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Leadership – Supervisor – Tip of the Day

• Develop your team’s confidence by building their self-esteem; in directly, you’ll increase their productivity.  Try to show appreciation or compliment them at least once every day.

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

Conflict Resolution Training – Tip of the Day

Reduce resistance to by involving people in the planning process as early as possible.  Participation leads to commitment.

Our conflict management workshop provides strategies and techniques to resolve in everyday situations.  Our alternate conflict resolution workshop focuses on conflicts in a union environment. The training courses can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

Contact us today to find out how our conflict management skills training courses and other communications skills workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Time Management – Tip of the Day

• When planning a start date for any task or project you won’t be starting today, give yourself a buffer. In case you need to delay the start you will not be under excessive time constraint.

Our time management skills training  program provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  In our workshop participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the states of mastery and satisfaction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto time management skills course and other communications skills and leadership training programs and workshops can help you build your professionalism

Assertiveness Training – Tip of the Day

Don’t expect to win a popularity contest when you engage in assertive behavior.   The other person will generally respect you but there may also be resentment.   The key is that you remain unemotional, problem solving oriented.

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

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based assertiveness skills training and other communications skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Communication Skills– Tips of the Week

Knowing how to ask or how to make a requests is an art.

Nine ideas to increase your success in asking include:

1.  Know what you really need or want.

2.  Be specific with regard to time frame or quantity.

3.  Ask the right person.  Identify the decision maker or the person who has control.

4.  Prepare your case including the benefits to the person you are asking.

5.  Be prepared to give in order to receive.

6.  Overcome your reluctance to asking.

7.  Request or invite; never demand or beg.

8.  Show respect.

9.  Ask …and keep asking.  Persistence does pay off.

Our 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.

Meeting Minutes – Tip of the Day

• Use the meeting agenda as a guide for taking notes and preparing the minutes – match the order and numbering of items on the minutes to those of the agenda.

Our Toronto based meeting minutes skills training workshop provides strategies and techniques to sharpen your minute taking writing skills.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based meeting minutes skills course and other writing skills programs and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Business Writing Skills – Tips of the Day

• — Busy readers will only give you 50% of their concentration so keep your language simple.  People magazine and readers digest are easily read because they aim at grade 11 reading ability.

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.

Communication Skills – Tip of the Day

• Three essentials for effective communication include a) transferring understanding b) engaging in a back and forth process c) showing respect

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

Contact us today to find out how our communication skills training workshops and other management skills and leadership courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Time Management – Crisis – Tips of the Week

You can’t turn on a dime if you’re always fumbling and trying to recover from crisis.

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

1. Identify your priorities and consistently work on what counts.
2. Stay focused.  Finish your tasks before moving to another.
3. Anticipate potential crisis develop alternate solutions.
4. Overestimate the time required to complete tasks.
5. Turn a crisis into an opportunity to demonstrate your talent.
6. Stay calm.
7. Use extra adrenaline to find solutions.
8. Think & plan – – Run the crisis… avoid creating a second crisis by acting too quickly.
9. Delegate what you can but don’t start another fire.
10. Ask yourself: What’s your A1 priority.
11. Have all affected parties participate in generating possible solutions to the problem.
12. Set up controls to ensure the situation doesn’t recur.

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 – Supervisor – Tip of the Day

• Get into the pro-active mode; stay out of the reactive mode.  Remember when you make choices it’s always better to fix the problem then the blame.

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