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What Are Our

Short Courses?

We offer specialist development programs that provide immediate impact to your teams.

 

These Programs have been designed to develop individuals and organizations in the face of today's current leadership and management challenges.

 

The below courses are examples of some of our most popular Short Courses. We can tailor any of our leadership themes from our full ILM programs and create bespoke courses to meet the needs of your organization and its people.

Developing Effective Leadership

This engaging course supports participants to develop self-awareness of their leadership style and strengths, and to apply leadership insights to better lead their teams and make their role within the organization more effective, as well as empowering them to manage their own development.

We enhance the impact of this course with the use of DISC Flow Profiling which provides participants with an in-depth analysis on their preferred leadership style and application of emotional intelligence. Applying DISC supports individuals and teams work better together.

Outcomes

Effective Leadership Development

Participants will develop self-awareness of their leadership style and capability and be able to apply effective leadership insights to better lead their teams and make their role within their organization more effective, as well as being empowered to manage their own development.
The Program covers the following topics:
Personal Effectiveness: understanding and adapting your personal leadership style 
Communication for successful leadership
Leadership versus management
Motivation for high performance teams
Building Team Resilience
Personal Development & goal setting
DISC Flow Profile

High Performance Customer Service

Commercial awareness, interpersonal skills, mindset and teamwork are all important factors in enhancing customer experience, whether serving internal customers

or directly serving external customers.

 

This program will challenge participants to develop and upskill their knowledge and execution of customer service, from understanding the 'why' to the 'how'.

 

Individuals will learn the core skills required to deliver customer service excellence and build confidence in their ability to adapt to diverse customer needs and expectations.

 

The course offers the opportunity to exchange and develop ideas with colleagues while learning and supports a culture of teamwork.



Outcomes

High Performance Customer Service

Participants will develop and upskill their knowledge and execution of customer service, from understanding the 'why' to the 'how'.
Challenge current behaviors and gain openness to positively reflect on current levels of customer service whilst stretching personal boundaries
Understand their role in delivering customer excellence and gain effective delivery and promotional skills and further awareness of the importance of customer feedback and how this can be utilized to develop oneself, the team and the organization to deliver customer excellence
Gain insight in to how to deal with customer complaints in an effective manner and turn them into a positive outcome
Create an action plan  to show how the individual can proactively challenge themselves to ‘excite and delight' customers
The Program covers the following topics:
What is Customer Service?
Recognising the impact of one's own role in delivering the ultimate customer service
Essential communication skills for successful customer service
Managing challenging customer experiences creating positive outcomes
Leveraging emotional intelligence to support interactions
Personal effectiveness and coping techniques when managing stressful situations
Managing service quality, including setting standards and processes for continuous improvement

Emotionally Intelligent Leader

The ability to deal with challenge and pressure and to interact

effectively with others is critical in any professional role. Self awareness

is at the heart of developing these skills and an understanding of how we respond in certain situations. Using Emotional Intelligence (EI) can help us gain an insight to our

behaviours.

 

This practical course is designed to enable participants to develop an understanding of Emotional Intelligence and how it impacts both their own performance and the performance of others. Participants will assess their own Emotional Intelligence and identify personal strengths and areas for development in key aspects of EI. The

course will provide participants with strategies and techniques to help them use their Emotional Intelligence to be more effective in the workplace.

Key Learning Areas: 
Understanding the EL competencies
Exploring one's own strengths and areas of development 
The importance of EI for flexible leadership
Understanding and responding to the needs of others
Impactful communication
Managing behaviours and emotions constructively
Developing a resilient team

Office Etiquette

This course highlights the key principles of office etiquette and provides opportunities for team members to examine how their behavioural styles impact on colleagues, internal customers and, ultimately, on effective service delivery. The course also supports the development of a positive team culture and will offer participants an opportunity to discuss individual and team actions to improve the current working environment.

Key Learning Areas: 
What is Office Etiquette?
Presenting yourself positively
Acceptale vs unacceptable behaviours
Teamworking & respecting others
Identifying healthy and unhealthy team norms
Understanding and appreciating individual and team differences
Opportunities for workplace improvements
Creating a Team Charter
Personal Accountability 

Coaching & mentoring

A skilled coach or mentor is an invaluable asset to any organisation. They can drive innovation, support conflict resolution, improve management performance and increase employee confidence and motivation. This, in turn, builds stronger teams, improves organisational culture and enhances employee and customer satisfaction.

 This course will ensure the individuals developed as coaches and mentors are equipped with the skills and knowledge they require to be highly effective and will enhance the coaching and mentoring culture of the organization.

Key Learning Areas:
What it takes to be an effective coach and mentor
The role and responsibilities of effective coaches and mentors
How to manage coaching and mentoring processes using recognised models
How to develop the coaching or mentoring relationships
Effective communication skills and asking 'powerful questions'
Adapting your approach to learning styles
Effective frameworks to structure sessions
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