Monthly Archives: September 2017

Critical Thinking

Personal Development & Skills
Critical Thinking Skills Workshop

We live in a knowledge based society, and the more critical you think the better your knowledge will be. Critical Thinking provides you with the skills to analyze and evaluate information so that you are able to obtain the greatest amount of knowledge from it. It provides the best chance of making the correct decision, and minimizes damages if a mistake does occur.

Critical Thinking will lead to being a more rational and disciplined thinker. It will reduce your prejudice and bias which will provide you a better understanding of your environment. This workshop will provide you the skills to evaluate, identify, and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. It will lead you to be more productive in your career, and provide a great skill in your everyday life.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Understand the components of critical thinking
  • Utilize non-linear thinking
  • Use logical thinking
  • Recognize what it means to be a critical thinker
  • Evaluate information using critical thinking skills
  • Identify the benefits of critical thinking
  • Revise perspective, when necessary
  • Comprehend problem solving abilities

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

Conflict Resolution

Personal Development & Skills
Conflict Resolution Workshop

Wherever two or more people come together, there is bound to be conflict. This course will give participants a seven-step conflict resolution process that they can use and modify to resolve conflict disputes of any size. Participants will also be provided a set of skills in solution building and finding common ground.

In the Conflict Resolution workshop, participants will learn crucial conflict management skills, including dealing with anger and using the Agreement Frame. Dealing with conflict is important for every organization no matter what the size. If it is left unchecked or not resolved it can lead to lost production, absences, attrition, and even law suits.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Understand what conflict and conflict resolution mean
  • Understand all six phases of the conflict resolution process
  • Understand the five main styles of conflict resolution
  • Be able to adapt the process for all types of conflicts
  • Be able to break out parts of the process and use those tools to prevent conflict
  • Be able to use basic communication tools, such as the agreement frame and open questions

Be able to use basic anger and stress management techniques

Conducting Annual Employee Reviews

Business and Management
Conducting Annual Employee Review s Workshop

An annual review can help you keep your employees happy, engaged, and focused.  It is human nature to want to succeed.  Giving your employees feedback on their positive and negative attributes is part of the pathway to success.  A poorly designed annual review can have the reverse effect.

With our Conducting Annual Employee Reviews workshop, participants will discover how to conduct a well-designed employee review. By determining the categories for an annual review and understanding how it affects employee compensation, an overall increase in performance should be seen throughout the organization.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Understand the process of conducting an annual review.
  • Determine the categories for an annual review.
  • Know the mistakes managers make during an annual review.
  • Understand the concept of pay for performance.
  • Know how to tie employee compensation to firm-wide returns.
  • Know the value of employee communication.
  • Gauge employees’ happiness

Communication Strategies

Business and Management
Communication Strategies Workshop

For the better part of every day, we are communicating to and with others. Whether it’s the speech you deliver in the boardroom, the level of attention you give your spouse when they are talking to you, or the look you give the cat, it all means something.

The Communication Strategies workshop will help participants understand the different methods of communication and how to make the most of each of them. These strategies will provide a great benefit for any organization and its employees. They will trickle down throughout the organization and positively impact everyone involved.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Understand what communication is
  • Identify ways that communication can happen
  • Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them
  • Develop their non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills
  • Use the STAR method to speak on the spot
  • Listen actively and effectively
  • Ask good questions
  • Use appreciative inquiry as a communication tool
  • Adeptly converse and network with others
  • Identify and mitigate precipitating factors
  • Establish common ground with others
  • Use “I” messages

Collaborative Business Writing

Business and Management

Collaborative Business Writing Workshop

Writing and communication skills have degraded with more and more people communicating through email and instant messaging. Developing writing skills is still important in the business world as is creating proper documents (such as proposals, reports, and agendas) giving you that extra edge in the workplace.

The Collaborative Business Writing workshop will give participants the knowledge and skills to collaborate with others and create that important document. Participants will touch on the types of collaboration, and ways to improve them through certain tools and processes. These basic skills will provide participants with that extra benefit in the business world that a lot of people are losing.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Define collaborative business writing
  • Know different types of collaborative writing
  • Know how to collaborate with team members
  • Learn methods of handling conflict in writing
  • Build collaborative writing teams