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Communication Strengths (Part II) Tips of the Week

Ten additional ideas to add to your communication strengths include:

1. Listen carefully; without interrupting
2. Put others at ease
3. Give others time to speak
4. Use correct grammar
5. Follow through promptly
6. Check your understanding
7. Deal with facts
8. Provide well intended feedback
9. Receive well intended feedback graciously
10. Speak without sarcasm or defensiveness

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Business Writing Skills – Tip of the Day

— Visualize your reader.  Know your audience.  Think about the person’s cares, needs, interests, concerns, and expectations.

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Leadership – Supervisor – Tip of the Day

– When providing feedback, capture “real” behaviour.   Focus on facts; not judgments.

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Time Management – Tip of the Day

Learn to say “No”.   Empower yourself!  The key is to be gracious by providing alternatives.

• Say:   “I can’t have that for you today, however, I could get if for you by…”
• Say:  “I’m not able to do that but someone in ….  may be able to help you out.”
• Say:  “The best person to help you may be…”

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
Between email, mail, faxes internal memos and telephone calls the amount of information presented to you each day can be a burden.

Communication Strengths (Part I)

Our ability to communicate needs to be a work in progress.  Beyond words there are behviours that contribute to our being perceived as effective communicators.

Ten ideas to add to your communication strengths include:

1. Be friendly
2. Be articulate
3. Be sincere
4. Be sympathetic
5. Be receptive to others’ ideas
6. Be specific
7. Be positive
8. Be assertive
9. Speak clearly
10. Be comfortable when meeting strangers

    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

Project Management Training – Tip of the Day  

• Before you begin a project, make sure that you have a solid foundation. Do you have buy-in from all key players?.

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

–  In a conflict situation, try to view the other person as your friend instead of as your enemy.

Our assertiveness skills training workshop provides the assertiveness skills essential to getting your ideas, plans and feelings across with confidence and conviction. The one day workshop takes place in Toronto

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Meeting Minutes – Tip of the Day

– Capitalize “Committee”, “Board”, “Department”, “Division” asnd all titles i.e. “President”, “Manager”,

Our meeting minutes skills training workshop provides strategies and techniques to sharpen your minute taking writing skills.  Our one day program takes place in Toronto.

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Business Writing Skills – Tip of the Day

• Make the purpose of writing clear in your first sentence. To clarify your purpose for yourself answer the following questions: What do I want? Does the first sentence or paragraph clearly state my purpose? Will the reader to know why I’m writing? If your opening sentence meets these criteria, you’re met your objective

Our Toronto based business writing skills workshop provides strategies and techniques to sharpen your business writing skills.

Contact us today to find out how our business writing skills training and other communications skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.  Our public workshops take place in Toronto.

Time Management – Tips of the Week

Between email, mail, faxes internal memos and telephone calls the amount of information presented to you each day can be a burden.

Seven ideas to increase your success with managing and organizing your incoming information include:
1. Categorize each piece of information as follows:
A – Needs to be done today
B – Has a specific deadline other than today
C – Has no deadline
D – Items you can delegate
E – Items you can eliminate.

2. If an A will take you less than 5 minutes to complete, do it at the time of sorting.

3. Arrange your B’s on your desk based on the date you need to start the task.

4. Move your C’s to a file drawer or hidden shelf… far from your immediate work area. Pile them high and toss the bottom section when the stack gets too high.
5. Decide whether to delegate a D immediately or schedule a time to delegate a task.
6. Remove unwanted E information from reaching you by making a quick call or sending a quick email.
7. Apply the above practices to email, mail, faxes internal memos and telephone calls.

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