Managing and Fine Tuning Your Career
This motivational and interactive workshop will teach you to fine tune those networking and communication skills that you might not have learned or that just need honing to advance your career or make your job easier. We'll examine the role networking plays in career success and how to increase your visibility internally and externally. Positive speak and a better understanding of how others behave promote higher productivity and better interpersonal relationships in the workplace.
Why Can't You Be More Like Me?
Using the Myers Briggs Typology Indicator or True Colors/Personality Dimensions indicators, this session will examine the four dichotomies where the participants self score themselves to achieve a clearer understanding of self and differences. Learn how to understand and assess your own personality preferences; recognize and understand the preferences of others; examine communication and behaviour solutions for people with different preferences; and improve communication and interpersonal relationships.
Generational differences in the workplace
For the first time in the history of the industrialized world, there are 4 generations working side by side in the workplace. Each generation walks to its own beat and there are noticeable differences between each as it pertains to work ethics, values, expectations and lifestyle preferences. Knowing and understanding the workplace and lifestyle preferences of the Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers can facilitate more effective interviewing and hiring practices. We will examine the histrionics of 4 of these groups of workers so as to better understand the core values, worth ethics, motivating messages and preferred feedback of each. Knowing and accommodating their preferences can also lead to higher employee retention and productivity. Find out what each generation wants to hear in their respective workplaces.
Networking How to Build Relationships That Count
75-80% of all opportunities that come our way in life are found through networking. Find out the truth about networking and how to make networking a daily part of your job — it's not just who you know, but who knows you! Recognize and overcome barriers and fears that prevent you from networking effectively. Identify specific tactics that will raise the company's visibility thereby increasing sales — if you aren't appearing, you are disappearing! Learn how to network with style and break the ice at business and social functions.