Program Descriptions - 3 Choices for Your Upcoming Event:

1. Short and Sweet: - "The Fine Art of Small Talk" with Debra Fine
Join Debra Fine for her fast-paced, interactive and entertaining presentation The Fine Art of Small Talk. Together we’ll laugh, learn and leave with insightful and informative conversation tips and techniques on how to strike up conversations and keep them going, avoid conversation “killers”, exit conversations with grace and develop business relationships. Learn how to turn every meeting or conference, interaction with a client or colleague and networking event into an opportunity for success.

2. A bit Longer - "The Fine Art of Small Talk" with Debra Fine
Join Debra Fine, former engineer, for her fast paced, informative and entertaining presentation The Fine Art of Small Talk. Together we’ll laugh, learn and leave with insightful and informative conversation tips and techniques on how to strike up conversations and keep them going, avoid conversation “killers”, develop business relationships and come across as composed and self-assured when talking to people at meetings, presentations and seminars, working and interacting with clients or attending networking events and other business related gatherings.

Learn how to turn every conversation, hospitality suite, chamber, civic or association event, conference, or banquet into an opportunity for success.

3. Workshop Description Options - "The Fine Art of Small Talk" with Debra Fine
In the competitive world of business more emphasis is placed on developing personal relationships and business friendships than has been expected in the past. The individual who avoids opportunities to meet new people or whose conversation is frozen by these meetings will limit themselves professionally as well as personally.

This fast paced, interactive session will help you...

• Engage anyone in conversation with poise and confidence
• Revive a dying conversation
• Come across as composed and self-assured when talking to people or entertaining clients at conventions, trade shows and other work related functions
• Become an “active” listener
• Overcome communication barriers
• Handle awkward situations
• Come up with topics to discuss
• Avoid conversation “killers”
• Develop business friendships
• Prepare for successful conversation
• Remember names and use them properly
• Exit conversations with tact
• Feel more at ease at parties, banquets, receptions and networking events

Another option for a workshop description: - "The Fine Art of Small Talk" with Debra Fine
Join Debra Fine, former engineer now nationally recognized speaker and author for her fast-paced, entertaining and interactive program “The Fine Art of Small Talk”. Together we’ll laugh, learn and leave with insightful and informative conversation tips and rapport building techniques on how to strike up conversations and keep them going, avoid conversation “killers”, develop business friendships and come across as composed and self-assured when talking to and working with clients and colleagues. (This can be changed to whatever is the best fit for your audience: customer, volunteer, member, patient, etc.)

Learning objectives and outcomes for the session:

• Building business relationships
• Informative tips on striking up conversations and keeping them going
• Coming across as composed and self-assured when talking to people or entertaining at conventions, trade shows and other work related functions
• Becoming “active” listeners
• Avoiding conversation “killers”
• Remembering names
• Exiting conversations with tact
• Experiencing more ease at association and networking events, conferences, receptions and meetings.

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