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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

Course: 297   Type: Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
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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 help 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 and work successfully with people, projects or information.

Course Workshops
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
  • Building productive work relationships
  • Presenting your proposal
  • Identifying the key players in your work environment
  • Planning a high-impact message
  • Building your development plan

Course Content
Introduction
  • What professionalism really means
  • 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
  • Setting goals to maintain focus
  • The secret of productive relaxation
  • Scheduling your time effectively
  • A healthy balance of work and play
  • Maximising your attention to tasks
Enhancing Your Thinking Toolset
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
  • Positive vs. negative stress
Building Your Professional Reputation
Amplifying your effectiveness by networking
  • The benefits of networking
  • Networking dos and don'ts
  • Contributing to physical and virtual networks
Constructing an effective political approach
  • Why being political is necessary
  • Countering political manipulation
  • 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 amongst the five components 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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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence
Course Schedule
15 - 18 Jul, 2008
London
2 - 5 Sep, 2008
Edinburgh
16 - 19 Sep, 2008
London
18 - 21 Nov, 2008
London
20 - 23 Jan, 2009
Edinburgh
20 - 23 Jan, 2009
London
24 - 27 Mar, 2009
London

Course participants identifying key players in their work environment.

£ 1,695 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 1,080 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 1,215 - 10-Training Vouchers
£ 1,300 - 5-Training Vouchers
£ 1,525 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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