Professional Skills

"Professional Skills" category description:

Professional skills and leadership skills workshops and solutions customized for leaders and managers.

Learn best practices for how to lead and manage teams in an organization. Advice, tips, articles, and other resources are provided by experts in leadership development and training, as well as in executive coaching.

Skill development is critical for professional success, managing others, and career advancement. Workshop programs are suited for corporate leaders, senior managers, middle managers, new managers, and high potentials.

Professional skills, often referred to as soft skills, are essential to individual and organizational success. Consensus offers a menu of leadership skills development solutions including:

– Negotiation Skills
– Influence and Influencing Skills
– Communication Skills
– Difficult Conversations
– Tackling Challenging Conversations
– How to Say No
– How to Deliver Performance Reviews
– Change Leadership and Leading through Change
– Leading Remote Teams

Consensus offers skills development through a menu of different solutions. These include instructor led training, classroom workshops, live-online training workshops, one on one executive
coaching, self paced e-learning, and other customized training solutions.

All skill building training solutions are designed and facilitated by experts with field experience as professional negotiators, mediators, corporate trainers, and executive coaches.

Lessons from the Godfather I'll Make Him an Offer He Can't Refuse | Negotiation Advice from Professional Negotiators

Negotiation Lessons from The Godfather

There are several parties involved in this Godfather negotiation. They include Vito Corleone and Jack Woltz, as mentioned earlier. Yet, a third and critical party to this negotiation is Tom Hagen, Vito’s levelheaded advisor. In the movie, it is Hagen who interacts directly with [...]Read more

Resolve Partnership Disputes | Business Mediation & Conflict Resolution

What Business Professionals Have in the Common with the Beatles

The collaboration between John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles is widely regarded as one of the most important creative partnerships of all time. The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful music acts of all time, and most of their hits are jointly credited [...]Read more

Addressing Return to Work | Leadership Development Workshops

Addressing Return-to-Work Plans

Addressing Return to Work Plans While the initial choice might not have been theirs, many professionals now appreciate the flexibility and freedom associated with working from home. As organizations map out their return-to-work plans, many employees are resistant to giving up [...]Read more

Best of Manhattan | Consensus Leadership Development | Negotiation Skills & Difficult Conversations workshops and executive coaching

Consensus Named Best of Manhattan

Consensus is proud to have been selected for the 2020 Best of Manhattan Awards. The Manhattan Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Manhattan area. Its mission is to recognize the small business [...]Read more

Working from Home. Can it be done well?

Working from Home – Can it be done well? Kudos to The Boston Globe for sharing data that supports both side of the work from home issue. Many of our global clients are grappling with employees working from home. We agree with Yahoo, IBM, and Best Buy that key success [...]Read more

Sharing Critical Feedback

Our latest column from Training Magazine, Sharing Critical Feedback gives advice on how to deliver difficult messages to staff. The article touches upon ideas introduced in some of our customized workshops, including our Having Challenging Conversations workshops and our [...]Read more

Boosting Sales

Our latest column from Training Magazine, Boosting Sales gives advice on how to keep your salespeople motivated. The article touches upon ideas introduced in some of our customized workshops, including our Having Challenging Conversations workshops and our Negotiation workshops. [...]Read more

Organization Downsized

Our latest column from Training Magazine, My Organization Downsized…and My Workload Upsized gives advice on how to say no projects and still be seen as a team player. The article touches upon ideas introduced in some of our customized workshops, including our Having [...]Read more

Addressing Mistakes

Our latest column from Training Magazine, Addressing Mistakes gives advice on how to address employee mistakes in the workplace. The article touches upon ideas introduced in some of our customized workshops, including our Having Challenging Conversations workshop and our [...]Read more

Managing Cultural Differences

Our latest column from Training Magazine, Managing Cultural Differences gives advice on how to lead people with different cultures. The article touches upon ideas introduced in some of our customized workshops, including our Cross Cultural Negotiation workshop and our Cross [...]Read more

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