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Communicating Across Cultures
Has the world arrived at your door? This interactive course is a must if you collaborate in a global team, have co-workers from different cultures or serve customers abroad. Learn how to build relationships, manage deadlines, get feedback reach commitments and share information in ways that are inclusive and effective across cultures.
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Communicating to Influence: The Art and Science of Persuasion and Negotiation
Persuading and influencing others is a key requirement for business and inter-personal success.Convincing others to follow us, when they are initially skeptical, or opposed to our goals, is a challengefor program managers and leaders. In this highly-interactive course, participants will utilize hands-onexercises and challenges to demonstrate and practice effective persuasion and negotiation skills. Participants will recognize opportunities and optimal strategies for influence and building support and will practice effective strategies for persuading peers, superiors and those outside an organization..
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Communicating Using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used instrument in the world for gaining a deeper understanding of self, others and interpersonal relationships. It provides insights on the four basic “people patterns” that hold the key to leadership styles, effective communication, conflict, team building and productivity.
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Conflict Resolution
This course provides a simple, but highly effective, four-step model that enables you to reduce the emotional charge in any conflict situation by keeping the communication focused and productive.
You’ll learn how to surface hidden agendas with proven techniques that encourage openness and trust. You’ll apply these techniques to your own work-related conflict situations and learn how to produce more effective results.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influence
You may be communicating with a particularly difficult person or group: The issue you are addressing may be highly charged; or varying points of view may be deeply entrenched; in any case, your business effectiveness and person sanity depend on how you handle conflict. In this course you will learn to apply the ART response model to handle any conflict.
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Effective Communication
In this course, you will examine the three primary communication skills – clear goal setting, making the message audience-appropriate and active and empathic listening and understand how to improve your working relationships in any situation. This is a highly experiential course applicable for people at every level of the organization.
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Managing Difficult Conversations
In this course, you will learn how to plan and successfully execute the very conversations that we too often avoid. We will explore the reasons why some conversations are difficult to initiate, learn to re-frame and turn these conversations into productive and rewarding interactions and create personalized strategies to avoid difficult conversations in the future.
This course will employ learnings from the Harvard Negotiation Project and the MIT Dialogue Project. These techniques will be correlated to your individual leadership and communication styles.
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Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team course is based on the New York Times best seller of the same name by Patrick Lencioni. Combining an assessment and powerful exercises, this course addresses the obstacles that prevent teams from being cohesive and productive.
In this course, team members learn to establish a common approach to achieve team goals, clarify roles and expectations, effectively communicate and constructively debate issues, make better decisions and create a team contract to optimize performance.
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Strengths-Based Teams
This course focuses on actions that people can take to prepare themselves to thrive in a business
environment where uncertainty and change are the only constants. Change is inevitable, but that does
not mean that people must get stuck in the personal transitions associated with external changes. While
responses to change vary across individuals, emotional reactions, even to positive changes, are a natural
human response. These reactions only become problematic if people get “stuck,” unable to move
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Success in Global Teams
Learn how to build trust and effective processes in a global team at each stage of the team life cycle. Through a video case study, identify how to work across cultural differences and resolve common frustrations to create engagement and high performance in your team. Discover best practices to improve communication and turn challenges into opportunities for global collaboration.
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Team-Based Problem Solving
This course presents a five-stage model of problem solving that uses the fundamentals of Peter Senge's systems thinking to find solutions and enhance decision-making. This powerful methodology teaches you how to identify defeating aspects of quick fixes and how to create long-term solutions. This approach demonstrates that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and that total system collaboration is the key to high performance.
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The Art of Productive Conflict
You may be communicating with a particularly difficult person or group: The issue you are addressing may be highly charged; or varying points of view may be deeply entrenched; in any case, your business effectiveness and person sanity depend on how you handle conflict. In this course you will learn to apply the ART response model to handle any conflict.
