Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change. Everything you need to be effective.
Learning Tracks Titles
Winning Attitude
Accelerated Learning
Write Effortlessly
Manage Time
Getting Organized
Effective Meeting
Communicate Clearly
Active Listening
Business Etiquette
Managing Boss
Minimizing Workstress
Dealing With Change
Winning Attitude
Your attitude determines your altitude. Learn how to master positive thinking to empower yourself to greater heights. Be entranced by inspiring stories and allow yourself to reflect on your choices of life. Rediscover how you can transform yourself at work and at home.
Accelerated Learning
Learning how to learn is vital – because when you understand how to learn effectively, your self esteem and confidence grow. You will not only cope with the new technology and change – you will welcome it.You will be empowered to change from passive consumer of education to active controllers of your own learning and life.
Write Effortlessly
One of the key skills in the business world is the ability to write and get your message across. Learn how business writing has evolved through time – and learn tips to make your letters and emails effective.
Manage Time
Time is the most valuable asset we have. Good personal time management skills are essential for a happy, successful career. You will learn the principles and systems to help you make conscious decisions about the activities that occupy your time.
Getting Organized
You will discover how to systematize common decisions. It takes far more time to be disorganized than it does to be organized because disorganized people lose so much time to inefficiency. Getting organized empowers oneself to be even more efficient and effective.
Effective Meeting
Whether you’re a newcomer to meetings or a seasoned pro, Effective Meetings offers hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation. You will be able to identify who are the ‘pace-setters’ in meetings, and learn how to be a ‘pace-setter’ to achieve outcomes.
Communicate Clearly
Understand basic communication models, and learn to speak easily and naturally your ideas. You will learn how to get your ideas across with ease.
Active Listening
You probably spend more time using your listening skills than any other kind of skill. Like other skills, listening takes practice. While you are listening you will also be able to think about what you are hearing, really understand it, and give feedback to the speaker. Remember, thoughts move about four times as fast as speech.
Business Etiquette
Etiquette is about presenting yourself with the kind of polish that shows you can be taken seriously. Etiquette is also about being comfortable around people (and making them comfortable around you!)/. Learn basic skills from ‘how-tos’ handshakes to presenting your business cards and how to conduct yourself in social settings.
Managing Boss
The relationship with your boss is probably the most important relationship you have at work. Boss management can stimulate better performances, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards.
Minimizing Workstress
Workplace stress has a negative impact on the business as well as on the individual staff. The increase in job stress creates emotional, financial, and safety concerns for organizations and managers. The bottom line: workplace stress management and stress reduction make sense.
Dealing With Change
We all exist within contradiction. On the one hand, we need stability and perform well when we feel secure and established at work. On the other hand we can become stagnant, complacent and uncreative when we shy away from change or when we find we simply cannot cope with it. So learn how to embrace changes to empower yourself and the people around you
