Soft Skills Training

How well developed are your people skills? Or your interpersonal and communication skills? Some also call them social skills or your emotional intelligence (EQ). How good are your persuasion and influencing skills? How diplomatic are you? How comfortably and confidently do you relate to and interact with people you deal with - both in business and in your personal relationships?

In the world of "hard" technical and business skills, I like to call these "soft skills".

If you are reading this, perhaps you've enjoyed a stimulating and successful career thus far in your profession. Yet, maybe there are still some "blind spots" in your "soft skills" that could use polishing to help you work with people more confidently and eloquently?

Perhaps you are asking yourself some questions at this point?

Questions like my clients have been asking themselves which are exactly those I have addressed with my "soft skills" grooming and training modules include:

• You've learned the corporate system and know how to play by the rules. Promotions have buoyed your confidence. Yet, you sometimes struggle with all this "people stuff."

• How well do you communicate? Is it easy and enjoyable, or do you find it somewhat challenging?

• Or feel more confident when presenting to a group, the boss or perhaps the stakeholders in your program? Do you sometimes find it hard to get your point across? Or could it be that you get really frustrated by people not understanding you?

• Maybe you wish you could relate to business colleagues and better speak their language? Do you wish you could build stronger rapport - naturally and easily? You know, get people to warm to you more easily?

• Are you known for your diplomacy skills, or do you come across as too pushy or blunt? Are you somewhat uptight or too serious? How well can you relate to others and how well do they relate to you?

• How easy is it for you to listen? Do you become impatient easily? What do others say about your people skills?

• Can you easily get people on your side and persuade or influence them?

• How easily do you earn people's trust? Do you trust and respect them? Are you good at taking criticism? How often do you acknowledge or praise good work around you? Do you "fetch" what you want for yourself and your career, or do you wait for it to be brought to you?

• How well do you present yourself? Do you have a presence? How would you like to develop that? Do others look up to you for answers?

• How good are your negotiating skills? Are you overly competitive? Are you a loner or do you better work in a team environment? What if you could be really good at both?

• How well are you networked? Would you like to develop networking into such a skill that people would call you to ask if you knew a person for their request, just because they know you to be a connector? Would you see the value in that? Do you sometimes envy those with a large network? Do you wish you knew how to do the same?

• How confidently do you lead and manage others? Do you inspire people to help you achieve the outcomes you yearn for? Do you sometimes wonder how to get them to willingly follow you? How do you get the people on your teams to cooperate?

• Perhaps you are a leader and wish the people in your team or department could have vastly improved "soft skills"? How much better could you and they deliver your expected outcomes by being better able to relate and influence?

This is an outline of the soft skills grooming (one on one) and training (classroom or webinar) modules that I offer:

1. Leadership of Self around 60+ proven coaching concepts

2. Developing and earning personal and workplace trust and respect

3. Fine-tuning your active listening skills

4. Honing your diplomacy skills

5. Building advanced rapport and communication skills

6. Enhancing your negotiation skills

7. Growing your networking skills

8. Getting and staying on top with new coping and productivity skills

9. How to add value in everything you do

10. Superior skills in handling issues

11. Improving your delegation skills

12. Sharpening your performance management skills

Whilst I don't offer a specific presentation skills course (yet) I do provide very specific and very successful one on one coaching and grooming to significantly enhance your presentatiion skills by helping you apply very powerful NLP techniques to assure your reaching everyone in your audience with volition.

The above modules are the direct result of decades of experience working for, with and alongside countless executives and professionals; as well as coaching, grooming and mentoring business leaders and professionals from all walks of life. People just like you... who would love to take their careers or business performance to another level of successful personal and professional interaction. To confidently communicate with, persuade, influence and lead people.

You can, you know. Making a commitment to yourself is all it takes. So why don't you do that right now? Why don't you contact me and book a free exploratory conversation? What do you have to lose? You will be so glad you did.