Cutting-Edge Strategies
for Workplace Success

Who should attend?
Sales Managers, Account Managers/ Executives, Social Media Specialists, PMEBs, Directors, Team Leaders and other General Management Professionals

STJobs Workshops

Workshop A:
21st Century Sales Leadership Skills
Fri, 11 May 2012
9.00am - 5.30pm, SPH News Centre
Address: 1000 Toa Payoh North

Leading a team of sales professionals that knows what it should do and one that does what it knows, are two very different things. What can you do to help your team reach its potential and consistently adopt desired selling behaviours? By incorporating sales coaching and leadership techniques, you'll have a more autonomous, proactive and high performing sales team.


What you will learn:

  • How to identify, attract and recruit Champion and Stable team members. Helping your sales team overcome day-to-day challenges
  • Avoiding the trap of giving advice and helping your team find their own solutions instead
  • Working with your team to inspire them to reach their maximum sales potential
  • Evidence-based coaching models to support your sales team in doing more of what they know
  • Asking powerful questions that will evoke discovery, insight and commitment to action
  • Getting accountability from your sales team to adopt desired selling behaviours


Trainer:
Tom Abbott
Tom Abbott is a Canadian sales coach, trainer, keynote speaker, working with organisations worldwide for more than 10 years. Tom's recent book, "The SOHO Solution" has achieved acclaim as a success manual for business owners and sales professionals. His next book, "Sales Leadership" shares how managers and leaders can build high performance sales teams.
Workshop B:
Social Media Selling Strategies
Fri, 25 May 2012
9.00am - 5.30pm, SPH News Centre
(Address: 1000 Toa Payoh North)

Social Media has taken sales to another level as customers have become increasingly unreachable. But how do you avoid the most common social media pitfalls? What must you do before launching social media campaigns? How can you integrate these complementary social media platforms with your sales strategies? Mastering these social media selling strategies will help you get the most from your social media campaigns and increase sales by reaching the unreachable customer.


What you will learn:

  • Creating content that gets shared on Facebook
  • Why videos go viral, the latest YouTube layout and what that means for sales
  • New platforms essential for business growth. Are you Pinterested?
  • Getting new customers through new and existing connections on LinkedIn
  • Driving traffic to your place of business by reaching your audience on Twitter
  • Managing, monitoring and measuring the ROI of social media
  • Case studies of social media as lead-generation and lead-conversion activities


Trainer:
Tom Abbott
Tom Abbott is a Canadian sales coach, trainer, keynote speaker, working with organisations worldwide for more than 10 years. Tom's recent book, "The SOHO Solution" has achieved acclaim as a success manual for business owners and sales professionals. His next book, "Sales Leadership" shares how managers and leaders can build high performance sales teams.
Workshop C: Leading with Emotional Intelligence:
What it takes to be a great leader
Fri, 25 May 2012
9.30am - 6.00pm, SPH News Centre
(Address: 1000 Toa Payoh North)
An intensely practical one-day workshop designed to accelerate the practice of emotionally intelligent leadership. The workshop examines the science of emotional intelligence (EQ) and the compelling business case for its relationship to leadership success. It is designed to equip participants with the ten dynamic emotional skills that distinguish outstanding leaders from the average.

What you will learn:

  • What Emotional Intelligence is and why it matters
  • How to manage behaviours that hold them back from optimal performance
  • Understanding key strategies for building and maintaining energy levels at work
  • Developing effective communication and influencing strategies
  • How to leverage emotional strengths that build market driven relationships
  • Developing a Personal Action Plan for enhancing leadership effectiveness


Trainer:
Sattar Bawany
Sattar Bawany has over 25 years international business management experience, including 15 in executive coaching, group facilitation, and leadership training. He also has over 15 years of academic experience as an adjunct professor teaching senior executives international business strategies and HR courses at leading universities.
Workshop D: How to manage conflict for enhancing team performance
Thurs, 31 May 2012
9.00am - 5.30pm, SPH News Centre
(Address: 1000 Toa Payoh North)
This workshop shares with participants the knowledge and skill set that managers and supervisors need to communicate, influence and connect better with all employees. It also covers aspects of conflict management skills and assertive skills for enhanced team performance at the workplace. Workshop delivery is highly interactive and comprises short lectures, case study analysis, group discussions, presentations, storytelling sessions, games, role plays and video clip analysis.

What you will learn:

  • Understanding EQ and people management skills
  • Communicating and connecting better with colleagues
  • Influencing, persuading and communicating with challenging people professionally
  • Managing conflicts and asserting oneself for results
  • Managing different types of challenging employees


Trainer:
Ken Wong
Ken Wong is a certified management consultant, speaker, trainer and entrepreneur, with over 16 years of corporate training experience in Asia. He specialises in areas of Leadership and Supervisory and Performance Management and has conducted numerous workshops in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia with consistent favourable feedback.
Workshop E:
Mind Mapping for Sharper Thinking
Thurs, 31 May 2012
9.30am - 6.00pm, SPH News Centre
(Address: 1000 Toa Payoh North)
This one-day workshop offers participants the opportunity to discover the brain’s amazing capabilities, learn the “natural” ways of tapping into their mental powerhouse and explore effective, efficient and creative ways of accomplishing conventional tasks.

Training instructors of this workshop are ThinkBuzan Licensed Instructors who can relate their experiences in the use of brain-based methods for memory, critical and creative thinking and problem solving.

What you will learn:

  • Tony Buzan’s strategies for sharper thinking
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Associative, divergent and radiant thinking
  • Identification of key ideas and organisational skills
  • Presenting ideas in non-linear form


Trainer:
Thum Cheng Cheong
Thum Cheng Cheong is a Buzan Licensed Instructor, WDA certified trainer and lecturer in business law. He has valuable experience in both banking and legal sectors in business process redesign, staff training and ISO certification. He is also recognised by Tony Buzan as a Mind Map artist of the world’s largest Mind Map.

Ticketing Information
Cutting-Edge Strategies for Workplace Success
Workshop A
21st Century Sales Leadership Skills
(Fri, 11 May 2012, 9.00am - 5.30pm)
Early Bird by 7 May
$438
8 May onwards
$588
Workshop B
Social Media Selling Strategies
(Fri, 25 May 2012, 9.00am - 5.30pm)
Early Bird by 21 May
$438
22 May onwards
$588
Workshop C
Leading with Emotional Intelligence:
What it takes to be a great leader
(Fri, 25 May 2012, 9.30am - 6.00pm)
Early Bird by 21 May
$438
22 May onwards
$588
Workshop D
How to manage conflict for enhancing team performance
(Thurs, 31 May 2012, 9.00am - 5.30pm)
Early Bird by 25 May
$438
26 May onwards
$588
Workshop E
Mind Mapping for Sharper Thinking
(Thurs, 31 May 2012, 9.30am - 6.00pm)
Early Bird by 25 May
$438
26 May onwards
$588

Bulk Purchase Discounts

2 to 3 tickets
5% off total price
4 to 7 tickets
10% off total price
8 tickets and above
15% off total price

*All prices are inclusive of GST
*All tickets are priced at STJobs Workshops & Seminars member rates.