BAER ESSENTIALS offers interactive modules in three primary categories:  Communication & Presentation Skills, Interpersonal Skills, and Leadership.  Please contact us to customize a unique training event for you or your company from the following topics:

 

 

 

 

Public Speaking

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Communicate powerfully and authentically
• Deliver formal and informal presentations with confidence, credibility and passion
• Gain effective presentation skills in order to market to and retain clients
• Present critical information to management and staff
• Learn to master and control eye contact, gestures, body language, and movement

 

Presentation Skills

 

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Look and feel professional when addressing clients and other audiences  
• Reduce presentation fears and anxiety
• Use vocal volume and inflection to be naturally animated
• Communicate  effectively whether "on your feet or on your seat"
• Get the group "in the game"
     

Presenting with Visuals/ Powerpoint tm

  

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Breathe life into dry, technical talks
• Gain more control of their audience’s attention while presenting
• Avoid “data dumping” and over presenting and make slides come alive
• PowerPoint Slide Design:  The good, the bad and the ugly – A quick look at what works and what doesn’t work

 

Responding to Questions:  Even the Difficult Ones

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Listen with your head and your heart
• Identify the core issue behind the question
• Use 7 steps to handle questions
• Maintain composure and room control with difficult questions

 

Influencing/ Storytelling

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• "Paint the picture^tm worth 1000 words"
• Understand the subconscious triggers that motivate behavior
• Gain buy-in and acceptance of your ideas
• Learn to apply the 10 laws of persuasion

 

Client Pitches/Selling

 

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Answer the 3 questions ALL clients have in their mind
• Convince the client that they have an immediate need and you have an immediate solution
• Talk in the language of benefits, not features
• Use the BAER ESSENTIALS roadmap to guide clients through the buying cycle
• Build credibility through educating the client

 

Interpersonal Skills

 

Job Interview Skills

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Be real, be compelling, be interesting, and get the job
• Turn resume line-items into credential-building stories
• Shine from the initial handshake to the follow up letter
• Articulate your strengths in a non-boastful way

The Art of Small Talk:  Building Relationships

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Make small talk into big talk
• Build instant repport and lifetime relationships
• Use Connector Points^tm  to make clients from friends
• Shake hands, maintain eye contact, and use body language that speaks volumes

 

Communicate with Tact

 

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Speak so that what you "mean to say" is "how you are heard"
• Say what you mean, mean what you say and don't say it mean
• Understand how you are being perceived by others
• Communicate effectively with different and difficult personalities without 'sugarcoating' 

Facilitate an Effective Meeting

 

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Set a provocative agenda
• Encourage participants to come prepared with specific solutions
• Gain 100% involvement
• Share the leadership role
• Cut the meeting length in half
• End on time
• Have clear action plan

Leadership

 

Motivation / Leadership

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Understand the 2 driving forces that will give you leverage to change
• Lead, not just manage
• Motivate and inspire (yourself and others)
• Create positive "self talk" that will propel you to success

Memory Skills you won't forget

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Remember names forever with 3 easy techniques
• Develop your "photographic memory"
• Talk without notes and not miss a point
• Remember where you left your keys!

 

Time Management/ Personal Goal Setting

 

This session is designed to provide professionals with the tools to:

• Take control of your most valuable resource
• Eliminate time wasters
• Prioritize a "To Do"  list
• Create your blueprint before you dig