Take action Seminars

Grow Skills, Grow Client Relationships and Grow Revenue!

Our seminars focus on developing skills to sell you, your ideas and your products or services. They benefit sales and non-sale professionals by developing and building powerful skills to enhance communications, grow influence, understand needs, build relationships and increase revenue.

Power Presentations …Presenting and Selling
Your Ideas!

As Robert Louis Stevenson said, “everyone lives by selling something!” Each and every day our ideas, desires, accomplishments, promotions, raises, etc, all come down to our ability to confidently convey and convince others! Whether we like it or not, we are selling something! Learning new techniques for delivering your message with more power and impact can enhance your ability to gain support of ideas and become more credible within your organization and with your clients.

“It’s not about perfection…it’s about connection!”

Kathy Bearden

Step Up and Present!

Connecting as a presenter is essential to persuade, influence or inform your audience. Leaders today must blend information with story-telling, while connecting with their audience and remaining authentic.

In this series, we work with participants to identify their strengths, minimize takeaways and build a platform to connect with their audience and deliver information more positively and powerfully. Whether presenting to small groups or large, your ability to get things done depends on your effectiveness as a speaker! This program will build confidence, boost competence and engage your senses to bring your message and delivery to life!

Everybody Sells!

The perfect sales programs, for non-sales and technical professionals that want build stronger client relationships and communicate with clarity. In today’s challenging economy, everyone that is client facing for any reason needs to be able to build trust, grow relationships and identify opportunities for business. This takes successful communication skills.

Storytelling! Bring your meetings and presentations to life!

Stories engage both the left and right brain and provide creative and memorable ways to share processes, challenges and successes in business everyday! A picture is worth 1000 words and stories are powerful ways to paint that picture for your audience. Stories invoke emotion, passion, and humor. They involve the audience by adding dimension, interest and relevance to meetings and presentations. Everyone has a good story to tell. Learn the art of storytelling and how to incorporate this creative solution into your business format.

Building Trust…How to become a Trusted Advisor

Becoming a trusted advisor means rising to a higher level within your organization by adding insight that matches strategy. When doing this your overall influence within or outside of your company is greatly enhanced.

When people seek you out for your expertise, opinion and insight, you have reached a trusted advisor status. Trusted advisors create more powerful and positive alliances, which assist greatly in negotiations, influencing and growing business.

The Art of Asking Good Questions!

Asking great questions is probably the most critical factor in learning what goals and concerns are on your customers’ radar. Probing and asking great questions is an art which takes advance preparation and practice. Also learn “Focus” a five-step process to enhance listening skills and hear what customers are really saying. This session will include tips for email communications as well.

“C” Level Communication Strategies

Charting the course at the “C “level can be quite challenging. Developing a campaign to gain credibility and improved communications is critical! This seminar offers key takeaways that can be implemented immediately and will benefit anyone in business or sales by building stronger alliances with key executives at the top level. In this session we move from knowledge to power by using insight and information about an organization and taking it to the next level of developing, implementing and forming key relationships with the senior level that can champion your cause.

Networking – Building a Powerful Professional Network

Networking is a social activity that most of us engage in every day. The level to which we actively network in our professional lives can have a significant impact on our success in business. Networking is a reciprocal process based on the exchange of ideas, advice, contacts and referrals. Building strong relationships is essential…and learning the value of those relationships and how they can work for you and others is the essence of networking!

Sixty Seconds: Wow them! Your first impression!

It takes less than a minute to make that positive first impression and it takes a lot longer to undo a negative impression. In this session we will review the absolutes for leaving a positive “net” impression. We will explore best practices for your introductions when using e-mail, voicemail and when in person! Get it right and you will get the “right “people to respond. Powerful first impressions build relationships, business, and make communications more effective from the start! Your first impression is very powerful and the “net” impression is what people are left with once you are gone. What did you leave behind?

Recognize the Power of Your Style and How to Flex for Influence!

Tap into the power of understanding style differences and how to best work and influence using our strengths and those of others. Gain acceptance for ideas, work more effectively with opposites and appreciate the unique strengths of others. A Myers-Briggs based workshop.

Leader Briefs! Smart tools and tips for motivating and coaching your sales team!

This series focuses on refreshing and recharging sales managers with ideas they can use to build skills, coach and motivate their sales teams.

We focus on three areas: A skill builder that can be shared with their teams, a coaching tip and a motivational story, anecdote or idea. Leader briefs are timely, challenging and incorporate real sales examples that can come from either the client or facilitator.

4-Core for Building Customer Rapport

Today’s buyer is more sophisticated. They have more detailed information and technology to support their needs and interests. Suppliers or “sellers” have to be able to differentiate themselves from the pack and avoid being seen as just a commodity. The quickest way to do this is by establishing rapport with the buyer. Learn the 4-core dynamic rapport building techniques that can set you apart! These techniques include gathering intelligence, gaining insight, using intuition and authentic connections.

Kathy Bearden is Fantastic…an excellent instructor and clearly a true professional… I was surprised to find myself thinking that the training was just too short!

(Quote from participant of Executive Presentation Skills Training)

Kathy Bearden has true talent as a facilitator. Attendees of our education day said it was one of the best ever! The panelist sessions she moderated were engaging and informative and the general session seminar that Kathy gave on Executive Communications was excellent! She had lively interaction and provided great and useful takeaways that senior and mid-level managers can use immediately to enhance their overall communication styles and effectiveness especially at the “C” level.

Cherie Hogue, Vice President Citicorp Diners and Education Chair for the Denver Business Travel Association Accredited Education Day at Denver University

"Kathy Bearden is a true talent who has the ability to lead, educate and motivate both individuals and teams to achieve great things. When we worked together Kathy maintained and developed one of the company's biggest sales regions by expertly and passionately managing accounts and sale teams always with the eye towards profitable revenue growth and client satisfaction. Kathy's energy and creativity set her apart from the field and made her unique in the competitive set. Kathy's clients always had positive comments and felt that they had someone working for their interests as well as her own company's. If you want help increasing revenue and improving sales execution in a fun and motivating environment, partner with Kathy Bearden."

Mike Going, Vice President

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