Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills
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Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Course
Introduction:
Companies face unprecedented challenges in an economy dominated by globalization, rapid technological advances, demographic change, and fast-shifting consumer demands. The ability to reinvent products, services, and processes continually is becoming essential for survival and success.
Tackling these challenges can’t be done by senior teams alone: they need to harness the creativity, insights, and engagement of the entire workforce. Leaders need to empower others to take the initiative, coaching and supporting them towards successful outcomes. They must become the champions of employee empowerment, participation, and voice.
This intensive professional excellence course will focus on the critical skills that will enable delegates to build productive relationships and successfully interact with others in the organization. The strategies you will learn, aligned with your commitment to personal improvement, will enable you to become the rare high performer that organizations seek to employ, retain, and promote.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills course, you will be able to:
- Recognize individual Personality Traits & Apply Strategies for Success
- Appreciate the Components of Conflict & Apply Interpersonal Strategies That Will Generate Productive Outcomes
- Apply Basic Tools and Templates Which Install Basic Project Management Practice Skills
- Appraise Current Team Performance & Diagnose Action to Generate Improvement
- Appreciate the Value That Initiative Has in the Leadership Role & Synthesize Ideas to Construct an Agenda for Future Personal Leadership Development.
Who Should Attend?
This Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills course is ideal for:
- Professionals at all levels seeking to improve their skills
- Professionals wishing to enhance their reputation and credibility
- Professionals seeking a ‘refresher’ course to enhance their relationship skills
- Employees identified as ‘high potential’ or ‘fast track’ management candidates
- Employees seeking supervisory or managerial positions
Course Outlines:
Your Productivity
- What Is Productivity?
- Establish (Actually Useful) Goals
- Prioritize The Right Tasks
- Best Techniques to Boost Your Productivity
Create Organizational Values That Work
- Organizational Values Definition
- Product and process innovation
- develop a continuous stream of products
- offer unique and compelling benefits to a chosen set of customers
- Leveraging technology or regulatory changes to create new markets
- Creating win/win partnerships with customers, employees, and suppliers
Add Value to Your Client Relationships
- Micro political conflict in organizations: the transactional analysis perspective
- Personality traits, behaviors, and conflict management
- Relationship Awareness Theory: Managing my response to conflict
- Managing without confrontation: assertive communications
- Preparing for effective negotiating: influence and the characteristics of world-class negotiators
- Generating Productive Outcomes: the Agreement Box model of ‘win-win’
Harness the Power of Diversity in the Workplace
- Create a Workplace Culture of Support and Flexibility
- Successful Value Propositions Require a Team Effort
- Grounded theory: needs analysis evaluation of current performance
- Harnessing diversity for productive outcomes: my role, team roles, and contributions
- Aligning purpose, productivity, and profitability
Empower Employees to Take Initiative
- Authorize teams to make decisions
- Provide a positive, encouraging environment
- Reward success
- Building Trust: the 4 C model to engage and empower others
- Program review and commitment statement
