Understand the importance of holding the receiver properly to maintain energy and vocal quality and how to vary your rate of speech to maintain listener interest. Adjust your voice to match the purpose of the call. Lowering your vocal range sends a more controlled image. Listen to learn the purpose of the call. Don't interrupt. Ask questions to clarify understanding. Learn how to flawlessly place calls on hold or transfer like a pro. Your customers will appreciate you! Learning Objectives Apply guidelines for physically handling the telephone, Implement voice guidelines, Apply effective telephone greetings, Transfer calls to make great first impressions Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Learn how to make the most of your time by implementing guidelines that is smart, measurable, achievable, relevant and time based. With accurate goal setting, you will maximize your efficiency as well as your effectiveness and in doing so, learn how to record and track your progress throughout the duration of a specific task, or even merely throughout your normal routine day. You will be able to schedule recurring activities without having anxiety about where you'll have to find the time. Learning Objectives Schedule goals and activities, Find hidden sales time, Utilize the Sales Funnel for managing time, Apply the 80-20 Rule to allocate time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Become more efficient in your daily routine with our 6 criteria for increased efficiency and understand how to apply each in your situation. Take the stress out of your work by streamlining your tasks and we will show you how to eliminate all the biggest time wasters in your work. Understand the 60 second test to assist with the filing and paperwork in your work area. You will feel like you get more done in half the time and increase your efficiency like you never thought possible. Learning Objectives Apply six techniques for maximizing efficiency, Avoid the 10 biggest time wasters in business, Convert obstacles into opportunities Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
We will teach you a model for leading and managing the four stages of change transition. Each stage will have very specific tasks and steps associated to ensure you achieve your desired result. Understand where you are currently and where you want to be in the future. Create a plan for reaching your goal based on what's needed and wanted. Your plan will be tested on this journey and you will need to be ready to respond to any situation. At the end you will need to evaluate the outcome. Learning Objectives Apply the four stages of change transitions for leading change, Implement tasks associated with each stage of managing change Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Discover how to create, execute, and control a defined territory plan. How to set sales goals, create opportunities, and route your area. Understand how to distinguish the important from the urgent. We will show you how to divide your contacts into categories and how often you need to communicate with the various contacts. We will guide you how to route your territory around high-payoff accounts and geographic clusters. Explore the importance to use only one calendar, a scheduling system, and electronic contact tools. Learning Objectives Apply seven steps to creating a territory management plan, Implement ABCD opportunity contact strategies, Calculate your value per hour, Utilize routing guidelines to maximize travel time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Do you know what is the project manager's responsibilities during the implementation? We will help you to implement and understand what the vital components of a successful launch are are. How do you run effective meetings? How do you control work in progress? Let us help you to understand these questions and unpack the four roles of a project manager in review meetings. You will experience conflict during the project and we will teach you how to resolve any conflict you will experience. Learning Objectives Explain the project manager's responsibilities, Apply 10 tips for leading project success, Control work progress, Negotiate for resources, Apply five strategies for resolving conflict Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Feedback is the fastest intervention to performance improvement. If done effectively, it can be highly motivating and play a critical role in employee development. You will understand the benefits of effective feedback including accelerated learning, improved performance, enhanced relationships and increased self-esteem. You will understand why you should avoid being judgmental and you will be able to identify behavioral gaps. We will elaborate why you need to be specific, impartial during feedback. You will be introduced to a 'feed-forward' process that will be extremely powerful for you in the future. Learning Objectives Summarize the criteria for ineffective and effective feedback, Deliver two types of effective feedback, Explain how to effectively receive feedback Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
There are many challenges to getting the right help, most of which are our own mental self-doubt that gets in the way. We will teach you the guidelines for getting the right help. The one technique for getting help is to ask for it in the form of a statement. We will show you how to ask for the detail, be specific and thanking your helper. You will understand the benefits of a buddy system approach and group brainstorming. We will guide you on certain areas you need to be sensitive when asking or giving help. Learning Objectives Explain the challenges of getting appropriate help, Apply guidelines for getting help, Implement four techniques for getting effective help Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
24 hours sometimes simply doesn't seem like enough time. Learn how to identify 'hidden time' in your day, which will mean extraordinary things for you in terms of completing your deadlines and reaching your goals. You will learn how to make the most of your 'down time' by for instance, creating a game out of time saving. We don't believe in all work and no play, and therefore provide you with the tools to have fun while effectively managing and creating your time, virtually effort free. Learning Objectives Find hidden time, Summarize how to make the most of downtime Describe how to make the most of saving time, Create blocks of time to get more done Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
The Confirm-It Funnel helps control sales activities, forecast, motivate, organize sales time, and insure consistency of sales results over time. Discover the four major steps in every sale and how to be in control of these steps. You will learn how to account for varying degrees of potential and assign a weight according to one single criteria. Understand how to use the funnel to detail specific steps of activities along the way. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of using the Confirm-It Funnel for organizing leads, Forecast sales results, Determine a lead's value and priority by assigning "weights", Identify next steps for advancing the sale, Eliminate the feast or famine "roller coaster" effect of unpredictable sales Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams