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How to Win at Negotiation

Recognize that negotiation is an important work skill

Learn strategies to Win

Practice your skills in negotiating scenarios

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

A brief introduction to the habits

Focus on self mastery – Habits 1, 2 and 3

How to be proactive and responsible to self

A look at the discipline required to become a mature, independent person

Ethics in the Workplace

The relationship between ethics and long term success

How honesty, character, integrity, faith, trust, love and loyalty are a part of the workplace

Solving ethical dilemmas at work.

Strategies for Effective Meetings and Presentations

Creating a meeting for positive results

Facilitating full participation

Using visuals effectively

Dealing with difficult participants

Emotional Intelligence Quotient

What is EQ?

What role does EQ play in the workplace?

How is EQ developed?

What skills make up an individual, team or company EQ?

How to develop EQ in the workplace.

Building Managers’ Confidence

The Success Vibration

Self-confident Personality Type

Discover Your Strengths

Looking Confident

Role of Manager/Supervisor

Challenging Situations for Management

Tolls for Increasing Supervisory Self-confidence

Assertiveness

Three Styles of Communication

The importance of knowing styles

How Did I Develop my style?

How do I develop more effective styles?

What is my predominant style?

How this will help me in the workplace.

Colors – Personality Instrument

There is a $10. per participant charge

What color are you?

What color are your teammates?

How to maximize differences for effective teams.

Building Self-esteem

The Role of Skill, Attitude and Knowledge

12 Steps to Success

Learning to Relax

Body Awareness

Breathing

Progressive Relaxation

Guided Imagery

The Keys to Motivation

The Nature of Motivation

What Motivates Others? Us?

How Effective are Fear and Punishment?

14 Factors Affecting Motivation in the Workplace

Individual and Organizational Influence

Successful Study Habits

Time Management

Listening

Note-taking

Textbook Reading

Test Taking

Creating Effective Workplace Relationships

Choosing Effective Behavior (Covey’s model of proactivity)

Effective Workplace Relationships

The win-win model

Empathic Communication

Teambuilding

When doing Teambuilding Workshops, there are a variety of topics that can be emphasized to improve the team. They are Empowerment, Handling Change, Leadership, Involvement, Decision Making and Team Effectiveness

Some of the techniques used are Didactic Presentations, Videos, Experiential Exercises, Inventories and Small Group Discussion

Dealing with Difficult People

Types of difficult people

What makes a person difficult?

Typical reactions

Effective responses

Constructive confrontation

Preventing Burnout

What is burnout?

What causes it?

To what extent does it exist in the American workplace?

Prevention

How to address it

Anger Management

What is anger?

Steps in managing your anger

How emotional anger works

Stress Management

Test your stress level

Self-test for stress levels

How you react to stress

Warnings of undue stress

Stress management

Time Management

Setting Goals

Establishing priorities

Creating a master plan

Tickler files & to do lists

Time blocking

Creating effective habits

Understanding Your Child’s Behavior

How your parenting style influences your child’s behavior

The purpose of your child’s behavior

How you may be unintentionally reinforcing misbehavior

How to change your responses to misbehavior

Raising Drug-Free Kids in a Drug-Filled World

How parenting behaviors influence your child’s decisions to use drugs

Why kids use drugs

Prevention behaviors you can use

How parents can deal with a child using drugs

Communicating with Tact & Diplomacy

Diplomacy & Tact Self Assessment

The Basics of Tactful & Diplomatic Communication

The Communication Model

The 4 Basic Components of Communication

Key Indicators of Ineffective Communication

5 Tools for Communication

Steps to Planning Your Communication

Communicating in Conflict Situations

Personal Anger Management

Managing Change

Process of Change

Symptoms of Change

Misconceptions of Change

Handling Change Proactively

Stress Management Techniques

Self Test for Change Levels

Cognitive Restructuring – Positive Thinking at Work

The Ten Steps to Successful Thinking

Exercises examining successful or irrational thinking patterns

Excellent Customer Service

Who are your customers?

Principles of customer service

The service cycle

What do customers want?

How can we give customers what they want?

Memorable service guidelines

Responding to customer complaints

Communication Skills

Listening Self-Assessment

The #1 skill of an effective person

Listening do’s and don’ts

Courage and Consideration

Test your communication style

Communication styles

Effective Communication for Win-Win Teams

10 Key traits of successful teams

The #1 sill of an effective leader

Listening self-assessment

Listening do’s and don’ts

Sharing information

Who Moved My Cheese?

Discusses the 14 main points of the book "Who moved my cheese," dealing with change.

Also has brief video over this topic.

Managing Conflict (updated)

Conflict management style survey

Conflict resolution styles

Courage and consideration

Tools and Obstacles for Managing Conflict

What a good listener does

Express yourself

 

 

 
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