Career
Strategic Communication Skills to Reach the C – Suite
Lessons Learned on Safari
To be a strategic player in business, you must be perceived as a highly valued, top-level thinker and contributor to your organization.
This keynote will address 3 strategies and highlight specific tools and techniques that can enhance your career. You will learn from best practices scenarios.
You will learn:
- How to avoid common mistakes that derail careers.
- What creates successful relationships with executives who make decisions about your career.
- Strategic communication techniques that showcase your expertise.
Jean Palmer Heck, an accomplished videographer, will share amazing videos shot in Africa, where the animal kingdom can teach us a lot about business.
Tough Talks
A Job Assignment You Didn’t Bargain For … and Wish Would Go Away
Management training leaves out one significant skill. A skill that you must develop, or your sanity will suffer. That skill involves delivering Tough Talks to employees, in group settings and in individual discussions. In today’s economic environment, you are required to share information — often bad news — that can be devastating to those who hear it. How you handle it impacts your employees and you.
Jean Palmer Heck, a strategist and international communications advisor, has studied hundreds of executives to find out what works and what doesn’t. In this informative and up-to-the-minute conference session, speech or consulting discussion, you will learn:
- 5 steps that must be considered with any difficult conversation
- The CHECK system, Heck’s proprietary method developed from research across many industries, all generations of workers, and companies ranging in size from 25 – 46,000 employees
- The latest information about engendering employee loyalty during these economically challenging times.
