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Personal Skills Training for Professional Excellence
Level: Foundation
Rating:
4.92/5 Based on 172 Reviews
In today’s complex and fast-changing workplace, how you demonstrate your professionalism and the effect you have on others is as important as the tangible results you produce. In this Personal Skills course, you will learn to make the best use of your strengths and talents to achieve success and work with others to manage challenging situations and add value to your organization. You will learn how to develop the behaviors and competencies that help focus on your purpose, work effectively with colleagues, develop your networks and expertise, contribute constructively to organizational politics and build a reputation for delivering results.
Key Features of this Personal Skills Training:
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
You Will Learn How To:
- Add value to your organization by building your strengths and talents
- Get results working with different and difficult personality types
- Maintain focus in pressure situations
- Build and leverage your professional reputation
- Work productively within your organization's political environment
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LIVE, INSTRUCTOR-LED
In Class & Live, Online Training
- 3-day instructor-led training course
- One-on-one after-course instructor coaching
- Tuition can be paid later by invoice -OR- at the time of checkout by credit card
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Note: This course runs for 3 Days *
*Events with the Partial Day Event clock icon run longer than normal but provide the convenience of half-day sessions.
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Aug 12 - 14 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT Online (AnyWare) Reserve Your Seat
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Sep 9 - 11 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT Alexandria, VA / Online (AnyWare) Reserve Your Seat
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Mar 30 - Apr 1 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT New York / Online (AnyWare) Reserve Your Seat
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Learning Tree offers a flexible schedule program. If you cannot attend full day sessions, this option consists of four-hour sessions per day instead of the full-day session.Important Personal Skills Course Information
Requirements
- A desire to develop greater self-knowledge
- Ability to work constructively with others
Personal Skills Course Outline
Introduction
- Key characteristics of professional people
- The components of personal effectiveness
Realizing Your Strengths and Fulfilling Your Potential
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
Building Your Professional Effectiveness
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
Working Productively with Others
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
Achieving Results in Pressure Situations
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
Building Your Professional Reputation
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
Creating the Results You Want
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
Setting the Framework for Success
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
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Personal Skills Training FAQs
What is the difference between personal and professional skills?
Personal skills are the strengths within yourself that make you who you are and professional skills are how you incorporate your personal skills efficiently into your organization.
What are personal skills in business?
Personal skills in business can include, but are not limited to leadership, time management, adaptable, dependable, and responsible.
Can I learn personal skills for professional excellence online?
Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want, including online training.
Can I earn Professional Development Units for the Personal Skills for Professional Excellence course?
Yes, you can receive PDUs from the Personal Skills for Professional Excellence course.
To find out how many PDUs you can receive, check out the PMI Q&A List ›
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