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Soft Skills Courses

The following courses are all 1 day (6 hour) courses that give an introductory level of information combined with some practical exercises and audience participation. Due to the need to have audience participation the minimum number of delegates, unless stated otherwise, is 4 and the maximum number is 12.

Courses are delivered by James Rezin, BSc (Hons) BIT.

Courses can be shortened to half day (3 hours) presentations (these will only have limited audience participation due to time limitations). This however means that two events can be combined to make one training day.

All courses can be extended to delve deeper into the subject with added audience participation and, if required, an end of course assessment.

All courses can be tailored to suit a customer’s specific need. They can be merged to create a training program complete with follow up interviews, coaching and assessments.

These are the foundation on which we can develop and deliver the training you require to meet your business objectives.

Soft Skills Courses we offer are as follows:-

Project Management Skills
Coaching and Mentoring
Customer Service Skills
Leadership and People Management
Time Management Skills
Managing a Team
Personal Effectiveness
Presentation Skills
Train the Trainer
Communication Skills
Negotiation Skills
Setting and Controlling Your Budget
Resolving Conflict

Project Management Skills – 1 day

An introductory course aimed at those people that find themselves in the position of having to run or be part of a project team as well as their normal day to day work. This course is generic and concentrates on the practicalities, issues and methods used in Project Management. This course does not follow and particular Project Management Methodology.

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Coaching and Mentoring – 1 day

This course is aimed at those Managers that want to develop their team members and are unsure how to approach it. It looks at the differences between the two strategies and identifies their strengths and weaknesses. It will help the Manager to identify the most effective strategy for their given situation. It will outline the key elements in both and identify areas to be explored further.

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Customer Service Skills – 1 day

"The customer is King", a phrase often heard, but not often heeded. We must not forget that it is the customer that pays your salary, not the company that employs you. If the customer does not trade with you, you do not have a job, therefore you become unemployed.

Sometimes it is necessary to remind people of this and to give them the skills to be able to serve the customer in a positive and helpful manner and ensuring that the customer not only trades with you, but trades exclusively with you.

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Leadership and People Management  – 1 day

The need to get the best out of the people that work for you is critical in today’s environment of targets, deadlines and reduced manning. Whether it’s through management techniques or leadership skills will depend greatly on the culture of company you work for, the skills and abilities that you yourself possess and those of your people.

This course will help you to understand the differences, identify your preferred style and how to add to that by utilising from the other.

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Time Management Skills – 1 day

Time is not something that you can manage, however your use of that time is something that you can influence. Therefore it is the understanding of the techniques and tools available to help us to do this that is the focus of this course. Time is constant and volatile, we can never reuse it therefore using it efficiently is very important.

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Managing a Team – 1 day

A good team can make a bad Manager look good and a bad team can make a good Manager look bad. The need to be able to manage your team without impacting adversely on the effectiveness of the team is one of the keys to successful management of a team.

Good teams are by nature dynamic and self propelling, when everybody in the team is comfortable in their role and those of others, it can operate very effectively with little direct management. Therefore knowing when to inject management or change and how best to achieve it is the aim of this day.

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Personal Effectiveness – 1 day

It quite often takes others to point out that we are perhaps not as effective as we might be. This can sometimes be quite traumatic, especially if we have been happily coasting along unaware that there is a problem. We can improve our personal effectiveness in many ways, but we may need some guidance as to what they are and how we make use of them. Everybody is different but the skills we use and need to be effective are universal.

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Presentation Skills – 1 day

We are often asked to justify what we want and one of the ways we are asked to do this can be to present your proposal to …… This can be a nerve racking experience to many people that are not used to getting up and speaking to an audience.

There are, however, some simple skill that we can learn and, with practice, execute in such a manner that will allow us to present our proposal effectively and with confidence.

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Train the Trainer – 1 day

In our job roles many of us are required to impart information, processes and/or skills to others. This is done most effectively if we understand a little about the delivery of training and how people learn. This can be achieved with a little guidance and practice. This course aims to give the occasional trainer the opportunity to gain the rudimentary skills required to achieve this.

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Communication Skills – 1 day

Although we live in a world where the means of communication have ballooned and the ability to communicate quickly and cheaply is at almost everybody’s fingertips, the skill of communication effectively is still as bad as it always has been and, some would say, getting worse.

This course is an overview about effective communication and highlights the need to understand your own communication style so that you can better understand what you need to do to understand others.

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Negotiation Skills – 1 day

Getting what you want in the best way possible. We all want something, and we all want the best, but sometimes everything is not available. There are restrictions, conditions and competition; we must therefore be able to identify what is important, and what is nice to have, so that we can negotiate the best possible solution to our need. This course will explore some of the techniques available to assist us to do this.

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Setting and controlling your budget – 1 day

Financial control within organisations is crucial to the profitability of the operation or accountability to the electorate. Managers must have the ability to control their expenditure and to make effective use of their income; failure in either of these can result in a loss or overspend of their budget.

This course will help managers to better understand the importance of budgetary control and a means of their responsibilities to the stakeholders.

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Resolving Conflict – 1 day

We are all different, and may it long be so, it is our differences that make the human race challenge what is around us and from this develop as a species. By questioning and exploring we discover new or better ways of doing things, however, this can, and often does, mean conflict.

We must therefore have tools that allow us to resolve that conflict in a manner that is effective and productive. 

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