Influencing Others Without Authority Public Workshop

In today’s fast-paced environment of matrix and cross-functional teams, the traditional management approach of trying to exert full authority over others through compliance is risky business. Although it is necessary at times for busy professionals, team leaders, supervisors, and managers to be directive with others about getting things done, it is also likely that the productivity of individuals and teams will improve when they experience the positive effects of influence in a collaborative setting.

Based on position and interest-based influencing methods from Harvard, participants will learn and practice influencing using the four step method of gaining attention, interest, commitment, and motivating action. This workshop uses interactive discussions, case studies, video reviews, team exercises, self-assessments, and practical action-planning exercises. Consequently, participants will develop more self-awareness, learn new productivity tools, and enhance their performance as negotiators of deadlines, schedules, resources, staff, budgets, pricing, product changes, and other aspects of managing people and projects to achieve winning outcomes in a collaborative way.

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2-Day Team Leading with Excellence Public Workshop

In today’s dynamic workforce, there are a lot of demands on leaders and management teams. Their responsibilities includes facilitating change management; reducing the negative effects of mergers, downsizing or rapid expansion. They also need to understand and motivate their staff and others in the organization. In other words, they need to lead their department and company with inspiring leadership skills and techniques.

This course will equip supervisors, team leaders, and managers with leadership skills that will strengthen their role as the critical link between strategic goals and tactical performance. Through this development program, supervisors will learn the skills necessary to lead their teams to success.

Too often, managers promote their best agents to be supervisors without equipping them with vital new leadership skills that will determine their success in their new job role.

This practical course is designed to reflect the “aim frame” of managing expectations and projects as a mindset as well as an activity. It assumes that “managing” is more than a hierarchical title; it is a state of thinking, responding, and acting. Participants will learn and apply management concepts, techniques, and tips to communicate, direct, coach, mentor, entrust, and lead others in routine situations and during challenging times of change. They will acquire tools for managing influentially and receive constructive feedback from their facilitator and peers.

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Managing Difficult Clients & Situations Public Workshop

This course qualifies as one prerequisite towards CCSS© designation

Does your organization work with difficult clients? Are you interested in learning how to manage your stress and handle complicated circumstances while at work? If you answered yes, then this program is for you.

This workshop is designed to teach you all about the art of dealing with difficult customers and scenarios while at work. You will learn how to manage conversations, empathize with clients, identify triggers, negotiate, and most importantly, protect yourself physically, emotionally, and mentally on the job.

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Delivering Responsive Customer Service Public Workshop

This course qualifies as one prerequisite towards CCSS© designation

A great customer service experience is vital to the success of a company, and delivering that service is what shapes the customer experience. This training program is ideal for anyone who wishes to provide their valued customers with a premium level of service. you will learn how to better understand customer expectations, profile difficult customer situations, and deal with customer objections using a proven model for effective complaint resolution. It also goes over how to use assertive techniques and positive language to diffuse difficult situations, reduce stress, promote team camaraderie, and create a positive customer experience resulting in win-win situations.

This interactive workshop is informative, fun, and provides easily applicable solutions for service excellence that are proven to work in today’s toughest customer service arena – the real world.

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3-Day Certified Client Service Specialist Designation BootCamp

The Certified Client Service Specialist (CCSS©) program offers participants the tools, techniques, and effective customer service skills required in today’s demanding work environment. Whether you work in private, public, or not-for-profit organization you will take away up to date information needed to succeed in the work place. Our world class certified facilitators with their engaging delivery style and relevant up to date content have delivered to hundreds of participants globally.

Our programs are certified and accredited by Canadian Council of Professional Certification (CCPC Global) to ensure quality, content, and engaging delivery.

Completion of our certification process confers the right to use the title Certified Client Service Specialist and the right to use the initials CCSS© after one’s name.

This 3-course program offers the right blend of knowledge and skills to become an expert in all aspects of customer service delivery – everything from professionalism to customer service, to sales, handling difficult customers, and more. Upon completion of the program, you will be able to build a solid foundation for your career and gain and industry specific credential that is recognized by major organizations.

Accredited Courses Required

1-Day Delivering Responsive Customer Service
This program is ideal for anyone who deals with customers and wants to provide a more customized or personalized experience for them. This training will provide you with the skills to not only handle a customer’s immediate requests, but also provide information and recommendations to build the customer’s relationships through providing valuable conversations.

1- Day Managing Difficult Clients and Situations
This program is ideal for anyone who deals with difficult clients in various challenging situations and wishes to remain in control. The program will lay out strategies for turning negative situations into opportunities for building lifelong relationships.

1-Day Conflict Resolution
Have you ever been in a conflict that you wished you could have handled better? We have all experienced the stress that comes from having unresolved conflicts with our co-workers. Conflicts that are ignored or resolved badly don’t go away – they cause people to feel resentful and to avoid each other. The effects on an organization are a loss of productivity, absenteeism and high turnover.

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Complimentary Journey Mapping Workshop

Customer Journey Mapping is a vital, customer-centric, methodology that allows you to truly understand the customer experience from the customer POV, and uncover strategic opportunities to continually enhance their experiences with your organization.

This workshop is a hands-on crash course showcasing the step-by-step process needed to take an outside-in approach to mapping the journeys your customers have.

Session 1 – Morning
8:30 AM – 12PM

Session 2 – Afternoon
12:30PM – 4PM

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Humanizing the Coaching Experience Public Workshop

A humanized customer experience begins by understanding your own emotions and the emotions of your direct reports. This means understanding and aligning to the basic human needs for interaction – empathy, trust, acknowledgement and relevance.

This program is designed to help supervisors and managers become more empathetic, and involved and active members of their teams in a way that will bring down walls and inspire growth and creativity.

Leaders will learn to lead by example by understanding the daily work experience of each of their team members as they function in their roles. Through this, they will strengthen their communication approach to effectively encourage openness and transparency to better identify and acknowledge individual talents and expertise of team members. At the end of this training, participants will work with their teams to promote cross-functional learning and mentoring to ultimately create a culture of cohesiveness and support. The end goal is to build stronger, more accountable and highly functional teams.

Upon completion of this full-day session, participants will have the skills and confidence to engage in impactful communication by employing the right mix of acknowledgement, personalization and empathy in every interaction.

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Complimentary Journey Mapping Workshop

Customer Journey Mapping is a vital, customer-centric, methodology that allows you to truly understand the customer experience from the customer POV, and uncover strategic opportunities to continually enhance their experiences with your organization.

June 28, 2018

Session 1 – Morning
8:30 AM – 12PM

Session 2 – Afternoon
12:30PM – 4PM

This workshop is a hands-on crash course showcasing the step-by-step process needed to take an outside-in approach to mapping the journeys your customers have.

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Advantages of Progressive Web Applications

Progressive web apps are causing a paradigm shift for software development. Traditionally, the development of an app meant knowledge of native languages such as (but not limited to) Java, Objective-C or Swift. It also meant jumping through the hoops and hurdles of getting yourself listed on those pesky Apple and Android App Stores. Now however, the development of apps can be made accessible to us lowly HTML, CSS and JavaScript coders. Before we continue on about the benefits of progressive web apps, it may be beneficial to explore their predecessor: Traditional Web Apps.

Traditional Web Apps

Traditional web apps differ from native apps because rather than an app icon on your screen; they are made accessible through a web browser. They are beneficial because unlike native apps, they are easier to maintain due to their common code across various platforms. Most importantly however, they don’t require visiting an app store for download.

However, web apps are not without their own shortcomings; as they are not installed directly on your mobile device—without internet connectivity, a web app is relatively useless. Hybridizing mobile and traditional web apps however create a new entity, one that takes advantages of the strengths in both native mobile and web applications: Progressive Web Apps.

Progressive Web Apps

Progressive web apps are a hybridization between native, and traditional web apps. Progressive web apps are progressive because they work in old and new browsers, although they benefit from the use of modern browsers and features. They also deliver a more app-like user experience. Like native applications, PWA’s can have icons placed either on your desktop, or in your toolbar, providing easy application accessibility. By combining the native and traditional web applications, PWA’s are able to achieve the benefits of each, while mitigating their shortcomings. In fact, Pinterest – a popular image sharing site – experienced a 40% increase in time spent on their site, and 44% higher user generated ad revenue after implementing their new progressive web app.

Benefits

A major advantage to using progressive web apps is the avoidance of app stores, and their strict regulations. Another important benefit not to be overlooked, is the growing presence of “app fatigue”. The 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report revealed an astonishing 50% of smartphone users in the US download NO apps per month. By focusing more on the user experience, PWA’s can provide more value to your customers, and your organization.

Arguably one of the most important features of a progressive web app is its flexibility, although originally intended for mobile use, PWA’s function just as well on desktop, television, and tablet screens. Offline mode is also of benefit, as information a user has accessed previously is available for use and viewing without the need of an internet connection; something native apps have yet to accomplish.

In terms of maintenance, progressive web apps also boast simplicity over their app-store-distributed counterparts. Rather than having to submit an update packaged file to the app-store, PWA’s can simply be updated directly through the server.

Limitations

So far you might be thinking – “why would anybody choose native over progressive web apps?”. However, there are a few shortcomings associated with obtaining your own web app. The main downfall is the lack of support on iOS devices, limiting your applications reach. Secondly, unlike native apps downloaded directly onto your phone, these web applications are unable to sync with your phones functionalities. Things like GPS location, calendars, contacts, or any other features native apps typically interface with, are unavailable to PWA’s.

Conclusion

Progressive web apps are changing the face of software development. Not only do they experience a variety of user benefits, but they also improve performance overall—see Pinterest’s Progressive Web App Performance Case Study. Increased time spent on site, increased ad revenue, as well as conversions are just a few of the benefits you can expect from replacing your native application with a web application.

Overall, PWA’s are:

  • Easier to develop
  • More useful for users
  • Easier to install, maintain, and keep secure
  • Easier to grow as your company grows
  • Can be run on any type of device (desktop, mobile, tablet)

Let’s discuss your next web-based application. Contact us directly at 1-800-650-8882 or fill out a contact us form on our website and we’ll help you determine how to make your next progressive web app a massive success!

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Implementation of an Enterprise-wide Common Street Address Database

BeSpatial June Webinar

Implementation of an Enterprise-wide Common Street Address Database

Speakers: John Bacon, City of Hamilton & Marc Curtis, AGSI

Please join on us on Thursday, June 28 from 1pm to 2pm for an online webinar.

This is a complimentary webinar. Registration is required.  A link will be sent to registrants before the webinar begins.

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