Valerie Sokolosky

TOPICS

MANAGING SIDEWAYS: Influencing Your Scope of Reach

In today’s matrixed and flattened organizations, it becomes necessary to manage sideways across your scope of reach. Participants will recognize the urgency of influencing others to get work done so they can focus on their roles and responsibilities. End result is to work collaboratively together in a more timely and efficient manner.

OPTIMAL TEAM TRAINING: Coaching High Performing Teams

The participants will use tools to identify team dysfunctions, coach individuals and teams toward high performance, determine teaming stages of development and work out a coaching plan for reaching specific goals and objectives. Each person will be given a CD of the tools for future use.

PRESENTATION SKILLS

Imagine yourself as the audience rather than as the participant, and you quickly will be reminded that these are the essentials to effective presentations. With laser-like accuracy, this training nails down the competencies that are vital for sales presentations, speeches, business meeting facilitation and media interviews.

TEAM BUILDING THROUGH PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

Building relationships will provide the spark to becoming a more effective leader and team member. In energized fashion, learn your own work behavioral style and discover how to resolve workplace conflict efficiently. Learn to improve your relationships by focusing first on improving morale, increasing productivity and respecting others’ business philosophies.

This powerful workshop gives participants a common language on which to base conversations. By inviting issues to surface that inhibit productive, synthesized work from being done, what you’ll find in the end is that you’ve fostered an environment for long-term trust relationships. It’s only in such a community that “silos” are banished and collaboration takes shape.

PROFESSIONALISM: AN IMAGE OF EXCELLENCE

How long does it take to make a first impression? (You may never get a second chance!)

In the throes of our hyper-paced business environment, those who practice the simple skill of projecting the right image for the situation at hand will quickly and effectively position themselves for success. In the spirit of what is expected and respected in the marketplace today, this program is an important session on understanding the “psychology of image.”  Professionals across all levels of the organization will acquire skills necessary to separate themselves in complimentary and powerful ways.

THE FINE ART OF BUSINESS ENTERTAINING

There is nothing more awkward-and more personally threatening-than not knowing what to do next in a social situation. We’ve all been there…the pregnant pauses that seem to intimidate even the most conversational person, being wary to determine the appropriate tip for a service-provider, hoping the person to whom you were recently introduced doesn’t remember your name either. And the list goes on. This program provides detailed explanations for handling even the toughest social scenario.

CORPORATE PROTOCOL

What is the key to living the Golden Rule in the marketplace? It’s an understanding that gracious behavior gets you much further than the old authoritative “my way or the highway” attitude. In addition to increasing managerial effectiveness, having a thorough knowledge of business protocol and interpersonal communication skills builds trust relationships inside and outside the organization.