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Listening Skills

HOw many types of listening skills are there?

Voice Tone

How can you tell if a person is lying over the phone when you cant see there body language

Communication

How can you improve your communications skills when speaking to someone over the phone?

Small Business

I think that this course is geared to large academic schools. I'm having a hard time trying to visualize my school with this big of a program and because of this I think this course might be the wrong one for me.

Modeling body language

Do you fell that it would be more important to model body language and use mirroring as a backup plan with a student?

Face to Face

When communicating face to face with a group of individuals, such as a family. Would it be best to focus on adapting to the interested party, or the concerned parents?

Body Language

How do you manage the Body Language of more than one person?

Partnering with Organizations for Common Goals

We recently had a Medical Center educator request to be an instructor for our nursing students so that the monies earned could be channeled back into the organization's fund for providing tuition support for BSNs getting their master's degree. This seems to be a win-win situation as the organization benefits by receiving money, and the school benefits by having an instructor for nursing students who is experienced and familiar with the hospital setting. It is helpful when schools can find common goals or complimentary goals that promote sponsorships such as this one.

Forum 1

I am working on my written communication skills. It is easy to communicate on the phone, you can mirror the person and it is easy to adapt to their personality, I feel very comfortable talking on the phone. Face to face is also nice because you are able to read body language. When communicating by email it is easy for your message to be misunderstood. I find myself having to rewrite emails before I feel that they are worded correctly so that the message will be clear. I will continue to work on and improve my written communication.

Publishing a Newsletter

I thought the concept of publishing a newsletter to send to clients and potential clients was interesting. Sometimes it is difficult to obtain approvals for timely newsletters, but I think this is a good way to keep your name fresh in your customers' minds while also giving them an update. A school could publish its own newsletter, have the newsletter even include information about events at partnering institutions, thereby encouraging continuing public relationships with that institution while promoting name awareness of both.

prospect call

brief infomation full name e-mail and contact numbers. and make an appoitment and follow up.

Listening Skills

What type of group activites can I use to encourage team members to improve listening skills?

Cultural Diversity

How do I guide my team to become conscious about the importance of understanding cultural diversity and be sensitive to differences in the Spanish language as well as the way people interact?

Promoting to higher positions

NEWSLETTER & COMMUNITY COPARTERNING

This course was selected knowing the content will offer content we can employ in our organization. Based on our limited budget this course is ideal, the tools offer are most crucial and affordable in our marketing/publicity arsenal. A newsletter seems to be the most cost effective, it offers numerous creative and useful openings, and production will be traditional and digital. With newsletter we can try co-partnering with community organization and business and furnish them with advertising space in our publication. Also as co-partners they will distribute the newsletter. The more we think of it the more ideas we can note and contribute to the on-going project. Hope to get some feedback from the forum. Thanks.

Motivation

How do you motivate generation X to make a decision?

Sharing Benefits from the Student's Perspective

How do you encourage your students to share the benefit of attending school with you?

Sharing Expertise with your Prospective Student

How will you "share expertise" with your students? What will you do to let them know that they are the expert when it comes to their life?

The Admissions Professional's Code of Conduct

What areas in the Admissions Professional's Code of Conduct did you identify as your challenges? How do you plan on addressing those challenges?

Discussing Tuition Challenges

How do you currently address the cost challenge with your prospective students? What might you try differently the next time this comes up?