Tips of the week

Time Management

Today’s greatest time saving device is sometimes tomorrow.   Procrastination can result in poor performance related to quality and missed deadlines; unnecessary stress and stress related illness.

Six ideas to increase success in overcoming procrastination include:

1. Just thinking about something you need to compete is a step in the right direction. Planning how you are going to act is a big step forward.
2. Choose one action that appeals to you.  Just get started…inertia will keep you going.
3. Identify the behaviours you exhibit when you procrastinate.   Do you engage in lengthy social conversations; spend extra time reading; search for things to eat or drink?  Recognizing these behaviours will help you to realize when you are procrastinating and signal you that it’s time to get started on something more important.

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Leadership Strategies For Success

Success is what you do… not who you are!

Three ideas to increase your personal success include:

1. Communicate with power; assume the body language and the voice of a winner.  Look and sound the part.
2. Build your listening skills.  No one has ever said, “I can’t stand how that person always listens to me.”
3. How you think determines how you act; think positively.  Don’t be so busy “awfulizing” that you miss the best parts of life.  You can be as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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Communication – Listening Skills

Four ideas to increase your ability to listen effectively:

1. Paraphrase to demonstrate your listening. “If I understand you correctly…. “ then allow the speaker to confirm your understanding or offer clarification.
2. Demonstrate empathy.
3. Keep an open mind.  You can’t learn less; the opportunity for more is always present.
4. Listen for intent as well as content.   Explore beyond the words spoken by probing for the real meaning.

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Strategies For Personal Success

Success means being able to answer “YES” to the following two questions:

• Are you happy with the way you spend your time?
• Are you happy with your relationships?

Three ideas to increase your personal success include:

1. Take responsibility for whatever you are doing; however you are behaving, responding or thinking.  Get out of the reactive mode and into the pro-active mode.  You can always make choices.
2. Develop your confidence by building your self-esteem; as a result, you will increase your productivity.  Tell yourself “five things that are good about you” at least three times every day.
3. Identify attainable and relevant goals.  List the activities necessary to accomplish the goals and complete the activities.  Every accomplishment counts.

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

Becoming more productive, procrastinating less, and have time for what’s important to you should be your goal!

Three ideas to increase your success include:

1. Start each day working on activities that have to be completed on that day.  Finish all of these tasks before you move on to other tasks.
2. Make sure that every task assigned to you has a specific deadline… either assigned to you or self-imposed.  “As soon as possible” has no clear meaning.
3. Organize tasks that do not have to be completed today by the date they need to be started.

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

Communication Skills

Transfer your understanding; avoid misunderstanding and improve your .personal and professional relationships

Three ideas to increase your success include:

1. Ask open questions to gather lots of information, i.e. start with ”how” or “tell me”.   Information is power.
2. Be aware of your non-verbal communication.  Words account for only 7% of a face to face communication.  The way you sound, look and behave account for 93% of any message you are sending.
3. Perception can be a serious barrier to effective communication.   Become aware of your own biases and prejudices; work harder to understand the real message whenever these natural barriers compete.

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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Time Management

Time management is a myth – there’s no such thing!  We need to practice the challenging habit of self-discipline during the time we have.

Three ideas to increase your success include:

1. Assign all of your “To Do’s” to a specific day in a planner.
2. Identify short and long term goals.
3. Identify activities to accomplish your goals and schedule them in your planner.

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

Communication Skills

Communication is the #1 problem in every organization.

Three ideas to increase your success include:

1. Effective communication is a process.  This means actively interacting until understanding is transferred.
2. Check your understanding by paraphrasing, i.e. repeating what you believe the person is saying and getting their agreement.
3. Demonstrate your understanding by paraphrasing.  This is particularly helpful before you disagree.

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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Communication Skills – Listening

Increase your communication effectiveness by developing your listening skills.

Three tips to becoming a “good listener.”

1. Maintain eye contact. Give full attention to the speaker visually.
2. Keep your posture upright it sends the message that you’re  alert;
3. Give the speaker verbal cues, known as probes to encourage them to say more. e.g.: “I see” “Tell me more” “That’s interesting” “Then what?” “Please go on.”

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 – 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.

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.