Corporate Learning Services

Teamwork Skills and Management Principles Workshop In times of Change and Crisis

"Are you, your team or your organization working as successfully as you would like?"

Our highly interactive, unique approach will enable you and your staff to:

• Discover ways to inspire and lead teams or a group.

• Learn to run successful meetings that generate clear outcomes.

• Gain new insights into effective planning and project completion

• Operate project teams that deliver excellent results on time.

• Provide helpful feedback to motivate others.

• Develop greater awareness, broader vision and lasting interactive skills.

• Recognize the key aspects for personal effectiveness and cooperative teamwork.

• Create team conversations that generate results.

• Reduce high stress and low morale to increase business success.

Achieve these improvements quickly and successfully by using the skills you will learn on this course.

Participants have said:

"We learned skills for life. It went far beyond what I expected."
"It has changed how I see my job and the meetings I attend."
"This workshop brought the best to me and the best out of me."
"The two days passed too quickly and I learned so much I can apply."

"Because of our meeting with you both the day before, we were extremely prepared and cohesive in our approach and views for the departmental retreat. Thanks so much for getting us on track for 2009 and beyond! We look forward to working with you both again. ."

About Ulla Buchner-Howard, CMP

Ulla Buchner-Howard is an international strategic communications and marketing executive. She has worked for more than 20 years with executives and management teams of multinational companies. She is a dynamic and passionate teacher, coach and speaker who are committed to inspire students, executives, individuals or entire organizations to develop "hard and soft skills" such as:

• effective communications

• project management

• team work in a global environment

• cross-cultural negotiations

• change and conflict management

• mediation and problem solving

• talent development

• necessary skills for conference and meeting management in a multi-cultural arena.

Education:

• German Abitur (Baccalaureate) Mannheim, Germany

• Languages at Alliance Franchise and the Sorbonne in Paris

• Diploma in Financial Analysis from New York University (NYC)

• Certified Meeting Professional

• Senior Coverdale Consultant

• Certified Mediator with Safe Horizon

• Adjunct Professor at New York University, Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitability, Tourism and Sports Management

• Guest Faculty University of Florida Leadership Development Institute

Her extensive worldwide travel, her fluency in English, German and French and varied professional experiences with culturally diverse audiences allow her to recognize and understand concerns of diverse industries and cultures.

Professional Positions:

• Start of her corporate career in international protocol with Mercedes-Benz North America/US

• Director of Corporate Services for the newly formed Daimler-Benz in response to corporate reorganization

• Creation of Daimler-Benz International Advisory Board

• Coordination of the staging and listing of Daimler-Benz to become the first German company on the New York Stock Exchange.

• Following the merger with Chrysler, Ms. Buchner-Howard founded ubh International serving a prestigious client base including Allianz, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, and Siemens.

Consulting and training focuses:

• Development of soft skills for managers and leaders

• Communication as an access to successful results

• Project management and teamwork skills in a global environment

• Crisis Leadership

• Mediation and Conflict Management

• Dynamic Listening

• Basics and advanced skills for conference and meeting management in a global multi-cultural environment

• International protocol and ethics

Active in the international community in New York, Ulla Buchner-Howard is President of the German American Roundtable and a member of the German Chamber of Commerce, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/The Johns Hopkins University, Heidelberg Club International, the German Forum, and Meeting Professionals International. She volunteers her time to head committees, lead seminars on such topics as corporate responsibility, Risk Management, Negotiations in the hospitality industry and recently started the volunteer mediation program for Safe Horizon Mediation.

"The key to being successful at a career and in life is to communicate effectively, to listen dynamically and to possess self-awareness."

To Contact: Ulla Buchner-Howard: ubuchner@ubhinternational.com or at 212-288-9793