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The Manager’s Talk Toolkit: Leadership Conversations That Drive Results

Carolyn D. Riggins
Date & Time: All Days
Duration: 90 Minutes
Category: Human Resources
Type: Recorded Webinar

Description

This webinar is designed to strengthen managers’ ability to lead through effective, confident, and purposeful conversations. The training focuses on one of the most critical—and often underdeveloped—leadership skills: communicating with employees in moments that require feedback, correction, coaching, or emotional intelligence. The session equips managers to move away from avoidance, rushed discussions, or confrontational language and toward conversations that build trust, accountability, and performance.

Core Focus of the Webinar:

  • Improving leadership communication skills
  • Addressing why feedback conversations often fail
  • Building confidence in difficult and sensitive discussions
  • Shifting from confrontation to coaching
  • Managing emotional responses in workplace conversations
  • Using structured language and frameworks to drive clarity and results

Key Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Why managers struggle with feedback and how to fix it
  • Finding your leadership voice and speaking with confidence
  • The mindset shift from confrontation to coaching
  • What to say—and what to avoid—during feedback conversations
  • Handling emotional reactions without losing control
  • Turning awkward or uncomfortable moments into growth opportunities
  • Making feedback meaningful and actionable
  • Navigating sensitive topics with clarity and care
  • Applying the Confidence Framework™ to prepare, deliver, and follow through

Who should attend?

  • Small Business Owners
  • CEOs
  • CFO
  • Company Presidents
  • HR
  • Leaders
  • Managers
  • Team Leaders
  • Project Managers
  • Department Heads
  • Supervisors and anyone in a Leadership Role

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Speaker Profile : Carolyn D. Riggins

Carolyn D. Riggins is the founder and owner of CDR Consulting Services specializing in training, coaching and identifying problematic gaps in organization. Ms. Riggins was in retail banking for 35 years with First Florida Bank, Barnett Bank, Mercantile Bank and TD Bank. At TD Bank, Ms. Riggins was successful growing her client’s relationship by 71 million dollars through valuable training and consistently coaching her teams. Ms. Riggins served in multiple capacity levels of management roles regarding the many banks in her career path. Under her leadership she was able to work as an Assistant Vice President Store Manager, Vice President Hub Manager and Vice President Retail Regional Manager.In these varies leadership positions Ms. Riggins was successful with leading and helping her team by developing, coaching and training to achieve sales revenue growth, deposit growth, customer growth, lending growth and focusing on compliance. Also, she was selected as the Regional Bank at Work and Affinity Champion which she facilitated and delivered material through person-to-person workshop training or conference training.In additional, Ms. Riggins utilizes her Bachelors of Applied Science degree in Management and Organizational Leadership from St Petersburg College to train team players to be successful in their roles. In addition, Ms. Riggins has a certificate of completion for Business Consulting. One of Ms. Riggins goal is to train and coach continuously by using her education and expertise daily to change, transform and impact great team players.