SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

What AxisTD Offers Participants.

Our Facilitators are talent development practitioners—seasoned pros. They frequently conduct conference sessions, meetings, workshops, and seminars on a variety of topics; including IE&D, EEO, sales, business, motivation, and team building.

Engagements are 45 to 90 minutes in duration, include practical, immediately applicable work tools and can be tweaked to correspond with the theme of your event.

MOST REQUESTED TOPICS

Learning Organizations: The Future for Engagement. Retention. Results.

Today’s complex, dynamic business environment demands that organizations develop the capacity to continuously learn, adapt, and change. Traditional organizations must become learning organizations to attract and retain top talent, enable engaged workforces to impact business results, and effectively manage rapid change to drive future competitiveness. HR’s role is to be the catalyst for the creation of these learning organizations. And you, as strategic HR professionals, will have to constantly promote a learning culture throughout your organizations—from the lowest to highest levels and across functions. But first, you’ll need to successfully sell the business case to leadership in business language.

WORKPLACE APPLICATION

Participants will see what a learning organization looks like and get applicable, strategic work tools that will help them gain support for the creation of a high-performance learning organization.

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Technology Can't Touch This: The Human Element of Selling

Technology has disrupted many phases of the traditional sales process. But one aspect of selling that it can’t touch is the people element: the human-to-human things that top sellers do best such as build real business relationships and influence one-on-one interactions. So it’s vital that your reps have the superior selling skills (people skills) to consistently win customers from the competition—no matter what product or service the team sells or technology they use. This session presents the human, and often overlooked, skills reps need to become top performers in today’s technology-driven selling environment.

WORKPLACE APPLICATION

Participants learn some of the work activities and human-to-human sales skills that will improve their one-on-one sales interaction outcomes.

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The 7 Deadly Networking Sins ... and How to Avoid Them

As a business person, you know that networking is fundamental to building relationships and growing your business. Oftentimes, you set out at networking functions with a common goal: tell as many people as possible about your product or service and collect a bunch of cards. The fact is, productive business networking is something very different. It’s actually about connecting with the right people, those who will bring you a regular supply of new business. Chances are, you've committed one or more of the deadly sins—that have sabotaged your networking effectiveness—and don't even realize it. So the basic question is this: How do you become a skillful networker? First, you must employ the right approach and avoid the 7 deadly networking sins.

WORKPLACE APPLICATION

Participants will identify the 7 deadly networking sins, describe the role the right networking approach plays in generating new business, and learn how to apply a highly-effective business networking approach.