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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

 
Course: 297   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Achieve maximum productivity and effectiveness in your organization
  • Build and leverage your professional reputation
  • Get results working with different and difficult personality types
  • Maintain focus in pressure situations
  • Work productively within the political environment of your organization
  • Make a balanced choice between professional and personal commitments

Course Benefits

Today's organizations place great emphasis on personal responsibility and initiative. Managing yourself effectively and working productively with others is critical to both your professional success and the success of your organization. In this course, you gain a comprehensive and proven set of professional skills that helps you stay focused, work effectively with colleagues, develop your networks and expertise, and build your reputation for delivering results.

Who Should Attend

Those who want to maximize their personal effectiveness and work successfully with people, projects or information.

Course Workshop

Extensive, practical workshops and exercises, conducted in small groups, focus on learning techniques to achieve your professional goals. Workshops include:
  • Evaluating your strengths and style
  • Developing teamwork skills
  • Building productive work relationships
  • Presenting your proposal
  • Identifying the key players in your work environment
  • Planning a high-impact message
  • Building your development plan

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Upcoming Dates

Jan 27 - 30, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 10 - 13, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 3 - 6, 2009
 New York
Mar 10 - 13, 2009
 Chicago (Downtown)
Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2009
 Ottawa
May 5 - 8, 2009
 New York
May 12 - 15, 2009
 Toronto
Aug 11 - 14, 2009
 Toronto
Aug 18 - 21, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Sep 8 - 11, 2009
 New York

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

 
Course: 297   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 297 Content
 

Introduction

  • What professionalism really means
  • The components of personal effectiveness

Realizing Your Strengths and Fulfilling Your Potential

Evaluating your aptitudes, styles and potential growth areas

  • Applying the Multiple Intelligences Model
  • Compiling a personal strengths inventory
  • Uncovering the talent paradox

The core elements of professional excellence

  • The three Rs of effectiveness
  • Building your professional reputation

Developing your professional power

  • Analyzing sources of professional authority
  • Strategies for building influence

Managing yourself effectively

  • Setting goals to maintain focus
  • The secret of productive relaxation
  • Scheduling your time effectively
  • A healthy balance of work and play
  • Maximizing your attention to tasks

Enhancing Your Thinking Tool Set

Understanding thinking processes

  • Refining your mental models
  • Revealing limiting mental frameworks

The core of interpersonal effectiveness

  • Recognizing the core process of human interaction
  • Enhancing your emotional intelligence
  • Analyzing language to identify and understand motives and intentions

Achieving Results in Pressure Situations

Working productively with colleagues

  • Identifying important players in your work environment
  • Working with difficult coworkers
  • Handling corporate game playing
  • Being assertive without aggression
  • Building productive relationships with upper management

Making meetings work for you

  • Determining when a meeting is needed
  • Keeping your meetings productive and professional

Managing stress productively

  • Effective stress management techniques
  • Positive vs. negative stress

Building Your Professional Reputation

Amplifying your effectiveness by networking

  • The benefits of networking
  • Networking dos and don'ts
  • Contributing to physical and virtual networks

Constructing an effective political approach

  • Why being political is necessary
  • Countering political manipulation
  • Being political with integrity

Preparing and Presenting Winning Proposals

Secrets of successful proposal writing

  • Identifying what your audience needs
  • The psychology of successful proposals
  • Structuring your points in a logical and compelling order

Compiling an effective business case

  • Identifying your true target
  • Distinguishing hard and soft benefits

Presenting your proposal

  • Selecting the best medium for messages
  • Matching your presentation approach to audience needs and mood

Creating the Results You Want

Assembling a personal success strategy

  • Mapping and evaluating your situation
  • Identifying your long-term choices and goals
  • Achieving balance among the five components of life

Controlling your work environment

  • Why desks get cluttered--and how to solve this
  • Handling interruptions and time wasters
  • Analyzing the choke points in your personal processes
  • Reducing e-mail domination
 
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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence Tuition

 
Course: 297   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,625 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 45%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,625 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

Enrolling is Easy and Flexible!

Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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