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Balancing Work and Personal Life
Everyone
is busy today. Managing the
responsibilities of work and your personal life is becoming more and more
complex. Learn how to bring
harmony into your life with practical methods of making appropriate
decisions on the roles you play, prioritizing, time management and
organization. Learn how to do things right and also do the right thing.
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Becoming More Assertive
Would you like to have the confidence to say ‘no’
without feeling guilty, make requests without feeling intimidated?
Assertiveness means being able to express your thoughts, feelings, and
beliefs in an open, honest, and confident way. Being assertive is often
difficult because it calls for skills that we were not taught. The skills
you will learn in this workshop can help you learn to "speak up"
with more confidence. This is
an interactive workshop with opportunities to practice handling
potentially difficult situations with effectiveness, assurance and
confidence.
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Communicating
with Your Staff
If
managing means getting things done through other people, then
communicating is the vehicle to reach that goal.
Managers will gain understanding and practice communication skills
critical to building trust, increasing productivity and teamwork.
Understanding styles of communication, using questioning techniques and
giving feedback will be addressed in this interactive workshop.
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Conflict Management
Conflict is
unavoidable, but not all conflicts need to end in arguments. The
problem isn’t the conflict itself, but the way it is managed. This
workshop will help you develop the skills to identify, analyze and
manage conflict. Starting from your personal behavior, you will learn
how to optimize your own conflict resolution style and to effectively
deal with the conflict styles of others. You will learn and practice
how to cope with difficult people and how to build and bolster working
and personal relationships.
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Customer Service
Without customers, there is no business. Competition
is tough today. Customers
are more demanding than ever before. Daily
interaction with customers means you always need to put your best foot
forward while still taking care of yourself. In this interactive workshop,
you will learn and practice customer service behavior that results in
retaining current customers and acquiring new ones, methods to manage a
difficult customer, techniques to reduce stress and keep a winning
attitude.
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Dealing with Difficult People
We all encounter difficult individuals on a daily
basis. These
are not necessarily bad people, but people whose behavior impacts on
productivity, morale and communication. To maintain our own constructive
behavior, we need to effectively manage difficult encounters at work and
in our personal lives. In this workshop, you will learn and practice
coping methods of communication with common types of difficult people,
learn how to turn confrontation into constructive problem solving, and
understand what really triggers difficult people to behave negatively.
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Delegation and Feedback
Delegation and feedback are hallmarks of good
management. In this workshop, you will learn why delegation is critical to
meeting your own goals, how to identify and overcome barriers to
delegation, to whom and how to delegate tasks.
Also, no news to employees is bad news. You will have an
opportunity to learn and practice giving effective and appropriate
positive and negative feedback.
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Getting Organized at Work
If
you find yourself constantly looking for things, unable to prioritize
tasks, overwhelmed with too much paper and too little time, this
workshop can help you. You will learn and practice practical and
simple techniques to help you become more productive and confident.
Discover how to end paper build-up, arrange your workspace for
optimum efficiency, and get rid of clutter.
You’ll also learn to distinguish “must-do” tasks from
“can-wait” tasks, avoid being “victimized” by your e-mail, and
use your peak energy times to get more done in less time.
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Managing Change
The only constant today is change. We live in a rapidly
changing environment. Whether you are a change agent or have to deal
with compulsory changes, managing and coping with change is crucial to
success. In this workshop, you'll learn to identify resistance
factors, create ways to overcome them, and strategies to implement
changes with minimum disruption and maximum results.
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Meeting Management
Do you find that you are attending or leading
unproductive meetings? In this workshop, you will learn tools and tactics
to make your meetings productive and engaging. This interactive session
will help you polish your skills of planning for and managing meetings as
well as understanding your role as a participant. You will learn how to
keep control throughout the meeting while creating a receptive, engaging,
and energetic atmosphere.
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Performance Appraisals
Employees need
feedback in order to know if their performance is acceptable or needs
to improve or change. It is your responsibility as a manager to
communicate with your employees in a way that allows them to
contribute to the discussion, to recognize their contributions,
identify their areas of strength, where they need to improve and set
realistic goals. This workshop will provide you with skills and tools
to help you conduct a performance review that will increase employee
motivation, learning, productivity and collaboration. You will have an
opportunity to practice giving feedback and conducting performance
review discussions.
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Phone Skills
The phone is a
service tool that impacts on your bottom line. Using the phone with
courtesy and effectiveness gives customers the right first impression. In
this workshop, you will learn and practice how to handle irate and
confused callers, improve your voice quality, ask appropriate questions,
and overall manage the call.
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Positive Communication
Good business
depends on developing solid relationships. To build rapport, you must be
sensitive to other people, present yourself in the least controversial way
and in essence, be likeable. This
workshop will give you the tools for becoming more likeable, help you
understand the impact of the message you are sending through emails, voice
mails, telephone and face-to-face interactions. You will learn the
importance of netiquette skills and social skills including making
appropriate introductions, writing thank you notes, and presenting a
professional image.
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Presentation Skills
Learn how to make
an impact when you speak. In this interactive workshop designed to
help you enhance your presentation and communication style, you will
learn and practice methods to overcome speaker anxiety, analyze your
audience, and prepare and deliver a talk that will engage people.
You will also learn to use visual aids to support your talk and
handle questions and answers from the audience. Whether you are
speaking to an audience of one or one hundred, you’ll want to make
sure that you can stand up and speak in a way that makes people
listen.
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Setting Goals
It has been
proven that people who set goals for themselves are more successful.
In this workshop you will learn how to set realistic goals and make
specific plans to meet them. You will have an opportunity to practice
making goals, creating intermittent targets with deadlines, setting up
accountability methods and learning strategies to stay on course or
adapt when necessary.
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Stress and Management
Everyone is stressed today. Some stress
is good but too much of it can impact negatively on productivity,
morale and health. In this workshop you will learn and practice
exercises to reduce stress. You will have an opportunity to practice
deep breathing techniques, psychological tactics to overcome negative
self-talk and remain centered, and you will develop an action plan so
that you can stay healthy, positive and balanced.
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Team Building
Today
teamwork is crucial in an organization, yet it takes understanding to
build a team. In this workshop
you will learn what makes effective teams, how to keep open lines of
communication, create common ground, overcome barriers and build that team
spirit that breathes life and creativity into a group. You will have an
opportunity to analyze your own team and work on problem-solving
techniques to enhance your team’s effectiveness.
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Time Management
Everyone complains that there’s never enough time
to get everything done. To become more effective and efficient at work,
you’ll need to manage your time. Since there is only a limited amount of
time, it’s important to know what to do and what not to do. In this
workshop you will learn and practice tips and techniques to understand how
you use time, make choices and set priorities, plan and schedule to
maximize the time you have and control time robbers.
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