No Nonsense Communications


Communication is the number one problem facing today's organizations. This program gives you and your team easy-to-use communication tools and techniques that will help you become more effective and productive in dealing with people. You'll learn how to speak up and be heard and how to get your ideas accepted. Active listening skills will show you how to become the kind of leader people open up to, respect and admire.


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Creating Powerful Presentations and Dynamic Public Speaking

Learn how to write an effective presentation, one that holds a group's attention and persuades them to act. Does fear keep you from presenting in front of a group? Can you think fast on your feet? Handle an adversarial audience? With the skills you'll learn in this program, you'll increase your confidence and poise, and get people solidly behind you. You'll learn the proper techniques for practicing your presentations, how to control nervousness and put an audience in the palm of your hand-every time.


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Business Writing Essentials

Does it take you a long time to create a simple memo? Do you have a hard time communicating your message on paper? Learn how to write memos, business proposals, and communicate company messages faster, more easily and with far greater impact. You'll learn how to pick the best approach for your target audience, how to convey your thoughts clearly, and compose documents people want to read.


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Delegating and Assertiveness

Are you having a hard time completing all your job tasks? Do you tend to do tasks that could easily be done by your staff? Do you avoid delegation? Are you assertive? Is your approach combative? This program will teach you guidelines and techniques for delegating tasks, how to prioritize tasks, why assertiveness makes you a better leader, tools for mastering assertiveness, and techniques for providing feedback to empower your staff.


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Stressed? Manage Your Way to a Positive Attitude

It's impossible to totally eliminate job-related or personal stress. In fact, a certain amount of stress is necessary to manage effectively. But how you handle stress can make the difference between being happy or frustrated. This program will teach you how to use stress to your advantage-by identifying the sources of stress and showing you how to handle life's pressures. More importantly, you will also learn how stress is merely a symptom and rarely the underlying cause of negativity. See how changing your attitude can decrease your stress level-for good!


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How to Motivate and Influence People

Are you a self-motivated leader? Or are you having a hard time motivating your staff to accomplish group tasks? Motivating teams is a critical key success factor. Learn practical techniques to motivate yourself and your team. Understand individual differences in motivation, how to apply key theories and techniques, and how to influence your team to create peak performance.


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Building Team Effectiveness

Proven methods for building and maintaining teams that work. Learn the essential traits a team must have for optimal performance. You'll find out how to keep your team motivated, on track and moving forward-no matter what gets thrown your way. Learn why teams succeed or fail, when to form a team, developing a team charter, deciding roles and responsibilities, how to arrange and conduct team meetings, and practical techniques for resolving conflict and problem solving.


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Managing Conflict and Successful Negotiation

Learn why conflict occurs, how to approach specific problems with tact, and how to establish a climate of "synergetic conflict" in which people see that even major differences can yield positive outcomes. Learn the role of negotiation in resolving conflict for win-win outcomes, tips for successful negotiation, how to prepare for negotiation sessions and create positive results.


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Making Change Work

This workshop will help you and your group move beyond the resistance and negativity that often accompanies change. You'll learn the four phases of change, a proven strategy for communicating the change, a step-by-step formula for getting through the transition process, and how to create a proactive style of change management that enables you and your group to successfully navigate through any change initiative.


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Women in Business

This workshop is specifically designed for women leaders. Learn what makes women leaders successful, how to lead your work team to achieve peak performance, a seven-step method for effective interpersonal skills, how to get people to buy into your programs, strategies for creating better work relationships, and essential tips for assertiveness and delegation.


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Managing Performance: Problem Solving

Developed for leaders, this program uses a performance matrix for diagnosing and trouble-shooting performance problems for individuals, groups, and organizations. After this session, you'll know how to analyze performance problems, diagnose the issues, understand the critical difference between cause and symptoms, select the best solution, and assess the impact of the solution.


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Project Management Essentials

This workshop provides a step-by-step process for managing small and large-scale projects. You will learn how to define the project scope, determine project priorities, define roles and responsibilities, optimize time and resources, conduct effective meetings, action planning and project reporting, and how to control your budget throughout the project lifecycle.


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Workplace Diversity


This workshop answers your basic questions about diversity and shows you how to make diversity work in your favor. You'll learn why creating and nurturing a diverse environment is necessary to succeed in today's competitive environment. You'll also understand why there is strength in diversity. As a result, your group will experience more cooperation and a positive change of attitude toward one another and toward your organization.


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How to Develop and Market Successful Public Seminars


Do you have skills that you would like to market to the public? This workshop will teach you all the necessary steps from developing your seminar, securing your meeting rooms and related equipment, to techniques for marketing your product. In addition to designing and developing your training agenda, you'll learn how to advertise your seminars and workshops in a way that creates public demand.


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