Target Audience - Employees responsible for building program membership and support, facilitating research activities, meetings, engaging the community in town hall forums, presenting ideas and defending proposals.
Length – 2 Days
Managing Business Relationships: Facilitation, Presentation & Networking Skills
Designed specifically to assist staff members in developing the skills needed to build program membership and support, facilitate research activities, host effective meetings, present ideas, defend proposals and advance leads.
Attendees will learn to strategize to improve their networking, interpersonal and facilitation skills while learning how to maximize business relationships and win support by:
- Becoming proficient at knowing what questions to ask, and when to ask them
- Learning to listen for opportunities to expand their objectives and relationships
- Gaining methods to constantly build relationships
- Understanding how to manage business and community leads/contacts
- Learning how to capture and hold an audience's attention
- Learning how to facilitate difficult discussions and get people talking
- Developing methods to connect human networks
- Improving vocal range, tone and body language to deliver effective presentations
- Experiencing how to respond to formal interviews and briefs with ease
- Establishing methods to improve follow-through and execute action
- Learning to close a talk and inspire action
- Obtaining fundamental techniques for handling people, including difficult ones
- Expanding ability to convince others
- Learning to utilize "question and answer" periods effectively