Instructor Led Communication Training in Arizona, USA

Attendance & Your Career Do you have poor attendance? Does your boss consider your attendance a problem? Are you managing someone and want them to hear about the importance of good attendance from someone else? If you or the person you manage has attendance problems, this webinar is a must. Attendance at work is essential to the success and morale of any workgroup, and poor attendance can be turned around if it is  more...

Listening to Feedback Active listening is a crucial skill for effectively following. In business, information occasionally gets reinterpreted as it travels among receivers. This course will discuss the differences between active listening and passive listening and facilitate an active listening exercise. It will utilize some role playing to evaluate how well one person listens to another.  more...

Establishing Interpersonal Skills In organizations today, there is an expectation that Managers will have effective interpersonal skills in order to communicate with their employees. While some people posesse this skill naturally, it is a skill that can be developed over time through practice. This class is designed to help individuals practice the art of using interpersonal skills in everyday interactions.  more...

Mastering Technical Skills Employees are looking for more than feeback from their managers. A manager of today must understand the technical aspects of the people they manage. This class is designed to help managers understand and think through whether or not they know the jobs their employees do. This session will also explore strategies for explaining to others in the organization the responsibilities of your employees.  more...

Motivation for Movement Upward If you want to move your career upwards, you need to assess your motivation to effectively do so. This class will help people take an in depth look to see if they are really ready and motivated to take on a larger task of being a manager in an organization.  more...

Prioritizing Your Workload After you move from a front line employee into managment, your role changes and so do your responsibilities. In this new role, prioritization becomes even more important. You will be setting priorities instead of following them. This class will help you identify all of the things you do in a day, what are the most important tasks you do, and what are those issues that you can set aside for later  more...

Listening to Your Employees Employee buy-in is critical to a manager’s success. Your employees have to trust you and understand that you are looking out for their best interests. In this session we discuss techniques that a manager can use to effectively listen to their employees and provide feedback to demonstrate their listening skills.  more...

Moving from Managing to Leading It sounds easy to move from managing to leading, and for some it seems like the same job only with more pay. But the differences are significant. This class will discuss the differences as well as the similarities between a manager and a leader. There is an exercise on how to determine whether you are better in a manager capacity or if you are ready to move on to leadership.  more...

Identifying Your Style Identifying your leadership style can be one of the most difficult tasks you undertake when moving from a management position to a leadership position. Most people think they know what their style is, but do they? This class will discuss what leadership style is and walk through some steps for building your own unique style.  more...

Changing Your Communication Style Some say that you can use the same communication style throughout your entire career; from the front line employee all the way to becoming a visionary. When on your journey through your career, your communication style will need to change to address the different stages of your career. You will go through a cycle of formal and informal communications.  more...

Delegating Delegation is not as easy as it sounds. When transitioning from manager to leader, this can be one of the most difficult tasks one can undertake. This class is designed to assist people in deciding what you can delegate and what you cannot based on your organizational culture. We will explore ways that you can let go of some work and allow others to play a key role in a work process.  more...

Mentoring Others At some point in your career, someone may ask you to be a mentor for them. Whether they are inside or outside your organization, they report to you or someone else, or they are a peer; this could be your opportunity to have a profound impact on someone else’s leadership style. This class is designed for a participant to do some reflection on whether or not you are in a position to be a  more...

Critical Thinking Skills To effectively balance managerial skills and leadership abilities, it is essential for individuals to have critical thinking skills. The art of critical thinking goes beyond looking at what is right in front of you at the time you are making a decision. This class is designed to take a look at current real world issues and use critical thinking techniques to come up with solutions.  more...

Getting People to Follow You Some people will blindly follow their appointed leaders, but most people will need a reason to follow. As a leader, it is your job to inspire people to follow you and your vision for the organization. This session will discuss ways you can inspire people to begin and continue following you during their career in your organization.  more...

Model the Way with Heart As a leader, people watch your every move every day. Employees will assess you on how truthful you are. If they think you have something to hide, they will grow distrustful. If you aren't genuine, they won't believe you regardless of the truth. This class will discuss what it means to genuinely model success from your heart.  more...

Staying Grounded When you are in a leadership position, it can be easy to have the ivory tower syndrome. Successful leaders remember where they come from and how they got to the top. This class is designed to reflect upon how you got to where you are and remember all of the people that helped you get there. We will also discuss staying grounded as you move further up the ladder.  more...

Checking in with Your Mentor There may come a time in your ascension to leadership where you may think that a mentor is no longer important. But, you will always benefit from haiving a person you can count on with whom you can discuss ideas. This class discusses why having a mentor at the top can be more important than having a mentor at the start.  more...

Life at the Top Everyone believes that life at the top is easy; that people will surround you and do everything you ask. That is not always the case. In this session, we will discuss why life at the top may not be as easy as one may think. We will explore options to keep life at the top as enjoyable as possible.  more...

Sharing the Vision Some say being a visionary is being at the top of your career. The question is how do you take what is in your head and share it with others? How do you inspire people to do what you want them to do? This session will explore techniques on how you can share your vision of the future with others and get them to buy in.  more...

Change Management Change is not for everyone and there are varying degrees of change. When you are a leader in an organization what is your expectation of how quickly your employees will change to your ever changing vision. This class will discuss change and the different levels at which people can adapt to change.  more...

Humility Humility is a trait that is not inherint to everyone. How do you balance what you know and your expertise with self-confidence while keeping your ego in check. This class will discuss the art of humility and what it takes to be humble. We will also discuss how to be humble in a genuine manner.  more...

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring This seminar is designed specifically to teach practitioners techniques that are recommended by the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA ®). It builds the requisite knowledge and vocabulary based on the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge ® to prepare you for ultimately taking and passing the Certified Business Analysis Professional ® exam. The techniques and topics  more...

Requirements Management and Communication This seminar is designed specifically to teach practitioners techniques that are recommended by the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA ®). It builds the requisite knowledge and vocabulary based on the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge ® to prepare you for ultimately taking and passing the Certified Business Analysis Professional ® exam. The techniques and topics  more...

How to Manage and Communicate Requirements ...requirements management, albeit a major one. Requirements communication, requirements traceability, status tracking, and making the appropriate requirements reusable are activities that can be equally critical on information technology projects. This course presents concepts, tools, business analysis techniques and approaches for effectively managing and communicating your business,  more...

How to Estimate Early in a Project ...p introduces methods that improve early estimates and the communication of the factors that affect them. We cover foundation approaches for state-of-the-practice in early project estimating based on application, story, object, function point, and other relevant techniques. You will discuss factors that affect estimating accuracy, and apply them in a case study. Included in the class materials  more...

Requirements Definition Techniques for Subject Matter Experts Subject matter experts (SMEs) are smack in the middle of the critical path on any information technology project. Their decisions and input become the business and stakeholder requirements for the project. Solution and transition requirements are derived directly from their contributions. Without good SME input, your projects can easily get off track or ultimately fail. Yet, this group is all too  more...