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 The Business Realist

   A dose of reality for a saner workplace

Summary

I offer a variety of training courses that cover fundamental business skills, the use of NLP to communicate better, and humor-based courses on cognitive biases and dimensions of culture.

Training Classes

Posted  on 10/06/09

Person teaching a classBusiness Fundamentals, Sanity Savers, and NLP 

 

Sanity Savers Series

 60-90 min training courses on how to alleviate some common work place issues:

Effective Meetings
Virtual Collaboration
How to Manage Email

 

Fundamental Business Skills

Leading Teams and Team Development

Analytical Problem Solving – Seven step process that includes root cause tools

Communicating Effectively - Using the U-It-I model and At-a-glance formats

Writing Effective Presentations

Seven-step Brainstorming Technique (including tips on creative brainstorming)

Coaching and Feedback for Performance Improvement

 

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) -Based Classes for Businesses

Intro to NLP Series: Each class is 90 minutes in duration. The Intro session should be a prerequisite, but not completely needed for the other sessions. Otherwise, the sessions are independent of each other.  These are classes that are  tailored to particular business needs.
 
Class 1:  Introduction to NLP
·         Positive intentions
·         Submodalities
Class 2: Determining your and others’ preferred thinking mode
·         Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic wording
Class 3:  Identifying language patterns that are helpful and harmful

See also the Lazy Person's Guide to Business Success Training Series and

Everything I needed to learn in business, I learned from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 


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Featured Neologisms

Undue diligence   –
the endless process of collecting more information in order to avoid making a decision
Team vynamics   -
Group behavior wherein individuals at a meeting vie for dominance