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Supervisor Skills

Getting work done by others is an art!

Seven ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

  1. Involve people from the start.
  2. Build commitment through participation.
  3. Share all information when delegating
  4. Ask questions; don’t tell.
  5. Outline the persona benefit of an action.
  6. Ask lots of questions to check understanding.
  7. Ask people for solutions instead of giving them the answers.

 

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.

2021-09-09T14:48:33-04:00September 13th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Lengthen your fuse.  Grow your patience. It can be nurtured, developed, practiced.

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

  1. Look beyond now to see a bigger picture.
  2. Ask yourself; will this be important in an hour, a day, a month.
  3. Focus on facts not feelings.
  4. Focus on reality; not on what “could have happened”.
  5. Observe impatient people and be different.

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.

2021-09-09T14:42:05-04:00September 9th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership 

The more people you connect with the more you learn.

Six ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Keep track of the people you meet.
  2. Follow up people you meet within 1 week.
  3. Share information or a contact.
  4. Set up a second meeting if they have potential interest to you.
  5. Forward a links that would interest them.
  6. Invest time in building a relationship.
  7. Build trust as you continue the connection.

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.

2021-08-31T12:41:32-04:00September 7th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Time Management – Productivity

When you focus your productivity and your value increase.

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

  1. Identify what needs to be done before you start.
  2. Schedule activities that don’t need to be done today.
  3. Create action plans for every day, week and month.
  4. Practice making decisions.

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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2021-08-30T17:45:27-04:00September 2nd, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills – Professionalism

=To be professional, communicate both unemotionally and with a problem-solving focus.

Seven ideas to add to your professional strengths include:

  1. Meet every commitment you make.
  2. Find and present facts.
  3. Use judgements only if it’s your role.
  4. Accept feedback graciously –ask for facts; ignore judgements.
  5. Welcome feedback.
  6. Skip sarcasm..
  7. 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.

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2021-08-18T14:28:12-04:00August 30th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership – Increasing Patience

Patience needs to be developed and nurtured.

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

  1. Recognize increasing patience as a dvelopmental opportunity.
  2. See any waiting time as an opportunity to practice lengthening your patience.
  3. Take extra time to respond.
  4. Fight the impulse to act quickly other than in emergencies.
  5. Take your 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

2021-08-18T14:24:13-04:00August 26th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Leadership

Network to sell yourself, your service or your product!

Eight ideas to increase your success with networking include:

  1. Repeat names to remember them.
  2. Ask questions about what people are experiencing.
  3. Ask questions about what challenges people are experiencing.
  4. Ask questions about successes people are having.
  5. Listen more than you speak.
  6. Set a goal to meet a certain number of people at conferences, meeting, events.
  7. Exchange contact information
  8. Follow- up by connecting.

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.

2021-08-18T14:20:07-04:00August 23rd, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Communication Skills – Questions

Artful questions work miracles!

Five ideas to add to your questioning strengths include:

  1. Use questions to engage people.
  2. Use questions to solve problems.
  3. Use questions to demonstrate and/or check your understanding.
  4. Use questions to clarify.
  5. Use question to confirm.

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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2021-08-18T14:15:43-04:00August 19th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Project Management

Follow through is equally important as planning and organizing!

Eight ideas to add to your project management strengths include:

  1. Monitor both progress and delays.
  2. Always consider how delays will impact on the timelines… are they critical?
  3. Record changes to the original scope of the project.
  4. Calculate risks of delays and changes.
  5. Only adjust timelines, budget, and the scope statement with the necessary approvals.
  6. Don’t let additions take you away from your ability to meet the project goals.
  7. Make sure you’ve included plans for all the deliverables.
  8. End with an evaluation and implement improvements for the future.

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.

2021-08-03T15:44:48-04:00August 16th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments

Supervisor Skills

The best supervisors recognize the importance of continuously improving their skills!

Five ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

  1. Commit to developing your skills.
  2. Improve both as a leader and as a person.
  3. Focus on intention as well as what is said.
  4. Focus feelings as well as ideas.
  5. Be real.  Sincerity speaks volumes!

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

2021-08-03T15:41:25-04:00August 12th, 2021|Tips of the week|0 Comments