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Customer Service Excellence
The training will highlight:
Key Customer Service Standards for Front Line Personnel.
Best Practices of World-class Customer Service Providers.
Customer-Centric Service and the Moment of Truth.
Utilize Body Language, Active Listening, and Questioning Skills as
Vital Communication Tools.
Develop a Service Excellence/Customer-focused Mindset.
Dealing With Difficult Customers and Providing Feedback.
The need to keep the Service Promise alive.
Conflict Management & Resolution
The training will highlight:
- Session I – Exploring Conflict:
The first session will examine conflict and help the students define and understand
the conflict process.
Even though differences of opinion can be great for innovation, development and
progress, they can be uncomfortable and even detrimental if not managed deftly. - Session II – Creating an Effective Atmosphere – the ground rules
Ground rules provide the framework for resolving conflict and should be set at the
beginning of any conflict resolution process. Depending on the situation, these
ground rules can be extremely brief or highly detailed. The ground rules can be
referred to by the participants throughout the conflict resolution process. These
ground rules give the participants and objective way of addressing personal attacks
and emotional issues. This section will help develop skills in creating ground rules
for conflict resolution. - Session III – Finding Common Grounds
When it comes to handling conflict, first accept that conflict is natural, inevitable
and not necessarily a sign that things are bad or off. Second, identify what kind of
conflict you are having before you try to resolve it. The three main types of conflict
that show up in any environment are perceptual, relational and substantive.
Perceptual conflict means you and a colleague see the problem differently. If you
can’t come to some agreement on what the actual problem is, how can you work to
find a solution?
Strategic Plan and Execution
The training will highlight:
- Module I – Defining Your Why: Evaluating your organization’s
Mission, Vision and Core Values
✓ Is your mission and vision clear and compelling?
✓ What dictates your core values?
✓ Conducting your SWOT Analysis - Module II – Identifying Your Strategic Areas (KRAs), Goals and
Objectives
✓ What are the key areas of focus for your organization?
✓ What are the goals and objectives that it intends to achieve? - Module III – Resourcing Your Plan
✓ What actions are needed to achieve those goals and objectives
✓ Who will be responsible to ensure activities are carried out?
✓ How will activities be resourced?
Effective Communication & Team Building – The Key to Success
In today’s fast-paced and interconnected business world, effective communication and strong team dynamics are essential for achieving success. Our programs are designed to equip your team with the skills, strategies, and tools needed to enhance communication, foster collaboration, and build high-performing teams.
The training will highlight:
- Session I: “How Personality Types Impact Behavior & Communication”
In this session, we’ll explore how different personality types affect our behavior and communication. Personality traits are complex and can vary in different situations and with different people. While personality models can’t predict specific actions, they can give us insight into recurring behaviors. Our personalities interact with our environment, making us a product of both our personalities and perceptions. We’ll use the DISC personality profile and the Color Wheel to examine various personality types and their influence on behavior and communication.
- Session II: Effective Communication – The Key to Success
Communication is more than just sharing information; it’s about how we convey that information.
Key Communication Skills:
Affirming: Providing positive support and encouragement to others.- Open-ended questions: Encouraging in-depth responses, not limited to “yes” or “no” answers.
- Nonverbal Messages: Consider posture, positioning, facial expressions, and gestures in communication.
- Communicate without making others feel “wrong”: Express concerns non-judgmentally.
Effective Listening:
- Developing effective listening habits is crucial.
- Effective listening improves information retention, trust-building, conflict reduction, motivation understanding, and commitment.
- Generational conflicts can arise due to different perceptions and communication styles between older and younger generations.
- Understanding is the common goal of both older and younger generations.
- The session explores generational differences, communication styles, and strategies for bridging communication gaps.
- Session III: Communicating Across the Generational Divide/Gap
- Session IV: Cultural Sensitivity & Unconscious Bias
Introduction to Project Management (PMBok)
The training will highlight:
- Module I – Projects. Programs, Portfolios
Identifying the key characteristics of a project, defining and identifying
the main aspects of project management, defining the roles and
responsibilities of a project manager and the components of a project’s
life cycle. - Module II – Project Management Knowledge Areas & Project
Management Plan Introduction to the (10) Knowledge areas of project
management: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Procurement,
Human Resources, Communications, Risk Management and Stakeholde - Module III- THE Project Charter & Stakeholder Management
Illustrates the importance of creating and maintaining a Project Charter
and reviews some of the inputs, tools and techniques used to create a
Project Charter, as well as highlight some of the benefits from using a
Project Charter and how these benefits can help reduce risks and pitfalls. - Module IV- Project Scope Management & The Triple Constraint
Any changes to the scope must be evaluated for its effect on time, cost,
risk, quality, resources and customer satisfaction. This is referred to as
the Triple Constraint. In this section we will also look at tools such as
the Work Breakdown Structure and introduce you to the Gantt Chart. - Module V – Risk Management
How to identify and document risk and why a proactive approach to risk
management is necessary. Risk mitigation strategies and when to apply
them and how to prioritize risks by assessing their probability and
impact.
Management.
TEN Habits of Highly Successful People
Are you ready to kick those bad habits and replace them with habits that are proven
to lead to success? Then this course is for you! We all know that habits can either
help or hurt your success in life. Bad habits can fester and grow into a lifestyle that
takes you away from the things you want to do–and good habits can help you
create a life that’s full of action and accomplishment.
The training will highlight:
- Session I: Old Habits Die Hard
✓ How Habits are Formed
✓ The Impact of Bad Habits
✓ Replacing Old Habits with New/Better Habits - Session II: 10 Habits of Highly Successful People
✓ Habit #1 – Vision/Goal
✓ Habit #2 – Purpose Driven
✓ Habit #3 – Use their time wisely - Session III: 10 Habits of Highly Successful People
✓ Habit # 4 – Value Relationships
✓ Habit #5 – Good Financial Principles
✓ Habit #6 – Self- Aware
✓ Habit #7 – Socially Aware
Organizational Change & Innovation
The training will highlight:
- Session I – Managing Change
✓ Dealing with uncertainty
✓ Resistance to Change
✓ Communicating Change
✓ The ADKAR Change Model - Session II – Change Related Stressors
✓ Stress Factors o Personal o Organizational o Environmental
✓ Managing Stress factors
✓ Remaining Calm Under Pressure
✓ Stress vs. Burnout - Session III – Change & Innovation
✓ Building a Culture of Innovation
✓ Re-tooling & Re-purposing
✓ Building New Skills
✓ Using Technology
Understanding and Developing Emotional Intelligence
The training will highlight:
- Module I – Self Awareness
During this session we will cover the basic component of Emotional Intelligence
(EI) and compare it to Intelligence Quotient (IQ). We will answer the important
question, why are businesses hiring persons with higher EI over those with higher
IQ? During this session we will also look at Self-Awareness and take a look at
those emotional triggers and how to manage them so you can be well on your way
to developing a higher EI. Module II – Self-Management
During this second session, we will be covering the components of Self-
Management.This includes your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and
positively direct your behaviour and managing your emotional reactions to all
situations and people.Module III – Social Awareness & Social Management
✓ Social Awareness:
• Ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people
• Understand what is really going on
• Understanding what other people are thinking and feeling even if you
don’t feel the same way✓ Social Management:
✓Ability to use awareness of your emotions and emotions of others to manage
interactions successfully
✓ Ensure clear communication and effective handling of conflict.
Time Management
“We waste time because we think we have time!”
Time management refers to a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage
events in your life in relation to time. Time management is really a misnomer. We
don’t really manage time – we manage ourselves and our life events in relation to
time.
The training will highlight:
- allow participants to take a self-inventory of their own time management skills and identify how to improve
- learn to discern urgent tasks from important tasks and plan accordingly
- Identify common barriers to time management and how to overcome these
barriers - Complete a personal time study in order meet personal goals
- develop practical strategies for solving these problems
- Set priorities more effectively
- Topics to be covered:
✓ Your personal attitude towards time
✓ What is time for me in my life and work?
✓ Managing your time effectively in relation to your role and ambition
✓ Managing your time effectively in relation to your well-being
HR Management: Performance Management in Practice
Managing employee performance facilitates the effective delivery of strategic and operational goals. There is a clear and immediate correlation between using performance management programs and improved business and organizational results. For that having a valid yet an effective PM system is essential for managing and evaluating staff, develop their competencies, improve organizational performance, and eventually achieve winning business outcomes.
The training will highlight:
- Develop an understanding of the principles of effective performance management.
Develop an understanding of the best practice performance management processes.
Comprehend the concepts on competency, management style and organization
climate as critical elements of the performance improvement process.
Practically experience a number of the tools which are critical to the success of the
new performance management process. - Topics to Be covered:
✓ What is performance management
✓ The principles of effective performance management
✓ Overview of the best practice performance management process Planning
Performance
✓ Setting key performance objectives for individuals and teams
✓ Cascading the business plan down through the organization
✓ Understanding the competencies associated with effective job performance
✓ How to set training and development goals Managing Performance
✓ Monitoring and tracking performance
✓ Coaching and leveraging performance
✓ Diagnosis on management style preferences
✓ Diagnosis and exercise on situational management Appraising Performance
✓ Key issues for effective appraisal
✓ Video – performance review session
✓ Linking pay with performance
Leadership for Today
The training will highlight:
- Module I – Leadership Styles & Personality Types
✓ Leadership Styles Personality Profiling
✓ Identifying and playing to your Strengths
✓ Personal values and their role in motivation
✓ Difference between Leading & Managing
✓ The Emotionally Intelligent Leader - Module II – Leading Others
✓ Knowledge, skills, competence and understanding of how to formulate
a vision, set a strategy and engage people towards common business
and organizational goals.
✓ Create and communicate your vision as a leader
✓ Manage talent to improve employee performance, development and
retention
✓ Motivating others Discovering the power of influence
✓ Ethical Leadership
✓ Leading across the Generational Divide - Module III – Leading for Change
✓ Harness the power of change.
✓ Rewire your thinking, transform your mindset and make change happen
for your organization. Understand the link between effective leadership
strategies and successful implementation of change.
✓ Intent Based Leadership.
✓ Explain the reasons firms fail at implementing change and what
strategies can be used to avoid them.
✓ Plan and implement organizational changes by applying effective
methodologies.
✓ Understand how to effectively lead others through change
✓ Action Planning.
Ethics & Professionalism in the Workplace
The training will highlight:
- Identify and describe the origins of personal ethics.
- Compare and evaluate various models of ethical reasoning.
- Identify and apply ethical theories to issues and dilemmas.
- Develop an ethical decision-making model and apply it to scenarios /
dilemmas / case studies. - Identify and discuss ethical and professional standards and conduct
- Develop skills of critical ethical analysis of contemporary moral problems.
Effective Business Writing
The training will highlight:
- ✓ Write and read basic business reports, minutes, letters and memos
✓ Expand vocabulary related to general business situations
✓ Refine your English skills
✓ Improve your writing skills
✓ Learn the correct format for letters, memos and other business documents
✓ Enhance your report writing and minute taking skills - Report Writing
o W H Questions
o Parts of a Report - Minute Taking
o The Effective Minute Taker
o Methods of Taking Notes
o Do’s and Don’ts of taking minutes - Use of English
o Frequently confused words
o Grammar
o Redundancies/Unnecessary words o Apostrophe
o Transitional Words and Phrases - Electronic Correspondences
Stress Management
The training will highlight:
- Understand that stress is an unavoidable part of everybody’s life
- Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have chronic stress
overload - Change the situations and actions that can be changed
- Deal better with situations and actions that can’t be changed
- Create an action plan for work, home, and play to help reduce and
manage stress
Effective Sales Techniques
Course Outcomes:
- Interpret prospect needs by conducting a needs analysis
- Master active listening techniques to better connect with & understand
clients - Manage the sales process by understanding where the sale is & how to keep
the momentum moving forward - Negate competitor quotes, while remaining professional
- Deliver presentations that sell
- Handle objections professionally & effectively
- Master highly effective closing techniques
- Follow-up to develop long-term relationships & future business
- Set goals that motivate
- Manage your sales database effectively.
Supervisory Management
Shifting from being ‘one of the team’ to leading the team can be a challenging move. As a new supervisor, team leader or frontline manager, it’s now up to you to make difficult decisions, give feedback and drive performance. Having the right leadership skills under your belt can make sure you get off to a strong start and rally your team behind you. Managers and supervisors provide leadership for a team and bridge the gap between the management of the organization and their team members.
The training will highlight:
- Module I: Fundamentals of Supervision
✓ The Heart of Supervision
✓ Making the Transition
✓ Management vs. Leadership
✓ Management Roles & Functions - Module II: Management Styles
✓ 4 Management Styles to Strive for and 4 to Avoid
✓ The 3 ‘C” Clarity, Competence, Control
✓ Intent Based Leadership - Module III: Fostering Accountability
✓ Effective Delegation
✓ Building Trust
✓ Setting Boundaries
✓ Professionalism
✓ Effective Meetings - Module IV: Employee Engagement
✓ Helping Staff Grow
✓ Employee Engagement Plans
✓ Motivating your team
✓ Performance Reviews
✓ Correcting Performance Problems
Employee engagement & Building Staff Morale
The PD Training Employee Engagement Training Course provides understanding and skill building in the various methods of employee engagement such as attention zones, goal setting, prioritizing, focusing, and evaluating. Training in employee engagement helps managers to keep employees motivated, productive and fulfilled. Employee engagement involves helping employees to become more productive,
focused and organised.
After completing this course participants will be able to:
- Wake up! Disengagement is costing your company millions
- Identify the different types of attention
- Create strategies for SMART goals
- Implement proactive methods to create engagement
- Procrastination: Eat that frog!
- Manage time and productivity
- Develop strategies for an engaged workforce
- Identify the different personality types & how they fit into a plan for
employee motivation
Train The Trainer: presentation skills
Skilled facilitators don’t just train. They connect with and engage their
audiences and most importantly they make learning fun. From creating the
right training environment, making lasting first impressions, design and
delivery of training content. Training is a work of art; you are the artist!. This course introduces you to great practical and actionable concepts that will
change the way you prepare for and present to your audience.
This course covers:
- Creating the right atmosphere
- Make lasting first impressions
- Breaking the Ice
- Time/classroom management
- Presenting to Diverse Audiences
- Using Visual Aids
- Teaching Methodologies
- Virtual learning
- Monitoring Training Outcomes -More than just feedback
Critical Thinking & Decision Making
Mastering critical thinking and problem-solving skills can help you make better decisions or recommendations – an essential competency in today’s knowledge workplaces. Critical thinking helps you to examine and improve thought processes, ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and consider varying viewpoints. Effective problem-solving helps you to properly identify and systematically work through a problem in a comprehensive manner, ensuring clarity when it comes time to make decisions or recommendations.
Learning Outcomes:
- Define critical thinking and identify your critical thinking styles
- Work through the critical thinking process to build, analyse and
evaluate varying viewpoints - Improve key critical thinking skills, including active listening and
questioning - Analyse context and information to clearly understand and identify a
problem - Apply problem solving steps and tools
- Identify appropriate solutions using specific approaches
- Select the best technique for making decisions
- Avoid common decision-making mistakes
Effective Business Writing & Minute Taking
Effective minute taking will enable your business units to solve many problems and complaints associated with running meetings. In the hands of a competent minute taker, managers and staff are enabled to effectively action recorded meeting items. During this course, emphasis is also placed on effective business writing skills such as attention to grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and eliminating redundancies in writing.
Objectives:
After completing this course participants will be able to:
- Recognize the importance and outcomes of minute-taking
- Identify and record action items during meetings
- Develop skills in active listening, critical thinking, and organization
- Understand and customize meeting agreements
- Prepare and publish minutes with perfection
- Write drafts, proofread and organize minutes
- Deal with common complaints and difficulties faced by minute-takers
Session I – Preparing for an effective meeting
- Types of meetings
- Duties of a minute taker – before, during and after a meeting
- Understanding the role of the minute taker
- Preparing the meeting room – identifying the participants
Session II – Meeting agendas
- Producing agendas and convening notices
Session III – Contributing at the meeting
- Taking notes
- Supporting the chair
- Obtaining clarification assertively
Session IV – Writing minutes
- Format
Session V – Steps to Writing Well
- Grammar & punctuation
- Sentence structure
- Eliminating redundancies
- Transitional words and phrases
Session VI – Practice meeting & Minute Taking
- Minute taking practice
- Review of notes and preparing minutes