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Time and Priority Questionnaire
Time and Priority Questionnaire
The Three Pillars of Great Communication
The Three Pillars of Great Communication
From Management to Leadership sample activity
From Management to Leadership sample activity
Institute of Directors' Top Reasons for NOT Cancelling Training in a Recession
Reasons for NOT Cancelling Training in a Recession
The little book of leadership
An interview with David Powell
An interview with David Powell
An extract from Financial Skills for the Proactive PA documentation
An extract from Developing Professional Assertiveness and confidence documentation
An extract from the Effective Office Management documentation
Effective Office Management Documenation Sample
An extract from the Effective Office Management documentation pack
Meeting the challenges of remote and virtual team working
Article on meeting the challenges of remote and virtual team working
How IIR BPI and an Asset Management company have worked together
A case study to illustrate how IIR BPI and a large asset management company have worked together on in-company training.
How IIR BPI and a large telecoms company have worked together
A case study illustrating the successful relationship developed between IIR BPI and a larte telecoms company
Building a collaborative leadership community that learns from each other. A new approach to leadership development
60 Second Targets Incentives
Differences between an SLA and a Service Contract
An extract from the documentation pack for Establishing & Managing SLA's & Service Contracts
The Key Contract Management Stakeholders
An extract from Negotiating, Drafting & Managing Commercial Contracts documentation pack.
What are the skills required to be an exceptional PA
An overview of the skills required to be an exceptional PA
An overview of the skills required by a PA
An chapter taken from our leading trainer David Powell's e-book A Hidden Advantage
Leadership Skills for Senior Managers
An extract from Leadership Skills for Senior Managers documentation
Leadership Skills for New Leaders
An extract from the Leadership Skills for New Leaders documentation
Part of the Management Skills for Newly Appointed Managers documentation pack
An extract from the documentation pack of Management Skill for the Newly Appointed Manager
An extract from The Essentials of Effective Negotiation documentation pack
An extract from The Essentials of Effective Negotiation documentation pack
An extract from The Finance for the Non-Financial Manager documentation
An Introduction to Financial Statements
An extract from The Finance for the Non-Financial Manager documentation
The five influencing skills of expert negotiators.
The findings of an extensive research project analysing large numbers of presenters, presentations, speeches and audiences.
Webinar Briefing on "The Hidden Advantage"
Webinar Briefing on "The Hidden Advantage", Powerful Keys to Improving Business Performance.
Powerful keys to significantly improving business performance
Making Your Goals Succeed With Emotional Intelligence
Business Negotiation Skills Breakfast Briefing
The sheer volume of participants in IIRMD’s Breakfast Briefing on Business Negotiation Secrets reflects the importance of this issue in the workplace today. Over 100 attendees from companies including ABN AMRO, AOL, Bankgesellschaft Berlin, BP, Energia, FAST, Goldshield Pharmaceuticals, KPMG, Match.com, Oracle Corp, Royal & Sun Alliance, the Royal Free Hospital, Shell and Wall Street Systems came from all over Britain and from as far away as France and the United States. After a breakfast of coffee and pastries, the session kicked off at 9:00am. The room was buzzing as the attendees waited for a snapshot of negotiation tools, techniques and strategies for themselves and to take back to their companies.
Leadership in the 21st Century Breakfast Briefing
The IIR Management Development Breakfast Briefing
A team is too often a collection of individuals who sit next to each other or share a common boss – but no more. Many teams suffer from lack of all those characteristics that personify an effective team – cooperation, communication, feedback, loyalty, support. They remain separate individuals who appear to have been randomly placed...
Have you noticed what every marathon runner does at the beginning of the race? They start their watches. Every single person carries with them their own time. During the race, they monitor their own progress – minutes per mile, time at five miles. For the majority, where they finish in the field is of little interest; it’s what time you do that’s important...
Exclusive Interview with Larry Reynolds
Exclusive Interview with Larry Reynolds
Article about leadership skills for senior managers
Developing leaders in the 21st century: the way ahead
IIRMD's ground breaking Leadership Survey features in December's Training Journal. Larry Reynolds takes a close look at a recent survey on leadership, highlighting some of the most significant findings and their implications. To download Larry's article entitled "Developing Leaders in the 21st Century: the Way Ahead."
Dynamic Speed Reading – The Business Applications
Today’s business professionals are inundated with more pieces of information than ever before. The daily deluge of emails, reports, journals and memos that find our way onto our desk can often leave us drowning in a sea of information.
Optimist-Pessimist Questionnaire
Is your outlook that of an optimist or that of a pessimist? Either viewpoint can have profound implications on your working life. This questionnaire has been designed to help you understand your own personal balance between optimism and pessimism and the possible implications in your career.
The manager as a Coach – A best practice model
As the pace of change and the demands of managing complex markets and organisations increases, the need for managers to be excellent coaches at all levels is paramount in developing learning organisations.
An Introduction to ROI (Return on Investment) Based Training
This article is designed to highlight the importance of ROI (Return On Investment) based training to managers and HR professionals and to help readers understand just what a difference ROI based training could make to your business.
The four dimensions of leadership
Leaders are never satisfied with how things are – they always want them to be better. Some leaders are...
Making It Happen – The Elephant Technique
The concept of planning changes from person to person and from job to job. Planning can be carried out...
Real Power is about having the ability to get the objectives you want, through direct action or persuasion. And the truth is anybody can wield enormous power if they know how.
Great insight can be attained when we truly understanding our preferred styles of leadership and management. This assessment is designed to give you a key insight into your personal leadership style preferences.
WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT - HOW YOU LOOK OR WHAT YOU SAY?
Document written by Larry Reynolds, our leadership expert.
Workplace worksheet document
A leadership case study
Checklists
Document written by Barry Faith, project management expert and course tutor for "Effectively Managing Projects"
Tip Sheets
Document written by Larry Reynolds, our leadership expert.
If you don't have a vision then you are not a leader. But what is a vision exactly?
How to help your people solve problems
Do you live out your core values every?
Have you ever tried to influence another person? How successful were you?
Learn from those who have gone before
What the futurologists say about the future
Everyone talks about transformational leadership these days. But what does it actually mean?
Is your organisation doing enough to develop the leaders of the future?
Managers are not (necessarily) leaders
The is a difference between manager and leading. A great manger does not always make a great leader!
Do you understand the numbers?
If you don't know the numbers, how can you decide where to focus your efforts most effectively?
Leaders challenge the status quo
Effective leaders are never truly satisfied with how things are right now
How much should a good leader do?
How do you get to be more innovative and creative?
Asking the challenging question
A list of questions to challenge the status quo
The age old dilema of short term gains versus long term investment
If you juggle too many balls eventually you will drop one - not all of them bounce!
Why it's important to have someone support and challenge your views and ideas
Survey after survey show that people at work value appreciation more than money
A mini staff satisfaction survey for you to use
Why the best leaders spend time "walking the floor"
If you don't know where you are going, it's unlikely that anyone will follow you!
Face the brutal facts....about yourself
Sometimes we need to confront ourselves!
It's ok not to have all the answers!
Get the wrong people off the bus
Why you can't tolerate poor perormers.
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