DAY 1 - Building on existing skills and developing the role/ Organizational skills and time management
- What is your role?
- Becoming more proactive
- Self-development and expanding your knowledge of the business
- Organizational skills
- Planning and prioritizing - taking control over your work load
DAY 2 - Organizational skills and time management (cont.)/Dealing with change
- Goal setting
- Time management under pressure
- Managing stress in self and others
- Coping with, and taking advantage of, change in the work environment
DAY 3 - The importance and value of communication skills
- Why are communication skills so important?
- Expressing yourself with clarity
- Spoken, written and remote communication - differences and implications
- Telephone techniques
- Writing more effective business letters and e-mails
- Improving reports - structure, relevance, layout and editing
- What makes a good presentation - tips to excellent presentations
DAY 4 - Managing your manager and raising your profile
- Image management
- Building an effective working relationship with your manager
- What is expected of you?
- Using your skills to enable your manager to concentrate on his/her priorities
- Delegating and improving the quality of delegation received
- Working as a team
DAY 5 - Interpersonal intelligence and influencing skills
- Being a team player and flexibility
- Understanding yourself and other people
- Influencing skills - gaining support and cooperation of others
- Improving self-confidence
- Assertiveness
- Resolving conflict
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Taking forward ideas for improvement
- Action planning