Tips of the week

Leadership Skills – 

Become an outstanding leader by working continuously at developing your skills

Three ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

1. Follow through with any promises or commitments.
2. Recognize others’ contributions; celebrate achievements; acknowledge effort.
3. Provide positive and negative feedback separately otherwise the positive feedback may only be perceived as “the warm up”.

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Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

Distraction foils productivity.  Develop the focus to get it right! The following questions will help you identify where you should be focusing your attention.

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

1. Consider who you need to contact and then do it.
2. Identify which meetings you need to attend and which you can skip.
3. Identify those who need to be on your team and enlist 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.

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Leadership – Motivating Others – 

“Giving” in order to “receive” is a strategy to apply in creating a motivational climate. Allowing others to exercise some control creates an environment that builds self-worth.

Three ideas to increase your success with motivating by giving up control include:

1. Give choices whenever possible. For example:

• on activities to accomplish a goal
• on the order of actions
• on the deadline
• on the time line
• on the team members

2. Ask open questions as opposed to directive questions… allowing others to suggest the solutions.

3. Demonstrate that you are open-minded…. receptive to new ideas and approaches.

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.

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Leadership – Meeting Management – 

Meetings need to be considered effective use of time.

Three ideas to increase your success with meetings include:

1. Assign the floor and stick to one and only one speaker at a time.
2. Restate conclusions or decisions reached.
3. Clearly assign responsibility and deadlines for expected subsequent actions

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.

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Supervisor Skills – 

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.

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Leadership Skills –

Maintaining your cool is a vital leadership skill.

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

1. Take at least one minute to gain perspective and consider the big picture.
2. Deal with what is real as opposed to what “could happen”.
3. 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.

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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 Skills – 

Work at developing your contacts and connections.

Four ideas to increase your success with networking include:

1. Set up a system to manage the details of the people you meet.
2. 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.
3. Send them an article about an interest they expressed.
4. 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.

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Communication Skills

Being unemotional and problem solving oriented is essential to effective communication.

Four ideas to add to your communication strengths include:

1. Follow through promptly
2. Deal with facts
3. Receive well intended feedback graciously
4. Speak without sarcasm or defensiveness

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

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.

Three 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.

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