What is Personal Development?
With so much emphasis on the Professional element of Development, it's important to remember that training in more personal aspects of development will also help businesses be more effective if their employees are as efficient and happy as they can be.
Personal effectiveness is a result of not just one thing, but of a combination of factors which all impact upon each other, and Personal Development incorporates many aspects of people's professional lives, and aims to make them better. Personal effectiveness training courses are often designed for those who seek
to further develop the key skills and techniques needed to build
personal impact, influence and effectiveness in dealings with others. Personal Development training courses seek to address the following objectives:
- Analyse current effectiveness in terms of time and priority management
- Identify appropriate situations and techniques for assertive communication
- Confidently deal with conflict situations and ‘difficult’ people
- Consider the most appropriate Influencing style(s) to achieve positive results
- Recognise the factors that contribute to building personal profile and impact
- How to develop a personal action plan to enhance personal effectiveness at work
» In House / Company Specific Personal Development training courses
» Open / Scheduled Personal Development training courses
» E-learning Personal Development training courses
Personal Development - explore the opportunities
Personal Development is beneficial for people who want to learn how to manage their time and priorities more effectively. Some people often find it difficult to refuse requests and say ‘No’, or need to learn how to manage their emotions more effectively, for which a Personal Development course can be most helpful.
Personal Development courses are also aimed at helping people to build up their confidence, and enable people to deal with ‘difficult’ people. Gaining an understanding of ways to persuade and influence others in order to achieve results is often one of the main aims of Personal Development programmes. Personal Development also helps those who wish to raise their own personal profile and impact. Personal Development is a broad and complex topic, often referred to in some instances as 'self-help' and covers the following areas:
- workload management
- time management: pressure
- using the right language: negative and positive
- placing blame: can raise or lower stress
- taking control pro-actively
- understanding perception
- motivation and inspiration
- organisation and efficiency
» Coaching training courses
Assertiveness training
There is a vital link between assertiveness, confidence and self-esteem, and through recognising this connection and taking a training course in assertiveness you will develop an understanding of how with the right techniques you can establish better working relationships using assertiveness.
Additionally not only will you will gain the tools and techniques to boost your confidence and build your self-esteem, you will learn how to handle difficult situations and people confidently and assertively. With assertiveness training delegates experience new ways to deal with criticism, confrontation, anger, and negativity effectively and positively.
» Communication Skills training courses
» Negotiation Skills training courses
Confidence Building training
The key to building your self-confidence is learning how to maintain a positive outlook in situations in which the myriad of consequences maybe both bad and good, and managing to overcome and move on effectively. In order to become more confident means learning to believe that you can achieve your goals and aims, and not worry too much about the overall outcome. By believing in your ability to succeed, you will be more assured of yourself, and be more able to support others. Investing in training to increase your self-confidence will enable you to feel less worried about issues at work, more able to focus and achieve attainable results and successfully achieve your goals, and ultimately be happier in you business and personal life. Training courses in confidence building often identify the best approach to use when voicing ideas and opinions to colleagues and especially senior managers, and cover the following topics:
- Moving from negative to positive ways of thinking – building your self-esteem
- Are you saying 'yes' when you should be saying 'no'?
- The art of persuasion – getting ideas across
- Understanding how self-esteem affects confidence and influences behaviour – using assertive language
- Identifying ways of building self-esteem and developing confidence
» Presentation Skills training courses
Stress Management
Managing stress is about taking charge: this relates to your emotions, your schedule, your environment, and the way you deal with problems. Stress management begins with identifying the sources of stress in your life - and learning how to recognise the signs of stress. The true sources of stress aren’t always obvious, and it’s all too easy to overlook your own stress-inducing thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. It is often the case that business professionals become stressed due to procrastination, rather than the actual job demands, that leads to deadline stress. Training courses in stress management aim to enable participants to understand and state what stress at work is,
identify potential sources of pressure and find out what creates and
dictates levels of stress at work. Additionally, stress management training is very valuable as it enables participants to understand
the link between time pressures and stress, as well as the relationship between workload and stress, and to
identify strategies for gaining and maintaining a balanced workload.
»Training Courses in Stress Management
Time Management training
Closely related to Stress Management, and one of the main elements of Personal Development - Time Management refers to a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. Increasing your time management skills will enable you to become more efficient, more productive and ultimately less stressed. Training courses in time management are designed to help participants
develop their skills in time management to achieve more effective
results in less time. Time management training
courses and workshops also help delegates increase work effectiveness
and productivity, achieve greater control of their daily activities and
overcome stress, incorporating proven techniques for mastering time. Having completed a time management training course participants will be able to:
- Identify their own particular time wasters and adopt strategies for eliminating them from their work pattern.
- Recognise the variety of causes of procrastination and apply relevant techniques to overcome these.
- Clarify and prioritise their objectives and goals.
- Adopt appropriate strategies for dealing with interruptions.
- Use practical techniques for organising work.
- Reduce time spent in meetings yet contribute more effectively.
- Delegate work more effectively to staff
»Training courses in Time Management
