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 BossaNova Consulting Group

It's December! Welcome to the last issue of BossaNews for 2007. Thank you for being an extraordinary contribution to BossaNova this past year. Happy 2008!

All our best, 

The BossaNova Team
 

In this issue...

Trusted Advisors are Trusted Facilitators

Re-Energize Your Staff for a Bold New Year 

Consulting and the Art of Self-Deprecation

 

 Trusted Advisors are Trusted Facilitators

Client meetings are a great opportunity to build trust with many clients at once. There's no doubt that consulting skills apply when leading groups. But there's much more to being a Trusted Facilitator than meets the eye. The best facilitators make it look easy when in reality...it's not.

 

While it's great to bring in professional facilitators like ours for those big, high-visibility meetings, it's even better to build the skills in-house. 

 

BossaNova's new hands-on course and skills inventory were specifically created to transform your consultants into trusted facilitators - at any client meeting of any size, any time.

 

Contact Andrea Howe to find out more.

 

 Re-energize Your Staff for a Bold New Year

The new year is a perfect time to renew and re-charge.  Launch 2008 with a team experience that redefines team building: improvisational comedy. Only a dozen people on your team? No problem. Several hundred? No problem. Some number in between? No problem!  

 

Check out our new 4-minute video for an insider view into our improv comedy workshops: http://www.bossanovaconsulting.com/services/improv.php.

 

Then email us to find out more about having the most fun you've ever had at work.

 

 Consulting and the Art of Self-Deprecation

 
According to Wikipedia.com, comedians use self-deprecating humor "to avoid seeming arrogant or pompous and to help the audience identify with them." Sounds like a good strategy for anyone looking to build trust and rapport with another human being. Sounds like an especially good strategy for anyone in the consulting profession. Ask any client who has worked with consultants over the years - they'll have at least a few horror stories to tell about the Big Important Expert they hired. That creates messes we are all left to clean up.  
 
Self-deprecation is an art that should be routinely practiced by anyone who claims the title "consultant." Go to the BossaBlog for some great material for your toolkit.   

 

 About BossaNova Consulting Group

BossaNova Consulting Group, Inc. works with professional services firms that want to stand apart from their competition by being extraordinary in their client relationships. BossaNova's learning programs teach the art and science of building trust with clients - with a minimum promise of four to five times the typical return on training investment.

 

email: info@bossanovaconsulting.com

phone:  202-465-3298

web: http://www.bossanovaconsulting.com

 

 

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What Our Partners Say About Us

 

 "With Duke CE and BossaNova joining hands, I've got partners who are unparalleled in their ability to develop and deliver trust-building capabilities - globally and at scale"

 
-- Charles H. Green, co-author The Trusted Advisor, author of Trust-Based Selling, and founder of Trusted Advisor Associates
 

"We're delighted to have BossaNova as part of our Global Learning Resource Network. BossaNova's consultants reflect the kind of professionalism and creativity that we are known for"

 

-- Todd Warner, Managing Director, Duke Corporate Education

 

Find out more about our partners at 

http://www.bossanovaconsulting.com/

about/partners.php

 

Contact Vickie Turley to find out more about partnering with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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