New Avenues, Inc.

At New Avenues, we believe that adults learn best by doing and practicing, not sitting and listening. As a result, whether it's a workshop or keynote address, the audience will be up and moving, laughing and learning, and experiencing the topic. If you're looking for a lecture, read no further! A frequent speaker at professional associations, Laura is known for her energetic style and activities that turn the most mundane topic into an active learning experience.

Each training experience is customized to maximize the investment in time you've made and to achieve the unique outcomes necessary for your group's success. The summaries below are a starting point and can be modified to meet your time constraints and the learning level of your audience.

Before embarking on any training delivery, we'll want to learn more about the unique needs of your participant group as well as develop measurable outcomes to ensure success. Here are some of the topics we've recently developed for our clients:

Communicating with Confidence
Conflict Resolution
Dealing with Difficult People
Harassment Prevention
Employment Law for Leaders
Maximizing Your Performance Appraisal Process
Supervisory Success
Building Your Team
Motivation Basics
Tough Conversations
Assertiveness Skills
Diversity: Finding Common Ground
Effective Discipline & Documentation
Coaching for Improved Performance
Accelerating Change Acceptance
Professionalism: A new code for today's workplace
Leading at the speed of change
Creating Service Excellence

Can you lead a workshop on _____________________ (fill in the blank)? Give us a call and let's discuss your specific needs. If not, chances are we can recommend another excellent training provider.

If you're planning a conference, meeting or other large gathering here are some topics that have received rave reviews. Audio and/or video samples are available as well as feedback from participants and meeting planners.

Knock ‘em Off the Fence: Sure Fire Strategies to Make Change Happen
Today, change is an everyday occurrence. Business professionals are asked to enact change despite “fence-sitters” who slow down the process with resistance. This hands-on session skips all the theories and models of change and focuses on ready-to-use, proven techniques to move employees through the change acceptance stage and keep them on board with your company during the most turbulent of times. Participants will leave the session with adaptable strategies for their unique work situations and a new model for communication during change.

Self-Motivation: Stoking the Fires That Burn Within
Anyone can motivate you – for the short term, but creating long-term self motivation is a challenge! This interactive presentation will focus on discovering those things that motivate each of us as individuals, and present ideas for maximizing those motivators in day-to-day situations. We'll also discover the potent power of de-motivators and some ways to shield the negative effect these can have on humans. Finally, we'll look within to our unique strength areas and find ways to play to these strengths & stoke the fires that keep us at our individual best!

The Strategic Shift
For professionals ready to transition from day-to-day manager to making a strategic difference, this presentation will provide some food for thought as well as a ready-to-go development plan. Incorporating best practices from a variety of industries, we'll look at what it takes to become a strategic business partner and provide a list of techniques and tactics to being the transition.

Persuasion Power – the Art & Science of Selling Your Ideas!
Another great idea bites the dust! You've got ideas and solutions for moving the organization forward, but the resistors inside just don't see the light. This interactive workshop will provide you with strategies and techniques for selling your ideas in a variety of settings. As you learn how to overcome common obstacles and objections, you'll be ready to face even the toughest corporate cookie as the power of persuasion is on your side.

Unleashing Your Business Creativity
“If we keep doing the same things, we'll continue to get the same results.” Most of us want different results, but that isn't possible if we don't approach our problems in a different way. Creativity has become a new competency for leaders and professionals in any industry. This workshop engages participants in trying out five new creative thinking techniques on the sorts of problems common to our profession. As they tap into their creative problem solving skills, they'll discover a hidden resource ready to take them forward to new solutions. We will also focus on the creativity roadblocks lurking in the “real world” and techniques to overcome the resistance they are likely to face.

High Impact Presentations
Great presenters are made, not born. The art of giving effective and engaging presentations is a skill, just like many of the skills you already possesses. Becoming a better presenter is not magic – it is within the grasp of anyone willing to put in the practice and effort necessary to develop their expertise. This highly interactive workshop will focus on overcoming the fear and anxiety associated with public speaking, developing communication skills that are customized to each audience, and using the available tools and technology to maximize the effectiveness of each presentation. Your participants will leave with an action plan for further development of their own skill set.

Unleashing Your Business Creativity
Listen to a demo given by Laura Ford on unleashing your business creativity.