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An interview is a very specialized, structured conversation.
This 1½ hour session provides key tools and techniques to get the most out
of being an interviewer, whatever the context. As well as the skills of
interaction it sets the scene from preparing the physical environment to
structured note taking.
Recommended book:
Instant
Interviewing - £9.99 – interviewing is something many managers are
required to do in their spare time or with little training. This compact
book packs in the techniques and expertise that can turn any manager into
an effective interviewer.
Teams can deliver both
the best and the worst of human interaction. A high-functioning team
provides true synergy – more than the sum of the input from its individual
members. A poorly functioning team will be pulling in so many different
directions that the few achievements it makes are likely to have negative
impact. For a team to be effective it has to be creative – to produce
something that didn’t exist before the team’s intervention. The aim of this
bite-sized session is to give a team the tools and techniques it needs to
deliver creatively.
Recommended book:
Instant
Teamwork - £9.99 – over 70 games and exercises to provide
ice-breakers, warm-ups and time-outs to enhance teamwork and group
creativity.
Decisions define the development of an individual. This event looks at the
different types of decision facing each of us and provides different tools
and techniques to cope with the anything from the simplest to the most
complex requirement.
The Internet, and particularly the Web, is a superb
information resource - but it is unstructured and difficult to find your way
around. There's a lot more to it than just typing a query into a search
engine and hoping. The E-resource gives each attendee essential tips
and techniques to make the most of the Internet, from meta-searches to using
the real people via e-mail. The course and book are supported by a Web site
with extra information.
Recommended book:
The Professional’s Guide to Mining the
Internet - £9.99 – a guide to making use of the most amazing
information resource now on our desktops. Not a list of sites which will
get out of date, but the skills needed to find your way around and get to
the information you need.
Negotiation isn’t just for the selected few – almost every
interaction with other human beings where participants have differing goals
results in negotiation. It’s at the heart of all management as well as any
business undertaken with another company. In 1½ hours the participants get a
chance to explore the essentials of negotiation and go away with a
collection of tips and techniques to help them fare better in the next
negotiation they face.
Recommended book:
Instant
Negotiation - £9.99 – negotiation is a part of every business
contact. The techniques in this book enable you to get the best out of a
negotiation, to know when to go for logic and when for gut feel.
Getting others to buy in to our hopes and dreams, getting
people to act and to support our intentions is a complex business. In an
interactive session we explore the three levels of motivation – one to one,
team and large scale – and how appropriate techniques can be focussed at
each level.
Recommended book:
Instant
Motivation - £9.99 – whether you are motivating an individual, a
team, or a large group, the quick and easy techniques in this book will
help make the difference between almost and success.
Choice is a fundamental aspect of life. We all make choices all the time.
This unique session uses a powerful piece of software to help explain how we
make our choices – and how we can make them better. Whether you are buying a
new piece of equipment, hiring a person for a job or choosing an appropriate
solution to a problem, choice will never be quite the same again.
Our memories are one of
the most powerful, yet underused personal resources. This 1½ hour session
gives an insight into how memory works and provides easy to use techniques
to remember anything from numbers to names and faces. Better memory isn’t
just an impressive party trick, it’s a powerful business tool.
Recommended book:
Instant
Brainpower - £9.99 – over 70 exercises to help improve personal
creativity, memory and knowledge management. Where Instant Creativity
covers techniques to solve a problem or generate an idea, these are
exercises to enhance your inherent creativity.
There has never been a more difficult time - or exciting time
- in the workplace. This seminar demonstrates the new skills that all
managers and staff need to cope in a world where an MBA isn’t enough.
Providing an overview on identifying your preferred work style, creativity,
knowledge management, networking, leadership and thriving in the new
environment of complex interacting teams and groups, the New Manager
session helps participants set the direction for their management development.
Attendees go away with a better understanding of the key role that
creativity, communication and knowledge play in the new manager's role.
Recommended book:
The Chameleon
Manager - £16.99 – builds a new portfolio of personal skills to
manage in the changing world of the new millennium, centred on
communication, creativity and knowledge.
This 1 to 1½ hour
seminar looks at the organizational requirements to survive and thrive in
the 21st century. It considers the mechanisms for balancing management and
leadership, innovation and reaction, centralization and fragmentation. The
approach is not to opt for a weak compromise but to straddle both extremes
of the scale at once. DisOrganization will send the participants out
with a new concept of how an organization can function, asking questions
about the nature of the organization and the way it develops.
Recommended book:
DisOrganization - £27.99 – a guide to changing the way a company
works to meet the challenges of 21st century business in a
creative way.
A huge amount of business communication relies on the written word, yet most
business documents, from a hastily produced email to a major report, are
badly written and fail to achieve their intended goals. With a wide
experience of writing successful books and proposals, the Creativity
Unleashed approach can transform written communication in an organization.
Recommended book:
Instant
Motivation - £9.99 – whether you are motivating an individual, a
team, or a large group, the quick and easy techniques in this book will
help make the difference between almost and success.
Presentation skills can make the difference between success
and failure for a project or an individual. All too often the same old tired
presentations with over-full slides and ineffective handouts result in… very
little. In the Screen Gems session we help make your presentations talked
about, remembered and acted upon.
Recommended book:
Instant
Motivation - £9.99 – whether you are motivating an individual, a
team, or a large group, the quick and easy techniques in this book will
help make the difference between almost and success.
Our
Something Completely Different range of bite-sized events are ideal for
awaydays and other times when you are looking for something to inspire
totally different thinking. These fascinating events provide stimulating and
thought provoking insights into a popular science topic. Some of the
sessions were originated at the world-renowned Royal Institution in London,
others were developed specifically for these events. To make the session
even more special, we can provide a popular science book for each attendee
to accompany the session. Topics include:
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A Brief History of Infinity - a remarkable
exploration of twists, turns and paradoxes of the infinite
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Relativity for Dunces - relativity is
probably the best known and least understood aspect of modern science, but
it doesn't have to be painful
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Light Years - the 3000 year story of
humanity's fascination with light
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Who was the First Scientist - lively
exploration that takes in what science is and where it all started
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Entanglement - Einstein described quantum
entanglement as 'spooky action at a distance' and simply wouldn't believe in
it, yet now at least three world-changing technologies are about to launch
on the back of this remarkable phenomenon
Stress is an issue that we
all face in our work and home lives. This is not a conventional stress
management course, but in this 1.5 hour session the participants gain an
understanding of stress and build a strategy to balance stress for an
effective life.
Recommended book:
Instant
Stress Management - £9.99 – stress can be a killer or the edge
that makes for success. This book is packed with techniques to control
stress and get the most out of a busy life.
The
trouble with time management is there isn’t time to do it – which is why
Time Tamers was developed. This 1½ hour session explores the ten key areas
where action can improve time management without resorting to complex
systems that are never going to be used. Based on tips from the busiest
people, Time Tamers take time management from being a chore to an essential
part of achieving what you want out of life.
Recommended book:
Instant Time
Management - £9.99 – over 70 techniques to improve time
management, without the whole business of time management taking up too
much time.
Training can get more than a little samey. In a session
especially designed for trainers and managers/team leaders who want to
develop their staff, this session provides more creative and dramatic ways
to lift training out of the everyday and make it special.
Recommended book:
Training Plus
- £16.99 – the methods and techniques of training have become stale over
the years. Provides a plan for transforming the training process, bringing
in creativity and combining the best of new technology with human
expertise.
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