Online Business Series: Communication 101

Webinar Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Communication is critical to any relationship and the most fundamental of all the soft skills. It is the most important of the six key indicators of highly functioning teams.

What you will learn:

• The missing step that we are all failing to do in order to create effective communication;
• The costs associated to ineffective communication;
• Two types of listening skills necessary to communicate effectively in the workplace;
• Understand the need for clarity of action before executing on tasks to avoid costly error.

You will leave this web event with new techniques and an understanding of the importance of having one common model for effective listening and communication in the workplace.

TAKE PART IN THE ONLINE BUSINESS SERIES SPECIFICALLY FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS!

PRESENTER RENEE SAFRATA

After graduating from Ryerson with an interior design degree and obtaining her NCIDQ certificate, Renée set up a boutique interior design firm specializing in retail, particularly big-box retail environments. Teams were critical to project success!

After 11 years, she shifted careers to consult to CEOs, COOs, executive management teams, senior teams, associations and entrepreneurs to build more focused, engaged and results-oriented collaborative teams. Renée has worked with over 220 companies and 1900 business executives throughout North America, helping them connect and adopt new behaviours to become confident members of highly functioning teams. She firmly believes that human-connection and talent development is what ultimately drives productivity and contributes to company results.

As an entertaining and personable speaker, Renée brings her expertise and deep passion for teams to every audience. Participants leave with new insights into organizational health, the relevance of investing in teams for bottom-line performance, team-centric best practices, employee engagement and the six key indicators for highly functioning teams.

Renée is the founder and owner of VIVO Team Development, a web-based performance management solutions company that offers corporations the ability to analyze team productivity, identify areas for improvement and provide targeted team-training solutions. VIVO Team’s platform tests, trains and tracks team performance to build healthy and profitable teams.