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TRY OUR PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOPS/PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASSES TO REDUCE PUBLIC SPEAKING ANXIETY
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| Facilitation Skills Training |
It is impossible to be part of an organization today and not attend meetings. Staff meetings, project meetings, planning and coordinating meetings—they all take time. There has been a growing realization that we have to pay attention to the process elements of meetings, if we want them to be effective. With its focus on asking rather than telling, and listening to build consensus, facilitation is the new leadership ideal, the core competency everybody needs. Managers and supervisors are often asked to facilitate rather than instruct or manage their meetings and training sessions. This two-day course has been created to make core facilitation skills better understood and readily available for your organization. It represents materials and ideas that have been tested and refined over twenty years of active facilitation in all types of settings. |
2 days |
| Public Speaking Survival School |
What makes a presenter impactful? Is it charisma? Is it confidence? Is it the ability to engage an audience? Is it the conversational tone or that positive attitude that makes their talk so appealing? In this two-day seminar, learn techniques to become a better speaker and presenter, so your audience not only remembers you, but also, retains the value of your message! |
2 days |
| Public Speaking/Relax Under Pressure |
Speaking Under Pressure addresses the worst fears about being on the spot or being put on the hot seat. This two-day seminar presents techniques to organize ideas in pressure situations or when no advance preparation time is available. The core of this seminar is in thinking strategies which guide our ability to analyze, organize, and present ideas. At the end of this 2 day program, participants will be able to quickly organize and structure a presentation, deliver a convincing message without speaker’s notes, and provide sound and convincing answers to the most difficult questions. |
2 days |
| Overcoming Your Public Speaking Anxiety |
Do you get nervous when presenting at company meetings? Do you find it hard to make conversation at gatherings and social events? Do you lock up in awkward social situations? If so, this one-day course is just for you! It’s aimed at anybody who wants to improve their speaking skills in informal situations. We’ll give you the confidence and the skills to interact with others and to speak in informal situations and in front of small groups. |
1 day |
| Train-the-Trainer - Advanced Skills Trainer |
Behind every spectacular training session is a lot of preparation and meticulous attention to detail. The truly skilled trainer can make a program exciting. The learners will have fun while they are learning. The facilitator has been able to involve their emotions as well as their minds. You will see the involvement, and you will feel the energy. To reach this stage as an adult educator isn’t always easy, but success isn’t just for the naturally gifted. It is possible for all of us who put effort into our personal growth and development, because we want the enormous satisfaction that comes from working with others to help them reach their potential. This three-day seminar is your start to that goal. |
3 days |
| Train-the-Trainer - Engage a Class by adding FUN |
Most people have been at a party or some other social occasion where someone has told an inappropriate joke and ruined the mood (at least temporarily). Likewise, we’ve all been somewhere where the class clown is able to lighten the mood and help people have fun. The good news is that humor can help you make your training sessions just as engaging as those fun social occasions. Even better, you don’t need to be the class clown or an award winning comedian to do it. This one-day seminar will help you identify what kind of humor you can bring to the classroom, and how games can help you engage your participants. |
1 day |
| Survival Skills for the New Trainer |
Few people choose training and development while they are still in school, and yet there are talented and knowledgeable trainers working in every industry. Some individuals become trainers because they are passionate about sharing their knowledge and about helping people. Others become trainers because their employer asks them to get involved in mentoring, training, or coaching new or existing employees. Trainers also get started when they want to make some changes to their daily activities, but wish to continue contributing to a particular organization or industry. If you are thinking about becoming a trainer, or have started doing some training already and want to know more about becoming an excellent trainer, this course will help. This one-day course is designed as an exploration of the essential skills that trainers need to develop, and to get you started on the learning process in an interactive and fun environment. |
1 day |
| Build Confidence in front of the room |
If you do on the job training in your organization this seminar can help you feel more comfortable and more competent. You will explore how adults learn and take a step-by-step approach to create training sessions that meet employee needs and you will have the opportunity to practice these skills in a safe environment. Training results are too important to leave to chance. Register today for this three-day course, so you will be prepared when you are asked to stand and deliver. |
3 days |
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TEAM BUILDING CLASSES |
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| Motivating Your Team |
It’s no secret. Employees who feel they are valued and recognized for the work they do are more motivated, responsible, and productive. This is a busy one-day workshop to help supervisors and managers create a more dynamic, loyal, and energized workplace. This program is designed specifically to help busy managers and supervisors understand employees' desires and to provide them with a starting point for creating champions on their teams. |
1 day |
| Fun of the Month |
Do More with Less! Every month this morale boosting 2 hour workshop will motivate and engage your Employees to bring levity to their work day! Lots of fun, engaging, team building activities to enhance relationships and boost collaboration. |
2 hours/ month |
| Building Teams for Better Results |
Teams have become a principle building block of successful organizations. This one-day seminar is for team leaders and team members, designed to focus on the characteristics of an effective team player and the elements of an effective team. You will leave the seminar with plans for your personal development as a team player and ideas for developing your team back-home. A critical element of this seminar is the Glen Parker Team Player Survey (PTPS), an 18 item self-assessment instrument that will help you identify your primary team player style, help you increase your personal effectiveness in team situations, and help you effectively develop your group into a high performing team. |
1 day |
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SALES TRAINING SEMINARS |
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| Sales and Marketing |
A small marketing budget doesn’t mean you can’t meet your goals and business objectives – you just have to be more creative in your marketing tactics. This one-day seminar will show you how to get maximum exposure at minimum cost. Learn effective, low-cost, and non-cost strategies to improve sales, develop your company’s image, and build your bottom line. |
1 day |
| Influencing for Results |
This is a one-day seminar that provides you with an interactive approach to negotiations. The skills acquired will help in your role as mediator and negotiator as well as in day-to-day responsibilities. You will be encouraged to focus on interests rather than positions, so you can develop relationships of mutual trust, fairness and respect for one another. This is a common-sense approach based upon developing a balanced and lasting partnership to solve workplace problems. You will learn and practice effective communication skills, problem-solving and consensus building, with the intention of turning face-to-face confrontation into side-by-side problem solving. |
1 day |
| Building Strong Relationships for Success |
In this course, discover that the business of business is building rapport, and the business of all sales professionals is making friends and building relationships. Strategic friendships will make or break any business, no matter how big and no matter what kind of market. In this one-day course, learn techniques to enjoy starting and keeping relationships. |
1 day |
| Executing Strong Sales Presentations |
A great sales presentation does not mean impress the client with your technical skills. Rather, try impressing your clients with your knowledge of the products and services you sell and your understanding of their problems and the solutions they need. This one-day seminar will focus on your formal written proposal and in-person presentation. |
1 day |
| Overcoming Challenging Objections |
If you are like most sales professionals you are always looking for ways to overcome customer objections and close the sale. This one-day seminar will help you plan, prepare and execute presentations that address customer concerns, reduce the number of objections you encounter and improve your batting average at closing the sale. |
1 day |
| Turning Prospecting into Hot Leads |
Prospecting is the key to your success. Your success today is a result of the prospecting you did six months ago. Become skilled at networking and remember the old 80/20 rule. Know who to target and how to target them, and remember to do some prospecting every day through warming up cold calls, following up on leads, or networking. In this one-day seminar, build your personal prospecting plan, to ensure your future by planting seeds daily. |
1 day |
| Selling at the Next Level |
It’s no secret that selling has changed in recent years. We are all working harder, with more responsibilities. High pressure selling is no longer effective. Customers want involvement. They want to be recognized and listened to. And they don’t want you to forget them once the sale is made. Two key objectives of this one-day course are to help employees feel more comfortable and skilled in selling to their customers and to help them identify and address some of their customer service challenges. |
1 day |
| Communication Strategies |
This two-day course is designed to help you improve your interactions with other people in your workplace or at home. This course gives participants the opportunity to improve the critical communication skills of listening, asking questions and being aware of nonverbal messages. This course can also help participants who are struggling to find that middle ground between being too aggressive and too passive, and how to counter the manipulative tactics of difficult people. Participants also learn more about the elements of our communication with others that help us reveal appropriate information about ourselves, and how to get a handle on how to better manage ourselves for a professional image. |
2 days |
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LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT TRAINING SEMINARS |
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| Coaching the Generations: Why is this still a hot topic? |
There are currently five generations in the workforce, and employers faced with mass retirements of Baby Boomers are looking for ways to prepare for the changes that will result. This course examines the history and reality of the generation gap, and explores whether defining the actual limits of each generation is most important, or whether the merits of people within the context of employment is the bigger issue. Understanding others helps us to understand ourselves and to manage the people with whom we work. We will explore problems, solutions, and strategies to help overcome issues of the generation gap. |
1 day |
| Preparing for Management |
This course is a tool for your leadership development. It is designed to help you create and accomplish your personal best, and to help you lead others to get extraordinary things done. At its core, leadership means setting goals, lighting a path, and persuading others to follow. But the responsibility entails much more. By accepting the challenge to lead, and taking this three-day course, you come to realize that the only limits are those you place on yourself. |
3 days |
| Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance |
This three-day course is for supervisors who wish to better understand themselves and others through completing and interpreting personality typing, to develop their problem solving and decision making skills, and to explore performance management issues. |
3 days |
| Coaching through Change |
Managers traditionally have had the task of contributing to the effectiveness of their organization while maintaining high morale. Today, these roles often have to be balanced with the reality of implementing changes imposed by senior management. Managers who have an understanding of the dynamics of change are better equipped to analyze the factors in their own particular circumstances, and to adopt practical strategies to deal with resistance. This one-day seminar will help you deal with change and will provide strategies to bring back to your employees. |
1 day |
| Coaching for Impact |
Coach, Role Model, Counselor, Supporter, Guide...do these words ring a bell? Being a coach involves being a role model, sometimes a counselor or supporter, and always a guide. Coaching is based on a partnership that involves giving both support and challenging opportunities to employees. Knowing how and when to coach is an essential skill that can benefit both you and your organization. This one-day seminar will help you become a better coach in all senses of the word. |
1 day |
| Conducting Effective Performance Reviews |
Performance reviews are an essential component of employee development. Remember what the German philosopher Goethe said: “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” Setting stretch goals and objectives will give supervisors and employees a unified focus and targets for which to aim. In this three-day course, Supervisors will learn how to give feedback, both positive and negative, on a regular and timely basis so that employees can maximize their potential. |
3 days |
| The Art of Delegating Effectively |
Delegation is often one of the hardest skills for a manager to master. However, the skill can be learned. This one-day course will explore many of the facets of delegation: when to delegate, and who to delegate to. We will also go through the delegation process step by step, to see the challenges, and explore effective strategies to overcome them. |
1 day |
| Recruiting: Behavioral & Performance-based Techniques |
This seminar concentrates on the pre-interview preparation, developing questions and their value, the interview techniques that get specific, behavior-based examples of past performance, and the strategies that follow through on this process. This two-day seminar takes the behavioral interview even further with a discussion of communication techniques and the use of other types of interview questions. |
2 days |
| The Art of Making Meetings Engaging |
Meetings come in all shapes and sizes, from the convention to a quick huddle in an office hallway. This one-day program will be concerned with small working meetings; with groups that have a job requiring the energy, commitment, and talents of those who participate. |
1 day |
| Problem Solving & Decision Making |
As an individual, facts and knowledge can only go so far. Solving tough problems requires the ability to define the true problem, analyze the possible causes, create options, select the most feasible option, and then implement it. This two-day course helps individuals enhance their efforts to find sustainable solutions and learn new ways to approach problem-solving to reach win-win decisions. |
2 days |
| Supervising 101 |
This two-day seminar is designed to help you overcome many of the supervisory problems encountered in the first few weeks as a boss, whether you are a team leader, a project manager or a unit coordinator. Dealing with the many problems a new supervisor encounters isn’t easy but it doesn’t have to lead to discouragement. |
2 days |
| The New Professional Supervisor |
In today’s changing workplace, many new supervisors are unsure of their roles and responsibilities. They have little experience dealing with the challenges of managing work through others. They haven’t had the opportunity to develop those critical skills of planning work, leading their group, and communicating with their employees, their colleagues and their manager. At this three-day course, learn these skills to have a tremendous impact on your organization’s productivity. |
3 days |
| Time Management: High Performance Organization |
Time is money, the adage goes, and lots of it gets lost in disorganization and disruption. Get a grip on your office space, organize your work flow, learn how to use your planner effectively, say no without guilt, and delegate some of your work to other people. This one-day seminar helps you organize and prioritize for greater workplace efficiency. The seminar is full of ideas for organizing your work area and your paperwork and working on the “right” things. Get out of your mental rut. Think new thoughts about the time you have. Discover new ways of doing things, and feel more in control of your life. |
1 day |