Improve your Effectiveness at Work

Course Outlines

OBJECTIVES

Course Objective :
• Help you develop approaches to creativity, innovation and problem-solving at work
• Help you improve interpersonal communications and team working skills
• Revise and refresh everyday reading, note-making and memory skills
• Update your thinking about managing your time and planning for results
• Improve your effectiveness at work

Course Outline :
Creativity and Innovation at Work
• Self-assessment: Your Personal Strengths and Weaknesses at Work
• Learn to Use Mind-mapping – The extraordinary note-making, planning and creativity tool
• What is creativity and how does it differ from innovation?
• Barriers to Creative Thinking
• Four Key Focus Areas for Creativity at Work
Communications and Teamworking
• Getting Your Point Across: Know What to Say and When to Say It
• A Simple Template for Planning and Organizing Your Ideas
• Working in Groups
• How teams evolve and What you can do to help a team meet its objectives?
• Dealing with Difficult People
Reading Strategies
• Thinking about the Reading Process (identifying your current skills)
• Reading as a Conscious, Deliberate Process
• Fast Reading, Slow Reading and Reading with Confidence
• Combining Reading Strategies with Mind-mapping Skills to Increase Effectiveness
• Improve Your Reading by Understanding ‘business writing’ Skills
Time Management as a Deliberate Choice
• Time Management: Implementing a Solid Daily Routine
• Planning (What you have to do?) and Prioritisation (What you must do first?)
• Linking Plans and Priorities to Your Diary in Order to Achieve Results
• Dealing with Interruptions and Distractions
• Finding Balance between Working-life and Home-life
Your Personal Skills-Set: Putting It All Together
• Memory Challenge
• Memory Principles
• Using a Memory System
• Handling Information Overload
• Self-assessment: Your Personal Strengths and Weaknesses at Work