Business Skills

  • Effective Communication
  • Effective Presentations
  • Grammar Skills
    Students of this course learn how to use grammar effectively within their organizations. Students will learn to write effective sentences by identifying sentence elements, correctly using phrases and clauses, and understanding sentence classifications. This workshop is filled with interactive exercises that will allow students to explore the intricacies of Grammar Skills.
  • Presentation Skills
    Give confident, enthusiastic, and persuasive presentations. With an emphasis on the need for preparation and practice, this 1-day course provides guidance on how to organize, create, and deliver effective presentations. Conquer your fear of public speaking. Prepare and deliver well organized presentations and to capture and maintain the interest of your audience. Attendees may bring presentation projects to class to practice during class or to receive assistance from the instructor.
  • Strategic Decision Making
    This course teaches students how to plan, frame, and research decisions. Learn how to define decisions, apply appropriate decisions frames, avoid overconfidence, deal with uncertainty, generate options and select the best one, develop numerous high-quality options, evaluate the options and make a final choice, review and learn from experience, identify optimal decision outcomes, and identify and manage linked decisions. Attendees will also learn how an organization can benefit from employing strategic decision-making techniques, and how to use decision-making strategies to improve negotiation skills.
  • Time Management Using Outlook: Get Control of E-Mail & Tasks
    In this hands-on workshop taught by bestselling author Michael Linenberger, you will learn Michael's unique and powerful productivity system. It is based on new and proven best practices of e-mail, time and task management that will for the first time get you and your team's workday under control. Benefits include:
    • Rapid Inbox processing with much less time spent on e-mail.
    • Ability to convert action e-mails to tasks so they can be managed effectively - not dropped.
    • High priority tasks are identified and completed; lower priority tasks are handled effectively.
    • A reconfigured Outlook to match the author's best practices.
    Attendees will receive his #1 Bestselling Outlook book!

    This workshop is available for private and customized training sessions, either at your facility or at an ExecuTrain facility near you. Contact your Account Manager for more information.

  • Time Management: Get Organized for Peak Performance
    This one-day workshop teaches participants the fundamentals of time management. Students will learn how to evaluate the use of time, identify goals and set priorities, develop an overall time management plan, assign a price to time, conduct a time audit, and correctly identify and control poor time management personality types. Workshop activities also cover how to manage time to increase productivity, develop a daily plan, manage technology, and how to say "no" to doing too much.
  • Writing Effective E-Mail
    E-mail is more prevalent today than ever before. Its instantaneous nature makes it a convenient, time-saving tool for businesses. However, it is also more important than ever to take the time to write messages that are secure as well as clear and error-free. This "Writing Effective E-Mail" workshop includes an added emphasis on how to avoid workplace disasters such as lost sales, customer-service nightmares--and in the worst cases, lawsuits and financial losses--triggered by careless or poorly written e-mail.