Professional and Business Effectiveness

This 3.5 hour workshop will help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to:

• improve their communication and business effectiveness and get better results
• utilize professional business etiquette principles more effectively
• manage meetings more successfully

This program will be highly experiential and will give participants opportunity to practice having purposeful, professional conversations, incorporate professional business etiquette principles into their toolbox and practice how to manage meetings more successfully.

Attendees will:

• be more confident expressing a professional conversational signature, including being assertive, while managing power differentials with less stress and more success;
• experience better results and have more impact as they incorporate their conversational signatures into day-to-day conversations and committee meetings as they interact with supervisors, colleagues and the business community;
• be aware of the impacts of not following generally accepted professional business etiquette principles and also the benefit of following professional business etiquette principles; and,
• have more confidence and will experience much better results as they lead, facilitate and manage meetings.

Program Prerequisites

You will be expected to complete approximately 1.5 hrs of pre-work which consists of viewing videos, pre-reading and a short quiz. Informaton about this pre-work will be included in the email confirmation.

Templates and tools:

At the end of the workshop participants will receive a copy of the most useful tools, templates and links to the resources referred to in the pre-work and the workshop. 

Facilitator

Dene Rossouw

Dene Rossouw is the principal and motivational coach at team Possibil – building influence and inspiring innovation at work. His experience and eclectic background as a preacher, coach, author and photographer provide a rich backdrop for him to speak and coach about the art of inviting possibility, building influence and inspiring innovation through the power of authentic dialogue and compelling storytelling.

Registration

Registration is required and is now open. Those successfully registered will receive a confirmation email from the PDFO one week prior to the workshop. All cancellations must be received no later than 24 hours in advance of the workshop.