Business Seminars & Workshops
Here are some of our business
seminar topics.
Insights into why the United States has been and will continue to
be the dominant economic force in our world. What are the
ingredients that will keep the American Advantage in spite of
competition from the "flat earth" competition of China and India.
Why Canada and Europe are at a disadvantage. How individuals
and companies can incorporate the American Advantage into their
thinking, business and approach to life. From his upcoming book on
the subject.
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Corporate Values For A Secular Workplace
Companies need to understand and commit to a healthy value system
to function well. Beyond just the legal rules and their
penalties - every member of a company benefits when a value system
that includes values such as a work ethic, a respect for others in
the company, customer service, concern for the community and
environment. What does it cost a company and its shareholders that
does not have these ethical principles at work? What are the
benefits of having a company that is long on values? How do
you establish and communicate those values in a secular workplace? Find
out how a return to values is a return to health for the company and
its stakeholders.
Grant Fairley
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Defining Your Organization's Myth - Toward Organizational
Effectiveness
The organizational myth is how we see our ourselves and our
organization in the big picture. Often discouraged by hard
times - each organization needs to have a story that is understood
and owned from CEO to newest employee to defines its
identity. Renew your
organization's effectiveness and become a place the best people want
to be by discovering or revitalizing your organization's myth. Grant
Fairley
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It's Alive! Seeing Your Organization As The Organism It Is
& How To Keep It Healthy
Organizations are often defined by flow-charts and quarterly
financials. But every corporation, government department or
community group is as much an organism as the people who work and
serve there. The organic view of your group can allow it to be
a healthy and productive place that can unleash the untapped
potential trapped within the bureaucracy, traditions and rules.
Grant Fairley
An entertaining look at how classic fairy tales describe business
life and the business environment. Refreshing insights into
human behavior and values in the workplace. You would be surprised
how many ideas are hidden in these old stories and how relevant they
are to business and relationships in the new millennium.
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Win/Win Thinking in a Win/Lose
World
Turning competition into cooperation within your organization.
Improving productivity through increased commitment to the company
and each other.

Customer retention saves money and increases your bottom line.
Customers who are happy are key to your word-of-mouth referrals.
Discover the 15 strategies every business can use to keep customers
staying with you. Circle your customers in ways that they'll
never want to go anywhere else.

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What Have You Done For Me Lately?
THE question of the new century for business. Ways to improve
customer satisfaction. Ensure customers know you're working hard for
them today. Resolving issues with unhappy customers. Providing
a performance driven environment of motivated staff.
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Sharp Triangles & Round Circles
How to recognize different personality types in your company and
use their personalities to make your group more successful.
Important tools for the hiring process. Motivating different
personalities with different kinds of rewards and incentives.
Communicating effectively with different personality types.
Different learning styles - how people learn will influence how they
do their job.
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ReVision - A Renewal Of Your Corporate Or Group's Vision
A clear and useful vision that is meaningful to the leadership
and entire team will boost your effectiveness and health as an
organism. How to move your company from a "motherhood & apple
pie" vision statement where no one can disagree to a purpose that
motivates and equips everyone to succeed. Grant Fairley
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Tick-Tock - Finding The 25th Hour In Your Day
Practical seminar rooted in a commitment to service on how
to make the best use of your time. How to be no only efficient
but effective. Solving the email trap. Sharpening your
communication skills. To delegate or not to delegate.
Finding that 25th hour in your 24 hour day. Personal balance
and values as a key to use your off-work time to make your at-work
time work!

Communicating effectively. How to engage your customers and
prospects more effectively through increased telephone, email and
meeting strategies. Learn how to make your conversations
meaningful and productive. Telephone skills to make your
customer feel at ease and nurtured. How to make emails work
for you rather than against you. In person skills to make your
contacts fruitful and effective.
Telephone skills will make or break a business opportunity. It is a key
part of customer service and often is the first contact with your business,
organization or government department. How you answer, forward and hold
calls comes down to some important steps that everyone can learn and use.
Don't let those sales disappear on hold. Learn the 20 steps to effective
telephone skills. Practical and memorable approach.

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