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Your time is essentially your life.

Five ideas to increase your success in time management include:

1. Create templates to answer the most common questions you’re asked.
2. Use drafts for emails, letters, memos.
3. Use check lists for projects you repeat.
4. Have regular scheduled meetings with key people,
5. When you’re ready to end a discussion say, “I’ll let you go.”

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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Information equates to power.  The way to gain the most information is to ask the best questions.

Four ideas to increase your success in asking include:

1. Get in the habit of asking questions.
2. Ask using “how” or “tell me”.
3. Let your tone reflect that you care.
4. Ask and ask some more.

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

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Minimize crisis!

Seven ideas to increase your success in avoiding & managing crisis include:

1. Work on what really matters.
2. Complete one activity before moving on to another.
3. Stop interrupting yourself.
4. Stay focused until you complete a task.
5. Identify many possible solutions for potential crisis.
6. Overestimate the time you think you’ll need to complete tasks.
7. Underestimate the time you think you’ll have available to complete tasks.

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.   The next workshop is scheduled for April 18, 2019

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Complete each project with an evaluation.

Four questions to ask yourself after completing an assignment or project include:

1. What did I learn?
2. What would help next time?
3. What do I need to change?
4. What adjustments should I make?

Our Toronto based project management skills training workshop provides the project management skills for effective project planning and control.

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Run the crisis; don’t let it run you!

Nine ideas to increase your success in avoiding & managing crisis include:

1. Stay calm.
2. Use your extra adrenaline to find solutions.
3. Take time to think and plan.
4. Act carefully.
5. Delegate as much as you can.
6. Stay aware of the bigger picture.
7. Stay focused on your A1 priority.
8. Generate possible solutions before choosing specific solutions
9. Set up procedures to make sure the situation doesn’t happen 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.  The next public time management workshop is scheduled for June 16, 2021

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To develop your project management skills ask for feedback.

Four questions to ask yourself after completing a project include:

1. What do I need to remember for the future?
2. What should I do differently?
3. What recommendations tools would help me next time?
4. What techniques, strategies or systems should I always use?

Our Toronto based project management skills training workshop provides the project management skills for effective project planning and control.  The next public workshop is scheduled for May 11, 2021

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When confronted with a difficult situation ask yourself questions.

Five questions to increase your success in dealing with difficult situations include:

1. “What caused this situation?”
2. “Does anything need to be done?”
3. “What would a calm person do?”
4. “What can be learned for the future?”
5. “Is there a learning opportunity here?”

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

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Change is an opportunity!

Five ideas to help you understand the nature and impact of change.

1. See change as positive
2. Change is the framework for improvement.
3. Look for the benefits.
4. Act with determination during any change.
5. Identify  questions that need answers.

Our Toronto based change happens skills training workshop provides the communication skills for performing positively and clearly to enhance your career and personal success. Other workshops of interest may include:  change management

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Working smarter; not harder needs to be your motto

Six ideas to increase your success in managing your time include:

1. Start with you “A” priorities. Never work on a “B” until all the “A”s are done.
2. Walk with a purpose so that you don’t encourage others to engage you.
3. Say no and with an alternative – except if your boss is asking.
4. If your boss is asking, say “happy to do that for you” however here’s what I planned.
5. Organize your desk top each day.
6. Teach people how to find answers for themselves.

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

The message that you send on the telephone come largely from the way that you sound, not the words that you speak.

Eight ideas to increase your success with the telephone include:

1. 80% of the message comes from the way you say it.
2. Record important information.
3. Be unemotional
4. Focus on solving problems.
5. Ask for feedback on how you sound from people you trust.
6. Smile when you speak.
7. End every call with a statement of future actions
8. Focus on what you can do not on what you can’t do.

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.