You Will Learn How To
- Achieve maximum productivity and effectiveness in your organisation
- Build and leverage your professional reputation
- Get results working with different and difficult personality types
- Maintain focus in pressure situations
- Work productively within the political environment of your organisation
- Make a balanced choice between professional and personal commitments
Course Benefits
Today's organisations place great emphasis on personal responsibility and initiative. Managing yourself effectively and working productively with others is critical to both your professional success and the success of your organisation. In this course, you gain a comprehensive and proven set of professional skills that helps you stay focused, work effectively with colleagues, develop your networks and expertise, and build your reputation for delivering results.
Who Should Attend
Those who want to maximise their personal effectiveness, build their professional reputation and credibility, and work successfully with a wide range of people.
Workshop Course
Extensive, practical workshops and exercises, conducted in small groups, focus on learning techniques to achieve your professional goals. Workshops include:
- Evaluating your strengths and style
- Developing teamwork skills in a simulated situation
- Building productive work relationships
- Presenting your proposal
- Profiling your political intelligence
- Identifying the key players in your work environment
- Planning a high-impact message
- Prioritising your key areas for development
Course Content
Introduction
- Key characteristics of professional people
- What do we mean by effective?
- The components of personal effectiveness
Realising Your Strengths and Fulfilling Your Potential
Evaluating your aptitudes, styles and potential growth areas
- Applying the Multiple Intelligences Model
- Compiling a personal strengths inventory
- Uncovering the talent paradox
The core elements of professional excellence
- The three Rs of effectiveness
- Building your professional reputation
Developing your professional power
- Analysing sources of professional authority
- Strategies for building influence
Managing yourself effectively
- Creating powerful goals to maintain focus
- The secret of productive relaxation
- Scheduling your time effectively
- Maximising your attention to tasks
Enhancing Your Thinking Tool Set
Understanding thinking processes
- Refining your mental models
- Revealing limiting mental frameworks
The core of interpersonal effectiveness
- Recognising the core process of human interaction
- Enhancing your emotional intelligence
- Analysing language to identify and understand motives and intentions
Achieving Results in Pressure Situations
Working productively with colleagues
- Identifying important players in your work environment
- Working with difficult co-workers
- Handling corporate game playing
- Being assertive without aggression
- Building productive relationships with upper management
Making meetings work for you
- Determining when a meeting is needed
- Keeping your meetings productive and professional
Managing stress productively
- Effective stress management techniques
- Learning from setbacks
- Developing mental toughness
Building Your Professional Reputation
Amplifying your effectiveness by networking
- The benefits of networking
- Networking dos and don'ts
- Contributing to physical and virtual networks
Demonstrating political intelligence
- Creating and considering your political intelligence profile
- Prioritising key areas for skills development
- Being political with integrity
Preparing and Presenting Winning Proposals
Secrets of successful proposal writing
- Identifying what your audience needs
- The psychology of successful proposals
- Structuring your points in a logical and compelling order
Compiling an effective business case
- Identifying your true target
- Distinguishing hard and soft benefits
Presenting your proposal
- Selecting the best medium for messages
- Matching your presentation approach to audience needs and mood
Creating the Results You Want
Assembling a personal success strategy
- Mapping and evaluating your situation
- Identifying your long-term choices and goals
- Achieving balance with the Wheel of Life
Controlling your work environment
- Why desks get cluttered—and how to solve this
- Handling interruptions and time wasters
- Analysing the choke points in your personal processes
- Reducing e-mail domination
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