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Project Management

Planning and success are directly linked.

Five ideas to add to your project management strengths include:

  1. Consult with the important people early.
  2. Consider members ability to contribute rather than their availability as the criteria for your team.
  3. Continually communicate priorities, deadlines, budgets with all team members.
  4. Monitor the key project activities, deadlines and costs.
  5. Update the team members and project sponsor on the progress and delays.

Our project management skills training workshop provides the project management skills for effective project planning and control.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based project management skills training and other management courses and communication skills and leadership skills workshops can help you build your professionalism.

2021-08-03T15:38:24-04:00August 9th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills

Always always always be respectful!

Six ideas to add to your communication strengths include:

  1. Follow up regularly to stay in touch.
  2. Deal with only facts not with opinions or judgements.
  3. Accept well intended feedback graciously.
  4. Speak without emotion.
  5. Stop being sarcastic.
  6. Avoid defensiveness.

Our Toronto based Communication skills training workshop provides the communication skills for performing positively and clearly to enhance your career and personal success.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based communication skills training and other management skills and leadership courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

2021-07-20T12:32:52-04:00August 5th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Network to increase your success!

Six ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Always have business cards or electronic notebook accessible.
  2. Arrive early to have time to make new connections.
  3. Smile!
  4. Approach people in social situations who are alone.
  5. Introduce yourself in 30 seconds or less.
  6. Outline the service you provide in one or two sentences.

Our Toronto leadership training course provides leadership strategies and techniques to shape your performance as a supervisor or team leader.  The program will assist you to influence others.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based leadership skills training seminars and other communications skills supervisory skills workshops can help you build your professionalism.

2021-07-20T12:28:46-04:00August 3rd, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Networking can begin with a single point of common ground.

Four ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Set a goal for the number of people you want to meet in a week or month.
  2. Identify the best places or ways to meet people
  3. Join or volunteer.
  4. Include conferences and trade shows

Our Toronto leadership training course provides leadership strategies and techniques to shape your performance as a supervisor or team leader.  The program will assist you to influence others.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based leadership skills training seminars and other communications skills supervisory skills workshops can help you build your professionalism.

2021-07-20T12:12:34-04:00July 29th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills

Two-way communication is the best way to transfer your intended message.  It requires engaging the other person.

Four ideas to improve to your communication effectiveness include:

  1. Refrain from interrupting the other person.
  2. Give the other person time to collect their thoughts.
  3. Clarify and confirm to de3monstrate your understanding.
  4. When giving feedback, deal with the future, not the past.

Our Toronto based Communication skills training workshop provides the communication skills for performing positively and clearly to enhance your career and personal success.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based communication skills training and other management skills and leadership courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

2021-07-07T14:08:22-04:00July 26th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership – Conflict

Conflict can be the start of change and innovation.

Nine ideas to increase your success in dealing with conflict include:

  1. Conflicts need time to reach resolution.
  2. Take time to make decisions.
  3. Look for mutual interests or goals.
  4. Focus to the intension of the message; not the delivery
  5. Remain unemotional, fact focused, problem-solving.
  6. Confirm the points the other person shares.
  7. Check their understanding of your position by asking them to repeat what you’ve said.
  8. Ask them “What it would take to resolve the situation?”
  9. Generate multiple possible solutions.

Our conflict management training provides strategies and techniques to resolve conflict in everyday situations.  Our conflicts resolution in a union environment workshop is specific designed for handling challenging union issues.   Each training courses can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

Contact us today to find out how our training programs and workshops related to communications skills and leadership skills can help you build your professionalism.

2021-07-07T14:08:44-04:00July 22nd, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Training For The Trainer

The key to adult learning is fun!

Four ideas to increase success with training include:

  1. Give participants choices of activities, order, leaders.
  2. Find creative ways to assign leadership for an activity.
  3. Use visuals to add to your presentation.
  4. Create a motivational climate through participation

Our Toronto based  train the trainer training workshop provides the training facilitation skills essential to getting your ideas, plans and feelings across with confidence and conviction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based training for the trainer skills training and other leadership skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

 

2021-07-06T15:42:55-04:00July 19th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills

Build one communication skill each day to increase your interpersonal effectiveness dramatically.

Seven ideas to add to your communication skills include:

  1. Monday – Be open of new ideas, processes, strategies
  2. Tuesday – Be ready to accept different points of views
  3. Wednesday – Be specific and concrete
  4. Thursday – Speak briefly; to the point
  5. Friday – Be respectful
  6. Saturday – Pay attention to your body language
  7. Sunday – Clarify and confirm to increase understanding

 

Our Toronto based Communication skills training workshop provides the communication skills for performing positively and clearly to enhance your career and personal success.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based communication skills training and other management skills and leadership courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism

2021-07-06T15:39:14-04:00July 15th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership – Conflict Management

Conflict can positive!  It can result in innovation and/or increased effectiveness.

Five ideas to increase your success in dealing with conflict include:

  1. Recognize that conflict management requires time.
  2. Never force decisions.
  3. Look for shared goals.
  4. Focus on the other person’s intention, not their manner.
  5. Remain unemotional and problem-solving oriented no matter what!

Our conflict management training provides strategies and techniques to resolve conflict in everyday situations.  Our conflicts resolution in a union environment workshop is specific designed for handling challenging union issues.   Each training courses can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

Contact us today to find out how our training programs and workshops related to communications skills and leadership skills can help you build your professionalism.

2021-06-29T18:21:33-04:00July 12th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Training For The Trainer

Adults need to participate in the identification of new strategies and techniques in order to accept the new skills.

Three ideas to increase success with training include:

  1. Bridge the gap between what the trainees knows and the new learning required.
  2. Follow the introduction of each each new skill with examples and conversations.
  3. Always include a practice opportunities to experience the new skill and pose questions.

Our Toronto based  train the trainer training workshop provides the training facilitation skills essential to getting your ideas, plans and feelings across with confidence and conviction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based training for the trainer skills training and other leadership skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

2021-06-29T18:20:35-04:00July 8th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments