Communication Skills –

Being able to ask questions effectively will help you to increase:

• Learning
• Building commitment
• Empowering

Eight ideas to increase your success in asking questions include:

1. Always record details;
2. Never rely on memory; keep notes
3. Phrase all questions positively.
4. Offer support. Ask: “How can I help? ”
5. Learn. Ask: “What would you do?”  What would a calm person do? What would a professional do?
6. Encourage others. Ask: “What do you think we should do?”
7. Investigate. Ask: “What is our competition doing?”
8. Innovate. Ask: “How can we do it better?”

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

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Time Management –

Don’t let a crisis run you! Take charge!

Eight ideas to increase your success in dealing with crisis include:

1. Focus on staying calm.
2. Consider possible solutions, time frames, resources, impact, and responsibilities.
3. Use your extra adrenaline to find innovative solutions.
4. Have everyone involved participate in generating solutions.
5. Delegate anything you can.
6. Monitor any ‘A” priorities – don’t start another fire.
7. Complete all of your A1 priorities.
8. Create plans/strategies to prevent the situation from happening again.

Our Toronto based time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  Participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the state of mastery and satisfaction.

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Leadership – Problem-Solving Skills –

Use a problem-solving structure before you make a decision.

Seven ideas to increase your success in problem-solving include:

1. State the issue in the form of a question.
2. State the criteria for the solution– On what basis should you make the decision?   What will the solution look like?  What concerns will you have considered?  What factors need to be addressed?
3. Consider all of the possible causes of the problem.
4. Generate many alternatives.
5. Select the best alternatives using the solution criteria identified in step 2.
6. After implementation.
7. Follow-up to confirm the success of your problem-solving process.

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

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Communication Skills – Asking Questions –

Ask questions skillfully to:

• Show your interest
• Express concern
• Suggest new ideas
• Instruct

Five ideas to increase your ability to ask questions include:

1. Follow the KISS rule: Keep It Short and Simple.
2. Keep your questions to10 words or less.
3. Ask one question at a time.
4. Consider the three “RIGHT’s”:  Is it the right time, in the right way, to the right person.
5. Start with an open question to gather information.  i.e. “Tell me about…?” or How…? or What…?

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Leadership Skills –

Ability to make decisions is one of the most respected leadership skills

Five ideas to increase your success in decision-making include:

1. Practice making some decisions without all the information available.
2. Learn from any errors.
3. Stop overthinking. What’s the value of the decision?
4. Consider possible solutions for an appropriate period of time; then make a decision.
5. Once you’ve decided move on.

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Time Management –

Stop attracting interruptions!

Six ideas to increase your success in reducing invitations to interrupt you include:

1. Remove the “treats” from your work area i.e. candies and baked goods
2. Stop asking everyone how they are.
3. Don’t say – “drop by or call any time”
4. Work with your back facing the door.
5. Tell people you’re working on a high priority task.
6. Walk quickly and with a purpose to show that you’re busy.

Our Toronto based time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  Participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the state of mastery and satisfaction.

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

Communication Skills –

Make others feel good about themselves. With high self-esteem comes high productivity.

Six ideas to increase your success in complimenting people include:

1. Be specific. “Great” is not as effective as a statement like “I appreciate that your reports are always on time.”
2. Be real. Compliment only when it’s really earned.
3. Be frequent. Make positive feedback a priority
4. Be daily. Look for opportunities to compliment.
5. Be singular. One compliment at a time.
6. Be sincere. Avoid complimenting before you ask for something.

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

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Time Management –

Multiple tasks always compete for your attention.  By effectively identifying your priorities you’ll move closer to being able to focus on the essentials.

Seven ideas to increase your success in focusing on priorities include:

1. Identify a specific deadline for each task you need to complete.
2. Identify the start time required to meet your deadlines and then add a buffer.
3. Add a longer buffer for critical and/or time-consuming tasks.
4. Move tasks that really have no specific deadlines out of sight. (they are C’s and may never get done)
5. Only tasks that have to be completed today are your “A” priorities”.
6. Organize the tasks that need to be started on another day in order of when they need to be started.
7. Finish all your “A’s” before you consider starting a “B”.

Our Toronto based time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  Participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the state of mastery and satisfaction.

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

Leadership Skills –

The ability to make decisions is key to your leadership.

Six ideas to increase your success in decision-making include:

1. Determine4 priorities based on the impact of the decision.
2. Delegate to the lowest possible level.
3. Put a cap on the amount of time you investigate before deciding.
4. Take a moment to relax before you review your decision..
5. Even in a time of crisis compete your decision-making process.
6. Following a logical approach, tune into your emotions.

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

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Presentations Skills –

Clarity brevity and a polished delivery will get results!

Ten ideas to increase your effectiveness in presenting your ideas include:

1. Preparation is a great investment that pays dividends.
2. Practice out loud
3. Video yourself.
4. Share personal examples
5. Share relevant stories.
6. Enjoy the process.
7. Focus on your message; not on your appearance.
8. Work on maintaining eye contact for 2 to 3 seconds.
9. Gestures to add emphasis.
10. Unless you’re a comedian use natural humour.

Our presentation skills workshop enhance your ability to address a meeting or speak in front of a client or group and communicate your professionalism.   This training course can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

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