about Eloquence
Based in San Francisco, Eloquence is a communication training school that empowers people to connect, inspire, and lead. Our programs address both verbal and non-verbal communication in a way that helps clients more accurately understand and represent themselves, develop their interpersonal communication skills, and enhance their leadership potential. Since 2006, we have offered a suite of personalized services that are useful and accessible to the widest variety of clients, from C-suite executives to private individuals interested in better understanding their own communication dynamics and becoming more effective both as communicators and as leaders.
methodology
The Eloquence methodology was developed by founder Fonta Hadley over a period of 15 years observing, working with and patterning behavior into five categories that constitute the fundamentals of soft skill training: body language, voice, speech, messaging & listening skills. Training is taught in a three-part process: increasing self-awareness, enhancing situational awareness and developing impactful leadership skills. Increasing self-awareness will help you determine what you are actually doing and how you read to others. Increasing situationally awareness directly impacts your ability to read and respond to real time cues and decipher nuance in communication. Developing or honing existing leadership skills helps create rapport with people and inspire as well as motivate them toward a course of action. All of our training covers speaking and listening skills and will radically enhance your EQ.
Communication is often thought of as a personality trait, but it is a skill. You can get better at it. We often don’t have the answers about why the behavior exists, but we have a comprehensive set of skills to change, modify or augment your current behavior. This promise holds us accountable to a high standard and we pride ourselves in our ability to meet it.
history
Eloquence opened its doors in 2006 offering spoken voice and speech training to anyone who wanted to learn. Since we weren’t targeting a specific profession, ethnicity or gender our work rapidly began to expand by demand into a broader spectrum practice. By 2008 we were offering both verbal and nonverbal communication and were still challenging ourselves to make the work accessible to anyone who walked in the door. This holds true today and is fundamental in making our work unique. In 2013 Eloquence formally expanded into a communication training school and brought on new teachers to meet the growing demand for training of this kind. Their individual depth of knowledge has expanded our individual approach and balance to a large and complicated training process.