No more putting YOU on hold.
The Confidence Project
Weds, May 31.
6:30 to 9pm EST on Zoom.
$395
Includes a separate one hour coaching call with Taren.
More info here.
The Confidence Project
Weds, May 31.
6:30 to 9pm EST on Zoom.
$395
Includes a separate one hour coaching call with Taren.
More info here.
They say cupcakes were once muffins that chose to believe in themselves.
Check out these Big Time Cupcakes.
The Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying
- I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
- I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
- I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
BIG TIME
PRESENTATION TRAINING
In this half or full day workshop, Big Time trains your teams to lead, present, and communicate with confidence.
Projecting and embodying confidence and clear communications are essential skills for every executive and team member.
Your teams will learn to how to successfully influence, persuade, and sell with confidence.
Through proven methodologies, we explore the connection between self-development and leadership-development and what gets in the way of our communication with our colleagues, teams and clients. We look at what effective communication really means and how they move our businesses forward, one conversation at a time.
Big Time will teach your teams what true confidence is and how to lead with intention, clarity and power. We study both the “being” and the “doing” of presenting and communicating. Whether presenting on their own or communicating with a team, we'll show your teams how to generate executive presence, charisma and poise in both prepared and unexpected moments.
Big Time workshops are available in half-day, full-day, multi-session modules, and are perfect as part of your off-site retreats. After the workshops, follow-up consulting, and one-on-one coaching are available.
BIG TIME
PRESENTATION TRAINING
In this half or full day workshop, Big Time trains your teams to lead, present, and communicate with confidence.
Projecting and embodying confidence and clear communications are essential skills for every executive and team member.
Your teams will learn to how to successfully influence, persuade, and sell with confidence.
Through proven methodologies, we explore the connection between self-development and leadership-development and what gets in the way of our communication with our colleagues, teams and clients. We look at what effective communication really means and how they move our businesses forward, one conversation at a time.
Big Time will teach your teams what true confidence is and how to lead with intention, clarity and power. We study both the “being” and the “doing” of presenting and communicating. Whether presenting on their own or communicating with a team, we'll show your teams how to generate executive presence, charisma and poise in both prepared and unexpected moments.
Big Time workshops are available in half-day, full-day, multi-session modules, and are perfect as part of your off-site retreats. After the workshops, follow-up consulting, and one-on-one coaching are available.
Big Time offers five signature professional development workshops.
We do not spoon feed you information on topics.
We will engage you at the highest level and challenge you.
BIG TIME LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Powerful leaders know how to expect, ask, and hold their team accountable to RESULTS.
If you're not getting regularly challenging your team outside of their comfort zone and yours, you are managing, not leading.
This program is for C-Suite
BIG TIME STORYTELLING
Grounding your speaking in story, metaphor, case study and experiential reference is a powerful leadership skill.
Learn the three simple steps to make everyone remember your message through your powerful stories.
BIG TIME MEETINGS
Your meetings should be ones that your team wants to attend. Knowing how to engage,
BIG TIME TEAMBUILDING
We talk about collaboration, but how do you know when your team is truly collaborative?
Big Time delivers high-quality Improvisational Team Building Workshops.
Q: What is improv?
There's a couple of definitions. It depends on the context. The art of improvisation is a form based on creating things in the moment, in a collaborative way. In business, improv can be defined as an intuitive, coordinated and spontaneous response to a dynamic environment. It touches on behavioral economics, cognitive and social psychology, decision-making on an individual basis under stress and uncertainty, and how groups make decisions.
Q: How do you work on these ideas?
The first thing you do with any group new to improvisation and new to each other is to get them connected. It has to start with teamwork exercises and loosening of defenses and inhibitions, so that teams can build on ideas, not evaluate them as they come up. From there, we teach phrase, "yes, and." This is the the verbal form of listening, acceptance, creating and responding.
Whatever is offered to you and adding new information. This is brainstorming and collaboration at the highest level.
Imagine when they were tossing around the idea of the first iPhone. Had 8 engineers in the room been saying, "No, that won't owrk because..." then nothing would have taken off. The most collaborative teams are already practicing "Yes, and", but they are doing this automatically. Big Time teaches your teams how to do this so that it becomes a natural way of being on a team and a habitual way of building the company.
Q: I'M WORRIED MY TEAM MEMBERS WILL FEEL EMBARASSED IF THEY ARE PUT ON THE SPOT.
Improv workshops put your team members in professional, appropriate ways on purpose in order for them to grow. If you're not intentionally challenging your teams outside their comfort zone, you're not leading them!
Big Time are experts in managing group dynamic and in the workshop, we ease the team into the new concepts, appropriate encourage them to practice new ways of relating, and we confront the group dynamics in a positive way. For instance, if there is someone on the team who is hiding in plain sight by not participating,
No. It isn't.
Improv starts with three steps.
Say yes. Focus on what IS working. Keep moving into what is possible.
It is also:
Don't create problems. (They'll find you.)
Relate to your partner like they are a genius.
You'll look good by making them look good. When people see this, they'll feel good. Everyone wins.
That's the team building.
HOW WILL MY TEAM DIRECTLY BENEFIT?
Improv strengthens leadership skills like clear communication, creativity, innovation, adaptive problem solving, and crisis management. While we are practicing these skills in everyday conversations with our teams, in an improv workshop, e do it in a way that's very interactive, very dynamic, up-on-your-feet, engaging, and frankly fun as well.
We talk about distributing leadership, leveling status and different types of leading—leading from on high and leading from within. When you distribute leadership it doesn't mean you lose power, it just means somebody else takes over for a little while. It's about give and take.
Q: How does improv help with the interviews, pitches and public speaking?
What you're really talking about is PREPAREDNESS & PRESENCE.
While we of course prepare for a job we want, a presentation, we are most compelled by the charisma, clarity of the speaker.
When you know how to use improv skills with others and yourself, you're not focused on following a script or getting it right, or perfect, you're focused on serving the audience by being present.
Big Time Improv Workshops
In half or full day workshops, Big Time draws from Big Time's hundreds of proven tools and methods to find the right balance of adult learning theory, didactic training, experiential practice, individual focus, team-building and play.
Through games and exercises, your team will generate executive presence and learn modes of communication that have a significant impact on their leadership and client relationships.
During the workshop, we engage your teams in high-level leadership conversations with thoughtful inquiries that directly connect the improv experience to personal and professional bottom lines.
We also highlight and build off individual and group strengths in the moment. Clients take away new understandings, insights and skills they can apply both immediately and long term.
Big Time Workshops workshops are also available in half-day, full-day, multi-session modules, and are perfect as part of your off-site retreats. After the workshop, follow-up consulting, and one-on-one coaching are available.
Pricing available upon request. Virtual team-building available.
Please schedule a call to talk about your teams!
21-DAY "YES, AND" CHALLENGE
Nov 2-Dec 1
Monday thru Thursday @ 11am EST
(Thanksgiving Day is a bonus day!)
15 minutes of coaching / YES education
30 minutes of practicing the YES
15 minutes of Q & A
Simple. Clear.
Improv your self for less than $10/day.
$197
The ICF offers three credentials: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and Master Certified Coach (MCC). Here at Big Time, we value holding recognized credentials as it reassures clients that we are trained, experienced and professional.
To earn an ICF Credential, a coach must:
- Complete coach-specific training that meets ICF’s standards.
- Achieve a designated number of coaching experience hours.
- Partner with a Mentor Coach.
- Demonstrate appropriate understanding and mastery of the ICF definition of coaching, Code of Ethics and Core Competencies
Big Time stands by a strong code of ethics aligned with the ICF. Our coaching certifications reinforce the integrity of the coaching profession both nationally and internationally.
Let BIG TIME be your lifeline.
New to Big Time? Welcome!
We got you. If you are suffering from uncertainty, circumstances out of your control, are on the fence about a decision, or in the midst of a challenging transition, we got you.
You'll walk away from this call with clarity, a clean slate, and with the support you need to move forward powerfully.
This call is 1-hour and intended for those who are new to Big Time.
$99
Questions about our programs?
Stay on track during uncertain times.
We meet for 30-60 minutes each week and coach your biggest time hurdles, as well as create plans to get it all done.
Every Monday at 10am.
Rolling enrollment. Rockstars welcome. Join anytime.
$197 for 10 sessions over 3 months
90- DAY GROUP PROGRAM
Our 90-day group coaching and training program is designed for those who are looking for a combination of coaching, training and consulting to achieve multiple, measurable business and leadership goals.
This program is for you if you know (or are close to knowing) what you want, and you are ready to partner with BIG TIME to create it in a powerful, short term timeline. This is a challenging program designed for those who are new to coaching and who are ready to thrive in a group setting with like minded Big Timers.
Program starts Sept. 8!
Details here.
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ONE YEAR 1:1 COACHING PROGRAM
A YEAR?
YES.
Committing to a year of self-development is a powerful step in choosing to live fully in your power and possibility.
Most clients we work start at six months and continue for 2 years or more.
Why? Because coaching works. And it makes the REST of your life work.
If working with your awesome personal trainer makes fitness, movement, lifting your kids, sitting, sleeping, health, a healthy metabolism, and ALL other physical activity easy AND has you feeling AMAZING in your body ALL the time, why would you STOP?
If it's the ONE thing that makes everything else work, it's the ONE thing to continue, yes?
So, just as a personal trainer can partner with you so you can have the health you want, professional, long-term coaching is a structured support system for creating and experiencing life and leadership the way you want.
No matter the time or the circumstances of the world, every human being is BOTH the CREATOR and the EXPERIENCER of their own EXISTENCE.
Committing to a year of taking full responsibility for ALL of it, and partnering with us in the process is powerful act of trust in yourself (and Big Time!), and we love to reward this kind of commitment to yourself. Our one-year program is our most in-depth program AND offered at our best rate.
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"Taren is an insanely talented, charismatic, professional, patient, and helpful. I love working with her and I'm confident that anyone who needs to create, perform or present something will benefit greatly from her coaching."
Gene Liebel
Founder, Work & Co.
"One of the best workshops ever! Taren brings a wonderful energy to the class and her feedback is incredibly helpful!"
Paloma Medina
Learning and Development Manager, Etsy
“Big Time did a terrific job with our team-building event. Taren is very professional, yet flexible and in possession of a great sense of humor! Our post-event survey yielded very positive results, and specifically called out Taren as a highlight of the experience. We will continue to work with her for future needs throughout our organization, and are thrilled to consider her a go-to source for coaching, public speaking and team building opportunities.”
Colby Ryan
Director, Human Resources, Calvin Klein
Gene Liebel
Founder, Work & Co.
"One of the best workshops ever! Taren brings a wonderful energy to the class and her feedback is incredibly helpful!"
Paloma Medina
Learning and Development Manager, Etsy
“Big Time did a terrific job with our team-building event. Taren is very professional, yet flexible and in possession of a great sense of humor! Our post-event survey yielded very positive results, and specifically called out Taren as a highlight of the experience. We will continue to work with her for future needs throughout our organization, and are thrilled to consider her a go-to source for coaching, public speaking and team building opportunities.”
Colby Ryan
Director, Human Resources, Calvin Klein
"With Taren, I have found my voice, and my confidence as a public speaker. From body language to pacing to refining my story, I have learned techniques that continue to serve me well no matter the setting, context or audience size. Taren's classes provide the perfect environment to take risks and experiment. With an endless supply of pitch perfect exercises, she will help you break barriers, gain confidence and reach the next level. Taren's classes have been truly invaluable to my development as a public speaker and storyteller.
--Jonathan Feinsilver, P.C.
Not ready to talk? Ok, keep reading.
So, think you know what it takes to create rapport and confidence with your audience? Of course you do. Connection, relationship, collaboration...
All that good sounding stuff.
Duh.
Ok... but HOW?
We all know WHAT makes for good communication, but most of us don't know HOW to create it wherever and whenever we want. We talk about being "nimble" and "collaboration" and "authenticity" but most of the time feel unsupported in a meeting or thrown under the bus during a presentation.
Big Time changes all that.
With our training, you'll learn how to be poised and unflappable in front of any audience. Whether it’s taking the podium at a conference or meeting one-on-one with a colleague or client. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is essential at every level, from your front-line staff to the CEO.
1-1 training is also available.
Don't you want to feel a little more like this Meryl?
You get:
12 hours of in person training
30 minute prep call with Taren
One hour executive coaching call after the workshop
Over 50 tools to improve your confidence and clarity
Exercises to help you permanently overcome your speaking fears
What's the matter? Still not convinced?
That's ok.
You've probably been avoiding this class for years.
I get it.
Let's talk.
STOP WAITING
START CREATING
