Daily Archives: September 14, 2017

Crisis Management

Business and Management
Crisis Management

Crisis management is as important as finance management, personnel management, etc.  Having a clear and effective program and plan for an event is critical not only to your survival, but critical to the profitability and possibly the survival of the company.  Being able to identify risk, assess the situation and respond appropriately is important, and requires not only training, but practice.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Identify potential risks
  • Understand the myths behind workplace violence
  • Define escalation and identify examples
  • Learn concerning behaviors
  • Know what a trigger is and how that can escalate
  • Understand the proper response to an event

Creative Problem Solving

Personal Development & Skills
Creative Problem Solving Workshop

In the past few decades, psychologists and business people alike have discovered that successful problem solvers tend to use the same type of process to identify and implement the solutions to their problems. This process works for any kind of problem, large or small.

The Creative Problem Solving workshop will give participants an overview of the entire creative problem solving process, as well as key problem solving tools that they can use every day. Skills such as brainstorming, information gathering, analyzing data, and identifying resources will be covered throughout the workshop.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Understand problems and the creative problem solving process
  • Indentify types of information to gather and key questions to ask in problem solving
  • Identify the importance of defining a problem correctly
  • Identify and use four different problem definition tools
  • Write concrete problem statements
  • Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
  • Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group voting
  • Perform a final analysis to select a solution
  • Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
  • Understand the need to refine the shortlist and redefine it
  • Understand how to identify the tasks and resources necessary to implement solutions
  • Evaluate and adapt solutions to reality

Creating a Great Webinar

Sales & Marketing
Creating a Great Webinar Workshop

Webinars are a great inexpensive way to reach a large number of people. Webinars are great tools if you want to market a new or improved product, train employees, demonstrate a new task, or have a meeting with employees located throughout the globe. Being an interactive form of media, Webinars provides a great environment for these activities and so much more.

Creating a Great Webinar is all about providing a great interaction between the presenter and the audience. Participants will develop the skills needed to promote, host, or facilitate a great Webinar for the company. Sharing passion and knowledge with a Webinar is the best way to reach many with the power of one.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Define webinars and their purpose
  • Choose the best formats
  • Prepare for webinars
  • Avoid common mistakes
  • Understand how to interact with the target audience
  • Follow up successfully

Contract Management

Business and Management
Contract Management Workshop

It is easy to overlook the importance of contract management because it seems to be a boring, mundane topic.  Contracts, however,  are the basis of most business relationships. If contracts are managed well, business relationship will flourish. If they are  not, companies face financial loss, relationship harm, and damaged reputations.

With our “Contract Management” workshop, participants will discover the specifics of how contract management works and how to effectively source agents.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Identify contract elements
  • Understand ethical contract management
  • Calculate value
  • Negotiate contracts
  • Create basic amendments

Contact Center Training

Business and Management
Contact Center Training Workshop

For many people, the term Contact Center relates to sales calls and telemarketers.  There are so many avenues that a contact center can be of assistance within a company that do not pertain to sales calls.  A contact center can provide customer support, information technology support, and much more.  The key to having a great customer experience using a contact center is in the training.   A well trained contact center can be the difference between gaining more customers and losing customers.  Customers want a well-educated agent when they contact a business.  They want to know that the person answering their questions knows what they are talking about.  Training staff, and giving them the information that is needed to effectively assist  customer base is paramount.

With our “Contact Center Training” workshop, participants will discover the basic elements of being an effective employee of a contact center.

Workshop Objectives:
  • How to get management involved in training.
  • Why peer training works.
  • That manners are important with a contact center.
  • How to build rapport with the callers.
  • How to deal with difficult customers