Personal Development Workshops

It’s all about having the right ‘tools’ and techniques in your toolbox; the confidence to use them; and the ability to use them at the right time. When you recognise how to use these tools and skills, it will become second nature, just like riding a bike or driving a car. 

The following are a selection of available workshops.  If you have a specific issue you would like some support with, click here to email Scott Johnston. If we can’t provide it for you directly we’ll know someone who can.

Skills for Business – Skills for Life™

Every day we meet people and form judgements about them.  Often these are positive.  Often these are not.  Are you making the right impression?  Are you ‘losing your audience’ in the first few seconds?  Is this holding you back in sales, networking and creating rapport with new contacts? 

Maybe you have lost your confidence:

1. bullying
2. major trauma
3. returning to work
4. excessive criticism

We are ALWAYS negotiating… yet how many of us are not confident when placed in that role? Do you find that people always say YES to you?  Or are you on the losing end of a deal?

Skills Workshops

Negotiation

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The four stages of a successful negotiation
Are you a ‘gunslinger’ or a ‘shuttlecock’?

Negotiation - advanced

Top tips for the expert negotiator.  Is Win-Win enough?
Is Win-Lose ever acceptable?

Conflict resolution

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Escalate or capitulate?  How to deal with conflict in many daily settings in your office or at home

Mediation

How to help others by taking a neutral role, without being a ‘piggy in the middle’

Facilitation

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Any interaction with a small or large group of people demands great communication.  Become a ‘skilled facilitator’ and get the most out of it for you and everyone else.

‘If you can’t face making a decision, hold a meeting’. 

Sound familiar?  Learn to get more from your meetings by making them more decisive and effective.  Use your time well, cover the issues and learn to bring a discussion to a close. Be confident and accountable.

No-Nerves Networking

Are you a wallflower or a roadrunner? 

Are you making the most of this essential business tool? 
Will people remember you as a ‘connector’ or as someone trying to ‘sell’ to just about anyone?

Have the confidence to walk into a room full of strangers and build up contacts.

Polished public speaking & presentations

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You get one chance to make a first impression!

Are you confident, eloquent and impressive or a quivering,knee-knocking wreck? Are you a good speaker who wants to be even better?

Are you making the most of your business and sales presentations?  Do you want a little help to make your presentation memorable for all the right reasons?

Learn to deal with the pressure and nerves of making a presentation.  

Debating

Quick thinking, staying on track and being able to answer questions are all crucial skills – especially when the heat is on and time is short!

Learn to think ‘in the moment’ from a European Champion debater.

Be a coach

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Get the best from your colleagues and personal relationships through supporting others and understanding their needs, before expecting them to understand your.

Help others reach their goals and fulfil their potential – the true benefits of synergy.

Learn the immense power of listening and asking questions, rather than ‘telling them how it is’.

Watch the results unfold before you…

Time management

1. How can you pack 48 hours into one working day?
2. Learn to prioritise, delegate and to say No – even just sometimes…
3. Tools and tips to help you fight fires before you have to.

Positive Communication

With the bombardment of email, text, office and mobile telephones we are constant communicators.

Are you getting it right?  Or are you so rushed that you make a lot of mistakes and have to spend time making it up to people you have upset?

Learn the skills of positive communication to get the best from your time and from your colleagues – including your boss!

Bullying & harassment

This is a mushrooming side-effect of being busy and under pressure.

We are all so busy and under such pressure, that even the strongest person (male or female) can be reduced to long‑term stress-related absence.

Do you know what bullying is?  Isolation, name calling, intimidation, bad management, undermining colleagues to name but a few.  Command and control has had its day...

Bullying leads to dramatically reduced performance and increased sickness absence.  Learn instead to get the best form others by empowering them through positive interaction.

Management vs Leadership

1. Do you know the difference?
2. Which are you?  Which are you trying to be?
3. Can you switch between these styles when you need to?

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Outline

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