Lillian Bjorseth

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Networking Speaker, DISC, Communication Trainer, Author Expert

Lillian Bjorseth Quick Facts

Main Areas: I help people build a new kind of wealth - social capital - by improving their business networking and communication skills.
Career Focus: Author, speaker, trainer, skills coach
Affiliation: National Speakers Association, Adjunct professor, North Central College

Lillian Bjorseth is a renowned author, trainer, consultant, coach and highly sought-after speaker whose workshops and dynamic presentations on the essentials of business networking and communicating effectively are transformational.

She is the founder & president of Duoforce Enterprises, Inc. Dubbed a “networking expert” by the Chicago Tribune and “the business networking authority” by the Association Forum of Chicagoland, Lillian stimulates learning and empowers individuals and companies with the skill sets to increase social capital. She helps people confidently communicate better and develop more qualified prospects and, ultimately, more business and career success.

Lillian is at ease with CEOs and administrative assistants. She's equally at ease with inspirational keynotes, workshops, in-house training (she was one of the first in the world to become a certified DISC trainer), entertaining luncheon and dinner talks or one-on-one or small-group coaching.

Lillian’s books and audio materials are essential components to help you achieve excellence in business networking and communication skills. They deliver practical knowledge on the mechanics of networking and provide insight into the process of making quality connections and presenting yourself and your business with impact.

She is co-founder of the Greater Chicago Networking Extravaganza, the premier business networking event bringing together city and suburban entrepreneurs and businesses in downtown Chicago. The 2009 event featured networking activities, sponsorship opportunities and informative presentations from networking experts. Plans are already underway for 2010. For more information, visit www.greaterchicagonetworking.com.

She is freqently quoted in print and electronic media and is a columnist for The National Networker (TNNW),

Other Programs & Highlights

Business Development/Networking Topics

Build a New Kind of Wealth: Social Capital

Learn how to find and build relationships with your "knob turners" and the networking and communication skills to make it happen.

If You Want to Catch Trout, Don’t go to a Catfish Pond

Focus your efforts on your target market and what to do before, during and after an event

Create a Powerful, Meaningful Verbal Business Card

A custom-designed program that helps you craft those first 10-15 seconds of conversation into a benefit-laden message that intrigues and informs

Break the Ice & Target Your Market

Use our unique product to make your encounters more meaningful, you more memorable and to refine your all-important marketing strategies

Polish the 3 Ps of Marketing

Position, Package and Promote yourself more effectively

Communication Topics

Look What Happens When We Communicate

Through Lillian’s 10 Principles, learn to take of a 24-hour process that affects everything you do.

Improve Your PeopleSmarts to Build Better Relationships

Benefit from our years of DISC-based, award-winning and often life-changing programs to resolve conflict, improve communication, develop management and staff, build better teams. Includes customer service, e-mail, leadership, networking, sales and telephone applications

What You Say Before You Speak

Consciously make your appearance and behavior contribute to your polished presence and success

Sharpen Your E-mail People-reading Skills

Learn to "read" e-mail style and content like you use body language to read people in person Listen Your Way to More Career and Business Success Develop your most used, least taught and most important human relations skill

Follow the Eleven Commandments for Success

Master these eleven cardinal rules to reach your goals

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Lillian Bjorseth

Quotes:

1. People often judge speakers by what they have between the covers.

2. Networking is planting seeds. Sales are harvesting. The more fertile the ground where you plant, the more likely you are to get a bumper crop.

3. Your image speaks long before you open your mouth.

4. Business people need a Verbal Business Card as well as a printed one. It’s the front end to your elevator speech and it informs as well as intrigues people to talk with you.

5. Small talk is a misnomer. It lays the foundation for all that follows!

6. If you want someone to have your business card, ask for theirs first.

7. Do what you promise, and you will stand head and shoulders above the crowd.

8. If you want to catch trout, don’t go to a catfish pond.

9. When it comes to listening, think of yourself as having a giant filtering system. My question is, “How often do you clean it?”

10. They measure about 2” x 3 1/2.” They weigh less than 1/4 of an ounce. They cost about a nickel or a dime. They are business cards, and they pack a powerful punch!

11. The networking process works. It’s people who corrupt it.

Getting Started With Lillian Bjorseth

Check out http://www.duoforce.com to find out much, much more about your next in-person networking and communication skills keynoter, speaker, trainer and coach!