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personal effectiveness short courses

Personal Effectiveness Short Courses

Modules and short courses to develop your personal effectiveness

Along side our Management Development and Leadership programmes, this range of short courses are available ‘off the shelf’ of customized for you and your organisation.

These are a selection of our leadership and organisational development programmes. All of these can be run ‘off-the-shelf’ or customised specifically to your needs.

They are available as ½, 1 or 2 day modules

Page Index:

Effective Team Working

Creative Problem Solving

Running Effective Meetings

Managing Yourself

Managing Communications

Managing Your Workload

Innovation – building your capacity for innovation

Assertiveness Skills

Creative Thinking Skills

Time and Stress Management

Learning to Learn

Effective Team Working – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Understand the nature of the team psychology
  • Understand the critical components required for a high performing team
  • Use these components to build a team that works effectively as a unit where synergy is evident
  • Explain the benefits of developing and maintaining effective team working

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Creative Problem Solving – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Identify obstacles that prevent problems from being solved
  • Understand the importance of effective problem-solving activity
  • Use problem-solving techniques to improve productivity and profitability
  • Explain the benefits of having an effective and proactive approach to solving problems

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Running Effective Meetings – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Understand the importance of running effective meetings
  • Identify the key components of an effective meeting
  • Understand the different ways that you can influence the effectiveness of meetings
  • Plan a meeting structure for running an effective event

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Managing Yourself – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • To recognise & plan work around personal strengths
  • To use resource of time effectively
  • Understand the importance of aligning personal & work values
  • To understand the impact others have on our productivity

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Managing Communications – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Be able to describe a variety of communication channels and their appropriately usage
  • Understand what causes difficult situations within organisations and between people
  • Be able to identify the different preferences individuals have in person-to-person communications
  • To understand their own personal preference is for communication and its impact on others

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Managing Your Workload – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Use project management techniques for day-to-day work planning
  • Understand how management performance can being proved through the use of project management techniques
  • Know what a project is and its component parts
  • Recognise the phases of a project and the consequences of not going to phases in order

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Innovation – building your capacity for innovation – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Be able to identify innovative behaviour
  • Understand the importance of risk taking and creativity in innovation
  • Describe the seven drivers of innovation
  • Show an increase in their range of approaches to innovation

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Assertiveness Skills – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Recognise how they affect others and how to apply appropriate behaviours
  • Recognise assertive and not assertive behaviour, and know when to use assertiveness techniques
  • To feel more confident in interpersonal communications
  • Use transactional analysis concept as a framework for personal effectiveness

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Creative Thinking Skills – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • To find unusual and different ways of getting round the problem
  • To learn more about the use of our brain
  • To experiment with some structured thinking techniques
  • To use and apply left and right brain thinking techniques

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Time and Stress Management – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Understand the importance of setting goals for both work and personal life
  • Recognise their organisations, business plan and how impact their work plan
  • To clarify and set priorities
  • Explore techniques for making life easier
  • Devise a pattern of work that fits into the individual work plan

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Learning to Learn – Preparing for study – personal effectiveness

Learning Aims:

  • Describe your preferred learning style(s)
  • Describe the impact of learning style on productivity
  • Demonstrate an increase in their range of learning skills
  • Understand how awareness learning theories can help us to learn with greater effect

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This page lists programmes that are developed and ready to run ‘off-the-shelf’ adaptations and customised programmes are available.

Other Training Courses

We have a range of ready to run ‘off the shelf’ training programmes. for more details click on the links below:
Train the Trainer Workshops

Management Development Short Course Programme

Leadership Organisational Development Short Courses

Graduate Management Development Programmes

Personal Effectiveness Short Courses

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personal effectiveness short courses was last modified: February 5th, 2012
Mike Morrison

Mike is a consultant and change agent specialising in developing skills in senior people to increase organizational performance. Mike is also founder & director of RapidBI, an organizational effectiveness consultancy. Check out his linkedin profile MikeMorrison LinkedIn Profile

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