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Day-long to Multi-day Workshops
Leadership Symposium
This workshop is tailorable to the needs of the customer and can include a combination of lectures that will all tie into leadership. Common sessions that augment the specific leadership lecture include communications & teambuilding, organization-specific break-out sessions and for CPA organizations, an update on the profession and much more. Bill has taught leadership sessions to many companies as part of their in-house training, for CPA State Societies and CPA Firm Associations, Recently, Bill put together a 5 day program for the California Society of CPAs with the first two days being Paul Hersey's Situational Leadership (to help people understand their leadership and management styles), and the final three days dealing with setting strategy, how to run a business, manage employees, emotional intelligence, teambuilding, meeting management, being a more effective communicator and advisor and much more. This program has been run twice with very high marks and is scheduled again for the end of 2007 and 2008.
Format of Session: Lecture combined with group dialogue and individual exercises
Typical Duration: 1-5 days
Management Symposium
This workshop typically includes a combination of lectures presented in the Keynote Speeches - Executives & Management section. The workshop can be tailored to each organization's situation, but typically include topics such as strategic mismanagement, performance measurement, management and leadership skills and organization-specific break-out sessions.
Format of Session: Lecture combined with break-out groups
Typical Duration: 1 day
Facilitative/Advisory Symposium
This workshop is tailorable to the needs of the customer and can include a combination of lectures that will all tie into consultants being able to live up to being businesses' most trusted advisor. Besides the foundation session of Moving from Expert to Advisor, other sessions might include developing a marketing plan, improving sales skills, organization-specific break-out sessions, and for CPA organizations, an update on the profession.
Format of Session: Lecture combined with break-out groups
Typical Duration: 1 day
Facilitative/Advisory/Sales Skills Program
Whereas the Facilitative/Advisory Symposium is training (1 day) on how to become a better advisor/consultant, this program (3 or 4 days) is a much more in-depth skill-building process that helps consultants move from the intellectualization of how to live up to being the most trusted advisor, to the unconscious delivery of that expectation. This workshop has been developed, refined and fine-tuned by working with hundreds of CPAs and consultants throughout the past 15 years. The training teaches those with client account management responsibility how to:
- maintain a 30,000 foot perspective and conversation long enough to easily identify that company's concerns and/or opportunities;
- help clients quantify the value of taking action; and
- generate the sense of urgency that motivates them to literally ask YOU for the business.
This training is not about how to become a salesperson. However, by developing your facilitative and advisory capability, you will not only be able to provide higher-valued assistance to those you serve, you will also automatically generate more revenues for the firm.
For a more in-depth discussion about this workshop's objectives and approaches, click the title of this workshop and you will be linked to a more detailed description.
Format of Session: Lecture, group role-plays and fish-bowl role plays (the other class participants watch as each individually role-plays the skills being taught, while constantly being coached through the exercises.
Typical Duration: There is a 3 day version of this workshop, and a 4 day version which includes presentation skills.
Video Option: Some organizations, in order to enhance the learning process, have the individual exercises video-taped. From this, video-CDs are created for each participant to help them gain a better understanding as to how they come across when interacting with their clients.
Presentation Skills
Your ability to professionally present yourself and sell your ideas is critical in today's fast-paced information-overload business environment. Some people are born silver tongued devils and this skill is natural. But most people are not. Good presentation skills can be learned by anyone. And with most people ... it takes just a little effort and they can rapidly advance their competency in this area. This session focuses on developing the skills to deliver a powerful presentation, whether that be to a customer, a management team, a board of directors or to an audience of hundreds. The tips and techniques covered will, with just a minimum of effort, significantly improve your presentation capability.
Format of Session: Lecture combined with break-out groups
Typical Duration: 1 day
Note: This session is often combined with the Facilitative/Advisory/Sales Skills Workshop to create the 4 day version mentioned above.
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Winters and Reeb, PLLC
2603 Pearce Road, Austin, TX 78730 :: phone (512) 338-1006 :: fax (512) 338-1023 :: Contact Bill |
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