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Full and half-day seminars and keynote speaking engagements that are customized
for each audience.
Frequently requested topics:
Get Your Message Across: Speak With Confidence
Maximize opportunities to win understanding and support for ideas and
proposals in meetings and presentations.
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Identify purpose of presentation, benefits to the audience and personal
presentation strengths and challenges.
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Create a presentation outline using a five-step model.
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Receive feedback on presentation content and delivery.
The White-Knuckled Speaker: Presentations Made Easier
Increase confidence and achieve objectives in individual or group settings by
managing presentation anxiety.
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Identify specific concerns contributing to presentation anxiety.
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Reduce nervousness using practical planning and delivery tips.
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Develop short in-class presentation based on a job-related topic.
Behavior-Based Interviews: Take the Guesswork Out of Hiring
Specific interviewing tips and techniques that strengthen the interviewer’s
ability to make sound hiring decisions.
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Identify tasks, skills and knowledge critical for successful job performance.
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Create interview database of open-ended, closed and probing questions.
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Develop consistent game plan for each interview to optimize time spent and
quality of information gathered.
The Difficult Conversations: Appraisal Feedback
Improve employee performance and develop employee potential using a consistent
approach to appraisal feedback.
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Identify appraisal challenges for managers and employees.
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Apply specific appraisal planning tools to identify discussion objectives,
anticipated employee responses and strategies for understanding and managing
resistance.
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Participate in practice opportunities using actual job scenarios; receive and
apply facilitator and peer feedback.
Retain EmployeeTalent: Development Discussions
Recognize the different objectives of the performance appraisal and the
development discussion; identify tools to develop and retain employee talent.
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Align employee developmental opportunities with organizational needs.
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Identify "low cost/no cost" employee development opportunities.
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Conduct development discussions using a four-stage model.
Manage Meeting Dynamics: Are You Being Heard?
Minimize meeting inefficiencies with specific tools for facilitators and
participants.
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Develop meeting management plan focusing on pre- and post - meeting strategies.
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Keep participants on topic using agreed upon guidelines and assignments.
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Encourage group participation and manage differences in opinion.
What’s In Your Skill Set?
Create a Skills Profile for personal and professional development.
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Identify competencies critical to job performance.
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Focus on skills that capitalize on personal strengths.
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Apply results to career development discussions, second careers and retirement
options.
"Tell Me About Yourself" Create Your Professional Brand
Develop a strong personal marketing statement for personal and professional
networking opportunities and job interviews.
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Organize work experience by key accomplishments and value-added statements.
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Deliver a message that attracts and holds the listener’s attention.
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Practice and revise content and delivery using facilitator and peer feedback.
Career Matters: What Have You Done for Your Career Lately?
Develop an internal career development plan by aligning self-assessment
information with organizational needs.
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Create a career profile based on skills, style, interests and values.
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Develop a strategy for identifying and evaluating internal career options.
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Increase visibility on-the-job and expand professional networks through
branding.
Selected Client List
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State Street Corporation
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Boston College
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Hancock/Manulife Financial
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Polaroid Corporation
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CitiStreet
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Dana Farber Institute
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
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Keystone Partners
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Massachusetts Library Association
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Massachusetts Teachers’ Association
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Operation A.B.L.E
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