Personal Development Training - 2 day open course
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Also Available:- In House Training
This course is also available as a bespoke in house group training course in the UK and worldwide. We can tailor the content to fit your specific needs.
Group training costs from £1,850 +VAT per day for up to 20 delegates (international training price varies).
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Two day open course: £850 +VAT per delegate.
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We currently offer training courses in: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Heathrow, Central London, Oxford, Swindon, Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Leeds, Nottingham, Southampton, Glasgow, Scotland, Dubai, UAE.
Please note all our training courses include three months additional FREE telephone coaching.
Course Timings: Start 09:00 - Finish 16:30. Lunch at 13:00, Tea Breaks at 11:00 and 15:00, giving you an opportunity to check emails and make calls.
12 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning
About the Course
If you are working in a professional setting, then you may be interested in the excellent two-day personal development training.
On this personal development course, you will learn about the Six Major Skills:
Goal achievement, persuasive communication, prioritisation, handling difficult conversations, greater Self-confidence and the ability to gain the cooperation of others.
You will find this course to be absolutely perfect to brush-up on your current knowledge and extend it even further with material that you have never seen before.
This detailed and complete, two-day training programme may be the perfect answer for you, perfect to improve and extend your ability to get the best performance from yourself and others.
Read the full course description below, and then act now, to reserve your place on this popular course.
Course Overview
Brief outline of the Personal Development Training
Day One - Morning
- How do you get the best from yourself and others?
- Develop the six key personal development skills
- How to develop goal focus
- The accurate use of language
- Distinguish the critic from the cynic
- Define your most important ideas
Day One - Afternoon
- How to handle difficult people
- Objective language
- Prepare your message in advance
- Separate reasons from excuses
- When to compromise and when not to
- Action plan
Day Two - Morning
- Time management training
- Understanding 'deadline pressure' and 'value'
- Distinguish between being 'busy' and being 'productive'
- Prioritise work according to its value and deadline pressure
- Handling interruptions and distractions
- Proper delegation and correct prioritisation
- The 80/20 principle and its application to time management
Day Two - Afternoon
- Positive mental attitude. How it affects tangible results
- The EDISON success formula
- Avoid the failure formula
- The value of 'critical feedback'
- Turning negative situations into positive
- Action plan, final summary close
I thought the course content was thought-provoking. A lot of the content seemed obvious and common sense once it was delivered, but I hadn't been doing it or was doing it 'wrong' at work and home. The trainer provided really good simple models that make it easier to remember. He had a really good, enthusiastic and credible style and was easy to listen to.
Doug Hunt
Chameleon Personnel Services
Customer Reviews
Personal Development Training Course Content
Personal Development Training - Day One - AM
We start by asking this question: How can you get the very best from yourself and others?
You can get the very best from yourself and others only by developing your personal skills.
Which skills specifically should you concentrate on developing?
The following six key professional development skills:
- To develop a definite goal focus
- To communicate clearly, persuasively and confidently
- To intelligently organise people, and effectively prioritise work
- To confidently manage conflict and handle even your most difficult people
- To self- motivate with a positive mental attitude and to easily handle your stress
- To inspire others and create a positive and productive atmosphere
Let us develop each of these qualities in turn.
The first principle of personal development: Goals
All development starts with setting goals - you need to develop a clear sense of purpose - become more goal focused.
- How to create a "Big picture vision" for your future - create a definite "Goal focus"
- Define your personal standards - how do you wish to be perceived by others? Decide how you wish to be perceived and act accordingly.
- Check your communication: do you make mistakes in your use of humour and gossip?
Training notes and then practice.
The second principle of personal development: Communication
How to communicate with more clarity
- Can you make yourself understood?
- Are you able to explain your ideas to others with clarity and confidence?
- Use only accurate language How to define the exact meaning of your key ideas
- How to distinguish between "being critical" and "being negative"
- The importance of talking about what you want rather than want you don’t want
- Develop the art asking the right questions and of listening carefully to the answers
Practical exercises for the delegates to learn skills
Personal development training - Day One - PM
The next principle of personal development: Conflict and assertiveness
Assertiveness and proper conflict management training
Conflict is inevitable and therefore you must be able to handle it:
- Do you handle conflict situations well?
- Or do you sometimes lose your cool?
- Or do you sometimes lose your nerve?
- Or do you sometime avoid the conflict and run away?
Remember that conflict can be beneficial if it is well managed. Conflict can be destructive if it is not well managed?
How should you manage conflict situations? By using a rational approach; use the proper principles:
The proper conflict management principles require that you: -
- Always protect their "self-concept"
- Tell them precisely what is wrong
- Suggest a logical way out of the conflict situation
- Be objective and specific, not emotional or judgemental
- Distinguish reasons from excuses
- Give concessions to reasons.
- Give no concessions to excuses
- Know when to negotiate and when not to
Practical exercises for the delegates to learn skills
Action plan
The course content was good, made me realise my good qualities and areas that needs improvement. Importance and effects and long term planning. The trainer's presentation was effective, never felt bored.
Peeyush Thomas Kurian
Rotork Controls
Customer Reviews
Personal Development Training - Day Two - AM
Time management and Positive mental attitude
Time management training is about getting the most valuable work done in the least amount of time.
- Don't waste your time
- Operate according to a plan, not your mood
- Keep asking 'What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?'
In order to prioritise properly; Use "Deadline pressure" and "value" as the key indicators.
- Q1 Crisis - High value, high deadline pressure
- Q2 Productive - High value, not deadline driven
- Q3 Busy - Low value, but deadline driven
- Q4 Fruitless - Low value, not deadline driven
Your worst enemy: the busy, but non-productive day.
Distinguish "Busy work" from "Productive work"
Have you ever had a busy but non-productive day?
Beat the time wasters - there are three major categories of time wasters:
- Some other people you work with waste your time
- Your own bad habits waste your time
- Poor or non-existent management systems waste your time.
How to delegate your lower value tasks
Delegate as much lower value work as you are able.
Prioritise your task list
How to prioritise your task list - prioritise tasks according to their value.
Manage your priorities by means of a decision matrix.
- Priority order decision matrix
- Yes or no? Decision
- Which one / what kind decision
Keep repeating the question: What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?
How to manage Interruptions: The 80/20 principle
- How to get the maximum value in the minimum time without causing offence to the listener?
- The Pareto time management principle states that 80% of the value comes from 20% of the causes
- 80% of the value of the interruption will be in 20% or less of what they say
- Manage the interruption using the "Pareto question"
Practical exercises for the delegates to learn skills
Personal development training – Day Two - PM
Manage your emotions
Your actions are controlled by two things:
- What you think
- How you feel
How you feel will affect how you act and therefore the results you are able to create. Put simply:
- A person with a positive attitude tends to create good results
- A person without a positive attitude tends not to create good results
- A person with a bad attitude tends to create bad results
Therefore it is important to be able to create and sustain a "Positive Mental Attitude"
Develop a Positive mental attitude. How it works:
A positive attitude works for you like this:
- Positive thoughts and beliefs together, cause positive feelings, such as confidence and desire.
- Positive feelings, confidence and desire cause your actions to be progressive and goal orientated.
- Your progressive and goal orientated actions tend to create progressively better results.
- Your progressively better results trigger the next set of positive thoughts and beliefs.
- The next set of positive thoughts and beliefs together, cause more intense feelings of confidence and high ambition.
- And so on forever.
Positive mental attitude techniques
Manage your own mind. (Do not allow your thoughts or language to be become destructive)
Learn the EDISON success formula
The success formula is a description and prescription for all successful, goal directed action, composed of only five parts:
- Decide your goal- Know your outcome
- Formulate your best plan- in writing
- Take decisive action – don’t wait.
- Gather and evaluate the feedback. Both the positive and the negative
- Use the negative feedback to make progress by continually adapting and evolving
Recognise that the success formula is a continuous process
Avoid the opposite: Failure formula
Failure is the opposite formula
- Have no goals- suffer from indecision or unclear targets
- No written plan - wing it
- Procrastination – put it off
- Become disheartened in the face of setbacks and disappointments
- Stand still. Do the same thing this year as you did last year
Learn the value of "Critical feedback"
- The role of criticism in success: all success will demand that you learn how to handle setbacks defeat and criticism.
- Two forms of feedback. Constructive and destructive
Practical exercises for the delegates to learn skills
Final summary
How will this training help you to get the best from yourself and others?
Summary / action planning / close
The Training Method
The training method follows this general pattern - the training is very interactive and interesting:
- The trainer gives a clear explanation of the point in question with specific examples.
- Then, the delegates practice by doing an exercise with each other.
- The delegates practice by doing an exercise with the trainer.
- All points are supported with full written notes to take away.
- Delegates are asked to write down an associated action, for each point made.
(At the end of the day, we have about twenty such actions, from which the delegates choose six which are the most personally meaningful).
Note: we do not believe in placing people in any situation of embarrassment by demanding that they 'perform' in front of the whole group. So you can relax: come on this course and be at ease; ready to learn new skills!
I found the topics on 'accurate communicator' and 'inspiring', very useful. The SMART plan I will use in my workplace and hopefully change my thoughts. The training delivered a very good course, which, truthfully, I never though I'd enjoy, but I found the course very useful.
Kevin Ferguson
Forestry Commission
Customer Reviews
Price for open training course
You are able to book this course online today.
The open training course costs only £850 +VAT per delegate . For this price we provide:
- Two Full Days quality training
- Tea, coffee and cakes
- Lunch
- Full colour course notes
- Written action plan
- Certificate
- Additional training material by means of monthly updates
- Access to the Post Course Portal
Plus 3 months free telephone coaching
To answer any on-going questions, you will also receive email and telephone support from your trainer after you have attended the course. Whilst you are implementing what you have learned we will be there to help you if you need us for advice, guidance and coaching.
After the course, how can you to keep the training-momentum going?
We understand that it is important to keep the momentum of the training going, in the weeks after the course. The ideas and methods that you learnt during the course need to be implemented, not just for the two weeks after the course, but for all time!
In order to make that happen, we will give you continued, on-going support after the training course has finished. The support comes in the form of the Post Course Portal.
The Post Course Portal is a web page that contains a review of all the course material, plus the following:
- Newsletters containing training blogs and articles, which will provide you with ongoing training and good ideas, whenever you need them.
- Fun questionnaires that are designed to tease out your strengths and weaknesses and then give you ideas as to how you might improve your performance.
- Decision matrices that will allow you to make decisions and prioritise tasks into the correct order.
- Summary diagrams and mind maps from the course.
- Conflict scripts that give you examples of how the conflict method can be used, in real life situations.
- Free eBook the effective leader manager.
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Price for in house training course
In House Course: from £1,850 +VAT per day (international training price varies) for up to 20 delegates (download in-house prospectus)
Please call us on +44 020 3856 3008 to discuss your requirements for the in house training course.
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Personal Development Training Course Quiz
The best way to ensure success is to develop yourself and the people around you.
If you stay the same, nothing will change.
If you will improve, everything around you will seem to improve.
Personal development means developing the key skills that make the biggest difference.
Take this course quiz to see where you are strong and where you are NOT so strong.
View this page on your computer to complete the quiz!
Score yourself out of 10 for each of the following questions. With 10 representing excellence and 0 representing terrible.
1. Get the best performance from yourself and others
To what degree do you think you have realised your full potential. Do you think you are already as good as you can be? (score yourself higher) or do you think you have more potential that is currently being unused (score yourself lower)?
2. Communicate with more clarity, accuracy and persuasiveness
To what degree are you a gifted communicator? Do you find it easy to express yourself and convince others that your ideas are right and good? (Score yourself higher). Or do you find it difficult to communicate your thoughts feeling and beliefs to others, and convince them what you say is right? (Lower the score).
3. Set ambitious goals and achieve them on time.
To what degree do you set ambitious goals, and work to achieve them, are you a goal focused individual, (then score higher). Or do you tend to drift along, without goals, and hope that things will turn out okay, (then score lower).
4. Use good humour to make yourself more effective in the workplace.
To what degree do you have a good sense of humour which tends to ADD value to yourself or others, (score yourself higher): Or do you tend to use too much self-depreciating humour; or too much at the other person’s expense, (sarcastic or mickey taking humour?) (Lower the score).
5. Distinguish between constructive and destructive criticism.
To what degree are you good at offering constructive criticism. When you correct someone’s behaviour or knowledge, does it sound like help, (score higher) or does it sound like you are telling them off, or making them wrong? (Lower the score).
6. Manage your priorities so that you are always doing the most important thing.
To what degree do you manage your time, prioritise your tasks and spend your time doing the most important things, (score higher): or do you tend to just react to things and fail to strategically manage your time. (Score lower).
7. Inspire others to create a positive atmosphere around you.
Do you create a positive mental attitude and maintain it, even during tough times, (score higher)? Or is your emotional state governed by what other people do or say to you, (score lower).
8. Willingness to change and improve yourself.
Are you willing to make changes to yourself and improve your daily work habits, (score higher): Do you consider yourself too old to change, or unable to change, or unwilling to change? (Score lower).
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