Location: On -Site only
Length : Half-Day seminar ,or Keynote/Breakout presentation
Number of Participants : unlimited
Materials : Comprehensive Notebooks provided
Follow-Up Monitoring : No-Charge MVP six month follow up program. Attendee's may contact instructor for topic relevant questions by email or phone for six-months following presentation. 

 

  In an era of economic upheaval, failure of institutions and inventories of fears growing by the moment, communication takes on even more importance.
Always a vital consideration, it now begs for attention in a tentative, dangerous and quickly-changing world.
   This half-day seminar underscores elements of effective communication with consistent, common sense guides to approach challenges boldly and confidently.
Our “diaper-hood” days of infancy when our only tools are tears and smiles--or cries and giggles--to fast forward mode in a complicated world comes all too
soon.  Quickly, how we communicate takes on critical importance.
   When needs for communication skills are ignored, opportunities for happiness and success are imperiled, personally and professionally, from the
home place to the work place.  In too many organizations, communication remains a back-burner concern, and sometimes communications isn't even on the
stove at all.
   In this seminar, tried and true strategies for two-way communications are presented. “How to” plans of successful organizations will reveal that
communications strategies are both intentional and consistently executed. Such firms are committed to fostering atmospheres of candor, mutual respect
and united efforts to meet organizational goals.
Literature for future reading will be presented, along with suggestions for ways to continually hone communication skills.
   Traits of successful communicators will be studied, including one Bill Moyers, who followed a simple, yet effective credo years ago when he was
presidential press secretary.  “When at all possible, tell the truth…but never lie.”  Such approach to life and work is worthy of emulation, and is
foundational for effective communications.
 

  Seminar participants will gain:
•   Deeper appreciation of who they are, where they are, and what they do,
•   Reasons to hold their heads high with confidence to face whatever comes next,
•   More respect for communication, both up and down,
•   Tips for written and verbal communication,
•   Understanding of body language,
•   Clearer understanding of “big picture” organizational goals, and how they
“fit in,”
•   Importance of listening skills,
•   How to use humor to lighten the load,
•   Understanding that willingness to forgive, both self and others, is critical
to communication, relationships, attitudes and essentially all that we do.