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Training Participants Will Learn the Skills to...
Meet less and get more done
By using the tools and tips in the workshop we guarantee that meetings will be at least 100% more productive. Participants will learn how to make meetings start and end on time.
Use simple tools for leading productive meetings
We provide training participants with simple tools for leading a well organized and focused meeting. Also, tools for ensuring that each meeting ends with a clear set of agreements for next steps and actions will be provided.
Get better attendance and interest
Team leaders using our tools will create more interest among their meeting attendees, thereby increasing attendance.
Get more team buy-in
Team members will buy-in to ideas and decisions using our meeting processes, making them more likely to bring the ideas into action. Participants will learn tools to make meetings more interesting, engaging and worthwhile for everyone.
Everyone contributes
We provide training participants with the tools to enable their meeting attendees to contribute significantly.
Make better group decisions
Using the decision making tools we train, better decisions will be made.
Enable greater creative contributions in a meeting
Training participants will be given the tools to stimulate creative thinking and problem solving in their meetings.
Deal with difficult meeting situations
There are approaches a meeting leader may use to ensure that dominating personalities, silent people, challengers, know-it-alls and others that will cover in the training.
Description
This workshop is more than just a meeting management training. We train meeting leaders to lead productive and engaging meetings. After attending this course your leaders' attendees will no longer feel like they are wasting their time at meetings. In fact, they may actually enjoy going to meetings (imagine!).
Topics Include
Workbook/Reference Book
Duration: 4 hours to 6 hours .
2 day advance version available
Purpose: No more drain and drudgery of meetings just being productive and engaged
What: Hands-on training for providing important tools to make meetings more productive and engaging
How: This workshop is highly interactive and productive. We model a great meeting in the training. The training actually runs like a meeting. Participants will experience all the critical meeting activities including planning, framing, warming, focusing, accountability, evaluating meetings and more.
In the 8-hour training, each person will practice leading meetings by conducting a mini-meeting using many of the simple interactive tools we teach them.
Where: Off-site, on-site or remotely through the Zoom platform
Duration: 2 hours to 8 hours
Purpose: To develop the 3 key creative thinking skills, and a whole bunch more. To significantly improve one's ability to generate great and creative ideas in less time. To increase problem solving abilities.
What: Highly interactive and fun workshop devoted to achieving increase ability to generate ideas fluently, flexibly and Uniqueness (F.F.U)
How: This workshop is 95% active. This workshop is fun and productive. Participants play games designed to exercise the innovative mind
Where: Off-site, on-site or virtual
This powerful, tailored, 4 and 8 hour workshop will give your staff more than just the foundation on providing good internal and external customer service. It will give them the motivation, desire and ownership to satisfy your customers with excellence. That's why we subtitled this workshop "From the Inside/Out."
Most training participants know what good and bad customer service is, but they may not provide it in their jobs. They may not have made the mental connection between what they know about customer service and their specific jobs. They also may not be clear on what to do to provide great customer service. Our customer service training provides both the awareness and the clarity that they need to give excellent customer service. Our customer service workshop also creates this awareness by creating "buy-in" with the participants. This is done by having them build their own Customer Service for Excellence Model based on their experience of good and bad customer service. They then gain clarity of what to do in their jobs by creating specific strategies, procedures and "next steps" based on the created Customer Service for Excellence Model. This process will establish good customer service habits in your workplace. The result will be individual plans and tactics for how to work with their customers so that the customers feel that they are well taken care of.
We find that this training approach is far more effective than most customer service training programs. We believe that the way to ensure your customer service agents provide great customer service is to go beyond technique and the "suppose to-dos." Our focus is on getting "buy-in" from the workshop participants and getting their 100% agreement as to what things they can do to create excellent customer service experiences for their customers.
This workshop is fast-paced, 80% interactive, participatory, and productive. It includes discussions, fun games and quizzes, demonstration and practice, lecturettes, storytelling, role plays, and problem solving. Participants will be working individually, in small groups and in large groups.
Before our training our trainer will spend time getting to know your business and tailoring the training to your business. They will use relevant examples and focus on the type of customer service your staff provides. For example, this training is flexible enough to focus solely on customer service on the phone. So if your business is a service, manufacturer, or retailer the training will fit right in.
Participants will also be asked to commit to using the new skills/tools by completing our "Commitment Form."
The 8-hour version includes developing a Customer Service Policy that the group collectively creates. This policy includes the specific behaviors needed for each person to provide great customer service. This makes a powerful workshop even more powerful.
We also offer a shorter version for Keynotes & Conferences. This 1- to 3-hour version is extremely dynamic and fun. There are lots of interactive activities that focus on the importance of providing great customer service and how to completely satisfy your customer.
At the end of this workshop attendees will create a model of what good and bad customer service is. They themselves will have established principles for providing excellent customer service. Though each group typically comes up with fairly common responses, the wording and perspective are unique to each group. In order to ensure greater buy-in the workbook is handed out after the session and includes their ideas and decisions about establishing excellent customer service. This is what makes this workshop powerful and special.
It's easy to arrange. Pick a time and place and we will send an expert trainer out to you. Just fill out the request for proposal and we'll do the rest.
Duration: 2 to 8 hours
Purpose: To significantly improve your internal and/or external customer service. to bolster your staff's ability, desire and enthusiasm to serve their internal and external clients/customers responsively and with great care.
What: A series of highly interactive activity designed to light the "fire" under your staff.
Number of people: 3 - 500
Where: Off-site, on-site or virtual
Learn the tools and processes to find the right problem and solution to most any problem or situation. Finding the Solution is a highly interactive and memorable training workshop. The participants will learn specific tools for solving problems by doing...by solving problems. They will develop awareness and understanding of the need to use a problem solving process and how to use it. The focus of this training may be on group or individual problem solving and decision making or a mixture of both.
They will learn how to find solutions using 4 steps:
The goal for the one day is to learn how to use the tools. The two-day or three-day workshop goal is to learn the tools and also apply them to a variety of problems.
Participants will be able to...
In a group or individually. Outline
Tailored to your needs This workshop may be tailored to fit your particular needs.
The workshop workbook is filled with tools that are recipes for solving most any problem. We treat this book like most any recipe book when creating a meal. In using a recipe book you pick and choose whichever recipes would suit your needs. Much in the same way, pick and choose the recipes in this book that are appropriate for the problem. The participants will learn which "recipes" to select under different circumstances. These recipes are for "rational" problems (a problem as a result of a change) as well as for creative problems (a new situation or opportunity). It is divided up into five sections: 1) The Stages and Tasks of Problem Solving 2) Targeting 3) Idea Generating 3) Decision Making and 5) Implementing
Each problem solving tool taught in the workshop can be summarized into one essential question. Targeting and idea generating questions are on the beautiful Finding the Solution Cards. Each participant will receive a set of these cards to ensure that these tools are used in the workplace.At this meeting we will guide your leaders through sticky business challenges and decisions so the team uses the brain trust to its highest ability. These cards are optional.
Your team will be developing solutions and/or making tough decisions collectively and easily!
Duration: 1 day or 3 days
Purpose: Solve technical or creative problems as a team or individually
What: Learn an intuitive 4-step process and the tools that go with each step
How: Learn how to use the tools for solving problems and making decisions
Where: Off-site, on-site or virtual
"A problem well defined is a problem half-solved.
John Dewey
This workshop is highly interactive. The participants collectively create an agenda of a ideation meeting. They will experience all the critical meeting tasks including planning, framing, warming, focusing, "follow-throughing", and evaluating meetings. Each person will be practicing leading brainstorming meetings by conducting a mini-meeting using many of the simple interactive tools we teach them.
This workshop may be tailored to fit your particular needs.
Creative Collaboration: Simple Tools for Inspired Teamwork. This is a recipe book filled with activities designed to get your team's creative juices flowing: from warm-up exercises, ideation tools, and team energizers. Each activity includes a time estimate, needed supplies, suggested group size, and hints and examples for the team leader.We will guide your group to establish the appropriate strategic message for your product or service. Everyone contributes and collaborates. And we are able to extract the wisdom of the group.
Duration: 2 to 3 days
Purpose: Develop the skill to lead an extremely productive ideation/brainstorming session.
How: Looking at all the key elements that make an ideation session successful.
Number of Participants: 3 to 15 people
Where: Off-site, on-site or virtual
The focus of our training programs are to take the skills and knowledge back to work and to make a significant difference in the performance of the participants.
Training activities are varied with opportunities for all types of learners, including the visual, kinesthetic and conceptual learner. We use introverted and extroverted oriented activities.
Whether the participants regularly spend time with each other or not, our training programs provide ample opportunity for each person to network and build a relationship with others.
Provide Skills
The participants will become more productive and their jobs will become easier with higher chance of success. Training will address weaknesses and improve performance and awareness.
Creates Common Language
The participants will be on the same page, using a common vocabulary and same frame of reference.
Maintains Interest & Enthusiasm
Employees and management will maintain high interest received from the training into their everyday work life
Our trainers will expertly guide your executives, managers, and staff towards enhance skills.
We are a meeting facilitation, team building and training group specializing in innovation, improving and developing team collaboration and customer service.
San Francisco Bay Area
Phone: 1.415.479.2028
Email: bruce@IdeaGuides.com
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