Cyber Security Workshop

Every organization is responsible for ensuring cybersecurity. The ability to protect its information systems from impairment or even theft is essential to success. Implementing effective security measures will not only offer liability protection; it will also increase efficiency and productivity.

With our “Cybersecurity” workshop, participants will discover the fundamentals of cybersecurity as well as the methods that should be implemented to make sure their computer systems are protected.

Workshop Objectives:

• Understand different types of malware and security breaches
• Know the types of cyberattacks to look out for
• Develop effective prevention methods

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

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 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

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 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 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

Call Center Training Workshop

Phone skills are a highly valuable tool to have in an employee’s skill-set, and Call Center Training will help provide those skills. This course will help participants improve their phone skills which will make them more confident, improve sales, and help gain new customers while retaining the current cliental. A more confident employee is also one that is happier, and happier employees will produce happier customers.

Call Center Training will lower costs as it can reduce turnover. Participants will learn the skills to improve productivity and performance. This will produce a positive environment throughout the company and help influence the organization as a whole. Evaluating metrics and coaching are also used to make sure the participants are reaching their potential, and to keep their skill-set at a high level.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define and understand call center strategies.
• Identify different types of buying motivations.
• Create SMART Goals.
• Familiarize myself with strategies that sharpen effective communication.
• Use proper phone etiquette.
• Set benchmarks.