📅 5-Week Plan With Heavy Practice
✅ Week 1: 💼 Townhall Architecture & Corporate Messaging
- 📝 Typical flow: leadership address, performance updates, employee Q&A, recognition
- 📜 Balancing hard business data with morale & inspiration
- 🚀 Preparing your MC brief: corporate branding, compliance lines
- Practice: Write & deliver a 3-min townhall opening.
✅ Week 2: 🎤 Handling CXO Segments & VIP Handoffs
- 🗣 Introducing CEOs, CFOs, global leads with style & correct protocol
- 🔄 Keeping pace: multiple speakers, panel swaps, transitions
- 📈 Setting up fireside chats or panel discussions with pointed but safe questions
- Practice: Host a mock “CEO connect” segment.
✅ Week 3: 🚀 Employee Engagement & Interactive Segments
- 💬 Using polls, live reactions, shout-outs, humor, team stories
- 📝 Facilitating recognition — awards, milestone spotlights
- 🚀 Keeping hybrid or virtual audiences attentive with cues & callouts
- Practice: Moderate a 5-min interactive recognition module.
✅ Week 4: ⚖ Handling Crisis, Sensitive Topics & Tough Questions
- 🎯 Language & framing during restructures, layoffs, tough market updates
- 💡 Taking live employee questions — bridging, diffusing, rephrasing
- 📺 Managing tech issues, missing slides, speaker delays with calm transitions
- Practice: Crisis scenario drills with on-the-spot reframing.
✅ Week 5: 🏆 Full Corporate Townhall Simulation & Evaluation
- 🎤 Host a complete 20-min townhall: opening, CEO intro, data segment, live Q&A, closing
- 📹 Record + benchmark vs real corporate events (Google, Microsoft, Infosys)
- 📝 Receive rubrics on poise, engagement, brand alignment & audience connection.
✅ EXAMPLES, TRAINING VIDEOS & CASE STUDIES
🎬 Includes:
- 📺 Dissection of actual company townhalls (Tesla, Salesforce, Facebook all-hands)
- 📝 Scripts & cue cards from top global corporate events
- 🎥 Handling “awkward moments” video vault (mics drop, CFO skips, tough Qs)
✅ ROLE PLAY, MOCK SESSIONS & BUDDYING
- 🎭 Weekly paired or triad practice — each person cycles as MC, VIP, audience
- 📝 Build your personal Corporate Event Script & Transition Handbook
✅ BENCHMARKING EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT
🏆 In the final showcase:
- 📊 Scored on leadership tone, corporate sensitivity, audience interactivity, flow.
- 📜 Receive a Personal Townhall Hosting Proficiency Report
- 🎖 Earn your Certified Corporate Townhall Hosting Excellence Certificate