Courses and Workshops
Listed below are the workshops most requested by our charity, non-profit, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization clients.
One-Day Course Outlines
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Minute Taking & Listening Skills
Preparing minutes for formal and informal meetings. This session includes organizational techniques and plenty of supporting exercises. It also has a component on listening skills.
Report Writing Tools
Everything you need to know to write effective reports: proven tools to ensure you provide your reader with the right information, formats to organize information and recommendation reports quickly, and writing techniques for clear, concise sentences.
Project Management Overview
You will receive an overview of what’s involved in managing a project. Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of the benefits of a sound project management process for their organization.
Time Management : Make it a Habit
This workshop teaches you how to identify the habits you need to change to be a good time manager. You will learn how to develop SMART goals, set priorities, analyze your time problems, and plan and schedule your day for maximum effectiveness.
Transition into Management
This workshop will examine the critical aspects of going from fellow employee to supervisor/manager and explore the difficulties that may lay ahead.
Powerful Leadership Skills
Develop impactful leadership skills through this course, focusing on effective communication, decision-making, and team-building strategies to inspire and drive organizational success.
Leadership for Today and Tomorrow
Customize this leadership course to your organization’s needs with various modules on teamwork, team development, coaching, leading change, well-being, etc.
Emotionally Intelligent Leaders
Learn to cultivate emotionally intelligent leadership skills, empowering you to navigate complex dynamics, inspire teams, and foster a positive work environment, through this comprehensive course.
Emotional Intelligence for Office Professionals
This workshop introduces emotional intelligence, builds important emotional intelligence skills, and provides basic strategies to improve the effectiveness of participants both professionally and personally.
Change Management
This course provides practical tools and tips from a senior change management practitioner. Participants will learn a step-by-step methodology for enabling the people impacted by change to successfully transition from the current to the future work situation or environment.
Conflict Resolution
Conflict triggers different behaviours in each of us, from destructive to productive responses. And while conflict can be very uncomfortable, it is a natural and inevitable part of relationships.
Presentation Skills: The Basics
This session will assist the learner with questioning and with verbal and non-verbal skills, with presenting good messages, and with feeling confident in the message being presented.
Presentation Skills: Tune-Up
If you already have the basic skills needed for making a presentation but want to give them a final polish. Participants will learn and practice techniques for planning, opening, executing and concluding their presentations in a way that fully engages their audiences.
Customer Service
Enhance your customer service skills with this course, designed to equip participants with essential techniques for delivering exceptional customer experiences and fostering long-term client satisfaction.
Half-Day Course Outlines
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Emails @ Work
Increase the chances of your emails getting the results you want. Review the best format, effective subject lines, powerful opening lines and tone. (This session does not cover writing style.)
Grammar Essentials
Update your grammar knowledge. Review the six most common errors, the rules for punctuation and subject and verb agreement.
Business Writing: The Art of Plain Language
There are many techniques to help you incorporate plain language writing into your business documents. This one-day workshop – using examples, exercises, and your own writing samples – will provide you with an overview of the principles of plain language.
Two-Day Course Outlines
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Project Management: Effective Principles
Picture a recent project in which you were involved. Were you clear on the scope? Did you have a detailed plan? Did you have a good handle on the various approvals required? Did you identify and plan for risks up front? Did you finish on time and on budget? If the answer to any of these questions was anything but a definitive “yes,” you need to complete this program.