A crisis is an urgent demand for change that must be addressed immediately. Identify the main cause of a crisis as it is often people-related. Crisis management merely controls the problem and crisis resolution must end the situation. Understand how to prevent, manage and eliminate a negative impact. Discover the six steps to crisis resolution and how do you ensure that you learn from a crisis? Learning Objectives Explain the difference between a crisis and a problem, Identify the main causes of crisis, Implement six steps to crisis resolution Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
The benefits of team decision-making include more diverse information, multiple perspectives, greater understanding, knowing next steps, and better buy-in. Use decision-making in teams when you need support, the impact is significant or controversial, you need other expertise, and want to spread the risk. Understand how to prepare for team decision-making by allowing for pre-work and use the three techniques for team-decision making. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of team decisions, Implement strategies to prepare for team decision-making, Apply three methods for team decisions Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
How do you use the six influence techniques? Understand how to use persuasion, asserting, visioning, involving, disengaging and the 'Z' model. Be in control and master the skill to spot the required influence technique to achieve the desired result. Learning Objectives Describe how to use six influence techniques, Apply guidelines for each methods, Utilize a "Z" model to increase influence when you have no authority Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Words can make or break or break a good first impression. Choose them carefully. Discover why it is important to use positive language, expressing what you can do, not what you can't. Understand how to be specific in your written and spoken communication and how to end your sentences appropriately. Be careful how you express yourself. You may not be preventing wars, but one word can save or lose a valued customer! Learning Objectives Explain the power of words used in business, Choose appropriate, more powerful word choices, Edit writing to use less words for more impact Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
There comes a time when good things (or bad) come to an end. You will understand why it is important to close a project and the contents of a final evaluation report. This last phase wraps up the details and allows you a sense of completion. The shutdown process can be complex and drawn out with lots of loose ends. We will help you to focus on the required steps required to close the project efficiently. Learning Objectives Explain the importance of project closure, Apply nine steps for closing a project, Organize the written report Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Internal barriers are any psychological self-limiting beliefs that inhibit productive, constructive job behavior. What are internal obstacles and how do you manage them such as fear, holding back, lack of business skills, avoiding politics and selfish development. Understand and manage the external obstacles including the 'glass ceiling', status leveling and political games. Apply tactics for dealing with office politics or games and we will show you how you can create positive plans for career success. Learning Objectives Overcome internal and external barriers to achievement, Create positive game plans for career success Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Fallacies are incorrect conclusions drawn from incorrect reasoning in an argument. One problem with deception is that the perpetrators often don't know they're doing it. They believe what they're saying. Discover how to identify the traits of sloppy thinking and the impact it will have. We will give you guidelines to move sloppy thinking to elegant thinking where they will help you reach your goal. Learning Objectives Explain influencers battling for control of your mind, Avoid emotional and irrational fallacies, Describe the traits and costs of the undisciplined mind, Apply behaviors a fair-minded, disciplined critical thinker Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Rational decisions are based on reasonable, intelligent thinking. Discover how rational thinking can improve the quality of your life and help you to take a reasonable approach in knowing what to think. Understand why a checklist can help you in complex situations and apply our steps make rational decisions. Learning Objectives Explain how rational decision-making improves quality of life, Identify how the power of the checklist eliminates mistakes, Apply a checklist for rational thinking using the standards of intellectual thinking, Implement a checklist for decisions using the elements of sound reasoning Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Critical thinking means taking control of your thoughts to see if they make sense and applying self-corrective thinking to reach the highest level of rational reasoning and fair-mindedness. We all know the consequences of unchecked and undisciplined thinking. Understand what critical thinkers do and know the three levels of thinking. We will help you to think fair, open-minded, unbiased, unprejudiced and work to overcome personal biases. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of critical thinking, Identify the hazards of non-critical thinking, Evaluate three levels of thinkers, Apply 10 strategies for critical thinking Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams
Peer coaching is a cost-effective way to provide quality employee development to high-potential and emerging leaders. Learn about the behaviours that will ensure you are a great peer coach. You will understand why questions play an important role for effective coaching and how to use the correct questioning sequence for an effective coaching session. Learn the behaviours and steps under your control for achieving the end goal. Learning Objectives Explain the benefits of peer coaching, Implement behaviors of effective peer coaches, Apply the GROW model for sequencing questions in a coaching session Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams