Course Description Listening well is the most valued communication skill in relationships, organizations and business - even if most people don't realize it or practice it well. It also happens to be a mission-critical aspect for improvisational comedy troupes to be successful. Utilizing and drawing from the deep exploration of listening, and fully [...]
Course Description Financial service professionals operate in a complex, fast-moving world of markets and products and ever-changing regulations. In addition, they provide their services to individuals and organizations with unique objectives and concerns. An outstanding financial services professional will therefore not only be good at structuring portfolios, etc., but will be more effective [...]
Course Description The provision of health care continues to become more and more complicated -- both due to advances in medicine and technology, and the internal regulations and compliance requirements that health care professionals face. No one health care professional can master everything, and certainly cannot do so independent of his or her [...]
Course Description The legal profession continues to become more and more complicated -- and that much more so with every new law passed or regulation promulgated. The law has simply become too complicated to be mastered by any one professional, and certainly too complicated to be mastered by any one professional independently of [...]
Course Description The accounting profession continues to become more and more complicated -- and that much more so with every new tax act passed. The tax law and other aspects of the profession have simply become too complicated to be mastered by any one professional, and certainly too complicated to be mastered by [...]
Course Description Legal professionals need to draw out facts and information from their clients - often in the context of meetings or telephone conferences. An outstanding legal professional will be extremely effective at identifying the goals and issues presented in their interactions with their clients. Our workshop on Effective Client Meetings will focus [...]
Course Description Certainly accounting professionals need to know how to work with numbers - but they do so in service for individuals and businesses. And an outstanding accounting professional will be extremely effective at drawing out the goals and issues presented from their interactions with their clients. Our workshop on Effective Client Meetings [...]
Course Description It's not an entirely fair stereotype that engineers aren't good communicators. Engineers are sharp, thoughtful people with technical proficiencies who can be quite focused on the tasks entrusted to them. Those skillsets, however, don't always correspond with certain communication proficiencies -- proficiencies that are valuable in any organization. Moreover, engineers that [...]
FSU’s series of workshops on Breaking Free of Your Comfort Zone is designed to get participants to stretch themselves beyond the boundaries they put on their own thinking and patterns of interaction. This topic is best explored in organizations and teams that have developed reasonable trust amongst themselves. See our Business Organizations offerings for more [...]
Most work product in businesses and organizations comes from multiple individuals’ contributions. The quality of that work product, and the experience in its creation, is therefore necessarily impacted by the quality of communications among team members. In our Communication in Teams workshops, we focus on group dynamics, valuing all voices and building upon each team [...]
