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Banff Management Course

Creating Effective Teamwork

  • Teamwork: How to develop synergy
  • The meaning of teamwork and the power of teams
  • Understanding the difference between group managers and team leaders
  • The manager's role as an agent of change
  • Developing superior work groups
  • The attitude of a successful team leader
  • How to resolve conflicts and rivalries among staff
  • Building trust within teams
  • Understanding what empowerment is and how the manager can achieve it
  • The five behaviors of effective coaches
  • Removing barriers that keep your team from doing their best work
  • Increasing productivity without spending a cent
  • When all else fails - How to discipline effectively

    Making relationships work for you

  • Four strategies for improving one-on-one relationships
  • Twenty new ways to eliminate office conflicts
  • Secret techniques for making a winning first impression
  • Communication ideas that lead to recognition and advancement
  • Analyzing your personal behavioral styles profile
  • Presenting yourself with IMPACT
  • Four new methods for minimizing interpersonal conflicts
  • The Sicilian Stalemate: How to avoid it

    Improving Memory and Concentration

  • Memory For Management: How a trained memory can impact on your professional success
  • Improving your concentration to a remarkable degree
  • Memory myths and mechanisms
  • Right brain strategies for remembering
  • The "Mental Slap", what it is and how it can help you
  • Remembering facts and numerical data simply and accurately
  • Improving dramatically your ability to remember names and faces
  • Curing absentmindedness forever!

    Working with people

  • Establishing instant trust and rapport with others
  • Coping effectively with different and sometimes difficult people
  • Building customer and client confidence
  • How to build greater credibility
  • How to change resistance into agreement
  • How to respond to hostile criticism
  • Developing the five communication techniques of successful managers
  • Tips for stopping the tough guy cold
  • Get greater results with the hard-to-handle people in your life
  • Cope successfully with complainers and those who just will not communicate
  • Deal effectively with sarcasm, put-downs and hostile aggressive individuals
  • Five ways to work successfully with others as part of a team
  • Understanding the relationship between power and manipulation
  • Identifying your stress style - how it affects your relationships
  • Getting more people to like you

    Managing the Human Resource

  • Managing in an environment of change
  • Motivating people when you cannot give them more money
  • Increasing initiative from below
  • How to identify and eliminate communication behaviors that turn others off
  • Dealing with resistance - What to do when they won't . . .
  • Developing open, direct communication with staff
  • Conducting the disciplinary interview
  • Increasing your confidence as an interviewer
  • Getting your ideas across in a professional manner
  • Controlling the interview from either side of the desk
  • Using the interview as a springboard to action and better performance
  • Avoiding the most common mistakes managers make in interviews
  • Understanding the five most common patterns or poor performance and how to handle them
  • Two powerful systems for analyzing poor performance
  • Identifying your conflict management style
  • Dealing with conflict and resistance from others

    Productivity Improvement and Time Management Skills

  • Organizational skills for the new millennium
  • Strategic Planning in an environment of change
  • Managing yourself - taking control of your time habits
  • Personal planning techniques that minimize "fire fighting"
  • The 5 essential steps in planning your day
  • Establishing your priorities - as easy as ABC
  • Double your productivity without doubling your stress
  • Dealing with upward delegation: The monkey problem
  • 7 strategies for cutting through paperwork
  • Making the vital distinction between URGENT and IMPORTANT
  • Nixon vs. Kennedy: The Pareto Principle
  • How to preserve your "Prime Time"
  • Reversing the Mañana Mentality
  • TIME STYLE: The key to increased personal effectiveness
  • Learning to apply the work style that's best for you
  • How to say NO and GOOD-BYE without offending
  • How to avoid the manipulative time tactics of others
  • Organizing and managing meetings
  • Exploring the NEW time technologies
  • Never say, "I don't have time", again

    Reducing stress and its effects

  • Recognize and deal with the early signs of stress: what your behavior is telling you
  • Change vs. Stress: The trade-offs
  • Learn to read your body's warning signals
  • Learn to turn stress into personal energy
  • How to recognize and deal with type "A" behavior
  • Evaluating your conflict management methods
  • Three life enriching ways to reduce stress and its effects
  • Autogenic exercises you can use anywhere
  • A biofeedback sampler
  • How to evoke the "relaxation response"



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