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Conversational Leadership

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Effective leaders understand how powerful an opportunity can be when they can tap into the intelligence, wisdom, and innovation present in their workforce. Conversational leadership provides the space and infrastructure for knowledge sharing to take place; for employees, stakeholders, and the community to be involved in discussing big, important questions; and to generate solutions that people within the organization can take action on.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Understand the wisdom inherent in encouraging conversational leadership
  • Describe the four I’s of conversational leadership
  • Apply the principles of conversational leadership to improve results
  • Organize a simple World Café as an example of conversational leadership

What Topics are Covered?

  • What’s In A Word?
  • Fundamental Elements
  • The Four-I Model of Organizational Conversation
  • The Conversational Leadership Framework
  • World Café

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-Led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completIon

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Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure

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This program has been designed for those in positions where they must speak in front of audiences that are hostile or demanding. This material is also suitable for those who are relatively new speakers who want some encouragement to speak up in meetings or who want some training before they begin making presentations on behalf of the organization. Speaking under pressure, or thinking on your feet, means being able to quickly organize your thoughts and ideas, and then being able to convey them meaningfully to your audience to modify their attitudes or behavior. It applies to formal speeches as well as everyday business situations. This course is aimed at improving your skills and learning some new techniques which will give you the persuasive edge when you are making a presentation, fielding difficult questions, or presenting complex information.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Apply quick and easy preparation methods that will work whether you have one minute or one week to prepare.
  • Prepare for questions, even before you know what those questions will be.
  • Overcome nervousness that you may have when speaking in front of a group, particularly if the group is not sympathetic to what you have to say.
  • Use presentation techniques that establish your credibility and get people on your side.

What Topics are Covered?

  • Getting started and planning
  • Force field analysis
  • Understanding your audience
  • Controlling your jitters and body language
  • Making your listener hear you
  • Key themes and sentences
  • Structuring ideas and organization methods
  • Beginnings and endings
  • Expanding a basic plan
  • Many opportunities to practice and present!

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Public Speaking: Presentation Survival School

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A great presenter has two notable qualities: appropriate skills and personal confidence. Confidence comes from knowing what you want to say and being comfortable with your communication skills. In this program you will master the skills that will make you a better speaker and presenter.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Establish rapport with your audience
  • Learn techniques to reduce nervousness and fear
  • Understand your strengths as a presenter and how to appeal to different types of people
  • Recognize how visual aids can create impact and attention
  • Develop techniques to create a professional presence
  • Learn some different ways to prepare and organize information
  • Prepare, practice, and deliver a short presentation

What Topics are Covered?

  • Communication skills
  • Personality types
  • Positive self-talk, rapport, and body language
  • Maximizing meetings
  • Managing sticky situations
  • Overcoming nervousness
  • The five S’s
  • Writing and planning a presentation
  • Audience profile
  • Your speaking voice
  • Add punch to your presentation

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Networking for Success

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Business networking is an effective and efficient way for business people to connect, develop meaningful relationships, and grow their businesses. These achievements don’t come through a direct sales approach, however. They come from being interested in helping others, in listening, and in purposefully meeting and introducing people to one another. In this program, you’ll learn the essential ingredients for business networking, including in-person, people-centered connections and online spaces such as LinkedIn.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Introduce yourself in a meaningful, memorable way, even if you’ve never worked on an elevator pitch before
  • Be goal focused about networking so that you make the most of events you attend
  • Apply the concept of give first and be helpful as part of a system of reciprocity
  • Use strategy and systems in order to network effectively
  • Leverage the availability and usefulness of the Internet, including LinkedIn and Twitter

What Topics are Covered?

  • Assessing your networking skills
  • Identifying opportunities and customizing your approach
  • Creating a positive first impression
  • Your memorable intro
  • Starting the conversation
  • The handshake
  • Business cards
  • Handling tough situations
  • Following up
  • Organizing your network
  • Leveraging the internet

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Leadership Skills for Supervisors

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Supervisors represent an important force in the economy. You have the power to turn on or turn off the productivity of the people who report to you. You are the crucial interface between the employee on the shop floor or the service desk and the managers of the organization. Although you usually have more technical experience than the employees you supervise, you may not have had a lot of leadership experience. This course will give you the skills in communication, coaching, and conflict that you need to be successful.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Ways to prioritize, plan, and manage their time.
  • How to identify their primary leadership style.
  • How to develop some flexibility to use other leadership styles.
  • Ways to meet the needs of employees and co-workers through communication and coaching.
  • Ways to make conflict a powerful force for creative, well-rounded solutions to problems.

What Topics are Covered?

  • Pre-assignment review
  • What’s your type? How about mine?
  • Understanding leadership
  • Managing your time and your energy
  • The commitment curve
  • Employee development models
  • Dealing with conflict and difficult issues
  • What successful leaders do

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Influence and Persuasion

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When we talk about influence and persuasion, we often talk about marketing and sales. However, we influence in many ways and with great frequency. If you want a raise, sometimes you need to persuade your boss. If you want to convince your team to adopt a change, help your staff make choices, or choose the best place for lunch, there is often influencing taking place. This course will help participants learn how to influence and persuade in a variety of areas.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Make decisions about using persuasion versus manipulation
  • Apply the concepts of pushing and pulling when influencing others
  • Describe different techniques for getting persuasive conversations and presentations underway
  • Make a persuasive presentation by using the 5 S’s
  • Apply storytelling techniques to extend influence
  • Leverage concepts of neuro linguistic programming in everyday influence and persuasion

What Topics are Covered?

  • Understanding persuasion
  • Preparing to persuade
  • Getting off on the right foot
  • Presentation strategies
  • Using stories to persuade
  • Using neuro linguistic programming (NLP) techniques

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Generation Gap in the Workplace Training

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There are currently five generations in the workforce. Only a few short years ago employers who were expecting to be faced with mass retirements are now looking at accommodating workers who cannot afford to retire, or are simply healthy and happy enough they’d like to stay at work. However, the labor force continues to put in hard work and lots of strategy to find the right people to fill vacancies and to be able to serve their customers.

This course examines the history and reality of the generation gap, especially for recruiters and succession planning. In it, we will explore 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. After all, understanding others helps us to understand ourselves and to manage the people that we work with. We will also explore problems, solutions, and strategies to help overcome issues of the generation gap.

 

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Identify where the generation gap issue surfaces, and the impact it has on the modern workforce.
  • Describe and apply language that is specific to each generation currently in the workplace.
  • Explore organization strategies that overcome gap issues.
  • Evaluate the need and effectiveness of recruiting, retention, and succession plans in context of the generation gap.

What Topics are Covered?

  • History in brief
  • Finding common ground
  • Silents, Boomers, Xers, Y’s, Millennials and Gen Z
  • Recruiting that Bridges the Gap
  • Pre-assignment Review
  • Creative solutions
  • The value of planning
  • Developing targeted retention strategies
  • What we really want

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence, also called EQ, is the ability to be aware of and to manage emotions and relationships. It’s a pivotal factor in personal and professional success. IQ will get you in the door, but it is your EQ, your ability to connect with others and manage the emotions of yourself and others, that will determine how successful you are in life.

We have all worked with and listened to brilliant people. Some of them were great and… well, some were not so great. The mean and the meek and all those in between can teach us more than they realize. When we look at the truly extraordinary people who inspire and make a difference you will see that they do this by connecting with people at a personal and emotional level. What differentiated them was not their IQ but their EQ – their emotional intelligence. This course will help you develop your emotional intelligence.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Understand what emotional intelligence means
  • Recognize how our emotional health and physical health are related
  • Learn techniques to understand, use, and appreciate the role of emotional intelligence in the workplace
  • Understand the different emotions and how to manage them
  • Create a personal vision statement
  • Understand the difference between optimism and pessimism
  • Validate emotions in others

What Topics are Covered?

  • History of emotional intelligence
  • Emotional intelligence defined
  • EI blueprint
  • Optimism
  • Validating emotions in others
  • Understanding emotions
  • Setting your personal vision

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Critical Elements of Customer Service

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While many companies promise to deliver an incredible customer experience, some are better at delivering than others. This course is designed around six critical elements of customer service that, when the company lives them, bring customers back to experience service that outdoes the competition.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Demonstrate a customer service approach
  • Understand how your own behavior affects the behavior of others
  • Demonstrate confidence and skill as a problem solver
  • Apply techniques to deal with difficult customers
  • Make a choice to provide customer service

What Topics are Covered?

  • What is customer service? Who are your customers?
  • Meeting expectations
  • Setting goals
  • Communication skills and telephone techniques
  • Dealing with difficult customers and people
  • Dealing with challenges assertively
  • Dealing with stress
  • The first critical element: A customer service focus
  • The second critical element: Defined in your organization
  • The third critical element: Given life by employees
  • The fourth critical element: Be a problem solver
  • The fifth critical element: Measure it
  • The sixth critical element: Reinforce it

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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Conquering Your Fear of Speaking in Public

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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 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, to speak in informal situations, and to present in front of small groups.

What Will Participants Learn?

  • Speak with more confidence in one-on-one conversations
  • Feel more confident speaking socially or small groups such as meetings
  • Practice developing these skills in a safe and supportive setting

What Topics are Covered?

  • Good communication skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Getting comfortable in conversation
  • Practicing dialogue
  • Redesigning yourself for strength
  • Professionalism
  • Maximizing meetings
  • Sticky situations
  • Controlling nervousness

What’s Included in Your Learning Style?

  • Self-paced eLearning  OR
  • Interactive class environment – Facilitator-led
  • Specialized course materials and resources
  • Personalized certificate of completion

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