Pros of consensus-building are to gain widespread agreement with a group, but it's more time consuming that voting. There's no room for competitive positions trying to win over others in consensus. Agreement requires what's best for the team. Discover ways to navigate agreements and implement six steps for reaching team consensus. Learning Objectives Describe the conditions for successfully reaching consensus, Apply a quick-consensus model for urgent decisions, Implement six steps for reaching team consensus Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Understand the value of guiding and inspiring others effectively during times of adversity or uncertainty. This involves demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges, maintaining composure, and providing direction and support to those under your leadership. By cultivating attributes such as empathy, decisiveness, and effective communication, the goal is to empower leaders to navigate challenges gracefully, inspire resilience in others, and ultimately lead their teams or organizations toward successful outcomes despite adversity. Learning Objectives The following are some of the key outcomes in this course: Discover five common types of challenges organizations face, Tips for successfully leading your team through a challenging situation, Understand how to cope with challenges, Use resilience-building techniques to bounce back Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals
Recommendation questions enlist buyers to tell you the benefits, increasing buy-in. They hear the benefits twice-once from you and again from themselves. Discover how to increase acceptance in your solution and how you can help teach buyers to convincingly present your solutions to others. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of recommendation questions, Guide persuasive conversations using STÄR questions, Adapt questions to small and larger sales, Apply recommendation questions with non decision-makers Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
What elements do you require for a project plan and how do you create a work breakdown structure? Let us help you to take the trouble out project planning. This course will teach you three steps to take when scheduling work and why it is important to schedule correctly as this will add to the success of the project. Learning Objectives Getting project budgets in control Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Discover the four stages of self-management. Discover the seven categories of competency that includes product and service knowledge, procedures, features and benefits, unique language, technical, organizational, and uniqueness. You will understand why it is important to invest the time in developing strong foundations in self-management skills whether you're a beginner or pro. Learning Objectives Describe the two 'faces' of professional development, Apply the four stages of self-management, Explain collaborative web-based learning, Summarize the seven categories of professional competencies Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Words can make or break or break a good first impression. Choose them carefully. Discover why it is important to use positive language, expressing what you can do, not what you can't. Understand how to be specific in your written and spoken communication and how to end your sentences appropriately. Be careful how you express yourself. You may not be preventing wars, but one word can save or lose a valued customer! Learning Objectives Explain the power of words used in business, Choose appropriate, more powerful word choices, Edit writing to use less words for more impact Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Ethics is the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. Understand what is ethics and how it attempts to answer questions about how people should behave. How can you identify a potential ethical dilemma? Discover the 3 causes of unethical behaviors and how to handle them. Learning Objectives Explain the importance of ethics in business, Define ethical values, conduct, and dilemmas, Identify the three top causes of unethical business behavior Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Understand how to base duty-principled decisions on doing what is right according to natural laws such as the right to life, health and safety. How do you take the emotion out of a situation and decide what is right? We will show you how to understand the facts, the ethical dilemma, stakeholders, the consequences, duties and responsibilities, character and integrity and clarify these before reaching a decision. Learning Objectives Apply three philosophical approaches for resolving ethical dilemmas, Implement seven steps to ethical dilemma decision-making Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Communication skills are a fundamental aspect of success in the business world. However, many individuals encounter challenges in this area, such as difficulty in conveying their thoughts clearly, struggling to actively listen to others, or feeling anxious during public speaking. Effective communication is essential for building relationships, resolving conflicts, and making impactful presentations. Learning Objectives The following are some of the key outcomes in this course: Understand how communication is a process involving a sender, a message, and a receiver Learn why communication can fail if that process breaks down Learn why great communication skills matter to your professional success Understand five of the most common communication barriers Target Audience Young Professionals
Closing ratios are the number of activities performed, compared to results achieved. Closing ratios can be expressed in many of your sales activities such as people called, to appointments booked. We will guide you how to track sales activities and how this will inform you where you are or are not getting results from. To increase closing your ratios, examine each step in the sales process. Learning Objectives Define closing ratios, Explain the importance of knowing your closing ratios to control sales results, Explain how to improve your closing ratios, Diagnose weak links in your sales process Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams