Meetings and Minutes

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Objectives: To understand what meetings are and why we have them. To understand the importance of an agenda. To identify the key elements of an agenda. To introduce different styles of note taking. To understand what minutes are and why we need them. To learn how to produce appropriate minutes of a meeting.  What you...

Time Management

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Are you frequently interrupted by your colleagues with questions about the job or requests for advice or decisions? Do you sometimes find yourself doing the job of one of your colleagues when they really ought to be doing it themselves? Do you work longer hours than those you work with or those you manage? Do...

Time Management

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Are you frequently interrupted by your colleagues with questions about the job or requests for advice or decisions? Do you sometimes find yourself doing the job of one of your colleagues when they really ought to be doing it themselves? Do you work longer hours than those you work with or those you manage? Do...

Influencing Skills

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The aim of this course is to learn how to develop and apply the skills of influential communication. Objectives: To understand how we are influenced How to tailor your communications for different people and situations To communicate confidently and with purpose How to put across complex ideas in simple, understandable ways How to use non-verbal...

Influencing Skills

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The aim of this course is to learn how to develop and apply the skills of influential communication. Objectives: To understand how we are influenced How to tailor your communications for different people and situations To communicate confidently and with purpose How to put across complex ideas in simple, understandable ways How to use non-verbal...

Leadership Skills

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

As you develop as a senior manager you need to start to think and handle yourself very differently. You are even less involved in the day to day delivery of the work. Your success depends on your ability to manage your managers as well as mentor and inspire others. Your people skills need more finesse...

Leadership Skills

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

As you develop as a senior manager you need to start to think and handle yourself very differently. You are even less involved in the day to day delivery of the work. Your success depends on your ability to manage your managers as well as mentor and inspire others. Your people skills need more finesse...

Professional Receptionist

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Several phone lines are ringing; colleagues are asking questions, and now here comes a customer or client. How do you calmly handle several people simultaneously with professionalism and poise? This course is specifically designed to address just that scenario and other important challenges that receptionists face. In addition to learning effective verbal and visual communication...

Professional Receptionist

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Several phone lines are ringing; colleagues are asking questions, and now here comes a customer or client. How do you calmly handle several people simultaneously with professionalism and poise? This course is specifically designed to address just that scenario and other important challenges that receptionists face. In addition to learning effective verbal and visual communication...

Event Series Train the Trainer

Train the Trainer

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Train the Trainer – Tutor Led Aim: This course will introduce participants to the issues, methodologies and techniques of training design and delivery. Objectives: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Identify training needs Define and create aims and objectives that fit within an organisational perspective Design training sessions Deliver training...

Speedwriting

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This excellent course provides delegates with an overview and introduction to BakerWrite, a highly intuitive and easy to use speedwriting system. The course is designed for those who wish to be able to take effective, accurate notes at work or in everyday life. This one day course will show you how to write in a...

Speedwriting

Edinburgh 4 Queen Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This excellent course provides delegates with an overview and introduction to BakerWrite, a highly intuitive and easy to use speedwriting system. The course is designed for those who wish to be able to take effective, accurate notes at work or in everyday life. This one day course will show you how to write in a...