Jan 18
Fun, fast, and highly effective, this training will stimulate your thinking, recharge your batteries, and spark your outside-the-lines creativity as you inspire your employees to excellence.
Creative Leadership — Seminar Overview
Start Here to Become a Creative Leader
  • Learn how to avoid common self-sabotaging behaviors that often plague both new and seasoned leaders
  • Your "leadership quotient" — why it's absolutely critical to your success as a leader!
  • What do employees really want from you as a leader? The answers are guaranteed to surprise you!
  • Find out why traditional management models just don't measure up in today's workplace … and what to use instead
  • Your Personal Action Plan — a super tool to build character, strengthen leadership skills, and boost your overall effectiveness
  • Create an atmosphere of trust and respect that values employees and promotes loyalty among coworkers

Jan 18 &19
You’ll learn ...
  • How to handle the toughest questions with finesse and polish
  • Techniques for maintaining your composure when you feel like losing your cool
  • How to think on your feet in meetings, interviews and impromptu presentations ... no more regrets over what you wish you´d said!
  • Diplomatic ways to deliver bad news without creating bad feelings
  • And much more!
Are you tired of being intimidated by high-pressure situations and difficult people? Learn how to handle touchy topics, problem people and sticky situations with finesse and skill in this two-day workshop. You´ll feel on top of challenging situations with new confidence in yourself and your abilities once you put this extensive collection of tips, secrets and skills to work.

Jan 22 - 24
How do you influence people who don’t work for you to get the results you need?
Whether you’re dealing with bosses, colleagues, staff members or senior management, the ability to win respect, influence people and cultivate cooperation is absolutely essential to career success. What’s more, in challenging economic times, the people with whom you interact in business can change on a moment’s notice. The ability to adapt quickly and work with anyone to achieve desired results is crucial—especially when you don’t have immediate authority to command their cooperation. At this seminar, you’ll focus on the key elements of influencing others when there is lack of authority—personal power, persuasion and negotiation. 
Learn how to influence people by building your power base using the Personal Power Model…understand exchange and reciprocity (the first steps in the influence process) …adapt behavior patterns that build credibility…persuade with a framework of discovery, preparation and dialogue…master the key components of negotiation. 
You’ll practice influencing techniques right from day one through the final activity on day three of this information-packed program—and enhance your learning with videos, exercises, assessment tools and group discussions. 
How You Will Benefit
  • Establish or regain credibility so you can begin to influence people
  • Effectively use your power base to persuade others
  • Understand the person you’re trying to influence—and persuade through give-and-take
  • Develop and grow relationships within your organization and beyond
  • Create a collaborative work environment for faster, better results
  • Let work styles and communication differences work for, not against, you
  • Successfully sell your ideas and implement change
  • Achieve trust and give-and-take relationships up, down and across the organization
  • Influence people while projecting self-confidence without being pushy
  • Adapt your style to the person or situation you’re dealing with
  • Identify various negotiating techniques that promote win-win outcomes

Jan 23
You’ll learn ...
  • The 3 rules of business writing you simply can´t afford to break
  • A 3-step approach for getting an immediate response to any written communication
  • How to overcome writer´s block once and for all!
  • How to unclutter your messages by eliminating unnecessary words and redundant expressions
  • And much more!
Find out just how easy it is to get started, organize your thoughts and present your messages in ways that achieve the positive results you want. Learn how to meet the challenge of "putting it in writing"—whether you´re writing letters, memos, proposals or other documents.

Jan 31
Learn how to make sense of complex financial reports and discover what they really mean with our financial statement analysis training — and no prior knowledge of finance or accounting is required
If you're a business professional who could benefit from a more thorough grasp of financial statements, this course is tailor-made for you!
You'll quickly master financial statement fundamentals and develop a comprehensive understanding of how they work, learn how to interpret them accurately, and discover how to use their information to make more effective, better-informed business decisions that have a positive impact on your organization's bottom line.
Here's just a sample of what you'll learn in our workshop:
  • How to decipher general accounting terminology and gain a clear understanding of the language of finance and accounting
  • Gain insights to vastly improve your working knowledge and interpretive ability for balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
  • How to use your enhanced knowledge of financial statements to develop better budgeting, projection, and forecasting skills
  • Interpreting annual reports: how to translate their deluge of information into knowledge that can help you make informed decisions
  • How to better communicate with accountants, bankers, comptrollers, and other finance professionals
  • Using financial ratios to analyze trends, conduct industry comparisons, and predict financial problems before they become insurmountable

Feb 7
Get sales and use tax answers that keep your company legal and you out of hot water!
  • Receive tips and techniques that may save your organization thousands in penalties
  • Gain new insights into the most commonly misunderstood aspects of sales and use taxes
  • Learn the sales and use tax requirements in your state and all other jurisdictions where you have tax liability
  • Discover where to find the latest changes in sales and use tax laws that govern your industry
  • Be able to protect your company against audit surprises
  • Explore tax savings opportunities and exemptions you may not be aware of
  • Understand how e-trade is affected by sales and use tax
  • Find out how to streamline your record-keeping without putting your company at risk
  • And even more you'll put to use immediately on the job!