Who should attend Leadership Training Seminars?

• Managers and supervisors
  
• Employees being groomed for management positions
  
• Business Owners
  
• CEOs

Leading Your Team to Excellence

Transforming groups of employees into real teams requires a set of tools and a shared commitment to the mission of your company. During this highly interactive, humorous workshop, Debra J. Schmidt will teach you how to get your employees to take ownership of their actions and attitudes. You’ll discover what makes a group effective or ineffective and learn how to build solid teams. Discover whether you’re a coach or a critic and gain an understanding of your leadership style and how it impacts others.


Life Can Turn on a Dime -- How to Manage Workplace Change

Fear and resistance to change in the workplace can be transformed into creativity and innovation. This humorous, interactive and thought-provoking program will teach you how to identify barriers to change build rapport and reduce conflict. You will discover how good leadership skills will help you and your team effectively manage change.


How to Deliver Winning Presentations

It is often said that most people would rather die than get up in front of an audience to speak. Have you been asked to give a sales presentation? While hard work and good ideas are essential to success, your ability to express those ideas and get others to join you is just as important. Don't get nervous--get organized. Presentation nervousness is most often caused by poor preparation. During this program, Debra J. Schmidt will teach you how to improve your presentation skills to help you build rapport, connect with your audience and boost your sales.

Who should attend Team Building Training Seminars?

• Managers and supervisors
  
• All employees who need to work as a team
  
• Business Owners
  
• CEOs

The Power of Possibility Thinking

Why do some people have more success than others? They have trained themselves to look for the positive possibilities at work and in all areas of life. They have learned how to listen to new ideas with an open mind, look for opportunities and seize them with courage, welcome challenging problems and solve them creatively. Debra J. Schmidt will teach you how to take ownership of your actions and attitudes and how to build a solid team of possibility thinkers. You’ll learn how to reach greater success by becoming a hope booster, confidence creator, enthusiasm generator and optimism spreader!


Building Rapport Through Effective Communications

The way you communicate with others goes beyond the words you say. Your attitude, body language, communication style and personal appearance are key elements in how successful you will be in your career. Every interaction you have with a co-worker or customer is an opportunity to build or damage your personal credibility. Learning how to adapt your communication style to build greater rapport and trust will help you create positive workplace relationships.

The DISC Behavioral Style Analysis tool and team exercises will be used during this interactive workshop to equip everyone on the team with tools to help them build greater rapport with their co-workers and customers. Debra J. Schmidt will teach you how to create a more professional culture, and significantly improve the quality of internal communications.


Cubicle Etiquette -- How to Create a Pleasant and Productive Workplace

Cubicles or “cubies” abound whether you work in a Fortune 500 company or a small family-owned business. When you don’t qualify for the corner office, a “cubie” can be a “home away from home,” a place where you can hang family photos and even funny, yet tasteful, cartoons. But, if you’re currently housed in a cubicle, you know that there is no such thing as privacy. Shared workspace is like working in a fishbowl. During this humorous seminar, Debra J. Schmidt will teach you 32 easy-to-follow rules of cubicle etiquette that will help strengthen relationships with your workplace neighbors... co-workers


Email Etiquette for Business

Email is the foremost method of communication used in business today. The number of emails sent on an average day is expected to exceed 10 billion worldwide in this coming year. This exceeds the daily number of telephone calls, faxes, and standard mail messages combined! Because of its abuse and misuse, email is doing more damage to workplace and customer relationships than any other form of communication. Email is causing businesses to lose customers and breaking down co-worker relationships. During this seminar, Debra J. Schmidt will teach you how to properly use e-mail to make it a highly effective tool for workplace communications and building solid co-worker and customer relationships.