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The number one feedback provided from managers to employees is to improve their communication. Finding the right training that will change behaviors and provide significant and impactful tools is right here.

Ensuring that the talk isn't cheap. Rather, focused and deliberate towards the goals and objectives of the meeting.

When you value your culture to engage and reinforce the behaviors you want to see, you need an experienced facilitator who provides both facilitation and communication training within your event. That is me.

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Specializing in:
Interpersonal Communications Training
and Retreat Facilitation

Margot Halstead, MCC, MBA, PMP

Author, Owning Your IT

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ROOT FOCUSED FACILITATION

I have been facilitating succession planning meetings, team off-sites, leadership summits, as well as team improvement for over the last twenty years.

 

The key to my success, and the success of my partners, has been the ability to relate to all members of the team, forge immediate trust and connection, and relate the goals of the team to your desired business outcomes.  

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CUSTOMIZED TRAINING

With an extensive training catalog, I offer turn-key or dynamically created targeted training to support you, your staff and your organization in a focused way that impacts the individual's growth for the business benefit.

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Specializing in communications training, all solutions will support behavior change that will impact inclusivity, productivity, and engagement.

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LEADERSHIP COACHING

Your communication style works, until it doesn't. It sneaks up on you just when you want to get the promotion to VP, SVP, or to the C-suite. Then what? 

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Navigating at that level requires up leveled communication skills that are rarely taught. Yet, with the feedback of "you need to improve your executive presence" - you may be wondering where to get that. 

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Right here.

Impactful Corporate Retreats

  • Events are not happening because it is too time-consuming to prepare the content your company would benefit from hearing?

  • (Potentially) repetitive year over year?

  • Overrun with ill-prepared internal speakers since they are busy producing?

  • Missing an experienced employee dedicated to prepare and facilitate the event?

Without a facilitator

With a facilitator

  • The content inspires discussion that supports your mission and cultural desires

  • Your internal (and external) presenters are coached and well prepared 

  • The content is organized and presented within a structured arc of learning

  • The desired takeaways are implemented with powerful "stickiness" 

  • Leadership observed a change in behaviors providing lasting impact

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OFFSITE FACILITATION

Creating a dynamic offsite, leadership conference, or summit  requires a dynamic and creative facilitator. I have been providing this service internally to the largest of government contractors for over 15 years and for private companies for the last 5 years. Your symposium, seminar or conference will move from the standard, repetitive, experience that employees dread attending, to a dynamic, interesting, and creative experience that includes unique educational opportunities that flow within an arc of learning. 

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION TRAINING 

Face-to-face communication is one of the most difficult things that we do. It includes seeing, hearing, feeling, and deciphering all the verbal and non-verbal cues involved in a one-on-one conversation. With a specialty in tools-based communication training, your participants and employees will walk away from activities-based training with actionable skills that improve conversations towards consistently constructive. 

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Recent Feedback

"Margot's ability to get to the heart of a matter is unsurpassed. Her direct and no-nonsense approach is refreshing. Her coaching and mentoring have allowed me to develop into an active listener and a better manager to staff, candidates and clients. Her connection with people is solid and lifelong, whether one-on-one or in a classroom setting. Her positive, anything is possible attitude makes the difference between her and others in her field." -- Brian S.

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