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Understand opportunities for providing feedback that include opinion, recurring errors, behaviors, and work habits. Learn how to deliver positive feedback by being specific, timely, and avoiding pitfalls mistakes. Deliver opportunity feedback with planning, remembering to point out what's going well with your observations and invite a discussion. Learning Objectives Explain the conditions for giving constructive feedback, Effectively deliver positive feedback, Apply a Fast Feedback technique Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Utilize the four stages of problem-solving and discover what characteristics you need to consider when solving a problem. What is the difference between a problem and dilemma? We will demonstrate how you can verify that your problem has been resolved by evaluation and questions. Learning Objectives Apply effective problem SOLVER™ behaviors and attitudes, Implement the four stages of a systematic problem-solving process, Utilize 10 creative problem-solving techniques Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Understand how you can categorize decisions to make decisions more effectively. Take a measured approach with the four steps to decision making. How do you anticipate the implementation of your decision by asking what, who, when, where and how questions? Understand how to monitor implementation through observation of key success indicators. Learning Objectives Make better decisions more quickly, Apply four stages to decision-making, Utilize logical and intuitive decision-making techniques Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Be balanced in your approach to delivering bad news. Deliver the information tactfully, balanced with directness or the 'meat' of the message. Understand how to use the sandwich approach in more sensitive matters: good news, bad news, good news. Think with your heart when delivering bad news. Your compassion will be appreciated. Learning Objectives Explain the pros and cons of direct and indirect communication, Apply three techniques for delivering bad news Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

Confirming a sale takes both nature-or common sense, and nurture-good technique. You will learn how to look for verbal and visual buying signals throughout. We will show you how getting to yes requires stacking building blocks of smaller yeses and how to always advance the sale to the next realistic step. Learning Objectives Explain the ABC's of getting to yes, Identify buying signals, Implement steps for getting to yes, Build a pyramid of yeses that lead to a confirmation 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

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

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