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Communication
For Professional Career Advancement
The skill professionals use most in the execution of their jobs is communication. Performance evaluations, decision-making, and hiring practices have significantly evolved over the past decade, and so too must we.
This presentation shares simple-but-not-always easy behaviors and best practices that will enable you to strategically express yourself in a professional and persuasive style that will help you to differentiate yourself and optimize your career – whether engaging and retaining clients or seeking to be hired or promoted.
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The best presentations contain the right mix of information flow and interactivity, and are uniquely balanced to best fit audience interests, needs and priorities. And whether our audience consists of organizational leaders, hiring managers, colleagues, prospects or clients, we must be careful to avoid making our presentation all about the facts or all about what we do! Learn how to plan and deliver more engaging and persuasive presentations, and to more easily gain the understanding, agreement and buy-in of audiences of all types and sizes. |
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