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Personal Skills for Professional Excellence
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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. By understanding and making the best use of your strengths and talents to achieve success and work with others to manage challenging situations, you add value to your organization. In this course, 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.
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
Important Course Information
Requirements
- A desire to develop greater self-knowledge
- Ability to work constructively with others
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
Convenient Ways to Attend This Instructor-Led Course
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Live, Online
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In the Classroom — OR — Live, Online
Tuition — Standard: $2295 Government: $2295
Feb 12 - 14
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3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Toronto / Online (AnyWare)
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Apr 15 - 17
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3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
New York / Online (AnyWare)
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Jun 10 - 12
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3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
Herndon, VA / Online (AnyWare)
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Aug 12 - 14
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3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
Toronto / Online (AnyWare)
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Oct 14 - 16
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3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
New York / Online (AnyWare)
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Dec 9 - 11
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3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Herndon, VA / Online (AnyWare)
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Tuition
Standard
Government
In Classroom or
Online
Standard
$2295
Government
$2295
Private Team Training
Course Tuition Includes:
Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Enhance Your Credentials with Professional Certification
Learning Tree's comprehensive training and exam preparation guarantees that you will gain the knowledge and confidence to achieve professional certification and advance your career.
Earn 16 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 16 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 16 PDUs
Leadership : 4 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 3 PDUs
Earn 23 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 23 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 16 PDUs
Leadership : 4 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 3 PDUs