Increase Your Profits Through Effective Business Development, Leadership and Communication teaches you to express yourself so that your message can be heard and listened to.  Leaders communicate with their people and organization to maximize their people’s potential and increase their productivity.  No matter what business you are in or what position you hold, learning these key communication skills is essential to your success and producing sustainable results for your organization. 

Value: Excellence in communication is so highly regarded by those who view you and deal with you that you will earn more, accomplish more, and be allowed to do more, even when you might be missing some technical skills.  The need for highly communicative and effective leaders is overwhelming. The present statistic is that 85% of what they are looking for in the boardroom at the executive and CEO level are skills to run an organization or to produce a product i.e. interpersonal skills, and that means communication.   

Communication, the number one fundamental leadership skill for the 21^st century.  This is not something to be ignored.  Communication, honing these skills, is absolutely imperative. So do you communicate clearly? Confidently? And credibly every time you speak? Write? Or present? Do you create profitable results with clear and compelling communication every time you communicate your ideas, your needs, and your mission?

Benefit:

• Recognize what it takes to be able to express yourself so that your message can be heard.
• Why communication is key to leadership success and excellence.
• Learn why communication is directly connected to productivity and business success.
• How listening really works in creating profits and success.

Deliver Difficult Information Successfully to Anyone Anytime with clarity and contributing to the outcome of a situation is one skill that you, as a leader, will need again and again.  Your people are looking to improve their performance and sometimes you need to deliver information that may not be easy to share. 

Value: One of the most difficult, complicated, complex and most avoided aspect of leadership/management is the delivering of difficult information to people, whether they are staff, superiors or subordinates.  We prolong the time we should be delivering the information for many reasons:  we don't want to disrupt the flow of work; we don't want to hurt the person's feelings; we are afraid it will cause ill feelings or tears; or maybe we did not follow through with what was needed and the situation is partly our fault.  It does not matter the reason for not telling someone something they will consider criticism or negative....it is hard to deliver the information.    

What if you could deliver information - negative or not - in a timely way that would increase performance and productivity?  What if you could actually not have to "feel" your way through tough information and could share it with confidence and effectiveness?  Now you can.  This workshop will erase the need to delay bringing "bad news" to someone ever again.  We can help you with the process of delivering and receiving difficult information so you can achieve a successful outcome each and every time.

Benefit:

• Learn the three (3) top preparation techniques for gathering information to increase others’ performance and productivity.
• Receive a top ten (10) list of red flags to help you understand that you need to take action and help another improve their effectiveness.
• Learn the top six (6) questions to ask in order to get the facts of any situation and help skip the emotion of the moment.

Value: A highly influential and engaging leader is well-rounded and thriving. A long-term leadership plan for achieving your goals and leaving a powerful legacy incorporates many methods for staying well, and the practice of stress-free behaviors. Making sure that you are developing life skills that promote wellness and the elimination of stresses in your career is paramount to your legacy, and paramount to your effectiveness. So, stress management, leading to stress reduction, is the ability of an individual to manage the perceived pressures they face on a day-to-day basis. And there are a lot of them. Whether it’s illness, job issues, family, food issues or sleep, we many times get to the point where we do not feel we are managing our lives effectively, and we are not well. Most of us call this critical situation “stress related.”  

Some interesting and sometimes disturbing statistics. These are true statistics around our daily stress, and especially our job-related stressors.

• 48% of workers reported that their job was very or extremely stressful.
• 50% view their job as the number one stressor in their life.
• 75% of the employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago.
• 29% of the workers felt quite a bit or extremely stressed at work.
• 50% of the business owners said that they are often or very often burned out or were stressed by their job.
• And, job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial complaints or family problems.

Benefit:

• Recognizing why a plan for wellness needs to be a part of the leader’s business strategy.
• How eliminating stress in the workplace increases productivity at all levels
• Taking a look at the real stress issues and detailing them