual development | Organisational communication capability |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Eloquence Incorporated™ simply an in-house version of the Basic Speaking Masterclass?
No.
The School’s proven speaking methodology provides important intellectual and pedagogical foundations, but Eloquence Incorporated™ is broader.
The curriculum is selected and contextualised according to the organisation, participant population, communication requirements and desired outcomes.
Where BSM-derived foundations are appropriate, they are incorporated. Where the requirement demands presentation, persuasion, leadership communication, sales communication or another application, the architecture is adapted accordingly.
Must the programme take place at our office?
No.
Eloquence Incorporated™ is defined by organisational exclusivity and customisation, not physical location.
It can take place:
- at your premises;
- exclusively at the School of Eloquence;
- live online;
- or through a hybrid architecture.
Do you have a fixed number of participants?
No universal number applies.
We determine the appropriate cohort architecture according to participant population, intervention objectives and the amount of practical speaking and individual feedback required.
Large populations may be divided into multiple cohorts.
Can you develop only our executives?
Yes.
The intervention can be designed for a defined executive or management cohort.
Where a single executive requires highly personalised development, however, Eloquence Confidential™ may be the more appropriate platform.
Can different departments receive different versions?
Yes.
This is one of the strengths of the architecture.
A common communication foundation can be contextualised differently for sales, leadership, technical, legal, customer-facing or other functional populations.
Can you work with a nationwide team?
Yes.
Depending on the requirement, delivery can be physical, live online or hybrid, with multiple cohorts where appropriate.
Is the programme theoretical?
No.
Practical application is central to the School of Eloquence methodology.
Participants should expect to speak, present, practise, receive feedback and apply learning to communication situations relevant to their work.
How long does an intervention take?
There is no single duration.
Duration is determined by the communication requirement, curriculum, participant population, practice requirements and desired outcomes.
How much does Eloquence Incorporated™ cost?
Every engagement is independently scoped.
Following an initial consultation, we determine the appropriate intervention architecture and submit an institutional proposal.
Do you issue certificates?
Certificates of participation may form part of the commissioned intervention.
Can the programme be customised around actual presentations or business situations?
Yes.
Where appropriate and agreed during scoping, workplace scenarios, presentations, pitches, briefings, stakeholder situations and other relevant communication requirements can be incorporated into the intervention.