Learn From the Experts in the IT Leadership Program
IT Leadership is about more than just IT skills. We focus on the other skills
every manager needs including
communication, motivation, relationships and more. Benchmark Learning leverages our own experts and pairs that with the knowledge of local experts to bring you a wide array of different skills every IT Manager needs to have.
Insights
Everybody is different; every company, every customer, every technologist – period. That’s why we offer a revolutionary training program to help manage your personal and professional relationships.
A Revolutionary Assessment:
As a professional in the workplace, nearly everyone has taken communication style tests, like Myers-Briggs or DISC, to determine how you interact with your team members. Our Insights features results that are easy to understand and use when managing your relationships. It’s an effective way to help organizations discover communication styles, as well as to help employees work together in a synergetic and productive manner.
This revolutionary training assists individuals in their search for understanding their personal style and in managing relationships with others, both at work and home. Not only does it hone communication skills, it also improves team performance, creates a more positive and productive cultural environment and helps increase awareness of personal style and how it directly impacts others.
A Practical Application:
Students will get a comprehensive report that includes information on how communication styles differ between home and work, tips for co-workers on how to best communicate with one another and helpful hints for co-workers to prevent miscommunication with others students.
Writing To Get Things Done
98% of all professionals use what we call the "Rambling Rose" writing process – where people ramble as they type in the hope that something will get done. The result is that they inundate the reader with background information, include too much detail, or not enough of the relevant details! They hide key points within paragraphs of explanation and use ambiguous closings that leave the reader guessing about any action to take.
Presented by:
Stan Berry
Business writing coach Stan Berry has devoted the past 34 years to improving the productivity of over 55,000 business and government professionals with his seminar, Writing to Get Things Done® (WGTD). Stan’s unique and energetic approach to teaching makes the class engaging and fun. Stan has also authored five books on business writing that he uses in his seminars.
Stu Tanquist
Stu Tanquist loves creating that “aha” moment, when people internalize the value and power of Writing to Get Things Done (WGTD). Stu honed his business writing skills while working as the editor of several business publications. His expertise ranges from working as a professional trainer to serving as a strategic-level director for training and development, with responsibility for the learning needs of 4,000 employees.
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Berry Writing Group Building People Through Coaching and Development
Managing and coaching are very different. In this section, students will develop their coaching and development skills. They will learn skills to build titles, roles and responsibilities. Also, students will learn how to conduct successful performance appraisals and delegate workload effectively. Students will evaluate their current skills and weaknesses, and discover how they can improve their coaching and development skills to create an opening for new opportunities.
Presented by:
Michael Foley
Michael knows how to tell a story. Whether reassuring novice adventurers during his tenure as an Outward Bound instructor or helping executives pack punch into a presentation, Mike's stories and humor have been at the core of his success as a keynote speaker, coach and trainer.
Prior to founding Clarity Central, Mike excelled as a major account manager for General Electric and Ameritech. He knows firsthand what it takes to differentiate oneself in the marketplace. As a result, Mike has developed talks and courses that are hard hitting, applicable and powerful. His "zero fluff" approach to education is highly engaging for even the toughest of audiences.
An avid sailor, Mike expanded Clarity Central to offer life/career renewal expeditions and coaching sessions on the water. "There's something about being on the water that invites a different perspective and clarity that can't be found in a conference room," he observes. Michael has an MA in Human Development, post-graduate certificates in coaching and a USCG captain’s license.
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