Foster and Retain an Engaged Team

Do you want to be a leader people want to work for? Creating a strong, engaged team translates into a more positive work environment, lower turnover, and greater productivity and collaboration. It also has a direct effect on your organization’s bottom line: companies with highly engaged employees outperform others by over 200%.

Connected Leadership will help you develop the specific skills you need to better connect with your employees. Discover how you can become a leader who attracts and engages an eager, committed team.  Build stronger relationships that increase your value, influence, and impact

What You Will Learn:

• Discover the correlation between a relationship driven leader and the bottom line
• Increase your authenticity and productive energy in interactions
• Build and retain trust to improve productivity, morale, loyalty and retention
• Nurture your network and increase your influence
• Connect in conversation and deal with difficult coworkers

Influencing Others into Action

What do you want? How likely are you to make it happen in the time frame you want? The truth is we often need the actions of others to accomplish our goals. The best way to get what you want is to figure out why someone else wants you to have it.

In this interactive talk Michelle will reveal the three reasons people take action and how to increase your aptitude of each technique.

Program Benefits:

• Recognize the three reasons people take action
• Incorporate the Inquiry vs Advocacy model to reveal motivations
• Discover how to position requests using What’s In It For Them (WIIFT)
• Adopt a Connector mindset to leverage relationships
• Ask for what you want with ease and increase the odds of getting a ‘yes’

Determine and Drive How Others See You

What do people say about you when you leave the room? Is it what you want them to say? How you show up in the room, get listened to and are known amongst your colleagues are all critical components of your future success.

In this workshop Michelle will discuss how to determine your brand attributes, demonstrate the nuances of body language on your professional presence, and discuss how to strengthen the lasting impressions you make on your network, expanding upon lessons from her books The 11 Laws of Likability and The Connector’s Advantage.

What You Will Learn

• Recognize the attributes that impact first and lasting perceptions
• Tweak your body language to enhance your professional presence
• Discover the verbal tools and distractors the impede your image
• Learn how word choice impacts responses
• Determine how to select your brand personality

Staying Present While Remote

In the new normal of remote work, connecting has taken on new challenges. In the fast moving, hybrid world we communicate through email, text and video conference and forget the power of conversation. Communication and connection are the foundation for building a thriving network and business.

During this talk, Michelle will inspire you to leverage the power of personal connection in the hybrid work environment while still incorporating the efficiency of virtual communication.

What You Will Learn:

• Recognize the benefits and drawbacks of connecting in the remote workplace
• Leverage technology to show up powerfully while on screen
• Discover key strategies to build intentional connection into your agenda
• Learn how curiosity creates connection, keeps you engaged and minimizes multitasking

Boost Your Influence

Research studies consistently reveal that people prefer to do business with, hire, buy from and work with people they like. Yet the desire to be liked is often minimized and even mocked in its importance in business. Discover how authenticity in our interactions, adopting a giving approach and finding common ground are the foundation for boosting your likability. The highest levels of achievement come to those who mix expertise with likability.

When you are liked, you are listened to and viewed as trustworthy and credible. In this talk Michelle explains how to leverage the Laws of Likability and the mindsets of a Connector resulting in more business, more influence, and a more engaged team.

What You Will Learn

• Understand why likability matters in business
• Increase your authenticity and productive energy in interactions
• Discover how to find common ground with almost anyone
• Learn multiple ways to add value to your network
• Connect in conversation and deal with difficult personalities

Relationship Networking

In the fast moving world where everyone is communicating through email, text and instant messaging we have forgotten the power of face-to-face conversation. Communication and connection is the foundation for building a thriving network and business.

During this talk, Michelle will inspire you to leverage the power of personal connection in the digital age while still incorporating the efficiency of virtual communication.

What You Will Learn

• Move from first conversation to lasting connection
• Learn what to do before the first conversation ends
• Leverage technology and social media in simple ways to increase familiarity
• Discover specific ways to increase your value to your network

Personal Connection for Professional Results

What do you need to get ahead? In this day and age, we live in a network economy –  it’s all about who you know, who knows you, and what they know about you.

In this talk Connector’s Advantage author Michelle Tillis Lederman explains the types of relationships you want and need, how to adopt the Connector’s mindset and move up the Connector spectrum to get better, faster, and easier results. At the end of the day it is the strength of your relationships that leads to your success.

What You Will Learn:

• The correlation between relationships and promotion, hiring, and business results
• The key relationship types that impact success
• The 7 mindsets of a Connector and how to move up the Connector spectrum
• The anatomy of a conversation and specific ways to increase your value to your network