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Amazing Customer Service - The Psychology of

Objectives

  • For employees to see how amazing they really are so they can provide world class service.
  • Learn the benefits to company culture by delivering Amazing Service to customers and colleagues.
  • How to make your job easier, fun and meaningful.
  • Learn a positive philosophy on life that defines solutions to problems that service providers come up against every day.
  • Learn and practice The Seven Secret Skills to delivering Amazing Service.

 

Advanced Interpersonal Communication

Objectives

  • Interact with individuals who display a specific communication style and communicate using various verbal and nonverbal modes of communication.
  • Identify the elements that influence first impressions, build rapport and establish credibility with others, and build positive relationships.
  • Use paraphrasing effectively and provide positive and constructive feedback in a business setting.
  • Identify the types of ineffective supervisors and use different techniques to deal with them, and identify the steps necessary to prepare for negotiating a raise and to resign a job.
  • Identify the guidelines for communicating with colleagues, take appropriate steps to apologize to a subordinate, and use appropriate tactics to refuse a subordinate’s request.
  • Respond to customers’ complaints and identify a proper way to reject a vendor’s contract without rejecting the vendor.
  • Determine the nature of an organization’s culture, use the cultural network to your advantage and identify the characteristics of the roles exhibited in a cultural network, select the elements of physical culture that affect interpersonal communication, and identify the ways in which managers can build a positive culture.

 

Behavior-Based Interviewing – Selecting the Right Person for the Job

Objectives

  • Develop objective job criteria.
  • Learn a technique for developing objective, open-ended interview questions.
  • Conduct an objective interview that extracts in-depth information from the applicant.
  • Analyze interview results and rate applicants against objective criteria.
  • Follow up the interview process with rejection and offer letters.

 

Business Problem Solving

Objectives

  • Define the basic problem-solving approaches to effectively identify, manage, and solve problems.
  • Identify problem-solving techniques in the corporate world by identifying the necessary skills of a problem solver and knowing about different corporate cultures.
  • Work through the problem-solving process of identifying the problem, generating and implementing a solution, and confirming the elimination of the problem.
  • Use different critical thinking and information analysis skills such as reasoning, logic, quantitative analysis, and qualitative analysis.
  • Create and manage problem-solving teams by knowing how to conduct effective meetings and motivate team members.

 

Call Center Success - Essential Skills for Customer Service Representatives

Objectives

  • Learn the basics of providing high quality customer service.
  • Understand the six elements of professionalism.
  • Explore how to understand and respond to customer needs.
  • Build effective communication skills.
  • Learn the importance of a positive attitude.
  • Create and use a self-improvement plan.

 

Change Management – Leading People Through Organizational Transitions

Objectives

  • Explore changes taking place in organizations today.
  • Discover how organizations can prepare for change.
  • Understand human reaction to change and how to deal with them.
  • Learn about team involvement and visionary leadership.

 

Coaching for Development – Skills for Managers and Team Leaders

Objectives

  • Understand the role of manager as coach.
  • Clarify the meaning for five roles of coaches.
  • To learn examples of techniques in quality coaching decisions.

 

Conducting a Training Needs Analysis

Objectives

  • Discuss reasons for a needs analysis and pre-planning.
  • Explain investigation and data development.
  • Show how to analyze data and evaluate training possibilities.
  • Discuss the needs analysis report.

 

Conflict Management – Resolving Disagreements in the Workplace

Objectives

  • Honor the legitimate interests and viewpoints of others.
  • Communicate a helpful attitude for resolving differences.
  • Catch disagreement before it escalates into conflict.
  • Replace habitual styles of handling conflict with a strategic approach chosen for the situation.
  • Take action (or planned inaction) to manage conflict and monitor the result.

 

Creating a Learning Organization - Promoting Excellence through Education

Objectives

  • Bring about a commitment to learning by the organization.
  • Make a commitment to learning.
  • Understand training opportunities.

 

Corporate Culture - Organizational Vision, Values and Mission

Objectives

  • Learn the process of visioning.
  • Define an organizational mission.
  • Understand the psychology of visioning.
  • Discover reasons why successful organizations have vision, values and mission.
  • Explore a case study related to visioning.

 

Dealing with Difficult People

Objectives

  • Develop the ability to handle difficult people with determination and diplomacy.
  • Learn the common mistakes that actually worsen conflict.
  • Learn how to identify personality characteristics and to communicate into each specific style.
  • Learn how to utilize assertive communication to specifically deal with aggressive and passive people.
  • Learn how to show others how to communicate with tact, consideration and thoughtfulness.

 

Delegating for Results – An Action Plan for Success as a Manager or Leader

Objectives

  • Explain the delegation role of the manager.
  • Show how to select and train employees for delegation.
  • Point out potential problems and how to address them.

 

Discussing Employee Compensation

Objectives

  • Discuss pay management and employee motivation.
  • Give tips on talking to employees about money.
  • Show how to handle difficult pay management situations.

 

Effective Recruiting Strategies – A Practical Guide for Success

Objectives

  • Learn a marketing approach to recruiting.
  • Learn how to use traditional methods effectively.
  • Learn the benefits of community outreach and how to maximize your efforts.
  • To learn a networking approach and how to set-up employee referral programs.

 

Employee Empowerment

Objectives

  • Understand basic concepts of employee empowerment.
  • Learn how to make decisions that empower.
  • Understand why empowerment is important.

 

Emotional Intelligence Works – Developing “People Smart” Strategies

Objectives

  • To describe the benefits and challenges of applying emotional intelligence.
  • To provide tools for assessing individual and organizational strengths and opportunities for improvement.
  • To teach the core skills needed for emotional intelligence.
  • To present model strategies and examples for using emotional intelligence in business and social settings, with family and friends.

 

Event Planning for Everyone - Staging Fun, Memorable, and Successful Gatherings

Objectives

  • Develop the framework for the event—purpose, committee, theme.
  • Match responsibilities with the skills and personalities of committee members.
  • Negotiate effectively with vendors and sponsors.
  • Use marketing techniques to attract attention and maximize participation.
  • Prevent problems and recover from those that occur.
  • Review the event and thank the team.

 

Facilitation Skills for Team Leaders

Objectives

  • Understand why empowered teams benefit modern organizations.
  • Learn about team involvement, decision making and dynamics.
  • Gain tools for facilitation.

 

Giving and Receiving Feedback – Building Constructive Communication

Objectives

  • Learn how to receive critical feedback.
  • Present useful coping mechanisms for handling critical feedback.
  • Learn how to give constructive feedback fairly and effectively.
  • Discuss handling special problems.

 

Improving Your Company Image – Creating a Positive First Impression

Objectives

  • Understand the nuts and bolts of an image including your competitions image.
  • Learn how image can target and screen prospects.
  • Craft and fine tune your entity’s image.

 

Leadership Competencies – Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

Objectives

  • To explain the process of determining leadership competencies.
  • To discuss personal qualities of leaders.
  • To discuss actions that competent leaders take.

 

Leadership Skills for Women – Achieving Impact as a Manager

Objectives

  • Define the qualities of effective leaders.
  • Present strategies for team leadership.
  • Address possible problems for the female leader.

 

Mentoring - How to Develop Successful Mentor Behaviors

Objectives

  • Discover how anyone can assist in the development of other people through mentoring.
  • Learn mentoring behaviors to adopt or avoid.
  • Understand how mentoring works in today’s workplace.

 

New Employee Orientation

Objectives

  • Understand the benefits of planned orientation.
  • Explore strategies of employee orientation.
  • Learn how to develop group orientation.
  • Learn about problems new workers may face.

 

Office Management - A Productivity and Effectiveness Guide

Objectives

  • Understand the role of an office manager.
  • Explore the nature personnel relationships.
  • Improve leadership and human relations skills.
  • Learn tips about handling special situations.

 

Performance Management - A Practical Guide

Objectives

  • Understand principles of performance appraisals.
  • Get tips for conducting an appraisal.
  • Explore management leadership skills.

 

Plan Your Work, Work Your Plan – Secrets for More Productive Planning

Objectives

  • Learn the key ingredients for successful planning.
  • Learn planning methods.
  • Provide helpful tips and strategies.

 

Presentations: Preparing, Developing and Delivering

Objectives

  • Identify the characteristics of effective communication during a presentation, and address and work through fears of public speaking.
  • Prepare a presentation by analyzing the audience, identifying the presentation’s purpose, and structuring the presentation.
  • Develop a presentation by writing a closing, an opening, the body, and transitions, and rehearse the presentation.
  • Deliver a successful presentation by understanding and capitalizing on the seven components of a successful presentation: anxiety and nervousness, rapport and credibility, personal motivation, and voice and body techniques.
  • Add interest to you presentation by using humor and visual aids, and facilitate a positive question-and-answer session.
  • Work toward improving your presentation skills by using the 21-day habit and writing down insight moments, and committing to be a better speaker.

 

Professionalism in the Office – Proven Techniques for Administrators, Secretaries, and Coordinators

Objectives

  • Attain a position as a professional.
  • Explore techniques for enhancing professional image.
  • Gain ideas for expanding skills and responsibilities.
  • Learn practical ways to communicate for better results.
  • Build relationships and networks.

 

Project Management – Practical Tools for Success

Objectives

  • Understand the basic principles of project management.
  • Learn about the tools of project management.
  • Become familiar with the role of the project manager.

 

Strategic Selling Strategies

Module 1:  Strategic Selling Principles – 1-Day Training

  • Getting your Head Back in the Sales Game
  • Be Your Own Guru
  • The Secret to Sales
  • Dealing with Underachievement
  • How to Get Back on Top
  • Prepare Yourself!
  • Change your Mind, They Will Buy
  • Advocacy
  • The Two Most Important Words
  • What it Takes to be #1

Module 2:  Personal and Small Business Sales Strategies  - 1-Day Training

  • Networking
  • Getting to the Real Decision Maker
  • Engage with Questions
  • Creative Differentiation
  • Reduce Risks & Convert Sales

Module 3:  Corporate Account Development Sales Strategies – 1-Day Training

  • Acquiring New Accounts
  • Maintaining an Existing Account Relationship
  • Account Penetration
  • Team Selling a Complex Account
  • Facing a Competitive Selling Situation
  • Dealing with Change in an Account
  • Reselling or Handling a Difficult Account
  • Selling to a Committee

 

Stress That Motivates – Self-Talk Secrets for Success

Objectives

  • Explore the powerful link between stress, motivation, and self-talk.
  • Gain tools for self-protection and self-motivation in stressful situations.
  • Avoid the five biggest traps in self-talk.
  • Discover a ready-to-use reinforcement system that will help you cut stress, build motivation, and get the right things done.

 

Systematic Succession Planning

Objectives

  • Understand the importance of a systematic succession plan.
  • Develop a succession program to meet the organization’s needs.
  • Identify leaders and leadership positions.
  • Become familiar with the operation and evaluation of a systematic succession plan.

 

The New Supervisor - Stepping Up with Confidence

Objectives

  • Learn the basic responsibilities, technical skills, and attitude required to be a successful supervisor.
  • Discover four fundamentals every supervisor must master and to provide ideas and skills for putting them in place.
  • Become acquainted with special situations that a supervisor can expect to encounter and show how to deal with them.
  • Prepare an Action Plan that incorporates the concepts and techniques from this book into daily life.

 

Team Building - An Exercise in Leadership

Objectives

  • To spell out the differences between a group and a team.
  • To present tips for becoming an effective team leader.
  • To explore behavior styles and the strengths each style brings to the team.
  • To demonstrate ways to promote open communication and team involvement.
  • To explain the importance of helping team members to achieve and grow in their jobs.

 

Team Building - Working in Teams

Objectives

  • To explain what teamwork is all about, what roles you’ll play, and how you’ll figure out what to do together.
  • To describe how to make team meetings work, how you can reach agreement with others, and how you can all build your team into a “family” unit.
  • To present the best ways to follow up on teamwork so others, including the managers who support the whole deal, will listen to your decisions.

 

Teamwork - Succeeding in a Multicultural Organization

Objectives

  • To help you explore your thoughts, feelings, and attitudes about people different from yourself.
  • To explain techniques for improving how you communicate and use language in a diverse setting.
  • To increase your awareness of how you behave and interact with diverse colleagues and customers.

 

Team Deployment (Rapid) - Building High-Performance Project Teams

This course is intended for:

  • Senior managers considering cross-functional team programs.
  • Mid-managers wanting to launch project teams and accelerate results.
  • Leaders who chair team meetings and manage projects.
  • Facilitators who guide the process and coach everyone involved.

 

Teams - Problem Solving for: - A Systematic Approach to Consensus Decision Making

Objectives

  • Learn problem-solving techniques that work.
  • Understand how to define a problem.
  • Master skills in problem analysis.
  • Learn tools for decision making.
  • Explore ways to implement decision making.

 

Teams - Virtual Teaming - Breaking the Barriers of Time and Place

Objectives

  • To explain the fundamentals of launching a virtual team.
  • To describe the benefits and challenges of working in a virtual team.
  • To provide tools for assessing individual and team readiness for working in a virtual team.
  • To teach the core skills needed for working in a virtual team.
  • To provide effective communication techniques for working with members of a virtual team.

 

Time Management

Objectives

  • Determine how to presently use time.
  • Become aware of the portion of time which can be controlled.
  • Learn how to make the most effective use of the time under his or her control.
  • Handle uncontrollable time in a more efficient way
  • Use time the way he or she chooses (work, play, or rest)

 

Training Managers to Train - Developing Diverse Talent

Objectives

  • Discover why managers should learn to train.
  • Explore key concepts in training adults in the workplace.
  • Understand the role of position analysis in defining a training program.
  • Explore practical methods for planning and implementing on-the-job training. (OJT)
  • Learn guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of a manager’s training efforts.

 

Working In Retail – Mini Training Series

  • Getting to know your customer
  • Meet your customer’s needs
  • Build a continuing relationship
  • Go the extra mile
  • Explain features and benefits
  • Building the sale
  • Closing the sale
  • Completing the sales transaction
  • Preventing loss
  • Promoting safety
  • Stocking the shelves
  • Keeping up appearances
 
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