Course Category: Sales and Marketing

 

Facilitation Skills Workshop

Facilitation is often referred to as the new cornerstone of management philosophy. With its focus on fairness and creating an easy decision making process. Creating a comfortable environment through better facilitation will give your participants a better understanding of what a good facilitator can do to improve any meeting or gathering.

The Facilitation Skills workshop can help any organization make better decisions. This workshop will give participants an understanding of what facilitation is all about, as well as some tools that they can use to facilitate small meetings. A strong understating of how a facilitator can command a room and dictate the pace of a meeting will have your participants on the road to becoming great facilitators themselves.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define facilitation and identify its purpose and benefits.
• Clarify the role and focus of a facilitator.
• Differentiate between process and content in the context of a group discussion.
• Provide tips in choosing and preparing for facilitation.
• Identify a facilitator’s role when managing groups in each of Tuckman and Jensen’s stages of group development: forming, storming, norming and performing.
• Identify ways a facilitator can help a group reach a consensus: from encouraging participation to choosing a solution.
• Provide guidelines in dealing with disruptions, dysfunctions and difficult people in groups.
• Define what interventions are, when they are appropriate and how to implement them.

 

Trade Show Staff Training Workshop

Deciding to attend a trade show is a large investment for any company. Preparation is essential: It’s better not to go to a trade show than to go unprepared. Every person in your booth is an ambassador to your company, make sure they are prepared. Trade show attendees usually plan a list of whom they’re going to visit before ever entering the convention center doors, make sure you are on that list.

Make sure your staff has the right tools to succeed with our Trade Show Staff Training course. A successful trade show will benefit your company on many levels. The most basic statistic is that it can cost half as much to close a sale made to a trade show lead as to one obtained through all other means. Get your staff trained and get to that trade show!

Workshop Objectives:

• Recognize effective ways of preparing for a trade show
• Know essential points to setting up a booth
• Know the Dos and Don’ts behaviors during the show
• Acknowledge visitors and welcome them to the booth
• Engage potential customers and work towards a sale
• Wrap up the trade show and customer leads

 

Telephone Etiquette Workshop

The meaning of Telephone Etiquette can sometimes be difficult to describe.  It can be a unique attribute or characteristic that facilitates great communication, inside and outside the office. It can be the special way that you show confidence in any challenging situation. These and other events can become more easily managed with this great workshop.

With our Telephone Etiquette workshop, your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop better telephone communication skills. By improving how they communicate on the telephone and improve basic communication skills, your participants will improve on almost every aspect of their career.

Workshop Objectives:

• Recognize the different aspects of telephone language
• Properly handle inbound/outbound calls
• Know how to handle angry or rude callers
• Learn to receive and send phone messages
• Know different methods of employee training

 

Presentation Skills Workshop

Many studies have found that public speaking is the number one fear for most people; outranking flying, snakes, insects, and even death. Ironically, it is also one of the skills that can make or break a person’s career. Your participants will be provided with a set of skills that will complement their current presentation skill set.

The Presentation Skills workshop will give participants some presentation skills that will make speaking in public less terrifying and more enjoyable. This workshop includes topics that participants can look forward to including: creating a compelling program, using various types of visual aids, and engaging the audience.

Workshop Objectives:

• Perform a needs analysis and prepare an outline
• Select presentation delivery methods
• Practice verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Overcome nervousness
• Develop and use flip charts with color
• Create targeted PowerPoint presentations
• Utilize white boarding for reinforcement
• Describe how video and audio enhance a presentation and list criteria for determining what types to use
• Enrich the learning experience with humor, questions, and discussion.

 

Multi-Level Marketing Workshop

Multi-level marketing, also known as MLM, is a business marketing strategy that many companies use in order to encourage current agents to perform while at the same time growing the team by recruiting and training new agents.  This tactic of marketing helps boost the company’s sales force not only from the sales of the primary agent, but also from the sales and profits of the agents they have recruited.

With our “Multi-Level Marketing” workshop, your participants will discover the specifics of how multi-level marketing works and how to effectively source agents. For many companies, it can prove to be a valuable tool for not only building revenue, but also for building their marketing and networking circles.

Workshop Objectives:

• Know how multi-level marketing works
• Build contacts
• Recruit new agents
• Be familiar with social media and marketing
• Provide training for recruits

 

Motivating Your Sales Team Workshop

Everyone can always use some inspiration and motivation. This workshop will help your participant’s target the unique ways each team member is motivated. Finding the right incentive for each member of your sales team is important as motivation works best when it is developed internally. Harness this through better communication, mentoring, and developing the right incentives.

Motivating Your Sales Team will help your participants create the right motivating environment that will shape and develop their sales team with right attitude and healthy competition. Instilling that unique seed which grows the motivation in your team will ensure an increase in performance and productivity. Have the best sales team you can have through better motivation.

Workshop Objectives:

• Discuss how to create a motivational environment
• Understand the importance of communication and training in motivating sales teams
• Determine steps your organization can take to motivate sales team members
• Understand the benefits of tailoring motivation to individual employees
• Apply the principles of fostering a motivational environment to your own organization

 

High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce ) Workshop

High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) are organizations, teams or groups working in a virtual environment that are focused on achieving the same goals. Bringing team members together through a virtual environment can be a challenge task. This workshop identifies these challenges and helps your participants push through to success.

With our High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) workshop, your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high performance skills, while working remotely. By knowing and managing the way people interact in a remote environment, you will be setting up your high performance teams to accomplish any task.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define high performance teams.
• Define remote workforce.
• Understand the characteristics of a high performance team.
• Understand how to create teamwork.
• Understand the importance of communication.
• Understand how to train your high performance team of remote employees.
• Learn how to manage a high performance team.
• Learn the techniques of an effective team meeting.

High Performance Teams (Inside the Company) Workshop

High Performance Teams (Inside the Company Workers) are organizations, teams or groups working inside an office environment that are focused on achieving the same goals.

With our High Performance Teams (Inside the Company Workers) workshop, your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high performance skills while working in an office locale. By knowing and managing the way people interact in an office setting, you will be positioning your high performance teams for great success!

Workshop Objectives:

• Understand the benefits of high performance teams
• Address challenges
• Conduct effective meetings
• Be able to see the big picture
• Work collaboratively
• Adequately praise team members

Employee Recognition Workshop

Recognizing employees through various recognition programs is a fantastic investment. Being appreciated is a basic human feeling and reaps great rewards. Praise and recognition are essential to an outstanding workplace and its employees.

Through our Employee Recognition workshop your participants will recognize the value of implementing even the smallest of plans. The cost of employee recognition is very minimal in relation to the benefits that will be experienced. Employee recognition programs have been shown to increase productivity, employee loyalty, and increased safety.

Workshop Objectives:

• Assess the type of Employee Recognition Program(s) your company needs
• Train leadership to recognize their employees
• Know when and where recognition is needed
• Construct a culture of recognition
• Maintain an effective Employee Recognition Program

Creating a Great Webinar Workshop

Webinars are a great inexpensive way to reach a large number of people. Webinars are great tools if you want to market a new or improved product, train employees, demonstrate a new task, or have a meeting with employees located throughout the globe. Being an interactive form of media, Webinars provides a great environment for these activities and so much more.

Creating a Great Webinar is all about providing a great interaction between the presenter and the audience. Your participants will develop the skills needed to promote, host, or facilitate a great Webinar for your company. Sharing your passion and knowledge with a Webinar is the best way to reach many with the power of one.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define webinars and their purpose
• Choose the best formats
• Prepare for webinars
• Avoid common mistakes
• Understand how to interact with the target audience
• Follow up successfully