Personal Skills for Professional Excellence

• Key characteristics of professional people
• The components of personal effectiveness

Evaluating your aptitudes, personal style and development areas

• Applying the Multiple Intelligences Model
• Profiling your preferred personal style(s)
• Uncovering the talent paradox

Working to your strengths

• Assessing natural talents and personal values
• The influence of intelligences on personality
• Recognizing the effects of personal styles

The core elements of professional excellence

• The three Rs of personal effectiveness
• Operating with ethics and integrity

Developing your professional power

• Recognizing the source of your personal power
• Adopting a proactive approach to building your power

Enhancing your thinking tool set

• Revealing limiting beliefs and personal restrictors
• The dynamics of human interactions
• Enhancing your emotional intelligence

Interpreting behavior and language to understand motives and intentions

• The importance of difference in productive working
• Building effective mental models
• Managing different personal styles

Working together to get results

• Identifying important players in your work environment
• Working with difficult coworkers
• Countering corporate game-playing

Making meetings work for you

• Keeping your meetings constructive and professional
• Taking personal styles into account during meetings
• Adopting a collaborative approach

Amplifying your effectiveness by networking

• Reaping the benefits of networking for purpose
• Enhancing your personal influence
• Building and managing your networks proactively
• Crafting your personal brand

Demonstrating political intelligence

• Assessing your level of political intelligence
• Being political with integrity
• Navigating the power and politics in your organization

Managing disagreement productively

• Being assertive without aggression
• Defusing disagreement with active listening
• Dealing with more serious disagreement

Harnessing the power of positive psychology

• Seeing stress as a gift
• Building short-term coping mechanisms
• Developing mental toughness

Assembling a personal success strategy

• Aligning strengths and purpose
• Finding balance with the Wheel of Life
• Choosing to become the best that you can be

Choosing your personal and professional future

• Learning from successes and setbacks to build excellence
• Creating big picture goals
• Addressing resistance and established patterns

Committing to action

• Crafting your blueprint for professional effectiveness
• Addressing the journey to excellence continuum
• Presenting your personal statement of commitment