CrossGroup Virtual Seminars
In order to serve more professional firms with expert team development, leadership coaching, and skills training, we have created several seminars that are available entirely over virtual presentation.
For each seminar, we start by evaluating your unique needs, then we customize and adapt course content to fit the culture and strategies of your firm. Click any area of our expertise below to see which virtual seminars may fit your needs so we may build you a customized solution.
Client Facing/Sales
Technical Skills
Communication
Team Development
Leadership
Client-Facing/Sales
Sales Training
Topics Covered:
- Making effective sales calls
- Identifying needs
- Creating interest
- Building relationships
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Working With Clients
Topics Covered:
- Communication
- Understanding client expectations and needs
- Responsiveness
- Develop a plan of action
- Accountability
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
The Trusted Advisor
Topics Covered:
- Earning trust
- Creating a win-win relationship
- Utilizing a strategic process to selling in complex organizations
- Building long-term mutual relationships, repeat business and referrals
- Proposals
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Cross Group partners with PDX Select™ to support clients through cognitive and behavioral assessments. In addition, we utilize The Five Behaviors® to inspire organizational and team development.
Sales Management
Topics Covered:
- Managing the sales process
- Identifying key accounts and prioritizing opportunities
- Making go/no go decisions
- Building long-term, mutually beneficial client relationships
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Negotiation Skills
Topics Covered:
- Valuing Win-Win thinking
- Practicing the Mutual Gains approach: Preparation, Creating Value, Distributing Value, Follow Through
- Rehearsing dialog and learning skills
- Hands-on practice with negotiation techniques
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Personal Marketing Through Relationships
Topics Covered:
- Networking in a professional environment
- Creating interest in your professional services
- Understanding client needs and issues
- Basic questioning and active listening
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Technical Skills
Practicing Personal Ownership
Topics Covered:
- Identify blaming, procrastinating, and victim thinking
- Begin asking “What Can I Do to help solve this problem?”
- Ask “How can I make a difference?”
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Time Management
Topics Covered:
- Managing paper, people, and tasks
- Determining personal roles priorities
- Dealing with the important and urgent tasks
- Practicing time management techniques
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
DIRECTING TECHNICAL WORK
Topics Covered:
- Leadership by influence
- Delegation of tasks
- Giving feedback
- Coaching and mentoring
- Collaboration with manager in career development plans for technical experts
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Communication
Communication in the Workplace
Topics Covered:
- Understanding your own personality styles and preferences
- Understanding other personality styles and preferences
- Handling conflict effectively
- Communicating in a business environment
- Working with co-workers and other departments
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Assertive Dialogue in Difficult Conversations
Topics Covered:
- Building an environment where a meaningful dialog is possible
- Examining your true purpose – what do you want from the conversation
- Exploring personal ownership
- Learning and practicing dialog skills
- Learning and practicing listening skills
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Team Development
Building a High Performance Team
Topics Covered:
- 5 behaviors of a cohesive team: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, Results
- Team communications
- Coaching and mentoring
- Tuckman’s Model of Team Development
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Making the Right Hire
Topics Covered:
- Identifying competencies
- Behavioral Interviewing
- Use of assessments
- Ensuring culture fit for ideal team development
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Performance Management
Topics Covered:
- Performance Planning and Evaluation
- Career Development Plan
- Giving feedback — delivering difficult messages
- Creating effective goals
- Listening and questioning skills
- Follow up conversations
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Leadership
Leadership Skills
Topics Covered:
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- Strategic thinking
- Developing Strategic Plans
- Building commitment for the plan
- Setting and deploying goals
- Mobilizing and motivating employees to accomplish the plan
- Developing future leaders
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.
Supervisory Skills
Topics Covered:
- Delegation and empowerment
- Goal setting
- Giving feedback
- Coaching and mentoring
Includes: Prep Work, 90-Minute Training Session, and access to custom only learning system tailored to your team.