Engage Your Managers
Leadership – If you want to be a leader, you need followers
Leadership is a quality necessary for anyone who has to accomplish objectives with and through people. No other aspect of organizational life is more discussed–and maligned–than leadership! In this presentation, you’ll see the capacity every organization has for great leadership…click here to read more.
Creating a Compelling, Positive Vision
An organization’s success is a direct result of its positive image of the future. A vision is compelling; it energizes and inspires people to work toward a common goal…click here to read more.
Communication Skills:
Relationship Strategies – Dealing with Different Types of People
Accepting and understanding the fact that people are different, and therefore need to be treated differently, is integral to the success of building any team or relationship. Whether you are a senior vice president, manager, supervisor, or employee, the key to building successful relationships depends on your ability to identify the differences in people and then treat them accordingly…click here to read more.
Effective Communication
Individuals who are influential within organizations know the importance of strong communication skills. This seminar is designed to teach supervisors and managers practical skills and techniques to make communicating with others more effective…click here to read more.
Developing Confidence
As people are promoted from peer to supervisor or manager, many new leadership challenges are created. Confidence is especially at risk as organizations navigate the white water of change. This session examines the roles that self-esteem and confidence play in leadership positions…click here to read more.
Leading Change:
Effectively Leading Organizational Change – After A Layoff
This program has been specifically designed for executives, managers, and supervisors of an organization that has recently experienced a layoff. Employees that are spared in the lay-off often face rising workloads, lowered morale and increased anxieties and illnesses. They are left feeling they should be ‘grateful’ to have a job – organizational psychologists call this “layoff survivor syndrome”…click here to read more.
Surviving and Thriving Change and Learning to Love it!
This program has been specifically designed for leaders who are experiencing rapid change. In the last few years, many organizations have been challenged by downsizing, redesigned systems and procedures, new management teams, budget cuts, or a refocused corporate culture. People who emerge as leaders are the ones who embrace and master theses changes successfully…click here to read more.
Performance Management:
Hiring Winners
Hiring the right person is critical to the success of any company and manager. Hiring the people who possess skills and experience appropriate for the job and are a good organizational fit, results in greater employee retention, increased productivity, better teamwork, higher employee morale, and enhanced company reputation…click here to read more.
Powerful and Painless Performance Reviews
Successful organizations know that to be successful they must attract, develop, and retain talented and productive employees. Winning organizations get their competitive edge from a performance management system that helps them hire talented people, place them in the right position, align their individual performance with the organization’s vision and strategic objectives…click here to read more.
Delivering Difficult Feedback to Increase Performance
To be a successful leader in today’s rapidly changing environment, the role of a manager becomes that of a coach, counselor, facilitator, and mentor in guiding and developing employees. Some employees desire to learn and grow. Other employees are not easily coached to successfully perform. This program is dedicated to providing supervisors and managers with the tools and skills they will need to coach both top performing employees as well as those with room for improvement…click here to read more.
Motivating Your Team… Without Money
One of the most frequent complaints we hear from supervisors and managers is that their workers lack productivity or motivation. Supervisors and managers feel this lack of motivation is responsible for many of the problems they encounter. The fact is we are all motivated by something…click here to read more.
Team Building:
Building a Great Team
Successful organizations place a high value on teamwork. Inside every winning organization there is a high performing Management Team. This team building session focuses on identifying the benefits of functioning as a high performance team…click here to read more.
Relationship Strategies – Building a High Performance Team
Accepting and understanding the fact that people are different, and therefore need to be treated differently, is integral to the success of building any team or relationship. This session will help you identify different behavioral styles, isolate your own preferred style, and learn how to communicate appropriately with each behavioral pattern…click here to read more.
Conducting Productive Meetings
When asked to list typical time wasters at work, employees often put meetings at the top of their list. Poorly planned and conducted meetings can rob an organization of valuable productivity and leave meeting attendees feeling frustrated. Facilitating effective meetings requires preparation, skill, focus, and practice…click here to read more.
Conflict Resolution
In every organization and relationship there is potential for conflict. Conflict can be a very healthy, positive part of the organization…or it can be stressful and damaging to those within the organization. When handled constructively, conflict can lead to increased learning, greater productivity, and enhanced working relationships…click here to read more.
Negotiation Skills
This program has been specifically designed for any business professional who is responsible for successfully negotiating outcomes for their organization…click here to read more.
Time Management
Time management is an indispensable skill. Organizations have had to manage their time more effectively in order to meet the challenge of increased customer expectations. This practical seminar is designed to help personnel at all levels of the organization make the best possible use of their time, focusing not only on efficiency…click here to read more.
Stress Management
As organizations continue their struggle to survive and grow in a turbulent economic environment they must frequently reorganize, develop new policies, and move people around. At the same time, people are taking on bigger and more complex tasks with less clearly defined roles and standards of performance. These changes equate to stress in the workforce…click here to read more.
Presentation Skills:
Delivering Powerful Presentations
Presentations that are well prepared and expertly delivered give your audience just what they want – information, inspiration and the opportunity to applaud. So why is speaking before a group the number one fear of people in our society? Through the use of a few simple techniques, you can take your presentations to new and greater heights…click here to read more.
Advanced Presentation Skills
Professional speakers know that the difference between a good speaker and a great speaker is only… about 1,000 speeches! For those speakers who are ready to take the next step in bridging the gap between good and great, this is the course for you…click here to read more.
Presenting to Influence
Presenting ideas persuasively, with clarity, focus, and confidence requires an appreciation for your audience and an understanding of their convictions. In this seminar, participants, through hands-on practice, will gain the skills necessary to influence, motivate and persuade their audience…click here to read more.
Presenting Technical Information
Technical speakers are typically subject matter experts, but are sometimes challenged with sharing their expertise with others who lack the same technical savvy. Whether you are tasked with sharing information with senior level leaders (who just want the condensed version of how you will solve their problem) or employees (who have serious doubts about how your information will benefit them), this program is for you…click here to read more.
Train the Trainer
Our hands-on, interactive ‘Train the Trainer’ program is designed to provide trainers or business professionals the skills they need to effectively deliver customized training with confidence, credibility and positive learner outcomes…click here to read more.
Customized Training
Didn’t see the training course you were looking for? Our senior consultants and trainers are experts at designing and delivering training programs that are personalized specifically for your organization, industry, team or challenge. Whether you need a six week leadership series or a one day training course, we can deliver a customized course that will met your specific needs. To find out more about how we can help you with your training needs, contact Peter Barron Stark Companies at 858.451.3601 or email info@peterstark.com.