Highlights
Professional tips help you build confidence and credibility with others
Participating constructively helps propel your career in the right direction
Objectives
- Motivation to make positive contributions in meetings
- Capacity to speak up relevantly in meetings, making a positive impact on decision makers and colleagues
Learning Tools
- Discussion, exchange, video clips
- Role plays, simulations, improvisation
- Self-examination, peer/trainer feedback
- Filmed sessions for on-the-spot debriefing and later reference
Take-aways
- Appreciation for the need to contribute to foster one's long-term career goals
- Tools and checklist for future use
Prerequisite
Seminar Essentials
When and why to contribute to meetings
- Your career and how you want it to play out
- Establishing your credibility with others and the benefits this can bring you
- Establishing trust with your leaders, co-workers, and team
- Taking advantage of meetings for strengthening relationships
Advance preparation
- Familiarizing yourself with the agenda
- Deciding what to say and practicing beforehand
- Offering solutions to problems
- Staying on target and keeping your contributions relevant to the matters at hand
Being aware of your body language
- Professional tips to appear more confident to others and gradually become more confident in fact
- Building unconscious rapport with others
- Tricks to reduce the stress factor beforehand in order to have more impact