We will show you how to engage audiences throughout your presentation by being interactive and keeping it conversational. Understand how to keep your verbal, vocal, and visual messages congruent to increase likeability, believability, credibility, and persuasiveness. Be prepared and think through the presentation from start to finish and anticipate any problems. Learning Objectives Define the new language in sales persuasion, Identify the three V's of communication, Select objectives for your presentation, Analyze your audience Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
The most important communication behavior is being able to communicate in an open, safe, and supportive culture. High performance teams use a wide variety of effective communication skills, the bottom line is to be understood. We will show you how to practice the three R's - be reliable, responsible, and reasonable. Understand how to maintain optimal levels of communication awareness. Learning Objectives Explain common team communication challenges. Implement 20 communication traits of effective team members Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
We will help you discover on-going strategies for promotability and looking for fast-track options. Understand the four stage of a career path and plan for career detours such as recessions, millennial competition and late retirements. Understand the value and importance of packaging yourself for promotion with a career portfolio. Learning Objectives Apply on-going strategies for becoming promotable, Build awareness of five possible career detours or paths, Package your skills for promotion Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Understand how to use trustworthiness and expertise to inspire belief with those people around you. Discover ways to build credibility and playing devil's advocate against your case. Understand how to restore lost credibility using tools such as apologizing, explaining and recovering with a plan. Learning Objectives Explain why credibility is the core of influence and its two dimensions, Apply seven ways to build credibility to increase your influence, Implement three steps to restore damaged credibility Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Experts could influence others as a result of an earned, not elected or appointed status. Understand the two approaches to gaining expertise and how to make good decisions quickly. Discover why you need both depth and breadth of knowledge in order to set an appropriate direction other will follow. Learning Objectives Explain the importance of expert status as a leader, Describe the behaviors of expertise, Assess your leadership expertise, Identify depth of knowledge categories Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Credibility is the ability to inspire belief. The two dimensions of credibility are trustworthiness and expertise. Understand the steps for building credibility that include planning, training, listening, trusting others, building democracy, and building community. Implement the disciplines of credibility to increase credibility. Learning Objectives Explain why credibility is the core of effective leadership, Apply steps for gaining and maintaining credibility, Describe three ways to restore damaged credibility, Identify top four qualities expected of leaders Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Understand the difference between trends and fads and we will guide you how to identify fourteen consumer trends. Discover four trends that your business can satisfy and promote to stay ahead of the curve and how to offer trend advice for your buyers to position yourself as the go-to person for industry advice. Learning Objectives Explain the difference between trends and fads, Describe how to become an industry trend resource for your clients Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Objections are an expression of disagreement, opposition, or concern raised by prospects when considering a decision with your proposal. Discover how objections emerge and how to manage the psychological aspects of anxiety called doubt, disruption and decisions. Understand how you can discover your prospect's strongest value that will be the emotional motivator in any sale. Learning Objectives Explain the origins of objections, Dispel four common myths of objections, Manage doubt, disruption and delayed decisions, Apply psychological strategies for resolving concerns Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Negotiation is necessary when a buyer and seller can't agree. Understand the two strategies to negotiate and how to use a variety of techniques to increase your personal negotiating power. We will unpack each step of the negotiation process and guide you through all you need to know to master any negotiation. Learning Objectives Define key negotiation concepts, Explain how negotiations may be used to resolve conflict, Identify opportunities for negotiation, Apply two win-win negotiation strategies 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