Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Prioritize their daily responsibilities to achieve maximum output
Streamline their work practices and office environment
Communicate effectively and assertively at all levels
Understand their selves and others thereby improving interactions and relationships
Use techniques to help them think creatively, solve problems, plan, and make decisions
Improve their communication skills to enhance their relationships
Develop their skills interpersonal skills
Manage their thoughts and feelings and improve self-confidence
Learn how to be assertive and therefore more effective in the workplace
Office Managers
Team Leaders
Administrators
Supervisors
Secretaries
Support Staff
PA’s
Understanding and clarifying purpose, vision, and mission
The secret to working smarter rather than harder
Controlling, prioritizing, and organizing your work
Streamlining your office systems
Getting your paperwork under control
Making your office user friendly and efficient
Harnessing the power of the mind – through Mind Mapping Techniques
Managing larger projects to meet deadlines
Planning skills – using a Gannt chart to chart work progress
Problem-solving techniques
Decision-Making tools
Managing meetings effectively
Different styles of communication
Learning to be more assertive
Win-win conflict resolution
Understanding and using body language
Understanding gender differences in communication
Understanding different personality types and how to deal with them
Listening skills – seeking to understand before being understood
Creating a professional image
Leadership skills
How to make presentations with confidence and power
Learn the essentials of planning a presentation
Best practices for delivering positive feedback
Understanding the main causes of stress
The signs, symptoms, causes, and triggers of stress
The essential skills of emotional intelligence
Using emotional intelligence at work
Transforming fear and negativity and reactive-ness
Becoming a more proactive, responsible, and self-aware person
Continuing Professional Development - where to go from here
The program opens by exploring the key leadership skills and how to apply them in the organization. Using this initial analysis, the program explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others, and imparting leadership values to your team members. All attendees will return to their organizations better equipped to meet the challenges and demands of leadership.
This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly informative advanced leadership program. It seeks to develop and enhance your personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.
This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership programme enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.
Alliances in business are a natural route for development – but not all contracting relationships can truly be seen as alliances. A good, trusting and open relationship is essential for a long-term and successful alliance – and this needs to be practiced by the negotiators involved. Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want, whether in an agreement, bargaining for an item, or closing a deal. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win/win outcome – an essential characteristic of long-lasting alliances. This course provides an essential framework for effective negotiation — which will be vital for building and exploiting an alliance - from building the relationship, critical thinking to prioritize goals
Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems are based on a proactive process for incidents prevention as well as reactive monitoring of performance. Risk assessment is required to be applied to all activities that impact on health & safety, production, asset, environment, and the Company reputation.
All businesses in the current environment need a competitive edge. This can be gained through innovative and exciting products and services, or effective and efficient world-class employees. Top performing organizations are passionate about their most valuable resource - their staff. To maintain their high standards a large proportion of their time and energy is spent on continuous professional development, not only of their employees but of their business. This course investigates the tried and trusted management processes, procedures, and methodology used by many blue-chip companies. They use the tools to develop high levels of performance from their staff. This in turn ensures the future and reputation of their companies through innovative development, service, and evaluation. This course offers participants practical solutions to work-related issues.
Enterprise Risk Management known as (ERM) has evolved considerably since the seventies. From simply 'buying' insurance, it has now grown in importance to become a prime function in many organizations as part of a bigger system known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) which starts with corporate governance and ends with compliance. ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management. However, the most accepted ERM system is the one designed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). This system, which is the one covered in this course, teaches the steps needed to control risk. It starts with the evaluation of the internal environment and the setting of objectives which are, mainly, a result of the tone at the top of the organization, the directives from corporate governance as well as the vision, mission, and corporate strategies. Then, the course goes through the steps management needs to consider in order to identify and assess risk and decide on proper risk responses and controls. The course ends with how to monitor, communicate, and report risk. In addition, the course looks at risk in different organizational areas such as strategy, reporting, compliance, operations, financial and physical risk as well as risk in different industries.