Engagement and Productivity

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Innovative Techniques To Pitch, Persuade and Inform

Are people captivated when you speak? Can you command a room? Do people buy what you're selling? 

At UpThink, we teach master presentation skills. We help build on strengths and overcome obstacles.  We offer innovative tools for content development and delivery; story line composition, improvisation techniques, feedback loops, dynamic rehearsal exercises.

Ready, set, let's do this!

Services Include:

• Material management: astute content development and goal setting.
  
• Improvisation skills for thinking on your feet. Forbes says, "Improv training is great business training".
• Evidence based tools for overcoming presentation jitters.
• Tactics for maximum audience engagement.
• Creative and effective alternatives to slide decks.
  

Effective Communication Boosts Productivity

At UpThink, our Communication Mastery Program takes you way out of the box. For starters, we're not focused on your words. Because most communication is not about the words. It's how they are said, the meta message beneath them and what is not being said at all.

Whether your focus is leaders, teams, or the organization as a whole, mastering the art of communication is essential for business success.

Communication Mastery Program Includes:

• Skills for effective communication: sound bites, clear intent, active listening, feedback loops.
• Improvisation techniques for thinking on your feet and getting your point across.
• Methods to channel innovation through safe and open lines of communication.
  
• Evidence based skills for conflict resolution; stop avoiding the hard conversations.
  
• Workplace diversity training; communication and body language.

Innovation, Collaboration and Spontaneity

Improv training is a saavy business strategy for increasing productivity and performance. Improvisation quickens the brain's creative process and enhances decision making. Confidence builds as ideas flow and designs take shape. The collaborative nature of Improv creates an "energy of agreement" and a fascination for what comes next.

With evidence based techniques, Improv breathes new life into key elements of any business: Team Cohesion, Leadership Preparedness, Presentation Mastery, Productivity and Innovation. Improvisation stands alone in its unique business benefits.

Let UpThink create an Improv Training to meet your specific organizational needs and...Become the Star of Your Own Show!    

• Heightened creativity to fuel innovation
• Spontaneity for handling challenges
  
• Confidence building for goal achievement
• Ability to think outside the box and learn from mistakes
  
• Increased mental agility for adaptability
  
• The Three C's: Communication, collaboration and connectivity
• Listening skills for trust building and problem solving
• Positivity in the workplace, building a "Yes and..." perspective

Increasing Productivity Through Conflict Resolution

Understanding the cause of a conflict is the first step in resolving it. Most conflict stems from three sources: Control, Blame and Passion.

CONTROL:  When contributors feel a lack control within their job or feel controlled by others at work, brain functioning decreases, thereby lowering productivity.

BLAME:  Within conflict is blame, whether overt or covert. Resolving conflict takes personal responsibility and compromise.

PASSION:  Conflict stems from passionate, competing ideas. The key is turning passion-driven conflict into innovation.

At UpThink, we believe that all conflict can be resolved AND used for a greater purpose.

Conflict Resolution Training Includes:

• Evidence based, sustainable conflict resolutions skills.
• Techniques for turning conflict into productivity.
  
• Accountability and self-awareness: "You can't fix what you can't admit".
• Strategies to externalize the conflict: "You can't solve a problem when you're inside of it."
• Master communication techniques: speaking in a non-threatening and productive manner.
• Disarming improvisational skills to create connection and trust.