Personal Skills Management

Business Presentation for Spectacular Results

Good presenters are made, not born. Keep this in mind as this course prepares you for a career in good presentations that will bring profitable results over and over again.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Confidence in handling presentation
  • Planning and preparing for presentations
  • Great presenters are ordinary but…
  • Overcoming nerves on the D day
  • Audience control techniques
  • How to ask for and get the desired decision
  • Use of PowerPoint and other audiovisuals
  • Remembering the CTA

Duration

3 days

Effective Time Management and Personal Effective Skills

Successful managers and executives consistently get more from each given day than other less organised people. These managers have the special skills in the proper use of time. This course teaches how to manage oneself personally and in relation to time for enhanced Individual and corporate performance.

Who Should Attend

Executives who must achieve a lot more while under pressure at work . This course will help them achieve this and still maintain good health and composure at work.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Managing time – a fallacy
  • Managing oneself in relation to time
  • Time wasters – internal and external
  • How to set priority and cope with it even under pressure
  • How mismanagement of time creates stress
  • The A-Z plan for all round effectiveness
  • Use of Emotional Intelligence in time management

Duration

3 days

Emotional Intelligence for Work and Life

Before now, the universal measure of intelligence was IQ, an acronym for Intelligence Quotient. With time and experience however, it has been practically demonstrated and observed that Emotional Intelligence Quotient (the EIQ acronym) can be more relevant for general success in life rather than only intellectual achievements as IQ has shown. To teach this new type of intelligence - emotional intelligence - is what this course is about.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • What is emotional intelligence (EI)
  • Inter, Intra, Extra
  • EIQ vs. IQ
  • The business case for emotional intelligence
  • Improving one’s EIQ
  • EIQ & career development
  • EIQ and customer service
  • Who we are
  • EIQ and sales performance
  • EIQ and ‘managing people’ skills
  • EIQ & leadership acumen
  • Self-control and de-control
  • Anger management
  • Auto motivation – a change of mind vs. a change of action
  • Emotional intelligence and effect on corporate performance

Duration

2 days

Management Development Programme for Secretaries and PA’s

Senior secretaries, personal assistants and administrative assistants are very important in any organization. This is because their job of interfacing between top management and the rest of the organization involves heavy responsibilities that should be shouldered successfully or lead to untold problems. This course not only reinforces these responsibilities and duties but prepares attendees for further duties and careers in management and administration.

Who Should Attend

Senior secretaries and personal assistants who must give basic management support to make their senior managers more effective. They are those that may have been identified for advancement to higher positions.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Practical basic management skills
  • Self-confidence to handle challenges
  • Expertise in self and office organization
  • Using time effectively
  • Maintaining corporate secrecy and information security
  • Effectiveness in promoting the organization's image with people
  • What next in the career of the top secretary

Duration

3 days

Securing the Future – Midlife & Retirement Planning Imperatives

Every worker approaching midlife or retirement age must navigate certain imperatives that help to overcome sobering economic problems in midlife and twilight years. This course will show that being in employment or retiring from employment need not become the calamity that so often manifests.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • How the economy affects incomes now and in the future
  • Plan for midlife and retirement
  • Assorted Income generators
  • Suggested businesses to retire into
  • Staying healthy during “midlife crisis” and with advancing age
  • Starting and nurturing your own business
  • Where to obtain money and other help from
  • Important “phase-of-life” health issues
  • Ageing gracefully
  • Bowing out gracefully
  • Wills and testaments

Duration

3 days

Total Career and Personal Development Skills

This course interestingly, was originally designed for young managers and professionals in salary employment with an average age of 39. However some key parts have proved interesting and useful for delegates of all ages and cadres up to senior management and executive director levels. While young people must understand the current work practices and culture in order to part-control their career, business life and financial fortunes for personal progress, senior managers can fill the gaps in their lives and refocus for an even better future.

Who Should Attend

Young professionals, middle-aged and retiring professionals in salary employment and those who want to leave paid employment while still young.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Career Building
  • Wealth Building And Wealth Being
  • Health Building And Well-Being
  • Intra-Career Considerations
  • Post-Career Considerations

Duration

2 days