Personal Performance
Strong people build strong organisations.
Strong organisations empower their people.
Any organisation will only ever be as successful as those who run it and work within it. Our Personal Performance sessions offer the scope and opportunity for people to build effectiveness, confidence, capability and develop smarter ways of working.
Encouraging and empowering those people who make your organisation tick is probably the most productive investment you’ll ever make.
“I’ve found it difficult to find time to attend training courses. This quick-fire format really works for me and has got me back into the swing of developing myself.”
“The learning guides we get are brilliant to refer back to and help keep things fresh in my mind.”
Our 90 minute training sessions
Accelerate Your Learning Learn how to make your learning fun and effective – the ‘SIMPLer’ way
- Getting into the right state
- Discover your preferred input style
- How to ‘make it your own’
- Top memory tips
- Using the review cycle
Building Self-Confidence
Learn how to develop your personal esteem and self-confidence
- Your confidence and your success
- Know your enemy – confidence stealers
- The cycle of confidence
- Developing bullet-proof beliefs
- Dealing confidently with setbacks
Coping with Change
Learn how to enhance your resilience in responding to change
- Your views about change?
- Comfort zones
- How people typically react to change
- Your change style profile
- 10 strategies for coping with change
Creative Thinking
Learn how to generate fresh perspectives and innovative ideas
- What is creativity?
- The 2 types of thinking
- Creativity killers
- Techniques for generating new ideas
- Skills practice
Creative Thinking in Groups
Learn how to improve collaborative thinking in groups and teams
- Parallel thinking in group problem solving
- The different thinking styles
- Benefits and uses
- Practical exercise
- Applying technique to a ‘live’ issue
Decision Making
Learn how to apply a range of techniques to inform your decisions
- The 2 ways of making decisions
- How do you make decisions?
- The 6 steps to decision making
- Tools to determine the best alternative
- Practice applying the skills involved
Develop Yourself
Learn how to maximise your own personal development
- Your orientation to self-development?
- Learning – what, why and how
- Your learning style preferences
- Identifying development opportunities
- Personal development planning tips
Effective Teamwork Skills
Learn how to contribute your best as an effective team member
- What every team needs for success
- Key skills for effective teamwork
- The ‘olympic standard’ team member
- Contracting with your team
- Skill practice
Getting Things Done!
Learn how to achieve things and get the results you want
- Assessment: are you an achiever?
- Self-motivation – getting unstuck
- Getting focused and overcoming blockages
- Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals
- Identifying practical actions
Handle Your Stress
Learn how to recognise and deal with your stressors at work
- Stress or pressure?
- Primary causes and symptoms of stress
- The 5 personality drivers and stress
- Your support network
- Practical coping strategies
Identify Your Strengths
Learn how to make the most of your unique strengths and talents
- Strengths and weaknesses?
- Characteristics of a strength
- The 3 key ‘clues’ to your strengths
- Identifying your strengths
- Putting your strengths to work
It’s Your Appraisal
Learn how to get the best from your appraisal review
- Appraisal – your hopes and concerns?
- Taking a proactive approach
- Actions checklist – before, during and after
- Receiving and giving feedback
- Skills practice
Managing Upwards
Learn how to build a constructive relationship with your boss
- What’s it like managing you?
- Understanding your boss’s priorities
- Working with different styles of manager
- Top tips to make an impact
- Identifying practical actions
|
Mentee Skills Learn how to make the most of working with your mentor
- Mentoring – what and why?
- Role and qualities of a good mentor
- How to be an effective mentee
- The 5C structured mentoring model
- Contracting with your mentor
Personal Accountability
Learn how to think positively, take control and make a real difference
- It all starts with you!
- Avoiding the victim mindset
- The accountable attitude and payoffs
- Tackling personal ‘response-ability’
- Action: how I can make a difference?
Personal Effectiveness
Learn how to apply the 7 habits of highly effective people
- The 7 habits – overview
- Proactivity, planning and prioritising
- Building win-win relationships
- Staying sharp and balanced
- Actions to develop your effectiveness?
Personal Impact
Learn how to build positive profile and impact with others
- Who made an impact on you?
- Factors that influence impact on others
- Perception and first impressions
- Developing your personal impact
- 10 top tips for success
Problem Solving
Learn how to apply the techniques of effective problem solving
- The 5 different types of problem
- Stages in effective problem solving
- Problem solving techniques
- Developing creative solutions
- Case studies – skills practice
Rapid Reading
Learn how to increase your reading speed and efficiency
- How fast do you read now?
- Exploding a few reading myths!
- Techniques to improve reading speed
- Skimming and visual note-taking
- Practice applying the techniques
Skills for PA’s & Assistants
Learn how to develop the key skills for role effectiveness
- What makes an effective assistant?
- Working with different managers’ styles
- Managing your time and prioritising
- Top tips for business writing
- Communicate with confidence
Skills for Receptionists
Learn how to develop the key skills for role effectiveness
- That all important first impression
- Projecting the best self-image
- The do’s and don’ts of listening
- Asking the right questions
- ABC technique – handling angry callers
Succeed at Interviews
Learn how to create positive impact in the interviews you attend
- Top 10 interviewee mistakes to avoid
- Preparation – getting yourself ready
- First impressions – the opening 3 minutes
- During – maintaining a positive impression
- Skills practice
Time Management – 1
Learn how to effectively manage your time and priorities
- Time – the most valuable resource?
- Self-analysis: 5P’s of time management
- Handling common time stealers
- Managing your priorities
- Practical tips and techniques
Time Management – 2
Learn how to apply more techniques to better manage your time
- Personal time log review (pre-work activity)
- Focusing your time – effort v impact
- Effective scheduling
- Overcoming procrastination
- Controlling the paperwork
Visual Thinking
Learn how to create visual maps and transform your thinking skills
- Whole brain thinking
- What is visual mapping?
- How to create a visual map
- Identifying the many uses
- Practice applying the technique
|
