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Learn how to make the most of your time by implementing guidelines that is smart, measurable, achievable, relevant and time based. With accurate goal setting, you will maximize your efficiency as well as your effectiveness and in doing so, learn how to record and track your progress throughout the duration of a specific task, or even merely throughout your normal routine day. You will be able to schedule recurring activities without having anxiety about where you'll have to find the time. Learning Objectives Schedule goals and activities, Find hidden time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams

The Primacy Effect influences lasting impressions, determining the quality of the relationship in the future. Moments of Truth are 'touch points' in time that a customer evaluates when giving you a service 'score.' Understand the ten tips for great greetings and introductions. Choose your opening words wisely and we will show you how to balance professionalism with 'personalism.' Learning Objectives Explain the Primary Effect's influence on first impressions, Apply 10 tips for great greetings, Identify how to use name tags and professional greeters when appropriate, Implement effective greeting words choices 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

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

You can make better sense of what you read, hear and become more persuasive by understanding arguments. The purpose of an argument is to make a valid point or persuade thinking. Understand the two parts of an argument and how to use evidence to support a claim. Understand how you can evaluate a persuasive argument by focusing on pinpointing the claim, identify evidence, test the evidence and identify conclusions. Learning Objectives Explain persuasive arguments used by critical thinkers, Summarize stages and steps for recognizing and evaluating persuasive arguments, Apply the four stages of persuasive arguments 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

Discover the four reasons you should have a meeting and how you decide who should attend. Without the correct attendees you are wasting your time and theirs. Understand how to run an effective meeting and why it is important to balance structure with content and interaction. Apply our do's and don'ts and implement time-saving tips to run productive meetings in half the time. Learning Objectives Apply the four reasons for holding a meeting, Identify who should attend, Prepare an effective agenda, Implement time-saving tips for getting results in half the time Target Audience Managers, Team Leaders, Young Professionals, Sales Professionals, Customer Service Teams