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Monday, April 19, 8:45am - 10:00am
Schmoozing: Meet, Greet and Speak With Ease
Lori Silverman, Partners for Progress
| Reflect for a moment on how you use your time each day at work. How much is devoted to developing a strong bond with your boss, co-workers, team members and key stakeholders? Ten percent? Twenty percent? Fifty percent? How about when you attend an event or outside activity? Do you put forth effort to meet new people who might be able to help you? Personally and professionally, relationships are a vital building block to gaining buy-in, securing timely input and honest feedback, and creating high performance teams. What can you do to feel more comfortable meeting people? Starting or entering a conversation? Engaging in small talk? Introducing people to others? Ending a conversation gracefully? Come and discover the fine points of how to enhance rapport and build valuable relationships. |
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Learning Objectives:
- You will discover at least three ways to fine-tune your current interactions with people at work.
- You will learn specific techniques to overcome inhibitions around relating to people you do not know or do not know well.
- You will be able to put commonly accepted protocols into use when meeting and greeting others.
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Lori Silverman Biography:
As a strategist and the owner of Partners for Progress, for 20 years Lori Silverman has consulted across fifteen industries on enterprise-wide change and viable long-term strategies to increase success. Organizations she has worked with include Chevron, Bechtel, Midwest Airlines, American Family Insurance and the U.S. Air Force Reserves. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lori led the development of the project management methodology used in the Project Management Master's Certificate. She also spearheaded the creation of seven, two-day courses for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Project Management Certificate Program. A nationally recognized keynote speaker, Lori has inspired thousands of conference participants to take action. She has published over one hundred articles and workbooks on strategic planning, teams, quality, value creation and change and has appeared on over 60 radio and TV shows to talk about using stories at work. Lori is the co-author of Critical Shift and Stories Trainers Tell. Her latest bestseller, Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results, debuted in the top one hundred books on Amazon.
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