Supervisory Skills Information Sheet

Supervision and Business
Communications
Effective communication: the route to success for sales and customer
service professionals, team leaders, supervisors and managers. Whether
you are aspiring to a supervisory role, a seasoned manager, working
in customer service or delivering sales presentations, we can help you
develop the skills to succeed!
• Interpret your customers’ needs and creatively integrate them
into your messages
• Communicate the right things in difficult situations.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines in a proactive plan.
• Manage conflict that is creating morale problems, job interruptions, time and money lost.
• Make presentations more powerful, interesting and persuasive.
Job outlook for 2012-2022 for managers is expected to grow as fast
or faster than the average for all occupations. Median hourly wages range
from $28.83 to $58.15 for the various sectors. Sales occupations are in a
variety of industries and most are growing as fast as average. The median
hourly wage ranges from $22.26 for advertising sales and $44.44 for sales
engineers who sell complex scientific and technological products and
services to businesses. The growth of customer service jobs is as fast as
average and the median annual salary in 2012 was $30, 580.
Source: Us Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
Program Courses:
NCBU 125G Dealing with Difficult People for Supervisors and Managers
NCBU 126G Frontline Supervision
NCBU 127G Smart Supervision for Managers
NCBU 128G Customer Service Communication Skills
NCBU 129G Sales Presentations
Who should attend?
These courses are designed for people who would like hands-on,
interactive training that will increase their level of skills in supervision,
management, customer service and sales that will lead to increased
productivity, customer satisfaction and sales revenue.
Ask about job training funds to
help pay for this training
For more information please contact:
Great Bay Community College
Business & Training Center
(603) 427-7651
[email protected]
Course Curriculum
NCBU 125G Dealing with Difficult People for Supervisors and Managers
In this interactive workshop you will use methods of understanding and skills to increase cooperation
within a variety of difficult interactions. Learn to:
• Analyze difficult interactions and strategize best options to reduce
conflict and increase cooperation
• Learn special sequences and phrases that are helpful in dealing with difficult
people and apply these new techniques in a workshop atmosphere.
NCBU 126G Frontline Supervision
In this highly interactive dynamic and fast-paced course, you will learn to:
• Identify your leadership style to maximize your effectiveness, to solve problems
and resolve conflicts to manage challenging situations
• Develop a team vision and set reasonable and attainable goals to increase productivity and maximize performance
NCBU 127G Smart Supervision for Managers
Supervisors and managers will learn and practice facilitating change while encouraging
customer focus, innovation, planning and strategic methods.
Course modules include:
• Becoming a leader of change
• Creating custom organizational and communication planning maps
to increase productivity
• Utilizing performance appraisals to implement change
• Coaching your team leaders to become effective change makers
NCBU 128G Customer Service Communication Skills
Increase the quality of service to your clients and enhance your own effectiveness by:
• Getting to know your customers and taking their “temperature”
through empowered listening
• Identifying the appropriate format for client consulting and problem solving
• Learning tracking phrases to keep clients focused and using questioning
techniques that naturally obtain more information
• Realizing how to deal with difficult cases.
NCBU 129G Sales Presentations
Develop sales presentation strategies and techniques to help create new customers, maintain existing
ones and reclaim former customers. For those with all levels of sales experience. Includes:
• Unique strategies to identify your customers, analyze them and determine their influence
• Create a plan that highlights the components of your product or service
• Successfully design a sales presentation matching your customers interest and needs and using any type of visual aid more effectively
• Handling objections before they happen
• Identifying and using appropriate strategic closing techniques and follow up
Business & Training Center
320 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth NH 03801
www.greatbay.edu/btc
To Register call (603) 427-7610 or stop by the campus
320 Corporate Drive
Portsmouth NH 03801
(603) 427-7600
www.greatbay.edu
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