Business Succession Planning Workshop
What you'll learn
Define business succession planning and its role in your company.
Lay the groundwork to develop a succession plan.
The importance of mentorship.
Define and use a SWOT analysis to set goals.
Create a plan, assign roles, and execute the plan.
Communicate to develop support and manage change.
Anticipate obstacles, and evaluate and adapt goals and plans.
Characterize success.
The Cloud and Business Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand what the cloud is
Recognize risks and benefits
Communicate effectively
Employ business processes
Monitor performance
Telework and Telecommuting Workshop
What you'll learn
Know the skills required for working outside the office
Learn keys to proper self-management
Learn ways to manage time efficiently
Know different methods of organization and planning
Identify various forms of communication and their proper use
Address and resolve challenges that teleworkers can face
Project Management
What you'll learn
Define projects and project management
Explore the changes with the 7th edition and past editions
Recognize the factors that contribute to a system for value delivery
Identify the ethics that are most important for project management
Explore the 12 Project Management Principles
Identify the 8 Project Performance Domains
Understand the Tailoring Process
Define and explore models, methods, and artifacts
Personal Branding
What you'll learn
Define your image
Control your image
Understand how to sharpen your brand
Use social media appropriately
Manage your brand in a crisis
Develop a professional appearance
Negotiation Skills Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand the basic types of negotiations, the phases of negotiations, and the skills needed for successful negotiating
Understand and apply basic negotiating concepts: WATNA, BATNA, WAP, and ZOPA
Lay the groundwork for negotiation
Identify what information to share and what to keep to yourself
Understand basic bargaining techniques
Apply strategies for identifying mutual gain
Understand how to reach consensus and set the terms of agreement
Deal with personal attacks and other difficult issues
Use the negotiating process to solve everyday problems
Negotiate on behalf of someone else
Leadership Development for Women Course
What you'll learn
Understand the value of women’s leadership
Identify common gender-based barriers
Recognize the presence of bias against women in leadership positions
Explore strategies and tools to gain confidence to lead
Navigate common leadership challenges
Identify the power of leadership networking
Determine ways to establish a strong leadership style
Identify ways to empower and inspire others, using resources and support
Apply the principles of effective leadership to create organizational change
Interpersonal Skills Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand the difference between hearing and listening
Know some ways to improve the verbal skills of asking questions and communicating with power.
Understand what is ‘non-verbal communication’ and how it can enhance interpersonal relationships.
Identify the skills needed in starting a conversation.
Identify ways of creating a powerful introduction, remembering names, and managing situations when you’ve forgotten someone’s name.
Understand how seeing the other side can improve skills in influencing other people.
Understand how the use of facts and emotions can help bring people to your side.
Identify ways of sharing one’s opinions constructively.
Learn tips in preparing for a negotiation, opening a negotiation, bargaining, and closing a negotiation.
Learn tips in making an impact through powerful first impressions.
Entrepreneurship Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand how to start a business
Develop a business plan
Get financing for your business
Hire and train employees
Run your business
Grow your business
Digital Citizenship Workshop
What you'll learn
Define digital citizenship
Use technology appropriately
Use social networking to create your brand
Protect your reputation online
Practice safe use of technology
Understand digital etiquette
Developing Creativity Workshop
What you'll learn
Define creativity
Act with confidence
Engage in curiosity
Stop acting out of fear
Learn from introspection
Take risks
Thinking Outside the Box Workshop
What you'll learn
Define creativity
Differentiate between creativity and innovation
Work toward achieving the benefits of creativity for business success
Successfully build a creative team and work culture
Learn techniques for effective brainstorming
Identify the stages of the creative process
Understand the barriers of creativity
Use tools to help find your creative mind
Creative Problem Solving Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand problems and the creative problem solving process
Identify types of information to gather and key questions to ask in problem solving
Identify the importance of defining a problem correctly
Identify and use four different problem definition tools
Write concrete problem statements
Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group voting
Perform a final analysis to select a solution
Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
Understand the need to refine the shortlist and redefine it
Understand how to identify the tasks and resources necessary to implement solutions
Evaluate and adapt solutions to reality
Communication Strategies Workshop
What you'll learn
Understand what communication is
Identify ways that communication can happen
Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them
Develop their non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills
Use the STAR method to speak on the spot
Listen actively and effectively
Ask good questions
Use appreciative inquiry as a communication tool
Adeptly converse and network with others
Identify and mitigate precipitating factors
Establish common ground with others
Use “I” messages
Supply Chain Management Workshop
What you'll learn
Take a look at inventory management
Study supply chain groups
Review tracking and monitoring methods
Examine supply chain event management
Comprehend the flows of supply chain management and data warehouses
Understand the levels of supply chain management and their effects
Identify how supply chain management relates to: Customer satisfaction, Improving performance, Lowering costs, and Product development