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Leadership

Leadership –

 

Patience needs to be nurtured, developed, practiced.

Five ideas to increase your success with building your patience include:

  1. Take a step back to look at the big picture.
  2. Gain perspective; how important will this be in an hour, a day, a month.
  3. Deal with facts; separate emotions.
  4. Focus on what happened; not with what “could happen”.
  5. Observe impatient people who surround you and learn from their mistakes.

 

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.

2019-05-08T12:40:52-04:00May 9th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Leadership –  

Value and build your network.

Six ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Manage the details of the people you meet.
  2. Connect within 24 hours of meeting.  Reference something they said.
  3. Arrange a personal meeting if they have potential client value to you.
  4. Forward an article about an interest you share.
  5. It takes time to build a relationship.
  6. Work at continuing the connections as you build trust.

 

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.

2019-04-24T16:52:33-04:00May 6th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Time Management – Productivity

Time Management – Productivity –

 

Increase your focus, effectiveness and value.

Four ideas to increase your success with increasing your productivity include:

  1. Take time to identify what needs to be done before getting started.
  2. Determine if something needs to be done today or can be scheduled.
  3. Work with action plans for each day, week and month.
  4. Practice decisiveness.

 

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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2019-04-24T12:36:50-04:00May 2nd, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills – Professionalism

Communication Skills – Professionalism –

 

Professionalism starts with being both unemotional and problem solving focused.

 

Six ideas to add to your professional strengths include:

 

  1. Meet every commitments you make.
  2. Focus on facts; never on judgements and never on opinions.
  3. Accept any feedback graciously –ask for facts; ignore judgements.
  4. Treat feedback as a learning opportunity.
  5. Remember that sarcasm is dirty fighting.
  6. Remember that defensiveness can be an automatic mechanism.

 

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.

2019-04-17T12:54:52-04:00April 29th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership – Increasing Patience

Leadership – Increasing Patience –

Patience is an acquired skill; it’s not natural.  It’s even more challenging as we experience the accelerating speed of modern life.

 

Four ideas to increase your success with building your patience include:

  1. Recognize the learning opportunity if the give any process time.
  2. Practice building your patience when you are forced to wait.
  3. Fight impulse to act quickly.
  4. Sometimes take extra time even when you don’t need it.

 

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.

2019-04-17T12:53:53-04:00April 25th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Supervisor Skills

Supervisor Skills –

 

Great supervisors are continuously developing their skills!

Four ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

  1. Make self development your motto.
  2. Seek opportunities to grow as a person and as a leader.
  3. Tune it to intentions, feelings and ideas.
  4. Be real.  Your sincerity will speak volumes about you!

 

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.

2019-04-03T12:23:59-04:00April 15th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Project Management

Project Management –

The effectiveness of your project plan determines the success of your project.

 

Five ideas to add to your project management strengths include:

  1. Involve the key players early.
  2. Use ability to contribute rather than availability as the criteria for your project team.
  3. Continually communicate with all team the members regarding priorities, deadlines, budgets.
  4. Stay focused on the key project activities, deadlines and costs.
  5. Keep the team updated on both 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.

2019-04-03T12:22:56-04:00April 11th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills

Communication Skills –

 

Be respectful!

Six ideas to add to your communication strengths include:

  1. Follow up regularly.
  2. Deal with facts not opinions or judgements.
  3. Accept well intended feedback graciously.
  4. Speak like a professional; without emotion.
  5. Eliminate sarcasm.
  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.

2019-03-26T13:44:53-04:00April 8th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Leadership –  

 

Network to increase your success!

Six ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Carry business cards, pens, electronic notebook
  2. Arrive early so you can make new acquaintances at meetings
  3. Smile frequently
  4. Approach people in social settings who are alone
  5. Introduce yourself in 30 seconds or less.
  6. Describe the service you provide to your clients 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.

2019-03-26T13:41:56-04:00April 4th, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Leadership –  

Your success can be directly linked to the amount of networking and following-up you engage in.

Eight ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Set a weekly goal for the number of people you want to meet with.
  2. Strategize on the best ways and places meet people
  3. Join clubs, professional associations and volunteer for charitable organizations.
  4. Consider conferences and trade shows
  5. Meet your people connecting goals

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.

2019-03-20T13:03:34-04:00April 1st, 2019|Tips of the week|0 Comments