Training, Classes, Workshops and Seminars

Effective Presentations

Nothing turns people off like a poor presenter. Participants will learn how to present with confidence, while standing and sitting at the conference table, while being video taped. Two instructors work with participants on style, content, props, visuals, and much more. This is a two day course.

Making HOT Cold Calls

How effective you and your team are at cold calling depends a lot on how well you plan, practice, and follow some basic rules. Participants will leave with ready to use scripts and plans to improve their cold calling. This information is helpful for those looking for work as well.


The following classes are customizable to meet the specific needs of your firm and sales team. We have customized our classes to focus on Financial Services (Banking, Credit Union, Financial Advisors), Technology firms, Professional Services firms, and Not for Profit organizations.

Making the Customer Relationship Connection
Do you "connect" with clients and prospects? Are you "touching" them at all the right levels or do you have only a single champion? This class will help you understand who needs to be reached, how to connect with them, and why this is important.

Acting The Part & Other Ways To Become a Sales Champion
Many sales people have lost their edge or have never developed their skills to become the best they can be. This session, helps sales people to see what they need to do to become champions and helps them develop a personal development plan to realize their goals.

Making the Most Out of Trade Shows
Many trade shows are a waste of money. They all are if your team does not plan for and work them correctly or if your booth lacks the "WOW factor" to bring people in. Participants work beginning to end on a mock trade show and learn some important secrets along the way to increase traffic. If you are disappointed about the return on your trade show budget, you need this class.

Closing the Deal
It does not matter how many leads you get in or how great your client relationships are if you can't close new and add-on business. The high pressure tactics don't work. Each prospect has a closing style that will work best for them and mastering these closing techniques will allow participants to bring in more business - earlier in the cycle.

Improving your Relationships
If you or your employees are having interpersonal problems, either at work or with their significant others, it will affect job performance. Help make the most of your relationships so you can be more effective.

Managing Complex Projects
There are a lot of project management classes out there. Very few of them deal with the most important aspects of managing the project - PEOPLE. This class has been customized for several Fortune 1000 companies and taught to everyone involved as a means of changing their people and project management cultures. 2 day course.

Improving Your Negotiation Skills
Whether you are the buyer or the seller, how well you negotiate determines your success. Many people pay full price and many more give larger discounts than they need to. This workshop will help you negotiate better at work, with clients, and in your personal life.

Turkeys and Eagles
Are you and eagle or a turkey or an eagle caught up in turkey life? Learn what it takes to soar with the eagles and lead those in your team to soar as well. These principles apply to work, home, and your personal life.

Effective Listening & Qualifying
Many deals are lost because the sales team failed to clearly understand the requirements and buying criteria. Time is wasted chasing business that is not qualified and has no chance of closing. Why is this? Simple. The art and science of listening and qualifying are not happening. This workshop will help you focus and dig out all the important information before you propose.

The Laws of Marketing and How they affect Your Business
This half day workshop discusses marketing principles that are often overlooked by business. The result is usually failure. Billions are wasted on poor marketing every year. Participants apply the principles directly to their business, creating fresh approaches and preventing costly mistakes.

Recruiting and Developing the Right Team
Managers hire people they like. In many cases, the hiring decision is not based upon sound criteria or assessment. Most interviewing processes are long and ineffective. Hiring the wrong person is costly. Participants in this workshop learn how to make their recruiting processes effective and efficient.

M&A Workshop
When two organizations come together, there is always anxiety, conflict, adjustment, and lost initiative. Having your sales or marketing teams distracted by M&A can seriously damage your revenue stream. In many cases, M&A activities cause the best to leave. Learn how to blend the two "families" together so you get the Brady Bunch and not the Osbornes meet the Simpsons.

Customer Relationship Management
Forget the technologies, there are basic things you need to do to manage positive client relationships. Everyone who touches the client and every interaction is an opportunity to make them stick with you or leave you for a competitor. Participants learn how to make the most out of customer touch points and measure satisfaction.

Time Management
If an Olympic swimmer could save an extra second in a race, that could mean winning instead of losing. If a salesman or an executive can pick up 30 minutes a day, it could mean the same. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. How we use them is up to us. Many people engage in endless activities, yet accomplish little of value in their day. Through a combination of lecture, role playing, and in class exercises, participants learn how to seize their day and go to bed feeling better about what they have accomplished.

What Are You Trading For?
Your entire life is a series of trades, some good and some not so good. How do you know what to trade for and how do you influence others to make the right trades? Why are trades for keeps? Keeping your priorities in line and your goals in focus will help you excel.

7 Aspects of Healthy Work Groups
For a work group to be healthy, growing, and meeting the needs of its members and clients, there are 7 areas a leader has to cultivate. Participants learn how to apply these in their current setting.

Custom Training & Seminars
Skyward Consulting Group's team of experienced sales and marketing executives can create a compelling and valuable talk, seminar or workshop that meets your specific needs and objectives. Contact us today.

Todd Bermont and the 10 Step Group
Skyward Consulting Group has a working partnership with Todd Bermont, author of the best selling "10 Step Series" and "Cognitive Selling." Todd is available to our clients at a special rate for training and motivational speaking. For more information, visit www.10step.com