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Managing Others

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.

Developing Your Leadership Skills

Your leadership skill could be your greatest asset.

Four ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

1. Be a work in progress.  Those who think they have arrived have the furthest to go… continue to learn.
2. Listen and look for opportunities to grow as a person and as a leader.
3. Work hard at understanding others intentions, feelings and ideas.
4. Be authentic.  Sincerity is intuited.

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.

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.

Leadership – Build Your Patience 

The ability to give a process time is not always naturally inherited.  Waiting for outcomes can be unduly stressful for us as we journey with the ever-increasing speed of modern life.

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

1. Recognize that an attempt may not be entirely successful but it will always provide a learning opportunity.
2. Use waiting situations as conscious opportunities to cultivate your patience… i.e. waiting in line or in traffic.
3. Guard against acting on impulse.  Practice taking more time even when you know you don’t need it.
4. Take at least one minute to gain perspective and consider the big picture.
5. Deal with what is real as opposed to what “could happen”.
6. 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

Communication – Listening Skills – Tip of the Day

Watch for the non-verbal clues.  What is their face telling you?  What are their hands telling you?  What is their posture (stance) telling you?  Then ask questions to confirm your perception.

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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Leadership – Networking    (Part II)

Learning to mingle and to follow-up with business contacts could be the best thing you can do to promote yourself, your service or your product.

Nine additional ideas to increase your success with networking include:

1. When meeting someone, repeat their name to help you remember it.
2. Ask questions about what they do; the challenges they face; the changes they are experiencing.
3. Be a great listener.  Listen more than you speak.
4. Spend no more than 5-6 minutes talking with any one person at a networking event.
5. Exchange cards.  Ask for their card if they don’t offer it.
6. Set up a system to manage the details of the people you meet.
7. Follow up within 24 hours of the event.  Call or write.  Try to refer to your conversation and mention something they said.   Arrange a meeting or lunch if they have serious potential.
8. Send them an article about an interest they expressed.
9. Try to build a relationship; recognize that the process takes time and will require multiple contacts as you attempt to 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

Leadership – Supervisor – Tip of the Day

• Be fair to everyone. Everyone has traits, strengths and weakness.  You may relate better to some than others however, work on developing each person’s potential; build a personal connection with each person; treat them socially the same.

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

Time Management – Tip of the Day

Resist over-scheduling.  Time is like money.   You can’t schedule more time than you have.  Estimate times and then add a buffer — most tasks take longer than planned.

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

Project Management Training – Tip of the Day  

Ensure that the project scope is specifically identified, including the goals and responsibilities of the various project team members.

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

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Assertiveness Training – Tip of the Day

Appear confident by controlling your hands, feet, and your facial expressions.  Even if you’re nervous, “Fake it till you make it!”

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

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