Animate the Assertiveness in You

The key to getting more done and not be manipulated in life is to animate the assertiveness within you. This course will give you all the skills to come away from passive and aggressive behaviours to assertive ones which will enable you to have more success in getting what you need at the same time building good business working relationships.

Effective Communication Skills

To provide participants with new ways of communicating effectively to achieve more in their working environment and build improved working relationships. Communicating is not just about talking, to be totally effective we need to be conscious of the messages we are sending and the impact they have on others. This course demonstrates the different communication styles and how to understand your own style and the styles of others to be more effective in being able to communicate with a wide range of people.

Personal Effectiveness to Achieve More

To provide participants with new ways of working more effectively and maximising the time that we all have available to us in our working day. This course demonstrates to people how to be truly effective in their working day to be focused, effective, efficient and above all true value for money for their employers.

Persuading and Influencing People

The aim of the course is to provide participants with the skills and confidence to persuade and influence others in their every day work. Participants will be given the skills and confidence to effectively use persuasive techniques in improving their communication skills in situations that they currently fall down on. Time will specifically be spent looking at individual styles using individual and group feedback syndicate exercises. The course then looks at enhancing natural ability and complementing this with new skills and knowledge in carrying out the influencing process successfully.

Dealing and Making Difficult Decisions

Making decisions for some people doesn’t always come easily especially in today’s work pressured environments. Getting decisions wrong can of course have huge negative impacts on organisations and of course getting them right can be very rewarding for all concerned. So what is the best way? This course will provide straight forward practical ideas to making the whole decision making process successful. Time will also be spent on how to get buy in from other key parties to your decisions, which can save a lot of time and make your decisions more effective.

Self Motivation and Personal Effectiveness

Do you ever have those days when you can’t get yourself going or you’re disillusioned and bored with what you’re currently achieving or not achieving? Time flies by and you never get to where you want to be in terms of your development or self satisfaction? This course is for people who want to take control and be more animated in their lives and careers to achieve more and start focusing on what is really important to them selves.

The course sets out to help everyone understand and produce action plans to demonstrate how to get the best out of themselves in their working environment and life in general.

Creative Thinking

This course is packed with innovative and creative ideas to help everyone to tap into their creative side.

The ability to deal with creative thinking and problem solving is an essential people skill, which requires a combination of knowledge, skill and judgement. This course will provide straight forward practical techniques to help people deal with unfamiliar situations and change them into familiar ones, which they can confidently deal with. The participants will have the opportunity to look at their own natural styles and how creative thinking techniques can aid them in their working environment.

Animating your Audiences

The aim of this highly interactive two-day course is to provide the participants with the skills and the confidence to effectively deliver presentations to inspire and inform their audiences.
This course will provide the participants with the abilities to transfer the key learning points to their own working environment to become more effective in getting their audiences to act after their presentations have been completed.

Negotiation skills

The aim of the course is to provide participants with the skills and confidence to negotiate successful outcomes in their every day work situations. Time will specifically be spent looking at individual styles using questionnaires, feedback and syndicate exercises. The course then looks at enhancing natural ability and complementing this with new skills and knowledge in carrying out the negotiation process successfully. In a nutshell, negotiation is the process that people go through to get the best results, and the right results, from a situation where both sides each want something from the other and each has a number of cards to play in order to influence the outcome. This course will demonstrate how to come out of negotiation situations successfully.

The Art of Conducting Meetings

Not all meetings are a waste of time – Some of them get cancelled!
More people spend more time in meetings now then ever before. Research shows that much of this time is wasted, and that doesn’t include sitting around waiting for people to turn up. Chairing meetings requires great skill to make the meetings effective and worthwhile with positive out comes. This course is designed for all people who have to chair meetings, departmental, teams or project meetings. Meetings within the organisation or external meetings, delegates will learn how to conduct a meeting in such a way that its not only productive but enjoyable for attendees.

Personal Effectiveness in Times of Change

To provide participants with personal effectiveness techniques to keep themselves self motivated and performing to the best of their abilities in times of change. To show participants that whilst at first change can be seen naturally as a negative issue we can learn to deal and benefit from change in our work and our lives. This programme will provide the participants with the skills and knowledge in managing their own personal effectiveness in times of change. Time will be spent on looking at change as a positive outcome and how to keep ourselves motivated and focused on our own development and effectiveness.

Effective Time Management

What is more important in life? Time or Money? Time is the only thing we are all equal with so this programme provides participants with new ways of working more effectively and maximising the time that we all have available to us in our working days. This course will provide employees with the skills and knowledge in managing their time effectively to achieve personal and company goals. Time will be spent providing the participants with a clear structure in taking a proactive approach to their development and management of their time and how they can make further contributions to the success of the organisation.

Dealing with Stress

To provide participants with new ways of understanding, managing and preventing stress in their every day lives. The course sets out to help people work with and deal with pressure and stress to make their work and lives more enjoyable. This course will provide the participants with the skills and knowledge in managing their personal stressful situations effectively to achieve a more rewarding life style. Time will be spent providing the participants with a clear structure in taking a proactive approach to their development and management of their time and how they can identify and overcome stressful situations in their every day life.

Building Self Esteem and Confidence

Esteem is Latin for estimate so self esteem is how one estimates them self. If people estimate themselves on a low level this programme will provide participants with new ways of building and developing their own self esteem and confidence to help improve their work and life styles. The course sets out to help people to develop their self-esteem and in turn their own levels of assertiveness, self motivation and confidence.

This course will provide the participants with the skills and knowledge in developing their personal self-esteem and confidence for a more rewarding life style. Time will be spent providing the participants with a clear structure in taking a proactive approach to their development and control of the way they think and feel about themselves.

SDI Profiling
(Strength Deployment Inventory)

Strength - The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) helps people identify their personal strengths in relating to others under two conditions:

1, when everything is going well

And

2, when they are faced with conflict

Deployment means to move strategically or to take a position for effective action. The SDI suggests ways that one’s personal strengths may be used to improve relationships with others.

Inventory The SDI is not a test where judgements and ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ answers are graded. It is an inventory for taking stock on motivational values, the basis for how you feel and act in different situations.

SDI is a self awareness tool which aids people to build their own self awareness.