Essential Skills for Business


Influencing without Authority
The influencing skills program is designed to give you a deeper understanding of the qualities of an effective influencer and the characteristics of influencing without authority (typically across and up in your organization). At the conclusion of this program, you will have skills and strategies to achieve business outcomes with those over whom you have no reporting line authority. You will be able to more effectively influence internal stakeholders to embrace your ideas, accept your recommendations and support your initiatives.

Presentation Skills to Win!
Consider an organization where employees possess the know-how to deliver dynamic, compelling, and truly effective presentations time and again.
The presentation skills program focuses on helping participants discover how to craft presentations around key objectives, present concepts and ideas with power and enthusiasm, design and present effective visuals, and employ techniques for polishing and mastering presentation delivery. Executives, managers, and staff alike will boost presentation performance with our presentation skills program, enabling them to motivate teams, win business, and improve results.

Advanced Negotiation Skills
Negotiation is a method by which people settle differences. It is a process by which compromise or agreement is reached while avoiding argument. This program will leave participants with contract, project, resource and interdepartmental negotiation strategies for success. The workshop combines planning, preparation and face-to-face skills, and is designed to maximize outcomes in high-stakes negotiations, particularly where protecting the relationship is important. The core capabilities are explored including handling resistance. This is a very interactive workshop with hands-on simulations. Participants will be able to analyze negotiation situations, select the appropriate strategies and tactics and use them effectively.

Critical Conversations for Success
Whatever the challenge – from performance management to customer service to teamwork or productive internal relationships, critical conversations equips you with the mindset & skill set required to have productive, real conversations that drive the results you want to achieve. We define a “Critical Conversation” as being any interaction where: the stakes are high, opinions differ and emotions can boil over.

 Business development to Increase Wins!
The new business development program is a unique blend of strategic planning tools and communication-based communication skills. It offers a pragmatic approach to identifying new opportunities and winning business through prospective and existing clients. Participants will have more success qualifying prospects and opportunities with current clients, creating interest and accelerating the sales cycle.

Mastering Clean and Concise Presentations

Dive deeper into the fundamentals of weaving together your data-driven narratives and emerge with presentation skills that can inspire and influence your audience. The ability to craft data-driven presentations that are logically sound, persuasive, and tailored to your audience. Presentation best practices, and the skills to design graphs to clearly communicate insights. Discover how to organize ideas to communicate them effectively.