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Trying to 'do it all' can lead to serious health challenges. Challenges of work-life balance include stereotypical gender roles and work environments that are slow to accommodate working families. We will show you ideas for balancing home and career effectively. Discover how to balance your time and quality of activity using the eight categories of a well-balanced life. Learning Objectives Summarize the challenges of work-life balance, Apply ten suggestions for balancing home and career Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Your professional image should reflect not only your business's social norms, but also allow you the freedom to express yourself as a person. Understand the five professional image strategies and what makes each one unique. Discover how a professional image also includes good grooming, upright posture, being punctual, word articulation, effective listening, reliability, responsiveness, respect, and courteousness. Learning Objectives Explain the importance of projecting a professional image, Implement five strategies for professional dressing, Demonstrate behaviors and characteristics of professionalism Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Some situations foster greater confidence than others. Success and failure are not events, but self-fulfilling tendencies. The core of confidence is competence. When you know what you're doing and have the skills necessary to execute a plan of action, confidence naturally builds. Discover five ways to identify your strengths and four ways to develop strengths. Learning Objectives Describe how confidence builds rapport, Identify your strengths, Implement four ways to develop your strengths confidence, Summarize strategies for managing weaknesses Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Credibility can make the difference between winning or losing customers and winning or losing your job. But exactly what is it, and how do you get it? You will understand the two dimensions of credibility, trustworthiness and expertise. We will show you steps for building credibility in any situation and implement the disciplines of 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 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

Use the three steps and tips for creative problem-solving to define the problem-often the most challenging stage in the process. Use techniques such as brainstorming, COPPER, the 5 Whys, Cause and Effect Fishbone, and SWOT Analysis. If you have a more complex problem, use the four step formal process to assist you. Learning Objectives Describe the biggest challenge in problem solving, Apply steps for Creative Problem-Solving brainstorming in a team, Implement a four-stage process for creative problem-solving Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

There are two levels of rapport: transactional and relational. Discover the three skills for building instant rapport and the goal of transactional rapport. Discover the technique to turn small talk into SMART talk and increase the emotional connection. Understand how to maintain good relations for long term business. Learning Objectives Discover two levels of rapport, Apply three skills for building instant rapport when time is short, Utilize five tips for working with names, Explain how to turn small talk into SMART Talk Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Understand the pull and push energy that are two forms of interpersonal power. Questions gain their power from pull energy, directing others to move with you. Understand when and how to use open-ended and close-ended questions. We will show you how to help buyers make decisions by taking a storyline approach using STeR questions. Learning Objectives Explain the persuasive power of questions, Implement two essential questioning techniques, Describe the benefits of STēR questions that steer conversations to win-win outcomes 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

Synergy produces greater results than the effort of one working alone. Discover the benefits of working together in teams to enhance productivity. Understand how to manage up when required and what will impact the team. Get others to help you and discover how initiative is the secret in how teams achieve synergistic results. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of synergy and teamwork, Apply six guidelines for enrolling the help of others, Summarize how to be an effective team member, Resolve peer accountability issues Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams