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Bold New Directions is a transformational learning organization that specializes in providing interactive, corporate learning experiences including training, keynotes, coaching and retreats. We offer corporate training workshops, keynotes, online learning and coaching on Leadership, Communication and Resilience. Private training is held at corporate client offices and Public workshops are offered throughout the US, Canada and abroad. We also hold public training workshops in Hartford CT, Boston MA, Washington DC, Toronto ON, Philadelphia PA, and New York NY several times each year. We work closely with partner companies such as Think on Your Feet International Inc. and the Ken Blanchard Companies.
Our facilitators are experts in communication, leadership and resilience training solutions. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized firms, and non-profit organizations. Industries we have worked with include Finance, Technology, Banking, Manufacuturing, Energy, Education, Government and Biotech. We provide a host of specialized training programs including Situational Frontline Leadership, Leadership Edge, Coaching Skills For Managers, The Resilient Manager, Think On Your Feet, Powerful Presentations, Negotiating Success, Creating Customer Loyalty, Resilience At Work, Thriving With Change, Building Team Success and Developing Emotional Intelligence. We also provide the Think On Your Feet training workshop in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
We provide our programs on site at your location throughout North America. We also provide public workshops in key cities including Boston, Hartford, Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington and New York.
Our facilitators use a blend of training techniques including in person instruction, webinars, coaching, role playing, feedback and more.
Our facilitators are experts in communication, leadership and resilience training solutions. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized firms, and non-profit organizations. Industries we have worked with include Finance, Technology, Banking, Manufacuturing, Energy, Education, Government and Biotech. We provide a host of specialized training programs including Situational Frontline Leadership, Leadership Edge, Coaching Skills For Managers, The Resilient Manager, Think On Your Feet, Powerful Presentations, Negotiating Success, Creating Customer Loyalty, Resilience At Work, Thriving With Change, Building Team Success and Developing Emotional Intelligence. We also provide the Think On Your Feet training workshop in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
We provide our programs on site at your location throughout North America. We also provide public workshops in key cities including Boston, Hartford, Philadelphia, Toronto, Washington and New York.
Our facilitators use a blend of training techniques including in person instruction, webinars, coaching, role playing, feedback and more.
Bold New Directions is based in Boston, MA, USA
At Bold New Directions we work with organizations to strengthen the three pillars of success - Leadership Skills, Communication Skills and Resiliency. Our interactive learning experiences include corporate training, coaching, retreats & keynotes.
Leadership training programs include three complementary workshops that build leadership from the inside out.
The Leadership Edge focusses on how to lead with RESPECT for increased morale, productivity, and performance. Situational Frontline Leadership fosters successful frontline managers who can diagnose key issues, employ core skills, and partner with staff for improved performance. Coaching Skills For Managers helps leaders leverage staff experiences, traits & skills through coaching.
Communication training programs include four core workshops that increase an organization's ability to influence results. Think On Your Feet is the globally acclaimed communication training workshop that enables participants to structure their thoughts on-the-spot. Powerful Presentations strengthens presentation skills by enhancing gestures, voice, & body movement - all while engaging the audience. Negotiating Success boosts the outcome of negotiations by focusing on how to create win-win approaches to talks. And Creating Customer Loyalty helps employees develop and hone skills for being more responsive and effective in handling internal and external customer requests.
Resilience & teambuilding training programs include four innovative workshops that strengthen adaptability to change. Resilience At Work boosts individual's understanding & utilization of strategies that help them thrive. Thriving In Changing Times works with teams to develop comprehensive approaches to group success when undergoing change. Building Team Success helps teams grow together in their pursuit of organizational goals. Developing Your Emotional Intelligence supports professionals' ability to stay in charge of emotions and build positive relationships at work.
Bold New Directions also facilitates the innovative retreat program: Living At The Leading Edge. This retreat experience, held in beautiful natural environments, grows overall performance in leadership, communication & resilience.
Leadership training programs include three complementary workshops that build leadership from the inside out.
The Leadership Edge focusses on how to lead with RESPECT for increased morale, productivity, and performance. Situational Frontline Leadership fosters successful frontline managers who can diagnose key issues, employ core skills, and partner with staff for improved performance. Coaching Skills For Managers helps leaders leverage staff experiences, traits & skills through coaching.
Communication training programs include four core workshops that increase an organization's ability to influence results. Think On Your Feet is the globally acclaimed communication training workshop that enables participants to structure their thoughts on-the-spot. Powerful Presentations strengthens presentation skills by enhancing gestures, voice, & body movement - all while engaging the audience. Negotiating Success boosts the outcome of negotiations by focusing on how to create win-win approaches to talks. And Creating Customer Loyalty helps employees develop and hone skills for being more responsive and effective in handling internal and external customer requests.
Resilience & teambuilding training programs include four innovative workshops that strengthen adaptability to change. Resilience At Work boosts individual's understanding & utilization of strategies that help them thrive. Thriving In Changing Times works with teams to develop comprehensive approaches to group success when undergoing change. Building Team Success helps teams grow together in their pursuit of organizational goals. Developing Your Emotional Intelligence supports professionals' ability to stay in charge of emotions and build positive relationships at work.
Bold New Directions also facilitates the innovative retreat program: Living At The Leading Edge. This retreat experience, held in beautiful natural environments, grows overall performance in leadership, communication & resilience.
Resilience At Work




: Resilience At Work is an experiential training program that enables participants to master the competencies of professional resilience, even during times of tremendous external change.
Participants learn to assess their own individual resilience by looking at the components that support or detract from resilience using the SUPPORT model.
Working from a platform of resilience, participants learn to become change agents and agile leaders within their own organizations. Using the SUPPORT approach to resilience, they learn to scan their environment, prepare for anticipated change, influence others, and contribute to a positive corporate culture.
Customer Service
Creating Customer Loyalty



: Creating Customer Loyalty is a one day training program that transforms the way professionals see opportunities for customer service.
Creating Customer Loyalty is based on the premise that EVERYONE is our customer; and both internal and external customers need to be satisfied. To truly serve, one must first become more intensely self-aware and then heighten onea s ability to notice their impact on others. In the program, we accomplish this relationship building through exercises that build an understanding of the acronym of R. E. S. P. E. C. T. (more...
Executive Presentation Skills
Executive Presentation Skills



: This presentation training seminar is designed for the mid to high level professional who is required to make executive presentations as part of his or her professional life. The program is geared to the range of situations where busy executives find they require:
- Standup Presentation Skills
- Board Room Presentation Skills
- Sitting Presentation Skills
- PowerPoint Presentation Skills
- more...
Powerful Presentations Training Seminar





: Powerful Presentations
Improve your face-to-face presentation skills with public speaker training that focuses on:
- Public Speaking Training Skills
- Presentation Training
- Sales Presentations
- Technical Presentations
- IT Training
- Executive Presentations
- Scientists and more...
Leadership
Situational Frontline Leadership



: Situational Frontline Leadership is designed to foster successful frontline managers. It teaches them how to build people. Build trust. Build teamwork. To bridge the gap between what is and what could be for each employee and the company. Situational Frontline Leadership shows frontline managers how to diagnose individual situations and employ core communications skills to partner for performance. How to provide clear direction. To be specific. Actively listen. Give feedback. Enhance self-esteem. Participants practice and use these skills. In real time. With their direct reports.
Situational Frontline Leadership can be implemented in more...
The Leadership Edge





: The Leadership Edge is a dynamic program that moves participants to powerful self discoveries that dramatically strengthen their capacity to lead in changing times.
This highly interactive program uses experiential learning to help leaders at all levels remove old personal barriers and uncover and develop previously hidden strengths. Using the principles of R. E. S. P. E. C. T., leaders will discover how becoming more proficient at Responsiveness, Empathy, Service, Perspectives, more...
Negotiation Skills
Negotiating Success




: Negotiating Success! is a two day training workshop that transforms the way professionals negotiate. The old ways of highly competitive negotiations that produce win-lose results are history. In the long run, win-lose is lose-lose!
Negotiating Success! is based on the three pillars of Mutuality, Proactivity and R. E. S. P. E. C. T. Mutuality encourages negotiators on both sides to look for common ground and a relationship based win-win attitude. Proactivity ensures that negotiators lead the way to success through a strong and thorough mutuality-based process. And R. E. S. P. more...
teambuilding
Building Team Success



: Building Team Success is a dynamic training program that moves individual participants to powerful self discoveries about how they work within teams. And then entire teams discover how they can work more effectively as a cohesive unit and with other teams. This highly interactive program uses experiential learning to help employees at all levels remove old personal barriers and uncover and develop previously hidden strengths.
Using the principles of R. E. S. P. E. C. T., team members will discover how becoming more proficient at Responsiveness, Empathy, more...
Developing Emotional Intelligence


: Getting along at work is not just about what you know but how you come across to others. Participants will learn how to maximize their skills to stay in charge of emotions, build positive relations, & grow resilience even in the face of change. Emotional intelligence is the number one predictor of professional success and personal excellence. Fortunately, our emotional intelligence is not static; it can be developed through training and reflection. This training workshop, Developing Emotional Intelligence gives participants a snapshot of their current strengths, using the more...
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Thriving In Times of Change



: Thriving in Times of Change is an experiential training workshop for professional teams. It enables participants to master the competencies of workplace resilience to see how resilience impacts team dynamics in the midst of rapid change. Participants explore the dynamics of team resilience from relationships to solution-finding to corporate culture, utilizing components of the S. U. P. P. O. R. T. model of Resilience. Support stands for:
- Stress Hardiness
- Understanding
- more...
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Coaching Skills For Managers




: Coaching Skills For Managers is a program designed to shift leadership practices from the old command & control model to a more inclusive and participative style.
This interactive program delivers powerful tools for leaders and managers at all levels. It helps leaders better access and align their staffs personal experiences, traits and skills.
Participants will also discover more about themselves as they learn how to use their developing coaching talents for the greater good of the organization.
Utilizing a blend of brief instruction, demonstration and feedback, the workshop provides practice opportunities for each skill participants will use at work.
Management Essentials
: Management Essentials is a practical management training seminar that teaches new and developing managers essential skills required by their role. The focus is on day to day skills that managers need to motivate staff, delegate tasks, supervise teams. Participants in this workshop will appreciate a blended approach to learning that includes instruction, examples, group discussion and more.
PersuasionCommunications
Think On Your Feet ®





: Think On Your Feet ® is a core competency in leading edge organizations. It is the platform on which to build speaking, presenting, writing & negotiation skills.
Think On Your Feet ® introduces the capsules-of persuasion concept along with 10 plans that structure ideas quickly for Clarity, Brevity, and Impact.
This globally acclaimed workshop actually trains leaders and front line staff to think on their feet under pressure using impromptu questions, exercises and speed drills. The workshop is filled with practice, coaching and frequent feedback.
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