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Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills –

 

Communicating your ideas is essential.   Being clear, precise and understandable will help you to persuade or to inform,

Eight ideas to increase your success in presenting include:

 

  1. Think of every presentation as a conversation.
  2. Tell your story.
  3. Maintain interest by mixing up your tone, your pitch and your inflection.
  4. Hold eye contact for 2-3 seconds.
  5. Start with the clear statement of the issue.
  6. Highlight the points you’ll be sharing.
  7. End with either a request for action or a summary of your key points.
  8. Answer questions honestly.  It’s OK to not know the answer. Offer to provide information later or refer them to where they can find the answer.

 

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.

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.

2019-11-20T13:50:00-05:00November 28th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Professionalism

Professionalism –

Do you know how to be perceived as professional? Do you practice specific techniques, strategies and skills to meet this goal?.

 

Ten ideas to increase your success in professionalism include:

  1. Accept responsibility.
  2. Help others to reach the goals of your department.
  3. Be on punctual.
  4. Meet assigned deadlines.
  5. Give advance notice if a deadline is in jeopardy.
  6. Produce quality work.
  7. Focus on what needs to be done.
  8. Say thank you.
  9. Compliment people frequently and sincerely.
  10. Demonstrate Integrity and trust.

 

Our professionalism in the workplace workshop introduces strategies and techniques to increase your ability to send the right message in every situation. This training course 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.

2019-11-13T12:48:42-05:00November 25th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Time Management

Time Management –

 

Don’t let stress dictate your time!

Four ideas to increase success time management include:

 

Use effective self-talk to chanel emotions. Pse the following questions to yourself:

  1. Should I be getting upset over this?
  2. Is getting upset going to help me in anyway?
  3. Will this be important in 2 years, 2 months, or even 2 hours?
  4. What would a calm person do in this situation?

 

Our time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on 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.

 

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.

2019-11-13T12:47:10-05:00November 21st, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Stress & Time Management

Stress & Time Management –

 

Choose calm over chaos. Plan how you react in challenging situations.

Eight ideas to increase success in stress management include:

  1. Reduce the of stresses in your work and home life.
  2. Get rest, exercise and nutrition.
  3. Know how much stress you can take before you burn-out.
  4. Know how much relaxation you can take before rust-out.
  5. Know the number of hours you can to work.
  6. Find time for your personal well-being.
  7. Eliminate time wasters and fillers

 

Our stress and time management skills training workshops provides the time management skills essential zero in on 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.

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.

2019-11-05T11:57:24-05:00November 18th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Leadership –

 

The key to being seen as a professional is to be able to be unemotional & problem –solving oriented.

We can decide on how we choose to act in any situations. In a difficult situation we might respond with anger or frustration if we’re not choosing to be professional. Our goal is to maintain our cool and calm deportment.

 

Five ideas to increase success in staying professional include:

 

  1. Be aware your emotional warning signals. Notice the tightness in your neck or shoulders or chest or hands or stomach; feel the additional heat in your face or body
  2. Try to see the big picture.  How important will this be in a week; a month; a year?
  3. Move around to reduce extra adrenaline.
  4. Plan how you’ll respond to repeat offenders.
  5. Remember not to sweat the small stuff… then smile.

 

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

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

2019-11-05T11:56:36-05:00November 14th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Business Writing

Business Writing –

Increase your ability to get results by improving your business writing skills!

Nine ideas to increase your success business writing include:

  1. Getting to the point quickly; accomplishing brevity increases effectiveness.
  2. People skip words they don’t understand so skip jargon.
  3. Write once; edit at least twice (the number of times depends on the importance).
  4. Focus on names and numbers.
  5. Retain samples and or templates.
  6. Skip formality; master professionalism.
  7. Highlight benefits to your reader to increase results.
  8. End with a statement or the action you want the reader to take.
  9. Proofread after you write, and then again later if it’s an important communication.

Our Toronto based business writing skills workshop provides strategies and techniques to sharpen your business writing skills.

Contact us today to find out how our business writing skills training and other communications skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism. Our public workshops take place in Toronto.

2019-10-30T13:14:26-04:00November 11th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills

Communication Skills 

 

Knowing how to disagree diplomatically enables you to say what needs to be said without hesitation.

Seven ideas to increase your success in disagreeing diplomatically include:

 

  1. Restate your understanding of the other person’s idea, thought or position, to show them that you understand.
  2. Keep you tone neutral
  3. Use positive relaxed body language.
  4. Look for sign or clues that you’ve captured their views… if they don’t say they agree, are they nodding?
  5. Restate until you get their agreement.
  6. Value their position. Say, “I can see the value of…”
  7. Always follow with “however”… never “but, before introducing your position.
  8. Discuss your differing opinions, strategies, options or alternate recommendations.

 

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

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

2019-10-30T13:13:25-04:00November 7th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills

Communication Skills – 

Communication is key! Rapport building is primary!

Four ideas to increase communication skills include:

  1. Use peoples name at least once in any interaction (face-to-face, written, telephone)
  2. Compliment at least once.
  3. Remain professional.
  4. Don’t overload with your advice, experience or opinion.

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

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

2019-10-19T16:28:56-04:00October 31st, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Assertiveness Skills

Assertiveness Skills – T

he 3 R’s of assertive behavior mean being respectful, realistic, and responsible.
Assertiveness is a communication skill that can only be learned you aren’t born with it. With it, you can minimize conflict, build confidence and improve relationships .

Ten tips to help you become to be more assertive.
1. Seek to understand the other person’s point of view.
2. Accept that it’s OK to disagree.
3. Listen to a various points of view.
4. Stay un-emotional.
5. Remain problem-solving oriented.
6. See the other person as your friend..
7. Look for win/win solutions.
8. Use ‘I’ language statements e.g. ‘I think’ or ‘I feel’;
9. Remove “You” from your statements.
10. Practice being patient… extend your fuse.

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

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

2019-10-19T16:27:21-04:00October 28th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills – Be Positive

Communication Skills – Be Positive –

Seeing, thinking, acting positive will result in better health and greater success.

Find the positive and focus on those factors.

Four ideas to increase success with overcoming negativity include:

  1. Change: “I want to… but… “       To:  I want to… and…
  2. Change: “I can’t… because…”                To: “I won’t… because…”
  3. Change: “If it weren’t for… I would…”      To: “I won’t… because…”
  4. Change: “I have to… because…”            To: “I choose to… because…”

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

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

2019-10-18T07:50:40-04:00October 24th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments