Cultivating Connections: Strengthening Workplace Relationships
On-demand recording
90 minutes | INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING
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
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