Training and Programs
David Waggoner offers a wide variety of services and programs that can be customized for you, your team, and your organization, including the following:
The Art of Political Savvy strengthens participants' ability to tread political waters with integrity and success.
- Acquire a working definition of "political savvy."
- Learn to master the craft of influencing, networking, and dealing with conflict
- Recognize unique organizational realities and become better at operating within them
- Enhance your talent for detecting deception and dealing with complex organizational situations
Empowering Communication in Teamwork studies our interactions from essential communication to more sophisticated practices.
- Understand why it is almost impossible for humans to communicate successfully
- Explore components of effective communication
- Become skilled at the art of speaking
- Discover the "Three Conversations Model" enabling immediate communication improvement
Unlocking Executive Presence is an intimate, thought-provoking, and motivational session to develop a unique and authentic executive presence.
- Understand the importance of perception in harnessing a captivating reputation
- Determine the impact of appearance, behavior, and body language
- Improve your confidence and credibility in complicated interpersonal interactions
- Craft and express your executive presence blueprint
Everyday Negotiation is a thought-provoking and spirited program that teaches the skills to negotiate in ways that create lasting solutions while keeping one's social capital protected.
- Uncover your baseline negotiation behavior
- Embrace the negotiation mindset
- Expand your understanding of leverage: the forms in which it presents itself and how to capitalize on it
- Develop application tools for immediate practice
Influencing without Authority shows how to influence others to buy-in to and take action on our ideas when we do not have formal authority.
- Discover why humans make influencing difficult
- Understand unique influence styles and tactics
- Improve your ability to build relationships and influence through them
- Learn the "secret" to gaining people's buy-in
Presentation Excellence, which focuses on how to speak articulately, eloquently, and expressively, is an empowering, inspirational, participative, workshop.
- Master presentation delivery through inspiration, body language, and affect management
- Strengthen the competency of storytelling
- Realize unique presentation styles through practice and video
- Engage in one-to-one coaching to sustain performance