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business & management skills training courses

Please find listed details of our most popular business and management skills training courses.  Solutions2Training are also able to develop bespoke training courses  to meet your organisation’s specific requirements.

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Appraisals Skills

Conducting an appraisal is an essential management skill.  An effective appraisal will motivate and focus an employee and strengthen both their relationship with their manager and their overall performance.  This course examines the key techniques of effective appraising in terms of preparation, delivery and follow up.

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Assertiveness Skills

Many people feel unable to assert themselves effectively in the workplace.  This can lead to frustration, unsatisfactory relationships with colleagues and can affect not just the employee concerned but the overall effectiveness of the entire operation.  This course aims to teach a few simple techniques to help delegates learn how to assert themselves at work.

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Managing Poor Performance and Disciplinary Procedures

Identifying and dealing with performance issues effectively is a key aspect of running a successful operation.  This course looks at how to identify and manage poor performance and examines when and how to use the disciplinary process.

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Data Protection Awareness

This course teaches delegates the principles of the Data Protection Act and helps them to understand how to manage the implications in their job role.

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Dealing with Difficult People

Avoiding conflict is a natural response for many people but it can often lead to long-term problems and can affect our ability to do our job properly.  This course provides some simple techniques for dealing with people who use conflict as a way of asserting their will.  After this course delegates will feel empowered to manage difficult situations effectively.

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Employment Law Overview

This course examines the most important pieces of legislation governing employment and how to manage their impact in the workplace.

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Introduction to Successful Selling

This course is designed to give new salespeople the confidence to appoint, present to and close potential customers.  This is a valuable foundation course that is highly structured, interactive and focuses on bringing out the best in delegates in a supportive environment.

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Letter and Report Writing

Shoddy and unprofessional correspondence undermines customer confidence and can lead to business being lost.  This course helps delegates understand how to structure the content and layout of their correspondence and avoid some of the most common mistakes.

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Successful Media Interviews

Being interviewed by the media can be a daunting experience for even the most senior employee.  This interactive workshop explores some key techniques to deploy when being interviewed and provides a safe and supportive environment to practice using them.

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Negotiation Skills

When dealing with customers, colleagues, employees and suppliers situations often arise where negotiation skills are required.  If handled successfully all parties can come away from a negotiation feeling they got something they wanted.  This course looks at how to plan and deliver negotiations in a confident and realistic way.

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Presentation Skills

This course focuses on developing delegates’ presentation skills and confidence by encouraging a positive and patient environment whilst maintaining an element of fun and active participation.

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Project Management

Project management is becoming an increasingly important skill in the operation of most organisations but many employees are unsure exactly what it means and what it involves.  This course will clearly define what a project is and what the role of a project manager is.  Delegates will learn strategies that will enable them to organise and manage resources in order to deliver their project on target and in budget.

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Recruiting and Retaining Employees

High staff turnover is a serious and costly problem for many organisations.  Although the reasons for this are numerous many can be traced back to the recruitment process and the first few weeks of employment.  Finding and keeping the right employees is essential to the survival of every organisation and this course looks at simple techniques that can be deployed to meet this goal.

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Stress Management

While a certain amount of pressure can be healthy and even help us perform in our job roles more and more employees are reporting that they are under unacceptable levels of pressure.  This can have disastrous effects on morale, productivity and employee retention and employers are recognising that this is an area where managers need to be given training to support their team.

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Telephone Skills

Successful communication using the telephone is quite different from face-to-face communication and requires a new set of skills to work successfully.  As many organisations rely on the telephone for making contact with new customers and maintaining contact with existing customers it is vital that employees understand the principles of effective telephone communication and have skills in place to ensure they are able to interact professionally with your customers.

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Effective Time Management

Many employees have a sense that they work hard all day but don’t actually achieve anything.  If not addressed, this can lead to frustration, stress and an inability to meet targets.  This course examines the “Thieves of Time” which plague our personal productivity and sense of achievement.  Delegates will learn skills which will improve their planning, assertiveness, setting priorities, decision making, desk and paper management and communication skills.

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Train the Trainer

This course enables delegates to design, deliver, evaluate and follow up effective programmes.  There is a strong focus on delivery skills and also teaching classic techniques around handling difficult trainees and controlling the group.

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