SOFT SKILLS WORKSHOPS
You are making progress along your career path. You have mastered the practical aspects of how to get things done and meet the expectations of the organisation. Now you are gaining higher visibility in the business and handling complex challenges.
At this level, managing successfully requires the smart use of a range of more complex skills which are more intuitive, subtle and require discretion to be applied.
The Soft Skills suite covers 60 strategic tools with which to get results within a fixed time frame.
Objective setting, Leading a Project Team, Stakeholder Management are examples
The key to making Soft Skills deliver optimal outcomes for you is to use them in tandem with your unique management style which is just one of the takeaways from this workshop…blending skills with strategy.
WHY ‘SOFT’ SKILLS?
Soft Skills
Managing successfully requires the smart use of a range of higher skills which are more intuitive, subtle and needed require discretion to be used in their application. At this level in the organisation, you will be introduced to the Soft Skills suite which includes Critical Thinking, Making a Case and Presentations.
For example…Objective Setting, Teamwork and Stakeholder Management are other examples of Soft Skills.
1-ON-1 SOFT SKILLS TUTORIALS
- Meeting Management blend efficiency with spontaneity as you encourage engagement leading to effective outcomes
- Experience-based Storytelling authenticity is crucial to the successful applications of your experiences and this tutorial will bring that to the front to be applied in situations from motivating colleagues to persuading clients.
- Breakthrough Presentations A successful presentation can deliver so much in return for the relatively low output involved in producing and delivering it and yet low expectation of presenters and audiences result in outcomes that are far short of their potential. After this tutorial there will be no excuse for achieving anything less than your highest expectations.
- Mentoring For many of Managers, Mentoring was their first experience of responsibility of being responsible for the development of others and it’s a good place to start to find your management style because the benefits are rich for both Mentor and Mentee. So get ready to step up and reach out with this tutorial
WORK/LIFE
COACHING
about me
I’ve been involved with the development of business skills for a large part of my working life. From publishing and marketing business books to facilitating development workshops and now as a Coach and Mentor. I am a member of the International Coaching Federation, a dynamic resource which is the largest organisation of it’s kind globally. Take a look over our website. It’s as snapshot of what we do. from Soft Skills development to Management Style-building, I hope there is something here that you can take away and use as your own resource.
I write a weekly article about Soft Skills and Work/Life Coaching on LinkedIn
three core outcomes from executive coaching
get clarity and insight into the issues you bring
explore the options which lie ahead
map an action plan going forward
the view from my window
I’ve been involved with the development of business skills for a large part of my working life. From publishing and marketing business books to facilitating development workshops and now as a Coach and Mentor. I am a member of the International Coaching Federation, a dynamic resource which is the largest organisation of it’s kind globally. Take a look over our website. It’s as snapshot of what we do. from Soft Skills development to Management Style-building, I hope there is something here that you can take away and use as your own resource.
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I write a weekly article about
Soft Skills and Work/Life Coaching
on LinkedIn
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Coaching Now
I came to Coaching after working for several years in the Corporate Training field.
Many of the skills and experiences I gathered as a trainer were useful for our Coaching sessions, sometimes as a basis for role play and other times because the content illustrated specific situations that we were reviewing.
Bringing your experiences to life in this way can be helpful and introducing these tools into our Coaching conversation helps to pinpoint issues and cast light on your experiences.
"Life is like DIY...
……it doesnt always fit perfectly”
WfH: THE
PODCAST
Responding to Disruption
Of all the upheavals created by Covid 19, the most visible and perhaps the most unexpected was the overnight removal of business activity from the corporate workplace to the living rooms of its employees.
Working from Home (WfH) as it became known, happened so fast and so smoothly that there wasn’t time to weigh up the pro’s and con’s of this move…good or bad. When given the go-ahead, employees undertook the biggest upheaval to hit the world of work since the invention of the printing press…the transformation of working from home being an occasional occurrence to it becoming the norm
Our monthly podcast explores the experience of people who are taking the opportunity to make the Change which WfH made possible as meaningful and innovative as it can be
Ideas, and experiences to make WFH work for you and your family.
THE NEXT LEADER IS YOU
Your personal management style is, in time, what you will develop and deliver to add to the blend of your organisations’ leadership capability. But delivering may not always be the same as leading and getting along with your peers isn’t the same as managing them.
You may discover that what you’ve been doing well as you have moved up in your career is not necessarily how you will be expected to do things in your new role in senior management.
It’s the biggest issue brought up in my Coaching Sessions because it takes time to build and adjust to the expectations of Senior Leadership. Working with an Executive Coach and exploring your own authentic style can be helpful.
Robot of the Month
A monthly article updating and commenting on developments in the field of office automation…specifically in the field of robotics.