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Seven Steps to Make Live Virtual Training Highly Interactive
People can initially be conce ed that live virtual training cannot be as interactive as the traditional face-to-face approach, but this isn’t necessarily true. The key is to design your program well by constantly keeping it moving and keeping participants engaged.
Three Elements of Effective Performance Discussions
One of the most difficult conversations most managers ever have is when they need to meet with an employee to discuss a performance problem. Most managers either put this discussion off altogether (just hoping against hope it will go away), or so clearly mismanage the discussion that the employee leaves feeling demoralized and unmotivated. However, the following three strategies can help you the next time you find yourself needing to coach an employee to improve. - Focus on specific performance issues, not personality. You may just know that the performance is
Overcoming Communication Obstacles in the Workplace
Research shows that we filter out or change the intended message of what we hear in 70% of our communication. That's a lot of the time! If we filter out or change it that often it is REALLY important that we learn how to send and receive messages to make sure we are being heard and are hearing others! The reason we filter out or change the meaning so often is that we just don't get it - no matter how much someone else might want us to!
3 Steps to Creating an Executive Presence That Inspires!
Today, I want to talk about how you come across and more importantly, how you want to come across. There are scores of articles on how effective some people are when interacting with others and one of the key ingredients that makes them so effective is their presence. What do I mean by presence? I mean the ‘wow’ factor – that something that makes people want to know you, work with you and spend time with you.
Benefits of Behavioral Interviewing
Have you ever wished you had a crystal ball that would tell you BEFORE you hired a candidate if they were actually going to be a good fit? Have you ever scratched your head AFTER you made a bad hiring decision, and wished you never even hired an employee in the first place? Making sure you have the right person, in the right position, at the right time, takes much more than a crystal ball. It takes knowledge of effective interviewing skills, and the ability to implement them. One of the most effective approaches for interviewing is called Behavioral Interviewing.
Understanding the Four Behavioral Styles
Below you will learn more about the four behavioral styles: Dominance, Influencing, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. Learn the goals and fears of each style, what they tend to overuse and how each style can be more effective. DOMINANCE – Focuses on Controlling the Environment Goals - Wants to get results - Likes “do it and do it now” approaches - Wants to be in charge - Likes new opportunities and challenges - Wants opportunity for advancement - Likes initiating change and taking risks Fears/Avoids
The Power to Speak Up!
Have you ever been in a situation where someone asked for your opinion and you lost your voice? Or you were itching to say something in a meeting because you knew you had something really important to say but it just wouldn’t come out? Today’s blog post is all about the power of finding your voice and speaking up. This is something that I struggled with for a long time and it wasn’t until I went to university and got involved with student politics that I really found my voice and truth be told, it’s hard to shut me up these days!! ;)
Customer Loyalty is a Relationship Business
When it comes to maintaining loyal customers, one simple fact never changes: It's all about the relationship you have with them. They already know all about your company's products and services - and they've already become your customer. But in today's day and age, competition for that same customer is increasing. You've got to find a way to keep them for life. Once that relationship is developed, you want to keep it strong. Identify what your client needs and go the extra mile to provide it.