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Why is meeting facilitation training important?

Dale Ludwig
June 9, 2022
A young businesswoman facilitating a budget meeting in the boardroom

According to an article on MIT’s human resources blog, over 25 million professional meetings are held every day in the US. That’s a staggering amount of time spent away from the rest of the work employees are paid to do. Combine that quantity with the qualitative change in attitudes brought about by the pandemic and...

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Nurturing High-Stakes Relationships with Client Teams

Greg Owen-Boger
June 6, 2022
relationships

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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How to Make Your Business Presentations Successful

Dale Ludwig
June 6, 2022
Business Coaching Presentation

When it comes to business presentations, many people feel overwhelmed. They don’t know where to start, and they’re not sure what the best practices are. That’s where coaching comes in. A presentation coach can help you make your next presentation a success. They will help you learn presentation skills through coaching sessions and communication training....

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What Is Missing From Your Leadership Development Training?

Dale Ludwig
May 25, 2022
leadership development training in a board room

When we are asked to develop a Leadership Communication training program for a client, it’s almost always because the leadership development training they’ve already invested in neglected to include a communication component. This article will address this major flaw in the leadership programs out there.   Let’s think about what it looks like to lack real...

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Business Success Depends on Soft Skills

Dale Ludwig
May 18, 2022
how to improve your soft skills for business success

Over the last several decades, our economy has shifted from one with lots of rote work, whether blue-collar or white-collar, to one in which routine tasks are automated. This means that tasks still dependent on human input are more complex and nuanced, requiring employees with excellent social skills, agility in responding to new situations, and...

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When Confusion is Caused by Multiple Training Vendors

Greg Owen-Boger
May 11, 2022
training

When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers and leaders are often pleasantly surprised by how team meetings become more efficient, leadership skills start to emerge, relationships blossom, and so on. We often hear that teams “Turpinize” their...

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What We Can Learn From Gen Z Communication

Barbara Egel
April 26, 2022
communication

Communication style evolves over generations. In the 1930s, you may have heard something along the lines of “Oh, yes, rather. I mean, it’s jolly good of you. Of course, absolutely—must be in on the jolly old sweep, what?” This is the reply Lord Peter Wimsey gives in Dorothy Sayers’s 1933 novel, Murder Must Advertise, when...

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Leading Employees: A Balancing Act

Greg Owen-Boger
March 29, 2022
leading Employees

It’s such a tired old saw: “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” Tired or not, there’s wisdom in it, but the idea only works if ambitious employees take it beyond just how they dress and think of it also in terms of how they communicate, explain, and express professionalism. As...

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16 Signs Your Company Should Invest in Communication Training

Greg Owen-Boger
March 14, 2022
communication training

We’ve been talking recently about our collective experience with communication challenges in the various places we’ve all worked. One topic that keeps coming up is how often what seems like a problem with process, productivity, or achieving benchmarks ultimately turns out to be a communication issue. We’ve put together a list for leadership to think...

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Five Things VIRTUAL Learners Want Us to Know

Dale Ludwig
January 26, 2022
virtual learners

A while back, I wrote a blog post about what learners really want trainers to know about their experience and expectations in a learning environment, especially when it comes to the instructor setting ground rules. We thought that since virtual learning seems to be here for the foreseeable future, we should update that post to...

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