The Effective Manager's Remote Communication Skills Toolbox: Making Active Listening, Constructive Feedback, Resolving Conflicts
Maintain Order While Managing Long-Distance
- How to give multiple locations a business “road map” that’ll keep they headed in the right direction
- How to create crystal-clear procedures that off-site staff will follow to the letter
- Expert insight on “friendly” competition between sites could this be doing your company more harm than good?
- Discuss today’s long-distance management challenges and brainstorm possible solutions
- How to quickly smooth things over when you have to lay down the law and enforce an unpopular policy from a distance
- The one action you must take if you want to significantly slow down the paper blizzard from multiple locations
Effective Listening / Understanding Before Being Understood
- What is the Value of Listening?
- Why People Don’t Listen and the Consequences
- How to Listen Effectively and Actively
- Practice Listening Exercise
- Responsibility of the Communicator in Being Heard
Constructive Feedback / Gaining Advice While Avoiding Conflict
- The Value of Constructive Feedback
- Why People Don’t Give Feedback and the Consequences
- How to Give Constructive Feedback
- Practice Feedback Exercise
- Guidelines for the Feedback Receiver
Resolving Conflicts / Dealing with Others’ Resistance
- The Nature of Resistance
- Types of Resistance
- Typical Responses to Resistance
- Approaching Resistance and How to Deal with It
- The Keys to Effectively Resolving Conflicts
Making Coaching Work / Providing Guidance for Improving Performance
- Characteristics of Effective Coaches
- How to Coach Effectively
- The Value of Careful Listening in Coaching
- Being an Effective Role Model
- Using Coaching to Improve Performance
Overview of the webinar
Before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) appeared, has your workforce been largely office-based? Is this the first time you and your team have been working 100% virtually? If so, then this Webinar is for you! As enterprises have been growing far and wide, often international in scope, we find ourselves as executives and managers with our talent spread farther and farther, often at dozens and hundreds of locations. How do we ‘get a better handle’ on all this?
In order to function at maximum effectiveness, a manager must master critical communication skills, including active listening, the ability to receive and provide constructive feedback, to resolve conflicts and to coach and mentor. As enterprises have been growing far and wide, often international in scope, we find ourselves as executives and managers with our talent spread farther and farther, often at dozens and hundreds of locations. How do we ‘get a better handle’ on all this?Without these skills and a commitment to continuously improve them, our ability to leverage our value to our manager and our organization diminishes.
Who should attend?
- CEO
- Senior Vice President
- Vice President
- Executive Director
- Managing Director
- Regional Vice President
- Area Supervisor
- Manager
Why should you attend?
By attending, you will understand how to even more effectively:
- Manage your entire team remotely
- Listen actively
- Receive and provide constructive feedback
- Resolve conflicts
- Coach and mentor
Are you concerned about how others are receiving you as a manager?
Could you use communication skills “refresher”, to perhaps help you take a new approach to your direct reports you find especially challenging?
Would you like to leverage your value to your manager and to your organization?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our communication effectiveness, improve our team members’ and team’s performance, adding to the bottom-line!
Faculty - Mr.Chris DeVany
