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Leadership – Meeting Management

Leadership – Meeting Management – 

If your meetings are not productive, you need to introduce strategies to become more effective.

Three ideas to increase success include:

  1. Work with an agenda that includes an indication of the desired outcome, i.e. for approval, for discussion, for information etc.
  2. Negotiate a time frame for each item on the agenda.
  3. Show respect for everyone’s time by starting and ending meetings on time.

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.

2015-11-02T17:33:40-05:00December 31st, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership – Meeting Management

Leadership – Motivating Others

Leadership – Motivating Others – 

Being able to motivate others is essential for your success.  We all need the others to help us along the way.

Three ideas to increase your success with motivating others:

  1. Create a need by identifying a benefit to the other person. This helps to develop a sense of personal responsibility
  2. Show interest in the other person’s progress by following up. 
  3. Give recognition, support & approval.

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.

2015-11-02T17:32:12-05:00December 28th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership – Motivating Others

Leadership – Managing Others

Leadership – Managing Others – 

Management requires learning how to motivate others.

Four ideas to increase your success with managing others include:

  1. Provide positive feedback own its own… not as an introduction to what needs to be done in the future.
  2. Focus on facts, not on judgments.  Be specific; avoid any generalizations.
  3. Be willing to change your thinking.
  4. Remember people work better in a climate where fun is encouraged.

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.

2015-11-02T17:30:56-05:00December 24th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership – Managing Others

Leadership Skills

Leadership Skills – 

Become an outstanding leader by working continuously at developing your skills

Three ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

  1. Follow through with any promises or commitments.
  2. Recognize others’ contributions; celebrate achievements; acknowledge effort.
  3. Provide positive and negative feedback separately otherwise the positive feedback may only be perceived as “the warm up”.

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.

2015-11-02T17:29:29-05:00December 21st, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership Skills

Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

Distraction foils productivity.  Develop the focus to get it right! The following questions will help you identify where you should be focusing your attention.

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

  1. Consider who you need to contact and then do it.
  2. Identify which meetings you need to attend and which you can skip.
  3. Identify those who need to be on your team and enlist them.

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.

2015-11-02T17:27:35-05:00December 17th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

Leadership – Motivating Others

Leadership – Motivating Others – 

“Giving” in order to “receive” is a strategy to apply in creating a motivational climate. Allowing others to exercise some control creates an environment that builds self-worth.

Three ideas to increase your success with motivating by giving up control include:

  1. Give choices whenever possible. For example:
  • on activities to accomplish a goal
  • on the order of actions
  • on the deadline
  • on the time line
  • on the team members

 

  1. Ask open questions as opposed to directive questions… allowing others to suggest the solutions.
  1. Demonstrate that you are open-minded…. receptive to new ideas and approaches.

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.

2015-11-02T17:24:26-05:00December 14th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership – Motivating Others

Leadership – Meeting Management

Leadership – Meeting Management – 

Meetings need to be considered effective use of time.

Three ideas to increase your success with meetings include:

  1. Assign the floor and stick to one and only one speaker at a time.
  2. Restate conclusions or decisions reached.
  3. Clearly assign responsibility and deadlines for expected subsequent actions

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.

2015-11-02T17:37:41-05:00December 10th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership – Meeting Management

Supervisor Skills

Supervisor Skills – 

Getting work done through others requires specialized skill and effort.

Four ideas to increase your success with managing others include:

  1. Try to create complete jobs where there is a sense of ownership from start to finish.
  2. Give background information and strategic direction whenever you assign tasks.
  3. Sell change; demanding it can lead to sabotage.  The approach to take is always to outline benefits to the individual.
  4. Allow people to find their own solutions by posing effective questions.

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.

2015-11-02T17:22:45-05:00December 7th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Supervisor Skills

Leadership Skills

Leadership Skills –

Maintaining your cool is a vital leadership skill.

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

  1. Take at least one minute to gain perspective and consider the big picture.
  2. Deal with what is real as opposed to what “could happen”.
  3. Avoid picking up the bad habits of impatient people who surround 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.

2015-11-02T17:21:16-05:00December 3rd, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Leadership Skills

Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity – 

To increase your productivity and improve your value, the following questions will help you identify where you should be focusing.

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

  1. Ask yourself what really needs to be done and then do it.
  2. Ask yourself what does your organization really need and then recommend it and/or implement it.
  3. Work with action plans.  Know what you want to accomplish each day/week/month.
  4. Consider what decisions you need to make and them make them.

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. –

2015-11-02T17:19:45-05:00November 30th, 2015|Tips of the week|Comments Off on Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity