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 The Pincus Group has been recognized as a 2023 Global Award winner for Presentation Training, Media Training and Speech Training services on Clutch, the leading global marketplace of B2B service providers. Honorees are selected based on their industry expertise and ability to deliver for customers across a wide spectrum, scores that are calculated based on the client feedback from thousands of reviews published on Clutch. For the sixth consecutive year, Clutch has honored its top B2B companies with the Global Award designation.

The Pincus Group is honored to be recognized as a 2023 Fall Clutch Global Award winner. This award is a testament to the excellent client work delivered this year as recognized through the voice of our customers. We’re proud to be recognized as a leading Executive training firm and a Communications Training leader on a global scale. Clutch Global Awards showcases the very best in the B2B services industry worldwide.

“We’re incredibly proud of our client partnerships and grateful for the trust and confidence they’ve placed in us,” said Pincus Group President Aileen Pincus.  “It’s an honor to be recognized for our work and gratifying to be making a difference in the professional lives of executives across the spectrum.”

 “We are thrilled to showcase the incredible success of leading companies worldwide on our platform,” said Sonny Ganguly, Clutch CEO. “Their dedication to delivering outstanding services has not only contributed to their own success but has also empowered countless clients to thrive. We aim to highlight this year’s industry frontrunners and facilitate connections for Clutch users seeking top-notch services tailored to their specific needs.”

The Pincus Group provides tailored executive communications training in presentation, speech, and media interaction for companies and organizations looking to professionalize their internal and external communications. The Pincus Group is honored to work with top private and non-profit organizations in the US and around the world, coaching powerfully effective communicators from its base in Washington DC. and reaching a global clientele.  For more information and a free consultation on how we can help, contact us at info@thepincusgroup.com

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Because of our clients’ incredible trust and satisfaction, we’re celebrating a fantastic recognition today. According to the recent report released by Clutch, The Pincus Group Inc is ranked among the top-performing

leadership coaching consultants from Washington DC this 2022!

For context, Clutch is a B2B company resource designed to help millions of browsers better understand different services, categories, and industries. The website annually holds an awards cycle to commemorate the highest-ranking service providers that showcased extraordinary expertise, customer service and thought leadership.

Throughout the evaluation process, factors such as client testimonials and case studies are taken into careful consideration.

Needless to say, we owe this amazing award to the support of our beloved clients. Thank you for entrusting us with your projects and problems. It is a huge pleasure and privilege to serve as your partner. The Pincus Group Inc congratulates all of you because this is a reflection of all our collected faith.

This award is a reminder for us to keep doing our best. We assure you that the level of attention and commitment remains top-tier. We can’t wait to see what opportunities this recognition brings.

Gain the confidence you need to scale even the most daunting corporate challenges. Don’t hesitate to connect with us to get a free consultation for your project.

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          We’re all a bit out of practice now in delivering presentations and briefings in person. As we begin leaving our ZOOM meetings behind though, there’s no need to fear you’ll left your confidence behind too. Here are some simple tips to restore and strengthen your confidence in oral communications:

1. Concentrate on Content: Focus on what you have to communicate. Give yourself a break from worry about others’ judgement. Concentrating on getting the content right will naturally help your performance. This isn’t acting; you have to get behind what you’re saying.
2. Have clear, high level messages: Don’t make your audience work to figure out why they should be listening to you. Make sure you have clear, succinct messages that you have confidence in. If that means there’s only one or two high level messages, that’ll be enough as the basis of your talk.
3. Stay in the moment: Don’t worry about filling out someone else’s time frame or meeting someone else’s performance expectations. Don’t try to make a 15-minute briefing last for a half hour. Build in flexibility (such as leaving more time for q and a) and err on the side of brevity rather than trying to fill space.
4. Play to your strengths: If you’re a good story-teller, practice finding a good (brief) one to work into your briefing or presentation. If you’re someone who sticks to a script, pare your material down until you can deliver a shortened, high-level version of it. If you like using materials, try making them as visual and simple as possible. Better to have your audience engaged throughout than wonder why you are repeating yourself.
5. Be realistic: Give yourself some time to rebuild the confidence you had or discover new confidence. That comes from your connection to what you’re saying and your knowledge about why your audience needs to hear it. It doesn’t come from memorization or being afraid you won’t be perfect.

Be kind to yourself as you take the “stage” once again, strengthening that “performance” muscle you might not have been exercising this past year. Your performance and your confidence will increase with practice. In the meantime, remember the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Be sincere, be brief, be seated.”

The Pincus Group provides virtual AND in-person help to executives in presentations, speeches, messaging and media interviews. From a base near Washington DC, Aileen Pincus and her group of trainers provides expert coaching for all types of public and private sectors, particularly in this challenging time of “distanced” communication. Free estimates at https://seo4.cryscampus.com/The-Pincus-Group

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(Washington DC) — “VALLEYSPEAK-2017,” a light hearted look at Silicon Valley jargon, includes a contribution from TPG on the use of elevator pitches. The book is intended to guide people through the stumbling block of jargon that could interfere with those seeking to communicate in the nation’s leading tech hub.

“Valley Speak-2017” by Rochelle Kopp and Steven Ganz has been named the eLit Gold Medal Winner for the year and is available on Amazon.

TPG’s President Aileen Pincus was interviewed on best practices for business communicators and for tips on avoiding the jargon that blocks clear and powerful communication.

For more on VALLEYSPEAK, visit http://www.siliconvalleyspeak.com/

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TPG Launches Virtual Presentation Training Service 

Expanded Access to Personal Coaching Now Available 

Washington, DC – The Pincus Group is making its personalized presentation coaching available on line for the first time. “We’ve been seeing increasing demand for wider access to our personalized presentation coaching” said Aileen Pincus, TPG President. “We wanted to respond and make sure anyone who needs high quality presentation coaching can get it, affordably and at their own convenience.”

TPG’s new On Demand Virtual Coaching will include: a personalized one hour virtual coaching session with a senior level TPG presentation coach, a separate review of content/materials of choice with suggestions on improvement, best practice tips and techniques to help with any presentation, and a follow up, tailored written report to help trainees stay on track after coaching. Virtual coaching clients will also receive a discount voucher to use for any in-personal training session scheduled within the same year.

Presentation coaching sessions can include any format including impromptu, with materials or without, formal or informal remarks or speeches, testimony training, team or panel presentation training and are scheduled on a first come/first served basis.

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The GOP nominee is now using the machine he used to scorn, except really badly.

S.V. Date Senior Political Correspondent, The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump has become what he has long mocked.

After a full year ridiculing his rival candidates for relying on a teleprompter and finding himself on a shorter leash from his new handlers, the Republican presidential nominee has fully embraced the tool. There is, of course, one key difference: He is bad at it.

“If you’re just going to be staring at a monitor and shouting and gesticulating, then what’s the point?” wondered Aileen Pincus, a public speaking consultant and teleprompter coach based in Washington. “It’s painful.”

Trump’s staff has for months realized that his tendency to wander off topic or unleash personal insults made any effort to deliver a serious address risky. So Trump has, beginning with his speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group in March, resorted to a teleprompter to get through important speeches.

But although the machine was designed to help public speakers appear more natural and maintain eye contact with their audience, it appears to have the opposite effect on Trump.

During his acceptance speech at the Cleveland Republican convention, Trump squinted for much of the address. In his Aug. 15 speech about terrorism, he appeared at times to get confused about what he was reading, leading to awkward pauses and sentences that trailed off. And on Wednesday night’s much-touted speech on immigration, Trump seemed fixated on the lefthand screen for long stretches.

On occasion, Trump also has misread words, sometimes to embarrassing effect. On Aug. 24 in Tampa, he said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had created a private email server “deliberately, willfully and with pre-medication,” before correcting himself: “premeditation.” And on Wednesday, Trump read “amnesty” – a key trigger word among his hardcore, anti-immigration base – as “amnety.”

Pincus said Trump’s problems with the machine are common for beginners. “It’s not unusual at all,” she said. “What’s unusual is that this man is the Republican nominee for president.”

Trump’s campaign did not respond to The Huffington Post’s queries about how much training the candidate has received on the device. One Republican consultant close to the campaign acknowledged that Trump could use some help, but isn’t particularly interested. “He resists all attempts to change, train, educate, generally,” said the consultant, speaking anonymously because he didn’t want to anger the nominee.

Trump’s resistance to the machine appears tied to his overarching concern to be entertaining and never boring, at all costs. He has said numerous times over his campaign that he could be “presidential” if he wanted to, but his audience wouldn’t like it.

He repeated that thought on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Thursday. Ingraham, who supports Trump, asked him why, at his Phoenix rally Wednesday night, he didn’t use the low-key tone that he had used in his remarks earlier in the day in Mexico after meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto. “We had this unbelievably energized crowd,” Trump replied. “And if I would’ve used the tone that I used in Mexico, I think everybody would’ve fallen asleep.”

The new reliance on the machine ― which uses transparent screens on either side of the lectern that display the script ― began with Trump’s installing Kellyanne Conway as his third campaign manager in as many months. Top Republicans urged Trump to tone down his public persona and keep to a strict set of messages on immigration, trade and attacks against Clinton, using a teleprompter to stay focused.

The switch, though, comes after 13 months of mocking other candidates for using one.

On Aug. 14, 2015, Trump told a Hampton, New Hampshire, audience: “If you’re running for president, you should not be allowed to use a teleprompter,” and then rotated from side to side to mimic someone reading from one screen and then the other. “You shouldn’t be allowed, because you don’t know what you’re going to get. Look what happened with Obama, where he’s a teleprompter guy.”

On Oct. 10, in Norcross, Georgia, Trump told his crowd: “I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters,” to big applause. “Because you don’t even know if the guy’s smart.”

As late as July 6 in Cincinnati, Trump mocked Clinton for using the device in her speeches. He stared at an imaginary screen to the left: “North and south,” then turned to his right, “or east and west,” and then turned to the left again: “Donald Trump is a bad person.”

In his mockery, however, Trump resembled mainly himself.

“There is something truly unique in his delivery and affect in his teleprompter speech, and I don’t mean that as a compliment,” said Rick Wilson, a Florida GOP consultant and a longtime Trump critic. “Some of it is his raging ADD. He’s trying to race ahead of his message and do some ‘acting.’ It’s clumsy and weird. And for people who aren’t for Trump, it’s incredibly off-putting.”

Pincus, the speech trainer, said Trump could easily get some professional help. A two-to-three hour session with her firm would cost a few thousand dollars – considerably less than an hour’s worth of jet fuel consumed by Trump’s personal 757 airliner.

“I doubt it’s the money that’s holding him back,” she said, but hastened to add that she personally had no interest in volunteering her services. “I’m quite sure there are plenty of other people who can help him.”

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Training Contract Awarded for FDIC

Pincus Group Awarded multi-year contract for FDIC Executives

(Washington DC)—The Pincus Group was awarded a 4-year contract with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) beginning in 2016. TPG will be offering ongoing training to FDIC executives in presentation and briefing skills,  and available to FDIC personnel nationwide.

The communication skills training will be conducted by The Pincus Group, a media training and crisis communications executive training firm in Silver Spring, Maryland and led by TPG President Aileen Pincus and TPG VP and Senior Trainer David Burnett.

“We’re thrilled to be working with FDIC’s outstanding personnel and are gearing up for this new, extended commitment with them,” Aileen Pincus said. “The agency has a track record of commitment to personnel development and we couldn’t be more pleased to be a part of that.”      

The multiple day trainings will be scheduled on an on-going basis at FDIC’s Arlington Headquarters beginning in the Fall of 2016.

The Pincus Group provides executive coaching for public and private sector clients around the world in media, speech, presentation and crisis communications. For more information contact info@thepincusgroup.com or visit our website at www.thepincusgroup.com

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