Workshops

SOAR offers a number of workshops that are available to member companies who wish to provide professional development opportunities for their associates. The following is a listing of addition workshops and a short description of each available from SOAR.

Professional Protocol

What are protocols? Protocols are simply the forms of etiquette observed by members of an organization and define the "norms". In today's often fiercely competitive marketplace, subtleties such as good manners, proper office protocols and respect for others can mean the difference between winning and losing. Workshop topics range from “hands-on” dining etiquette to understanding the nuances of the genderless workplace, technology etiquette, office decorum, social skills and more.

Personal Brand Strategies for Success

If you don’t brand yourself, someone else will. Taking some of the same branding strategies that work successfully for large corporations, this workshop will equip participants with the tools to develop their own unique personal brand for success. Complimenting the brand strategies discussed is a focus area on dress and personal image.

Customer Service

Customer Service is really about building excellence into all that a company does for its customers. Every touch point is an opportunity to strengthen the company brand. However, most companies get it wrong. This workshop explores the concept of service excellence, identifies the five main drivers of sustainable success and demonstrates how to deliver on your company’s service value proposition.

Time Management

Time management is somewhat of a misnomer as time passes without regard to what an individual is doing. An individual getting 7 yours of sleep at night is left with 119 hours per week to do everything that needs to be done. This workshop explore how best to manage oneself in order to maximize that 119 hours. It also explores the good and bad of multi-tasking. A personal time management system is offered customized to each participant.

When There’s No Time For Teambuilding

In addition to the regular SOAR teambuilding session in the SOAR curriculum, SOAR offers an advanced, intensive, four day and three night, off-site teambuilding event. The focus of the session is on leadership, teambuilding and communication which is designed to set the cornerstones of a monolithically unified team. After the event, SOAR staff continue to monitor the team monthly for six months to ensure that the team utilizes all the learning experiences captured during the four days.

You will have a team in four days … guaranteed.

Executive Coaching

Individualized executive coaching focuses on highlighting an individual’s self-awareness of their workplace behaviors and how those behaviors influence and affect themselves and others at work. Coaching includes a coaching agreement which identified specific behaviors that need to be strengthened or modified to improve workplace effectiveness and an action place for implementation. Length of engagements vary from three meetings to longer terms of a dozen meetings.

Building A Great Place to Work

Utilizing the SOAR proprietary “Better to Best™ Workplace Model,” SOAR assesses the foundational elements in your company or organization that either drive or impede becoming a great place to work. From this assessment, SOAR prescribes various optional course of action.

SOAR has consulted with many companies who have achieved “Great Place to Work” status in their states.