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Do you have your finger on the pulse of your message? Is it what you intend it to be? Are you connected to the nerve center of the audience...are you calling them to action? Doesn’t matter if it’s it written form or spoken word? Are you connecting to your intended audience, the way in which you want?
This webinar will explore how to make a solid connection with your intended audience, every time you address them. Whether they be front-line staff, management, clients, or prospective employers. It will examine the three key aspects of communication (both written and verbal), explore how to curtail your message for accuracy and detail without error and suggest how to solicit a professional check up as necessary.

Welcome to a workshop that is inspirational and will provide you with information and thought provoking ideas that you can use.

For decades, research and ongoing workplace surveys around the world, have explored what makes companies, leaders and teams great. Analysis of the results show data patterns and identified one question that showed the greatest correlation to the most positive business outcomes:

At work, do you have the chance to do what you do best every day?

This inspirational and informative “Leading from Strengths” event will allow you to understand why investing in Strengths returns the greatest ROI on performance and talent management. It may challenge your thinking and the myths you have likely believed for many years.

Anyone leading a team, company or department must be able to:

• persuade
• influence behavior
• get buy-in
• inspire

Vision, objectives, mission statements count for little if you can't clearly express them and persuade others to buy-in to them That's why having effective presentation skills is essential for the leader who is going to stand out above the crowd.

Career opportunities, personal confidence, self-esteem – all improve dramatically when you invest in upgrading presentation skills. The TalkitOut™ Technique as taught by Podium Media & Communications Coaching, is a new way of approaching presentations and speeches.

Hundreds of people around the world have become powerful speakers because of TalkitOut. TalkitOut is an indispensable tool for all leaders.

Today’s companies are placing a much higher emphasis on the ability to be creative and innovative in order to move ahead in this economy. They are eagerly looking at ways people, tools and techniques can spark a rebound that gives them a competitive edge. Making innovation and creativity a key cultural value is a goal of any highly effective organization. HR can play a crucial leadership role in helping to get there.

In this lively session, participants will learn how to increase the creative intelligence of their organizations in order to stay ahead of the competition. Participants will come away with new insights, fresh perspectives, and actionable steps to make creativity and innovation meaningful cultural values within their own organizations.

Positive or negative, everyone has a personal reputation. It’s how you’re known, how you’re perceived by others and it influences your relationships and your career. A positive reputation is an essential tool for succeeding in today’s competitive environment. People who have a positive reputation will get better jobs, get promoted more often and get bigger bonuses.

Through this hands-on, highly engaging and interactive session, delegates will learn how to take ownership and full advantage of their personal reputation to enhance their careers and contribute to their organizations.

Not only will participants gain insight into how their personal reputation can work for them, they’ll also discover how to use their unique skills and attributes to stand out and expand their success. Creating a strong reputation allows you to be more confident and self-motivated.

Building a strong reputation is not about constructing an image of what you think you should be. It’s about understanding your own strengths, weaknesses and your impact on others.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Determine how they are currently perceived by others
• Immediately implement strategies to develop the foundation for a positive reputation
• Develop systematic ways to ensure that they continue to enjoy and build on their positive reputation

Organizations today are facing the retirement of key employees, a talent shortage, a lack of succession planning/succession development and a workforce that suffers from disengagement all of which impacts productivity and profitability.Is your organization also facing a leadership talent shortage? A recent Harvard Business Review Blog has shown that 60% of companies are facing leadership talent shortages that will impede their performance. Does your organization include mentoring as part of your leadership development program. If you are unsure of how to answer these questions then you need to register for this webinar to assist you in deciding next steps that you need to take. You can not afford not to!

Finding and keeping good talent is difficult these days. It's not uncommon for employees to be poached, which leaves executives and HR teams asking, "How do we keep the talent we already have?" It's imperative that companies know how to build career ladders/lattices. Companies also need to understand the important role they play in fostering career mobility by outlining the critical skills that employees need to acquire as they move up or around in the company.

During our webcast, "Career Pathing: How To Create A Career Development Framework," we'll discuss:

• The downfalls of not having career development frameworks for employees
• How to create career paths for job roles that empower your employees to take control of their careers
• How to create a gap analysis and align career development resources to close skill gaps
• How to effectively track an employee’s career path and ensure they're doing the right things to get them where they want to be.

Electronic Recognition systems give a whole new set of workforce analytics and questions can be tracked, measured and answered. These new systems deliver great value to the workforce, increasing the levels of recognition, feedback and overall employee engagement. These systems are providing great value to management and offer a new level of information and insight into the organization's most valuable asset, its workforce. Learn what Electronic Recognition is, why it is proving to be so effective, and the benefits organizations are gaining from it. Electronic Recognition is becoming the keystone to understanding many of the hardest questions HR professionals have been trying to figure out for decades.

This curriculum takes leaders on a journey into their mind and body to discover the steps needed to make a positive changes in themselves and their organizations.  In terms anyone can understand, learn the most recent neurological and psychological secrets to uncover how to change habits in their mind, boost self-confidence, tools to lower stress and how to create a positive work-place. With Harvard University now stating emotional intelligence is more important than your IQ and technical skills combined, the EQ tips found in this seminar are more important than ever to share with your employees, managers and top leaders.

Focusing on the candidate experience is more than explaining to an applicant where he/she stands in the application process or the ability to send courteous rejection emails. Addressing the candidate experience entails taking a holistic approach to talent engagement and management — and incidentally making the recruiter's experience much better than what it is - because today, with the systems they use, no matter how diligent they are, it's virtually impossible for them to "bridge the talent gap." The central part of the recruiting process in the social media era is an engagement platform, i.e. an employer branded space by where candidates, sourcers and recruiters can meet and interact — and where constituencies can operate comfortably each on their own terms.