Cultivating Connections: Strengthening Workplace Relationships

In today's fast-paced work environment, it's easy to overlook the small interactions that build trust and goodwill among team members. Yet these seemingly minor connections are the foundation of a collaborative and productive workplace.

Join our engaging, 60-minute event to learn everyday actions that make your team feel valued, understood, and heard.  We'll cover specific techniques you can use to create a team that exhibits respect, trust, and a sense of common purpose.

You'll discover:

• Tips for making team members feel acknowledged & valued in seconds
• Online meeting conduct: Eliminating behaviors that distract participants
• Effective strategy for difficult conversations & when to use it
• How to use body language to connect & build relationships
• The impact your words & actions have on others
• Keys to eliminating disruptive or destructive behaviors

Program Highlights

Making Connections That Count

• How small gestures show colleagues they matter
• Listening techniques that make people feel truly heard
• Generating likeability with a co-worker in seconds
• Power of personalizing messages & communications

Creating a Culture of Respect & Trust

• Avoiding common actions that degrade workplace culture
• Positive conversation habits to adopts & ones to drop
• Making requests in a way that builds stronger relationships
• Apologizing effectively to restore broken connections

Strengthening Collaboration & Productivity

• Body language dos & don'ts to create stronger rapport
• Bridging cultural & gender divides through understanding
• Virtual meeting behaviors to avoid & what to do instead
• Celebrating shared successes and supporting struggles

Question & Answer Session - Have your specific question answered!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Janet Parnes

Janet Parnes equips professionals with skills that build rewarding business relationships. - A graduate of The Protocol School of Washington®, she brings more than 15 years of experience working with clients from a range of industries including higher education, real estate, STEM, law, and architecture. - Janet’s background in sales and public relations, combined with her speaker training, positions her to create a paradigm shift in the way we create meaningful professional connections. - Janet formed her company Janet L. Parnes, Etiquette Consultant in response to a growing need: we can contact people just about anywhere, anytime—yet we’re losing the art of making connections. This is costing us, for connections are critical in achieving our career goals. - As a professional storyteller, Janet entertains and educates audiences with tales of missteps, misspeaks, and misunderstandings - some of them her own!