Personal Development and Interpersonal Impact
Our personal development courses enable you to increase awareness of your personal behaviours at work and address many of the practical challenges you will face when dealing with colleagues. You will leave these courses with specific strategies to address the unique personal challenges you face.
Learning to lead yourself
To become a good leader, you need to start by leading yourself. In this session, you will learn how to gain a better understanding of yourself, and so make a bigger impact as a leader of others. This involves:
- Building the foundation for your influence by understanding who you are
- Focussing on the strengths that will drive your success
- Identifying and leading from within your ‘sweet spot’ so as not to slow your team down
- Learning how trusting others can make us feel more in control
- Giving yourself time to recover so that you are always operating at your best
Making remote working work for you
Do you work remotely, or are you considering doing so? This workshop is your chance to explore the challenges and benefits involved, and to discover how best to make it work for you. You will be given the tools to:
- Assess your personal needs and expectations from work
- Set boundaries between your home life and work life
- Manage and prioritise your time effectively
- Maintain your motivation and productivity
Building confidence
Do you sometimes suffer from ‘impostor syndrome’ – doubting yourself, worrying about speaking up, passing up on opportunities to add value? In this session, you will discover practical techniques to increase your confidence so that you can ace that interview, presentation or client meeting, and leave a positive impression on everyone you meet. You will learn how to:
- Silence self-doubt and become more self-assured
- Build the emotional courage to take risks
- Articulate your purpose and value
- Build your personal presence so that others sit up and take notice
- Connect with people and leave the right impression
Boosting personal resilience
Life has never been more challenging in its complexity and uncertainty. This workshop will give you an insight into how to boost your personal resilience. Highly participatory in style it offers you lots of opportunity to:
- Understand the root causes of stress
- Take steps to reduce your stress and improve your wellbeing
- Boost your resilience to overcome setbacks and bounce back from challenges
Creating ideas to add value to your organisation & stakeholders
Does your role involve problem solving? What do you do if you encounter an issue for which there is no tried or tested solution? This workshop is designed to give you practical techniques to boost your creativity by:
- Learning to manage the creative process
- Developing your enterprising mindset
- Understanding what an innovative solution looks like
Getting successful outcomes from difficult conversations
Does your role involve difficult conversations with colleagues or clients? This workshop gives you the skills to challenge others, speak up, ask pointed questions and provide constructive criticism in a way that leads to better outcomes for you and your business. You will learn to:
- Understand and overcome the behavioural and systemic barriers to effective communication
- Adopt behaviours that encourage all parties to speak and listen more constructively
- Make use of practical frameworks to prepare for challenging real-life scenarios
Developing productive working relationships
Discover the practical steps you can take to develop value-adding working relationships with staff, colleagues, co-workers, superiors and key stakeholders. Learn how to:
- Master the arts of delegation and motivation
- Communicate financial information effectively
- Assert yourself in the workplace
Developing your 360-degree influence
The ability to influence others around you is key to achieving more within your leadership role. Sharing powerful communication approaches to help you exert a positive influence up, down and across your organisation, this session demonstrates how to:
- Build strong working relationships
- Adapt your communication style to different personalities
- Use the ‘right door/floor’ method to get and keep others engaged
- Leverage the ‘four motivators’ to drive energy in others
- Seek input and advice from others and so gain stronger support
Making a positive impact when you return to the workplace
Are you an accountant or finance professional looking to return to the workplace after a period away? This session is designed to prepare you to make a positive impact during this transition. It will help you:
- Understand what drives your behaviour and the impact you make at work
- Develop your personal brand – the qualities you want to be known for
- Understand and affect how other people perceive you
- Inspire people to listen to what you’ve got to say
- Build your reputation as a professional, confident, capable individual
