Tap Communications

Welcome to the homepage of TAP Communications. Tom Peterson founded TAPCOM twenty years ago. Originally designed as a training vehicle for Presentation Skills, TAP Communications has developed into a company that focuses on a variety of Personal Performance Skills. While still including Presentation Skills, we have added Media Skills, Media Simulat... ion Skills, the unique approach to personal performance known as "Creating the Zone," and Training Optimization, our newest and hottest training program. Tom began TAPCOM because he knew that there had to be more to Presentation Skills than the standard training of "Do's & Don'ts" in conjunction with the advice to "picture the audience naked." Tom had stood before many audiences and recognized that the idea of the audience members naked was much scarier than picturing them fully clothed. While training hundreds of clients, Tom searched for the core reasons that people suffer from stage fright -- whether on Broadway or in the boardroom -- as well as why many achieve lesser results from their performances than they expect to. In discovering the reasons behind these mysteries, the Personal Performance Skills programs were born. The "zone" in which human beings operate when everything is going as perfectly as possible occurred not from luck, but from a specific process that -- when understood fully -- could be reproduced. Later, Tom realized that most people approach the learning process in a manner that extends the activity rather than accelerating and exploiting it. Training Optimization was born to explain and train individuals and teams in the most effective and efficient style of learning accessible to ones consciousness. TAPCOM is not your typical presentation skills training organization. We understand why people function the way that they do, and how to optimize human behavior for the greatest individual, team, and company benefit. Through TAPCOMs training programs, improvement is largely drastic and rapid. Take a look at our programs, all of which are ...Read More