Virtual Trainings

SBD 100

Personal Presence:

How do you establish instant credibility and connect easily with others?  This interactive workshop focuses on the principles of personal style, helping you further define your professional style while capitalizing on your uniqueness. Learn how to leverage your unique style to establish a significant and differentiated personal brand.

August 20, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

CORE COMPETENCIES

1. Visual Cues (posture, gesture, eye contact)

2. Vocal Presence

3. Authenticity

4. Building trust

Registration for Fall 2020 Lead by Design is Open!

SBD 200
Crisp, Confident, and Credible

September 10, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

What is the best way to prepare a message? This training introduces audience analysis and the pyramid structure for formulating messages clearly and logically. We will examine current client communications and work on pursuing written communication excellence. The training will cover message strategy, structure, and style.

CORE COMPETENCIES

1. Audience analysis

2. Finding the governing thought

3. Pyramid structure

4. Most common mistakes in writing

5. Style standards 

SBD 300
High Impact Meetings

September 24, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

This training focuses on how to design a meeting that facilitates engagement and accelerates problem-solving and decision-making. Participants will learn and practice two techniques for opening meetings: the interactive start and the fast start. Facilitation tools and techniques for steering conversation and handling dissenting viewpoints will be covered.

SBD 400
Presenting with Impact

October 8, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

This program is for those seeking to strengthen the most critical communication skills to better present ideas and convey credibility. This program focuses on audience analysis, assertive communication structures, and handling questions. Participants find new, improved ways to present a recommendation and articulate a vision. We practice the skills in breakouts. Participants leave the program with an elevated presentation style and toolkit for connecting with their various stakeholders. Participants will develop and practice delivering a section of a presentation. Techniques for handling questions and pushback will also be addressed.

SBD 500
Articulating a Vision

October 22, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

Create a compelling story of transformation for your organization or client. A captivating vision helps align your audience on a common goal. It accelerates the adoption of new ideas and minimizes resistance to change. This session covers the fundamentals of change management and how to increase desire for innovation. Participants will learn how to coach clients to craft, adapt, and deliver a change message everyone can stand behind. 

SBD 600
360 Leadership
Communication Agility

November 5, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

Participants will learn the five leadership communication roles and their corresponding message frameworks. Participants will practice responding in the moment to a multitude of scenarios to practice managing up, down, and across with the intention to command, assert, guide, motivate, and counsel. The importance of being flexible in your communication style and structure is emphasized.

SBD 700
Handling Difficult Situations

November 19, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

This training prepares emerging leaders for higher stake interactions when they will need to handle objections and resistance to their ideas.  Participants will learn and practice the top 9 influencing skills, ways to disagree with diplomacy, manage a room with dissenting viewpoints, and handle surprises.  We will also discuss ways to stay calm and controlled in difficult moments.

SBD 800
Coaching Others to Greatness

December 3, 2020  |  1-4 PM CST

Many things fall into place when you have a coaching mindset.  What is a coaching mindset? Participants will learn the difference between a reflexive and mindful approach to coaching others. The exercises will cover the 5 elements of a coaching/mentoring relationship: (1) establish a relationship, (2) setting learning expectations, (3) building capabilities, (4) delivering feedback, and (5) counseling. This training is a role play based program where we will practice coaching others and giving pep talks in difficult moments. 

Registration for Fall 2020 Lead by Design is Open!

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I liked the eye contact part, especially how to do it on Zoom.

CRISTOBAL

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You have managed to make these courses incredibly dynamic and inspiring virtually.

CARLOS

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Really a career changing experience! Thank you!

PATRICK

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This is fascinating content. I am so excited to share with my team.

FLORENCIA

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It was super useful!! I am more excited about virtual meetings, workshops, and presentations.

VANESSA

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The non-verbal communication exercises were fascinating to do via Zoom.

MAX

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Very interesting and useful. I have so many ideas for how to design interesting virtual experiences.

NICOLAS

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Thanks for the great experience! Hopefully we can run our meetings in Zoom as well as you did!

CRISTOBAL

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Thanks for the great training and learning experience! This is unique and the facilitators were so engaging.

LUIS

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Really interesting! Nice to practice and try to make gestures and verbal communication more natural.

SUSIELY