Leadership & Professional Development Workshops/Coaching with Vanessa Trower.

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12 Team Workshop / Coaching Topics:

Assertiveness and Self-Confidence
The Art of Conversation, Networking
Mastering Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
EQ Emotional Intelligence to Improve Professional Relationships
Facilitation Skills for Leadership
Goal Setting & Time Management for Personal Excellence
The Art of Influence
Negotiation skills
Public Speaking for Meetings or Events
Diversity & Inclusion for Leaders
Work life Balance & Mindful Communication for Workplace Wellbeing

See below for workshops objectives.

Invest into professional development.

The Emerging Leader Program

The Professional Development Program offers an exploration into vital personal leadership capabilities that will assist you to build and enhance your toolkit for career advancement or other professional endeavours.

Individual Coaching Topics:

**Assertiveness and Self-Confidence**

Self-confident and assertiveness are two skills that are crucial for success in life. The Assertiveness And Self-Confidence coaching or workshop will give you an understanding of what assertiveness and self-confidence mean and how to develop those feelings in their day-to-day lives. These skills will encompass many aspects of our professional and personal lives and have a positive effect on all of them.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Define assertiveness and self-confidence, and list the four styles of communication.
Describe the types of negative thinking, and how one can overcome negative thoughts.
Explain the difference between listening and hearing.
Define the importance of goal setting, and practice setting SMART goals for assertive behaviour.
Methodologies for understanding your worth -- and the use of positive self-talk.
List reasons why a pleasing appearance and body language are critical for creating a strong first impression.
Practice sending positive communications phrased as “I-Messages”
Practice strategies for gaining positive outcomes in difficult interpersonal situations.

**The Art of Conversation, Networking**

Building a career or business requires a high level of communication with others . Whether it's delivering a presentation to executives in the boardroom, or at a virtual networking event, the level of attention you give your others will build meaningful relationships.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills.
Use the STAR method to speak on the spot.
Listen actively and effectively.
Asking great questions to ignite conversation.
Appreciative inquiry as a communication tool.
Identify and mitigate precipitating factors.
Establish common ground with others.

**Mastering Problem Solving**

This will give you an overview of the entire creative problem solving process, as well as key problem solving tools that they can use every day. Skills such as brainstorming, information gathering, analysing data.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Understand problems and the creative problem solving process
Identify types of information to gather and key questions to ask in problem solving
Identify the importance of defining a problem correctly
Identify and use four different problem definition tools
Write concrete problem statements
Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group voting
Perform a final analysis to select a solution
Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
Understand the need to refine the shortlist and redefine it
Understand how to identify the tasks and resources necessary to implement solutions
Evaluate and adapt solutions to reality

**Critical Thinking**

Critical Thinking provides you with the skills to analyse and evaluate information so that you are able to obtain the greatest amount of knowledge from it. It provides the best chance of making the correct decision, and minimises damages if a mistake does occur.
Critical Thinking will lead to being a more rational and disciplined thinker. It will reduce your prejudice and bias which will provide you a better understanding of your environment. This will provide you the skills to evaluate, identify, and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. It will lead you to be more productive in your career, and provide a great skill in your everyday life.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Understand the components of critical thinking
Utilise non-linear thinking
Use logical thinking
Recognise what it means to be a critical thinker
Evaluate information using critical thinking skills
Identify the benefits of critical thinking
Revise perspective, when necessary
Comprehend problem solving abilities

**EQ Emotional Intelligence to Improve Professional Relationships**

Emotional intelligence describes the ability to understand one's own feelings, and that of groups, and how these emotions can influence motivation and behaviour. The concepts of Emotional Intelligence have been around since at least the 1900's, but the term was first introduced by Wayne Payne in 1985.
As a result of the growing acknowledgement by professionals of the importance and relevance of emotions to work outcomes, the research on the topic continued to gain momentum, but it wasn't until the publication of Daniel Goleman's best seller *Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ* that the term became widely accepted by mainstream media.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Define and practice self-management, self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, and empathy.
Understand, use and manage your emotions.
Verbally communicate with others.
Successfully communicate with others in a non-verbal manner.
Identify the benefits of emotional intelligence.
Relate emotional intelligence to the workplace.
Balance optimism and pessimism.

**Facilitation Skills for Leadership**

Facilitation is often referred to as the new cornerstone of management & leadership philosophy. With its focus on fairness, inclusiveness and creating an easy decision making process.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Define facilitation and identify its purpose and benefits.
Clarify the role and focus of a facilitator.
Differentiate between process and content in the context of a group discussion.
Provide tips in choosing and preparing for facilitation.
Identify a facilitator’s role when managing groups in each of Tuckman and Jensen’s stages of group development: forming, storming, norming and performing.
Identify ways a facilitator can help a group reach a consensus: from encouraging participation to choosing a solution.
Provide guidelines in dealing with disruptions, dysfunctions and difficult people in groups.
Define what interventions are, when they are appropriate and how to implement them.

**Goal Setting & Time Management for Personal Excellence**

Goal Setting is one of the most basic and essential skills someone can develop. What makes a good goal? We touch on goal characteristics, time management, making a to do list, and what to do when setbacks occur. This will provide the knowledge and skills to complete more tasks and get things done and overcome procrastination.
These skills will translate into increased satisfaction in their professional and personal lives, as those who master the art of goal setting are more productive and more successful.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Overcome procrastination
Manage time effectively
Accomplish important tasks
Self-motivation
Create SMART goals

**The Art of Influence**

Once you learn the techniques of true Leadership and Influence, you will be able to build the confidence it takes to take the lead. The more experience you have acting as a genuine leader, the easier it will be for you. It is never easy to take the lead, as you will need to make decisions and face challenges, but it can become natural and rewarding.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Understand Transformational Leadership
Understand the people you lead and how to adapt your leadership styles
Explain leading by Directing
Explain leading by Participating
Explain leading by Delegating
Conduct a personal inventory
Create an action plan for team planning

**Negotiation skills**

The truth is that we negotiate all the time. Through this you will be able to understand the basic types of negotiations, the phases of negotiations, and the skills needed for successful negotiating. It will give you a sense of understanding others and have the confidence to not settle for less than you feel is fair. You will learn that an atmosphere of respect is essential, as uneven negations could lead to problems in the future.
**Objectives**
Understand the basic types of negotiations, the phases of negotiations, and the skills needed for successful negotiating
Understand and apply basic negotiating concepts: WATNA, BATNA, WAP, and ZOPA
Lay the groundwork for negotiation
Identify what information to share and what to keep to yourself
Understand basic bargaining techniques
Apply strategies for identifying mutual gain
Understand how to reach consensus and set the terms of agreement
Deal with difficult issues
Use the negotiating process to solve everyday problems
Negotiate on behalf of someone else

**Public Speaking for Meetings or Events**

This will help you become more confident and relaxed in front of an audience which will translate into a successful speaking meeting or event.

Mastering public speaking fears and getting comfortable speaking in public can be a huge benefit to your career. This aims to give you public speaking skills, including in-depth information on developing an engaging program and delivering a presentation with power.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Identify your audience
Create a basic outline
Organise ideas
Flesh our presentation
Find the right words
Prepare all the details
Overcome nervousness
Deliver a polished, professional speech
Handle questions and comments effectively

**Diversity & Inclusion for Leaders**

Improving your competence and knowledge in diversity and inclusive plays an important role in great leadership at all levels. You will learn strategies for removing barriers and stereotypes, and how to embrace and encourage diversity.
**Workshop/Coaching Objectives:**
Describe the meaning of stereotypes and biases, how they develop, and the reasons for your own perspectives
List strategies for removing barriers to encouraging diversity for yourself, in the workplace, and in the social community
Use active listening skills to receive messages in a diverse population, employ effective questioning techniques, and communicate with strength
Identify ways to encourage diversity in the workplace, and prevent and discourage discrimination
Understand and respond to personal complaints, and develop a support system to manage the resolution process
List the steps a manager should take to record a complaint, analyse the situation, and take appropriate resolution action

Leadership & Professional Development Workshops/Coaching with Vanessa Trower.

Invest into professional development.

The Emerging Leader Program

Individual Coaching Topics:

Assertiveness and Self-Confidence

The Art of Conversation, Networking

Mastering Problem Solving

Critical Thinking

EQ Emotional Intelligence to Improve Professional Relationships

Facilitation Skills for Leadership

Goal Setting & Time Management for Personal Excellence

The Art of Influence

Negotiation skills

Public Speaking for Meetings or Events

Diversity & Inclusion for Leaders

Work life Balance & Mindful Communication for Workplace Wellbeing.

Together we can build your ideal session and within your budget.