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Speech, Seminar or Workshop Topics 

Change:  Are You Surviving? Or Thriving?
Be your Own Brand!

Change is becoming the norm and to resist it can ruin your career. 

The world rewards those who catch on to what’s happening; those who invest energy in finding and seizing the opportunities brought by change.     
   Learn:
            -the three key drivers of change
            -the difference between change and transition
            -the thirteen guidelines for managing radical change
            -the four stages of transition
            -the thirteen big mistakes in managing the transition

Meet the challenge.

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Customer Service
Sensational Strategies for Internal & External Customers

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a customer is a regular or frequent buyer.  According to Welchlin, a customer is your best friend!  Our customers and how we serve them is not only our lifeline but the bottom line. 

Research shows that we never hear from 96% of the people that are unhappy with us, our organization, or our service.  Do you really know how you’re doing?  Learn world-class strategies that work.
   Learn: 
            -the critical points of encounter
            -five reasons why customers become unsatisfied
            -why complainers are our most valued customers
            -the strategies to gain and maintain positive customer relations
            -the do’s and don’ts of professional customer service.

Turn that one-time customer into a lifetime customer!

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Handling Difficult People
Dealing with People You Can’t Stand

It is estimated the 20 –21% of our population can be classified as difficult people.  No matter where you go there will be at least one to deal with.  Difficult people look for your buttons.  They don’t push your buttons; they punch them!

   Learn:
            -the ten different types of difficult people
            -the five action steps to respond rather than react
            -the five stages in controlling your emotions and responding appropriately
            -how to differentiate yourself from everyone else
            -the fifty strategies to deal with the truly ruthless 

Identify the “nasty people” and learn how to stop being hurt by them without becoming one of them!

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Communications across the Generations at Work: Traditionals, Boomers, Xers, and the Millennials

With four different generations at converging upon the workplace, everyone needs to be equipped with the practical strategies to deal with all the differences.

If you’re a 28 year old manager in the service industry; how do you establish credibility with a man old enough to be your grandpa?  If you have just taken your first management position; how  do you suddenly start effectively supervising your buddies?  If Baby Boomers have most of the good jobs in your organization; how do you keep your young people around?   If you’re significantly younger than everyone else on the engineering team; how do you get them to listen?

This seminar sorts through the stereotypes and delineates the strengths and weaknesses of Traditionals, Boomers, Xers, and Millennials.

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Communication Between Men & Women
Men are from Fleet Farm; Women are from Nordstrom’s

Men and women often misunderstand each other.  Though we don't plan or expect to make life difficult for each other, we often mistake the ideas and feelings of a person of the other sex. 

We can understand and improve communication between men and women.

   Learn:
            -the four viewpoints on gender communication
            -the seven levels of gender communication in the workplace
            -the differences in conversation
            -the differences in vocabulary and nonverbal communication
            -how relationships are created and maintained 

Understand male and female realities, the new male-female relationship, and provide gender-responsible leadership!

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Building Effective Work Relationships 
Improving Our Relationships:  Interpersonal Communication

Relationships are not a luxury.  They are a necessity.   

Having a high degree of technical skills in not enough to ensure a successful career.  A person must also possess a high degree of interpersonal communication competence.

   Learn:
            -the five laws of communication
            -the rules of sensible self-disclosure
            -the methods to develop and maintain trust
            -the techniques to effectively express feelings verbally and nonverbally
            -the surefire conflict resolution skills and negotiation strategies

Are you looking forward to going to work, or resenting the fact you have to?

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Effective Interviewing: 
Hiring the Best People and Keeping Them

An interview is designed to achieve a predetermined goal; both the interviewer and interviewee must plan for it.  This presentation assists in hiring the right person and not the wrong person.

   Learn: 
            -how to develop and utilize a specific profile of the ideal employee
            -how to identify and neutralize common mistakes in hiring
            -the nine step selection process that guarantees success
            -how to identify the questions to ask and not to ask
            -how to identify criteria of successful candidates

 You don’t pay the price for hiring the best employees; you pay the price for hiring the bad ones!

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Leadership:  It’s not just Positional; It’s Personal
Leadership through High Impact Communication

Position power is the extent to which leaders have rewards, punishments, and sanctions.  Position power comes from the organization.

Personal power is the extent to which you can gain the confidence and trust of those people that you’re attempting to influence.  It’s the cohesiveness or commitment between leaders and followers.

   Learn:
            -the six criteria of personal credibility
            -the top ten characteristics of effective leaders
            -the three skills to long-term effectiveness
            -how to select appropriate situational leadership styles
            -how to take charge and grow winners

 The new leaders are communicators and build and sustain both positional and personal power!

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Listening:  The Business of Communicating
Complimented on Your Listening Skills Lately?

 

The ability to be an effective listener is too often taken for granted.  Listening requires paying attention, interpreting, and remembering. 

A survey of personnel directors found:  effective listening was ranked highest among the skills defined as most important for employees.

Listening is a skill that can be learned.

   Learn:
            -the nine barriers of effective listening
            -the six step listening sequence
            -the eleven reasons why we don’t listen
            -the five ways to listen and respond
            -the fourteen characteristics of effective listeners

Don’t get caught saying, “My co-worker says I never listen to them, or something like that.”

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Managerial Communication: 
What Makes an Effective Leader? Communication

Hundreds of studies have sought to identify what it is that differentiates effective managers from ineffective ones. 

All studies generally conclude that the effective manager must be competent in these four skills:  conceptual skills, human skills, technical skills, and political skills.

   Learn:
            -the techniques of effective listening
            -the rules of goal setting and providing feedback
            -the skills of an effective delegator and sensational supervisory skills
            -how to appraise performance and select disciplinary actions
            -the strategies of oral persuasion and politicking
            -the principles in running effective meetings and resolving conflict 

A career can and should be managed.  Learn smart moves for people in charge!

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Meetings:  Meeting for Results
The Most Overused and Underutilized Communication Tool

It’s been calculated that 11 million meetings take place every day in the United States, and not all them at your organization.

Meetings are effective tools for decision-making, introducing and supporting change, and developing a spirit of teamwork.  However, meeting usually take more time than necessary and are much less productive than they should be.

   Learn:
            -the four keys to leading meetings successfully
            -the questions you need to ask before the meeting
            -the questions you need to ask during the meeting
            -how to participate constructively
            -how to evaluate others’ ideas without damaging their self-esteem
            -the twelve techniques essential for effective meetings

 Are you suffering death by meeting?  It’s up to you to make meetings more productive!

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“KNOCK – OUT” Negotiation Skills
Do You Know Your MPP?  

Negotiation skills dictate your level of professionalism.

Acquiring negotiation skills strengthen your confidence and increase the likelihood that you will walk away from the bargaining session with satisfying outcomes. 
 
   Learn:
            -the negotiating models
            -the five steps in the negotiation process
            -the techniques to gain cooperation
            -the method to recognize, neutralize, and capitalize on the thirty dirty tricks
            -the ten characteristics of an effective negotiator

 When opportunities arise, don’t hesitate, begin to negotiate!

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Persuading and Influencing Others:
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills

Most people would rather not get up in front of a group and give a presentation. I do it because they pay me.

The ability to speak confidently and competently is essential to long term success of our careers and personal lives.

   Learn:
            -how to plan and prepare the presentation
            -how to find and use a variety of supporting materials
            -how to capture and hold the attention of your audience
            -how to arrange and organize related points
            -how to use your body and your voice to communicate more effectively

Everyone will be called upon in their lives to get up in front of a group to state their opinions, present a report, or give a speech

Let’s make sure it’s a great one!

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Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
How Should a Decision Like this One be Made?

Effective problem-solving and decision-making is both an art and a science.  Making the wrong decision can be worse than making no decisions at all. 

You can go through essential stages and arrive astound decisions that increase your chances of attaining your major objectives.

   Learn:
            -the ten most dangerous problem-solving traps
            -the eight characteristics of good problem-solvers
            -the inductive decision-making formula
            -the practical problem-solving approach
            -the 1-3-6 decision-making model

 Understand and balance confidence and make better decisions.

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Self-Esteem:  “Intra”personal Communication
What Do You Say When You Talk to Yourself?

Internal messages or conversations create our self-concepts.  Self-concept is what you believe about yourself.  It is your own impression, attitude and description regarding yourself.

These messages may led to positive feelings and abilities, or may become negative and damage self-worth. Our ability to communicate internally is shown in terms of how it affects our ability to communicate well with the rest of the world.

   Learn:
            -the sources of self-concept and the affect they have today
            -how to give yourself the credit you deserve
            -how to recognize and attack the self-destructive beliefs
            -how to build your self-esteem
            -how to thoughtfully set personal goals and manage expectations

 You can unlock your potential for success if you can first develop and expand your “intra”personal communication skills.  What do you think?

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STP – Stress, Time, and Procrastination Management
Are You a BURNOUT?

Nearly half of the nation’s workers say job stress is destroying their mental and physical health and eroding their productivity.

Balance the quickness, quantity, and quality of your life. 
 
   Learn:
            -the benefits and consequences of stress
            -the three stages of burnout
            -the thirty proven techniques to relieve stress
            -the top twenty time management techniques
            -the five steps to stop procrastination

 Are you managing the overload?

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Team Member Effectiveness:  Team Building
Taking Your Talents and Your Team to the Top

Having to work with others is a fact of life.  Working well together is a necessity. 

Working together in a group is a difficult and complicated communication task.  Most people are unaware of the communication dynamics that affect the team and the team’s effort.
  
   Learn:
            -the requirements to build supportive teams that yield successful results 
            -the tools for successful team meetings
            -the strategies of building successful teams
            -the essentials to build cohesiveness
            -the techniques to apply if a group member creates a problem 

I don’t like working on teams, but I have to.  Maybe you feel the same way.  So I decided, if I have to work on teams; I could just as well be good at it.  How about you?

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Telephone Skills:
Effective
High-Impact Communications

The most important interactions with customers and co-workers can happen over the phone. Using the telephone effectively involves much more than simply dialing numbers and chatting with your favorite person.

The way you use the telephone has an impact on how people feel about the quality of service your entire organization provides.

In this seminar, you will learn:

     -How to identify and improve your points of encounter
     -Professional tips and techniques
     -The
do’s and don’ts of putting people on hold
     -How to
take meaningful messages and transfer calls
     -How to
improve your listening skills and customer service
     -Ways to
deal with difficult people on the phone
     -Responses that
restore relationships

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Time Management:  Achieving Results
Getting More Done in Less Time

Time is a unique resource.  Day to day, everyone has the same amount.  It cannot be accumulated.  You can’t turn it on or off.  It can’t be replaced. 

Learn to improve your effectiveness and efficiency through better time management and get more done in less time.

   learn:
           -the self-generated time bandits that rob you of your time
           -the environmental time bandits that rob you of your productivity
           -what controls your time
           -the three tests of time
           -the top twenty time management techniques

Learn time management techniques and regain control of your life!

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