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Course Overview Working in today's dynamic environment is increasingly challenging. Managing yourself effectively and working productively with others is critical to your professional success. In this course, you gain a comprehensive and proven set of professional skills that help you stay focused, work effectively with colleagues, develop your networks and expertise, and build your reputation for delivering results. Audience This course is valuable for everybody involved in working with people, projects or information. It benefits those taking on responsibility for the first time, as well as experienced managers who want to maximise their personal effectiveness. Skills Gained - Achieve maximum productivity and effectiveness in your organisation
- Build and leverage your professional reputation
- Get results working with different and difficult personality types
- Maintain focus in pressure situations
- Work productively within the political environment of your organisation
- Build and present persuasive proposals
- Make a balanced choice between professional and personal commitments
Course Outline Introduction - What professionalism really means
- The components of personal effectiveness
Realising Your Strengths and Fulfilling Your Potential Evaluating your aptitudes, styles and potential growth areas - Applying the Multiple Intelligences Model
- Compiling a personal strengths inventory
- Uncovering the talent paradox
The core elements of professional excellence - The three Rs of effectiveness
- Building your professional reputation
Developing your professional power - Analysing sources of professional authority
- Strategies for building influence
Managing yourself effectively - Setting goals to maintain focus
- The secret of productive relaxation
- Scheduling your time effectively
- A healthy balance of work and play
- Maximising your attention to tasks
Enhancing Your Thinking Toolset Understanding thinking processes - Refining your mental models
- Revealing limiting mental frameworks
The core of interpersonal effectiveness - Recognising the core process of human interaction
- Enhancing your emotional intelligence
- Analysing language to identify and understand motives and intentions
Achieving Results in Pressure Situations Working productively with colleagues - Identifying important players in your work environment
- Working with difficult coworkers
- Handling corporate game playing
- Being assertive without aggression
- Building productive relationships with upper management
Making meetings work for you - Determining when a meeting is needed
- Keeping your meetings productive and professional
Managing stress productively - Effective stress management techniques
- Positive vs. negative stress
Building Your Professional Reputation Amplifying your effectiveness by networking - The benefits of networking
- Networking dos and don'ts
- Contributing to physical and virtual networks
Constructing an effective political approach - Why being political is necessary
- Countering political manipulation
- Being political with integrity
Preparing and Presenting Winning Proposals Secrets of successful proposal writing - Identifying what your audience needs
- The psychology of successful proposals
- Structuring your points in a logical and compelling order
Compiling an effective business case - Identifying your true target
- Distinguishing hard and soft benefits
Presenting your proposal - Selecting the best medium for messages
- Matching your presentation approach to audience needs and mood
Creating the Results You Want Assembling a personal success strategy - Mapping and evaluating your situation
- Identifying your long-term choices and goals
- Achieving balance among the five components of life
Controlling your work environment - Why desks get cluttered-and how to solve this
- Handling interruptions and time wasters
- Analysing the choke points in your personal processes
- Reducing e-mail domination
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