Online Course: 90 Minutes to Control Your Inbox !
ENROL at the base of this page ! (in the first form)
Is your inbox exactly the way you like it?
Most people are so busy doing their work, that they don’t have time to make Outlook really work for them (usually they feel like they are being run by their inbox)!
In 90 minutes you will
- Get your inbox down to your ideal size (and keep it down!)
- Get advanced tips to power through your inbox decisively and quickly
- Be more in control by getting Outlook to automatically filter and prioritise emails coming to you
- See how Outlook can save you time each morning
- Know how to remember to track delegated work (without stress!)
- See how Outlook can save you time finding emails
- Get time-saving tips on automating commonly used emails
- Feel better about your electronic workload!
This practical online course, is written by a Microsoft Accredited trainer, and a trainer who has coached more than 2,000 people over 15 years
It is designed so you can make immediate changes to your current (and future !) inbox, and get access to the best most practical tips, on-the-spot.
You can expect to
- Save at least one hour per day
- Be more in control over your inbox and
- Have a clear head, less distracted by email
We know that you need time and space to invest in your own capacity, so:
Once you enrol in this online course you will have
- 14 days, and
- 7 short focussed practical video tutorials (90 minutes)
- Clear cheat-sheets to apply the tips straight away between each module
- Simple checklists to download and help you make the changes
Although you as an individual will benefit, we have found this course works best when teams go through together
The return to you will be much higher if you and your colleagues start to work in a new way consistently, rather than one person being a lone voice
Why not forward this to colleagues and try it together?
ENROL at the base of this page (in the first form)
Quick tune-up Courses
(Online or in-person)
Smart Teams | Team Cohesion | Focus | Shared Purpose
Does your team need a boost? You will become a high-performing team who work even more collaboratively, support each other’s need to focus, and achieve team outcomes.
Personally you become more resilient, and as a team you will move quickly to greater levels of focus, collaboration, achievement and confidence.
This involves
- Harnessing and optimising the team resources you already have to function as a smart team
- Boosting team performance by increasing control and decreasing anxiety
- Execution of practical team tools and strategies
- Identifying behaviours and patterns of team thinking which decrease the gap between intention and action.
- Exploring how team outcomes are dependent on individual interactions and patterns of behaviour.
After the course most participants say they now have 25% more strategies to give practical support and leadership to colleagues (online and real time).
You’ve Got Personality
(Online or in-person)
My Personality | Your Personality | Team Personality
You can identify the communication patterns you bring to work. As well as exploring the match between yourself and your colleagues, you will clarify how to value and capitalise on the differences in your team.
This involves
- Practical and engaging techniques for working with many personality types
- Looking at communication and improving it
- Individuals and teams identifying their unique contribution to the group and uncover their unique stress-triggers
- Tailoring your leadership and interactions to be more effective
- Learning how to shape and manage your preferred work environment
Participants and whole teams can work with
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI)
DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness)
Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
We tailor a range of other approaches to achieve your objectives. This informative and dynamic workshop is shaped for your needs.
Social & Emotionally Intelligent Team Work
Impact |Alignment | Rapport
Your team’s people-skills and Influencing skills need to be mastered if you are to progress from ‘functional’ to excellent. Teams and individuals who have this tune-up course, get a rapid increase in successful interactions and communication.
This involves
- How to be assertive, and how to do well when others are assertive
- Knowing your own influencing skills and people-skills; learning to manage them in a proactive way.
- Developing new ways to manage stress at work, by generating options, overcoming communication obstacles and being comfortable with challenging conversations
- Perceiving and monitoring the impacts decisions and interactions might be having
- Exploring practical skills in tracking and shaping your optimism, assertiveness, stress management, empathy, impulse- control and decision-making.
Although subject matter expertise is a key ingredient in a team’s success, research is now showing that positive, socially-intelligent interactions between team members and with other stakeholders is just as important as specific knowledge.
360° Feedback
Be Challenged | Be Developed | Be Informed
Focus on your own development. Shift from‘good’ to excellent in your leadership. A proactive and effective opportunity to gain insight from others on aligning and fine-tuning your performance. This process will help to install a culture of development, feedback loops and boost your effectiveness.
This involves
- Expanding the scope and depth of your own professional development
- Detailed reflection on high-quality data that is tailored to you
- Identifying nuanced and impactful strategies to boost your performance
- Knowing what to focus on, to enhance your short-term and long-term skill-set/li>
- Having the knowledge and techniques to drive your own development
Effective leaders are constantly searching for sources that will give them accurate information. When it comes to your personal effectiveness the 360° framework has become a go-to approach for doing just that
Resilience Readiness
Rational | Real | Resourced
Resilience-The ability to recover quickly from difficulty (Oxford Living Dictionary).
This course helps you strengthen team capacity, support growth and engagement that is positive, optimistic and meaningful while accomplishing tough goals.
This involves
- Identifying what are the difficulties, what is changing and what is uncertain
- Benefitting from latest research on strategies to be more resilient
- Explore the building blocks for growth and resilience
- Agreeing on a team plan to build options-thinking, promote autonomy, problem-solving, assertiveness and managing recurring setbacks
Research over thirty years has identified specific resilience skills and how to build them in individuals and teams. Teams who proactively increase their locus of control are more balanced, aligned and sought-after.
Advanced Presentation Skills
Target| Engage| Impact
Receive useful and powerful techniques for effectively impacting your audience.
This course helps you strengthen team capacity, support growth and engagement that is positive, optimistic and meaningful while accomplishing tough goals.
This involves
- Smart skills in using high quality content and/or electronic media for a variety of audiences
- Boosting your confidence and improving your professional impact by tailoring your voice body language, gestures and image
- Knowing your audience & target communication to engage, influence, inform and meet their needs
- Using high level skills in designing, delivering and evaluating high-quality presentations to small-groups and larger-groups
This practical & dynamic workshop is for you if you would like to improve your impact on others. The ‘audience’ may be at team or meeting level, or for presentations to large audiences where a specific outcome is needed.
Managing Remote Teams
Collaborate|Communicate|Deliver
Are you and your team working hard but still not getting enough time to truly collaborate? If you have modern flexible work practices, remote colleagues, open-plan office, part-time work, working from home or you are just crazy busy, you will benefit from this training.
This involves
- Capitalising on ‘Hot Desking’, and open-plan office space so that team-communication is optimised
- Control interactions and manage expectations with your geographically dispersed teams/organization
- Learn techniques which will still bring alignment, cohesion and maintain delivery of outcomes within this flexible environment.
- Using up-to-date electronic tips and approaches to optimize your team cohesion and direction
This training is tailored closely to meet the flexible needs of your team. By using latest research on flexible work, you will enhance your team culture and your capacity to be up-to-date and well-connected.
