Looking to build your career brand? This course introduces you to highly practical ways of creating a positive impression and making a lasting impact at work. You will focus on developing your presentation and speaking skills, communicating with confidence and conviction, and strategies for effective time management to ensure you deliver on your commitments, focus on key organizational and team priorities and achieve results.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the process of time management
- Explain different ways to prioritize time
- Successfully use tools to manage your time
Course Curriculum
Part 1: Presentation & Speaking Skills
Deliver presentations and evaluate progress to develop and refine skills, techniques, and delivery. Learn how to deliver informative, motivating, and memorable presentations, explore ways to communicate with clarity and conviction, and develop scripts that speak the same language as your audience.
Part 2: Assertiveness and Confidence with Impact
When people are assertive, they portray a strong, confident image. They can share their views while taking other people’s opinions into account. By contrast, non-assertive, passive-aggressive, or aggressive behaviour can cause misunderstandings, frustration, and even a breakdown in relationships at work.
Part 3: Time Management/ Prioritizing Multitasking
By learning about Time Management, we will review a process for prioritizing daily activities that revolve around our goals and objectives, both individually and at the team level. We will learn to recognize what is important/not important and what is urgent as it relates to our overall goal or project. Also, we will learn how to effectively manage time wasters, which clog up our schedules and inhibit our progress, both individually and as a team.
To learn how to be busy doing the right things that lead to the accomplishment of your individual, team, and organizational goals and objectives. Experiential learning is knowledge, skills, and abilities attained through observation, simulation, or participation that provides depth and meaning to learning by engaging the mind and body through activity, reflection, and application.
Course Access & Bundle Duration
This course is on-demand, meaning that you can take it anytime, at your own pace. It will take you approximately 45 minutes to complete from start to finish.
You have one year (365 days) to open and complete this course from the date of purchase before it will automatically expire in your account. However, once you open it for the very first time in your account, you will have unlimited access to complete it within 90 days.
Course Level/Prerequisites/Certification Credits
Introductory level, no prerequisites.
Final Exam
The final exam is optional but highly recommended. If you choose not to complete the final exam, the course status on your eLearning dashboard will show as incomplete and you will not receive a certificate of completion.
Written and Developed by The Soft Skills Group
We pride ourselves on our ability to develop dynamic solutions to address our client’s needs. We are committed to seeing our clients succeed in their challenging and changing environments. The Soft Skills Group trainers have the expertise and the experience to bring corporate best practices to clients.
We have worked successfully with over 80 corporate clients in many industries —including finance, telecommunications, health care, manufacturing, transportation, natural resources, not-for-profit and governments, and crown corporations. The Soft Skills Group has worked with organizations within education, finance, law, nuclear energy, various public service organizations, and in both profit and not-for-profit fields.
About the Course Authors
Diana Kawarsky, MA, CCP
President
Diana has over 20 years of experience working with more than 20,000 business professionals, effectively improving their management and communication skills to achieve higher impact results. She holds an MA Degree, is a Certified Coach Practitioner and twice published author and World Guru in Communications.
Sheldon Kawarsky, PhD
Vice President
Sheldon has over 20 years of experience holding manager and director roles in the private and academic sectors, focusing on business development and fostering relationships with companies, universities, government organizations, and venture capitalists. His strength is in relationship building and clarifying the needs of clients to ensure their training maximizes their return on investment.
