Induction Programmes – Begin as You Mean to Go On
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Get the communication right at the beginning and save yourself a whole lot of bother later on!
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Get the communication right at the beginning and save yourself a whole lot of bother later on!
If you want productive meetings you have to start to change the patterns that make them unbearable!
Maybe somehow, problems with people’s performance will fix themselves without anyone having to say anything to anybody?
“No, no! Please don’t ask me to make a presentation.”
“I can’t do it – I get too scared –
I’ll faint – I won’t be able to breathe.”
Whether it’s restaurants, hotels, construction companies, financial institutions, or training companies – We really are spoilt for choice!
Even those with nerves of steel may feel they are facing a deep abyss when having to give a presentation!
Places or people that never keep their word and who wouldn’t know what exceeding expectations even looked like!
The Labour Party, in its current Leadership skirmish, looks like a very large dysfunctional family!
We can guarantee that pretty much anyone who drives has had the experience of arriving somewhere and, having driven on autopilot, can’t really recollect the journey.
The ability to manage everyday stresses and pressures plus the unexpected stuff that can ambush the best of us!
Use storytelling elements to make you more appealing, approachable, and accessible!
It takes very little to create common ground and we know that storytelling is one of the best ways to achieve that.
The perceived wisdom is that the customer is always right.
Learn better project management communication skills and be really clear that people know what is expected!
Most people don’t listen in order to understand. They listen in order to reply!
Start by helping others to feel comfortable. Don’t try to sell anything. Smile a lot.
At the beginning people generally have a lot of enthusiasm. So how do you maintain that good feeling?
We’re just trying to muddle through and somehow manage to get things done without anyone getting killed.
Build relationships rather than just completing a series of tasks and your projects will go more smoothly and efficiently!
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Here are just a few of the things that will motivate your people and make a real difference to your organisation!
Time robbers are those people and situations that knock us off course and stop us from focusing on the stuff that is a priority.
You have the undivided attention of a number of people who have some reason to be interested in what you have to say!
People who are perpetually late create a lot of stress, both in themselves and the people around them!
Here are some tips to speed up your meetings and get to resolutions quicker!
Managing other people can be hugely rewarding; it can also be frustrating, frightening and even intimidating!
Made us both laugh. Of course I’ve talked before about going out to dinner with my husband and at the adjoining table was a family of five with mom and dad and three children of varying teen years. Every single one of them had a device and none of them were talking to each other.
Empathy Can Be Learned – Here are some excellent suggestions to develop a more empathetic approach to others!
People feel strongly about change – even if it’s wonderful, exciting, and beneficial, they just don’t like messing with the status quo!
That’s a question we get a lot on our courses. Some people seem really uncomfortable with the idea that to be good at influencing and negotiation it all has to be premeditated.