Learning Objectives
Specific learning objectives will include:
- Identify the key elements of a quality proposal
- Perfect your first impression, including your dress and your handshake
- Feel more comfortable and professional in face-to-face presentations
- Write a winning proposal
- Feel more comfortable and professional in face-to-face presentations
Getting Down to Business
To get started, we will look at some basic ways that business writing is different from literary writing. Participants will also explore the two major types of proposals: formal and informal.
Writing Your Proposal
During this session, participants will learn what background information to gather and how to organize it. Participants will also learn about using drafts and versions, and some terminology that they can use to label their proposals.
Getting Thoughts on Paper
There are three easy steps to get started on writing a proposal. You will present each of them in a lecture. Participants will then apply these techniques to a case study.
Basic Proposal Formats
During this lecture, we will look at indirect and direct proposals. Participants will then turn a direct proposal into an indirect proposal.
Expert Editing Tips
This session will explore some basic editing techniques, including the readability index.
The Handshake
Often, you will need to greet people before and/or your presentation. This session will offer participants some tips on a key element of their greeting: the handshake.
Getting Ready for Your Presentation
We will offer participants some preparation tips. Then, participants will learn how to pump up their language to be persuasive without being pushy.
Elements of a Successful Presentation
During this session, participants will explore five keys to success through a lecture and small group work.
Dressing Appropriately
This session will help participants dress for success.
Presentations
To wrap up the day, each participant will give a two to three-minute presentation.
ONLINE LEARNING
LIVE TRAINING
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In Person Training
The traditional classroom style of training remains our Most Popular and Most Requested format. On-site training provides participants with an in-person facilitator who will work directly with the team, whether for a single training session or a training series. The Mainstream team will craft and tailor your experience to ensure that your training session is specific, relevant and unique to your audience while meeting your learning objectives. Why settle for ‘pre-formatted, pre-scripted, one-size fits all’ training programs, when our team is able to customize a program that is just right for you? We know that every team has unique learning needs, situations and that they come from a variety of industries, each having unique customer needs and demands.  Our programs can be scaled to accommodate time restraints, unique learning needs and even industry or company nuances and barriers.
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Virtual Room
Delivering traditional onsite training results …virtually!
We’ve officially changed the rules and redefined what is possible in the world of soft skills learning. Our unique technology, accompanied by honed delivery methodology, have successfully replicated the traditional classroom-style training environment, allowing it to exist online.
Most online training solutions limit participants’ responses to keystrokes or to single person conversations because -with inferior technology- group discussions become distorted and confusing to follow. Our Virtual Room has eliminated those barriers and encourages learning through meaningful instructor feedback, skills modelling and engaging group discussion, without visual or audio distortion
The Virtual Room is for any organization seeking a flexible substitute to traditional onsite training; whether to lower costs, eliminate unnecessary travel or to simply ease the burden of demanding work schedules.
Lunch & Learn
A Lunch and Learn session is an onsite or virtual learning program with a facilitator-led session sharing valuable information and skills on an area of identified learning interest. It’s a great break away from a traditional training program, allowing your team the opportunity to learn while enjoying their lunch. Due to the limited time, the program focuses on specific learning concepts and skills.  It is an interactive session that quickly targets and reveals learning objectives that are predetermined by the training organizer.  Lunch & Learn sessions are also great as a training series, providing progressive learning programs for developing skills in a ‘bite-sized’ format.
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