Active listening training, built the way actors are trained.
We listen at about 450 words a minute. We think at nearly 3,000. Everything that matters in a meeting, a sale or a safety briefing happens in the 2,500 words in between. Matthew Dearing has spent twenty years teaching people to win that space.
Every minute, your mind produces roughly 2,500 more words than you can take in. Those words compete for your attention, and the winner decides the outcome.
In a sporting event, that competition decides who wins. In sales, it decides who gets the deal. In safety, it decides who gets hurt.From the keynote
Actors train listening for a living. A scene only works when the person listening is changed by what they hear, and the same is true of a sales call, a safety briefing and a one-on-one. Twenty years of coaching performers became active listening training that leaders, managers and sales teams can use the same afternoon.
Keynotes, corporate training and executive coaching, based in Phoenix and delivered anywhere in the country. Pricing is right here so you can plan before you ever pick up the phone; booking starts with a twenty-minute conversation about your room and your date.
The 450/3,000 gap, earned confidence, relaxing in the face of fear, and the T.O.N.E. focus framework, with the room working two handouts live.
The most useful exercises from twenty years of performance training, rebuilt for teams. Trust, communication under pressure and a lot of laughing at yourself.
For leadership teams and the individuals who run them. Built on consistent one-percent improvements, month after month.
Nobody sits through slides about listening. Every session puts people on their feet with the exercises actors use, scaled for people who would rather run a meeting than a scene.
The same six programs the studio has run for companies since 2018, under the brand they were always building toward. Pick one, or tell us the problem and we will tell you which one fits.
Based at 10806 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix. Delivered on site across Phoenix, Scottsdale and Arizona, and by keynote or virtual session anywhere in the United States.
These are the ten chapters of the book, and the ten things a room is trained to notice in itself.
Do the math and you never arrive. The only way to solve the distraction equation is to change the inputs. T.O.N.E. is how a room does that, and it's the part of the keynote people take back to their desks.
"Our initial purpose was to have Matt help our leadership team become more confident public speakers while building our team into a unified powerhouse. Through the productive struggles our team endured, we are now well-equipped to handle the unanticipated verbal and nonverbal cues thrown our way. We've claimed Matt for life."
"To see your daughter finding herself in acting and get more confidence when she leaves has been a huge thing."
"Matt Dearing changed how I look at acting, and in turn changed my life."
Every technique that makes a great performer comes back to one skill: listening for the truth in the present moment. Matt built a studio on that idea, then found that the same skill is what separates the leaders, sellers and operators who win from the ones who almost do.
Ten chapters, one behavior each, written from the green room, the classroom and a few boardrooms. It opens with the night Matt's own student watched him walk out to do stand-up for the first time. Leave your address and you'll hear the day it's out.
Listening that changes what you do next. The ten behaviors give a team one shared standard, and the exercises come from the actor's rehearsal room, where a scene only works if the listener is affected by what is said. People practice it on their feet, with each other, until it holds under pressure.
Half a day or a full day, on site. The keynote is one hour. Private coaching is scheduled around the person.
Yes. Anti-Sales is listening that closes without pitching. Sales are easy once we stop selling, and the team learns to hear what the customer needs before anyone reaches for a pitch.
Leadership teams, sales teams, safety and operations groups, and anyone whose results depend on what happens between people in a room. The AUSA keynote was a safety conference; the Blueprint Education work was a leadership team.
Both. In person is best for the workshops because the exercises are physical. The keynote works beautifully either way.
Phoenix, Arizona. Travel within Arizona is included in the keynote price. Elsewhere is quoted with the proposal.
Everything that makes a great performer comes back to listening. The exercises come from twenty years of coaching actors, adapted for people who'd rather run a meeting than a scene. Everyone stays comfortable, and everyone gets better.
It's in final revision. The keynote and the workshops are built from it, so the material is available to your team today.
Twenty minutes, your date, your room. Matt will tell you straight which of the three fits best.
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