We’ve worked with government, corporations, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and many other agencies and organizations.

Each training is highly-customized, based on the information gathered during our needs discovery call.

All courses available as 1 ½ hour, 3 hour, half-day, full-day and multi-day trainings.

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Select a topic below to review a list of available courses.

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Negotiation & Contracts Courses

All training will include handouts for note taking and instruction on concepts with examples and experiential exercises to master the concepts. The lecture will present the concepts and plenty of time will be spent on ensure an understanding of concepts taught is communicated and students get questions answered and have an understanding of the material.

Exercises include debrief forms for each exercise and extensive discussion after each exercise will be used to solidify mastery of the concepts taught and learned. Students will learn as much from each others’ experience and discussion as doing the exercises. Experiential learning is done primarily for the feedback and experience.

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While students are learning and experiencing the concepts during the exercises, it’s the feedback afterwards where the solid learning is effectively drilled in.

Participants learn more from the exercises and experiential components than from didactic learning and lecture.

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Think Like A Negotiator

Today’s best leaders are also great negotiators, whether they are discussing a multi-million dollar deal or simply where to meet for dinner. Negotiation is simply the technical term for discussions and conversations to reach and agreement. Improving your negotiation skills will give you more confidence and better results.

In this highly-charged, content-packed presentation, Eldonna will show you how to find more power, negotiate better deals and create win-win results. You will be energized, empowered and educated to be a better negotiator and understand the art and language of negotiation.

Participants will learn:

• The 7 primary strategies to us in any negotiation

• Understanding the concept of Win-Win results and steps to achieve that outcome

• Offer, Acceptance & Counteroffer the building blocks of contracts & negotiation

• Know what to ask for, questions to ask and how to ask to get an agreement

• Strategies to turn a discussion or disagreement to a more favorable result

• How to think like a negotiator and ethically influence your outcomes

• What to do to avoid the most common mistakes made in negotiation

Contracts 101

This course will teach you the basics of contract formation and provide foundations of contract language to help you better understand the contracts process. Whether you are in business for yourself, work as an employee or making a personal purchase, at some point you will have to sign a contract.

You need to have a foundational understanding of how contracts are formed and where you fit into the process on either side of the table, whether you are the one offering or you are signing a contract to agree to be bound by its terms.

Participants will learn to:

• Understand the contract basics and feel more confident about your contracts and agreements

• Know the difference between a contract and an agreement

• Learn the 6 elements of contract formation

• Experience offer, acceptance, counteroffer and rejection of offer

• How to ask for consideration in contractual situations

Contract Claims – Government Contracts Personnel
DAWIA Certification

This course will teach you the foundations of Contract Claims and the basics of negotiation. Learn how to research, develop your position and negotiate a claim. Review and discussion of court cases plus experiential exercises to test your knowledge of the process. Previously taught to GSA Contracts personnel for DAWIA annual credits.

Participants will:

• Understand the basics of claims

• How to use negotiation skills and strategies to negotiate your position in a claim

• Review and discussion of court cases and high profile media cases

• Ways to avoid going to the claims process and how to avoid a potential lengthy court process

• Fun exercise to take you through the claims process from contract award to negotiating a claim

• End of course test is a Jeopardy-style game where all students participate in a fun challenge of course knowledge
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Communication & Presentation Skills Courses

All training will include handouts for note taking and instruction on concepts with examples and experiential exercises to master the concepts. The lecture will present the concepts and plenty of time will be spent on ensure an understanding of concepts taught is communicated and students get questions answered and have an understanding of the material.

Exercises will include debrief forms for each exercise and extensive discussion after each exercise will be used to solidify mastery of the concepts taught and learned.

Students will learn as much from each others’ experience and discussion as doing the exercises. Experiential learning is done primarily for the feedback and experience.

While students are learning and experiencing the concepts during the exercises, it’s the feedback afterwards where the solid learning is effectively drilled in.

Participants learn more from the exercises and experiential components than from didactic learning and lecture.

Effective Communication

This course will provide the opportunity for participants to hone their communication and presentation skills. Whether across the conference table or from the front of the room, good communication skills are a core tool for business success. If you have the right mindset and are a good communicator, you will outperform and be more successful than those who do not have mastery of these skills.

Participants will learn to:

• Build the confidence to easily and effectively present/speak up in any environment

• Have the ability to compose thoughts and present in a clear and concise manner

• Respond to and manage questions and answers with control and authority

• Organize and present your ideas or proposals to achieve wider acceptance and faster implementation

• How to reduce the fear of presenting/interviewing/briefing/ or speaking to a group

• Tools for effective connection with an audience – tonality, body language, gestures and power

Think Like A Speaker (Dynamic Speaking)

This course is an advance presentation course and will provide the student with honing their speaking and presenting skills at a higher level. Advanced stage anchoring skills and skills in effective use of tonality, gestures and stories for the speaker who has some level of speaking experience already or a desire to do the work to advance their skills to a higher level presenter.

Participants will learn to:

• Build the confidence to easily and effectively present/speak up in any environment

• Have the ability to keep your conversation audience centered

• Understand the mechanics of speaking including positioning on stage, tonality, body language and gestures

• Exercises and feedback to reduce the fear of speaking

• How to move and connect to an audience with stories to build that trust factor that will ensure they listen

• Tapping into your own power and personality to effectively move the audience to a specific outcome

• Common mistakes made by speakers and how to avoid them in your presentation
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Leadership Courses

All training will include handouts for note taking and instruction on concepts with examples and experiential exercises to master the concepts.The lecture will present the concepts and plenty of time will be spent on ensure an understanding of concepts taught is communicated and students get questions answered and have an understanding of the material.

Exercises will include debrief forms for each exercise and extensive discussion after each exercise will be used to solidify mastery of the concepts taught and learned. Students will learn as much from each others’ experience and discussion as doing the exercises.

Experiential learning is done primarily for the feedback and experience. While students are learning and experiencing the concepts during the exercises, it’s the feedback afterwards where the solid learning is effectively drilled in.

Participants learn more from the exercises and experiential components than from didactic learning and lecture.

Business Relationship Management

This course will discuss how to build and manage client and business relationships – understanding your client, theirs needs and requirements. In today’s “relationship economy” both B2B and B2C businesses are expected to go beyond simply doing business on a transactional basis. If they do not buy into you, they will not buy from you. Honing skills for assessing needs, finding common interests, and looking beyond data requests will be explored in this course.

Participants will learn about:

• Managing Relationships in all phases of business from first meeting to final payment.

• The importance of building relationships first and tools for building instant rapport

• Connection Builds Trust – Understanding the importance of connection in relationships and how to connect authentically

• Building Rapport, how to manage communication in person, in writing and electronically

• Understanding relationships in the contracting process (pre and post award)

• How to avoid the biggest mistake business owners make in relationship building

• Understanding doing business with other cultures/countries and how to effectively build relationships with them

• Successfully managing in house relationships with other teams, organizations and personnel with in the company

Effective Meeting Facilitation

All students will gain skills and techniques they will apply in planning, organizing and executing effective meetings for any type of meeting or event. Including but not limited to process improvement events, leadership decision making, team action plan development or problem resolution.

Participants will learn:

• Effective meeting planning, development of agendas and preparation for meeting flow and desired outcomes

• How to determine what rules of engagement are required and how they need to be addressed/presented

• Specific tools to develop and use to keep meeting on track; checklists, planning team meetings, meeting materials etc

• Techniques and strategies to ensure maximum participation and how to gain buy in, generate ideas, group consensus and foster high performing team environment quickly and effectively.

• How to build instant rapport and develop the “know, like and trust” factor between the group and the facilitator and the group with each other.

• “Heckler Handling” – how to manage disagreement, destructive and difficult personalities and behavior while maintaining in your power and holding onto control of the meeting from the front of the room.

• Strategies to remain neutral and unbiased before you walk into the room and maintaining that attitude throughout the meeting. Understand how to “Leave Emotion Out” and “Own Your Power”

• How to ensure you will keep the team focused on the objectives of the project or meeting objectives

• Understanding the basic foundations of relationship management as the key to a successful meeting and how to effectively implement at meeting inception.

Leading Yourself

This course will show you how to first lead yourself in order to be able to effectively lead others. Self-leadership is the first step in being a leader, a successful business owner, employee or manager. Those who lead from within have a higher sense of purpose and are more motivated to achieve their goals. This course will show you how to look for that motivation point to allow you to move forward with power and purpose in your business or day-to-day life.

Participants will:

• Understand how to intentionally influence your way of thinking, feeling and believing to achieve you and your company’s objectives

• Learn the strategies for self-discipline to create an internal accountability system

• How to laser focus on achieving your daily tasks and long-term personal and professional goals

• Make faster and better decisions and improve results

• Build better relationships, reduce stress, engage and empower yourself/your work force

• Master the 5 foundational principles of “THINK” in order to effectively lead yourself and others

• Breakthrough any barriers to success both personally and professionally and have a positive impact on those around you

Team Building

This course will teach participants the basis for how to create a high performing team environment and build solid trust, encourage healthy conflict, ensure strong commitment, have people take accountability for their action and focus on results to get the mission accomplished.

Participants will learn:

• The characteristics and development stages of effective teams

• How team dysfunction negatively affects to overall success of the organization

• Strategies for holding the Team together by maintaining alignment.

• Experience elements of a high performing team through experiential exercises

• Develop a plan of action for improving teamwork & achieving organizations direction, mission and vision