Leadership
Most successful managers are also successful leaders, motivating people towards achieving their organisation's goals and strategic objectives. Many people are promoted purely because of their natural professional competence. Few receive any formal or even informal training in management. Many resort to a style that mimics how they were parented or managed earlier in their career.
Versatile communication skills to get 'buy in'
By learning how to talk and write using the four communication 'filters' that people use right across the world, you are going to 'connect' more quickly with more people. The coaching provides you with a range of techniques drawn from Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), vocal influence and psychology. You are going to greatly enhance your self-knowledge, interpersonal skills and workplace performance.
Waste of time management
How we use our time is a critical skill if we are to consistently achieve the results we need in the workplace, or indeed, what we want to achieve in our lives. Almost every day we discover that our clients' employees are ineffective at managing their time and this applies equally to executives and managers as new entrants. Time management 'systems' offered in the market as solutions to time management problems today can be too complex and time consuming to use. In many cases they may be entirely inappropriate for your needs. If you are not careful, you can spend all of your time planning and organising your work and end up not delivering anything. OvationXL take a different approach by providing practical tips that can be implemented to great effect on Day One.
Run decisive meetings
Research suggests that businesses waste millions of pounds every month by holding unnecessary or unproductive meetings. If you find yourself wasting time by sitting in on meetings which you don't need to attend, or which don't lead to focused action on business critical issues, then changes are needed. You and your business are going to benefit from rapid, noticeable differences in team productivity plus improved morale and effectiveness.
Your new strengths and abilities
- Clarifying if and when a meeting is needed (instead of other action).
- Producing a solution focused agenda.
- Defining minimum outcome required.
- Designing structure, form and location of meeting.
- Questioning and deciding who should attend and for how long.
- Managing over/under participation or resistance.
- Chairing the meeting process with confidence.
- Use different influencing styles during each meeting.
- Techniques being used to summarise, record and review agreed action points.
Did you know?
OvationXL has identified that few employees have received training to enable them to run effective meetings. Yet this skill can be learnt and immediately implemented in the workplace with dramatic measurable improvements to productivity.
Who would benefit?
Running effective meetings should be an absolute given competency for all levels of staff.
To discuss a current or potential need, contact Robin Johnson at OvationXL
on 0845 260 7700 or