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Business English & Office Skills - (Effective Business Communication) Our students' favourite course This exciting self-paced programme will teach you how to communicate effectively in business by letter, email and telephone. You'll learn principles of grammar, letter layout, how to structure your CV and many other essential skills. Available at our High Holborn and Notting Hill training centres. Visit www.holborntraining.co.uk for more information.  more...

Better Business Letters Seminar This seminar is available as an in-house training day for groups of 6 students or more, at your premises or ours. It's aimed at staff tasked with drafting effective business communication. During our intensive, one-day seminar students will learn: How to express themselves persuasively using plain English and the correct tone. The essential rules of grammar, punctuation and spelling  more...

Voice problems? Sore throat? Hoarseness? VOICE CARE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE for TEACHERS. Teachers voice care London, Sussex & UK ... approach makes perfect sense. Alexander Technique is better known as a method for dealing with the aches and strains of modern life - posture, bad backs, stress management etc. F. M. Alexander was, in fact, an actor who experienced voice and breathing problems on stage. He returned to the stage free of vocal difficulties following a seven year period of self-observation. When he first  more...

Voice problems? Sore throat? Hoarseness? Stress & strain? VOICE CARE & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE for TEACHERS. London, Sussex & UK ... approach makes perfect sense. Alexander Technique is better known as a method for dealing with the aches and strains of modern life - posture, bad backs, stress management etc. F. M. Alexander was, in fact, an actor who experienced voice and breathing problems on stage. He returned to the stage free of vocal difficulties following a seven year period of self-observation. When he first  more...

Effective Team Working Organisational success increasingly depends on effective teamwork. This course will provide participants with a better understanding of team dynamics and the roles and responsibilities of all team members. It can also be used to address areas not usually covered during team development programmes, for example, the internal politics within a team, and how teams can work successfully with others  more...

Effective Inductions The pressure of daily routines can often make it difficult to take the time to ensure that new members of staff are assisted in the process of becoming integrated into the organisation. For many organisations, staff induction simply involves a whistle-stop tour of the building and a few colleagues cajoled into telling them briefly what's what. Others go for information overload, or a drawn out or  more...

Report Writing ...better customer relations, more successful funding bids, improved image and reputation, better communication, and fewer misunderstandings. This course will develop a range of essential written communication skills, including how to avoid making common grammatical and punctuation errors, and how to get the message across using concise, plain English. It is particularly recommended for anyone  more...

Managing your Manager ...eeling so much more positive and motivated to make things better between me and my manager " "I have always deferred to my manager for making the relationship work. I know now that it's also my responsibility to negotiate for what I need to help me to do my job better." "I am looking forward to having a useful conversation with my manager to discuss how we can do things differently to help  more...

Introduction to Team Leadership and Management ...esults faster. This course will provide delegates with a better understanding of team dynamics, and the essentials of leading and managing a team. It will focus on the needs of the individuals within the team, and on the process of team development. Most importantly, it will identify the roles and responsibilities of the team leader/manager in keeping the team on track, and functioning  more...

Emotional Intelligence at Work ...t will help delegates to understand themselves and others better, and will give an insight into how to build productive and professional relationships at work. It is recommended for anyone who would like to learn how emotions affect performance at work, and how to use practical but effective strategies to manage emotions in difficult situations. "This course has really changed my perception  more...

Effective Meetings ...e a frustrated meeting participant wishing you could make better use of the time, or whether you are struggling to keep things on track as the chair, there is always room for improved communication, focus and creativity - this course will show you how to get the most out of your meetings. "This was a real eye-opener I never realised just how much time and resources we had been wasting in  more...

Licensed NLP Practitioner training 7- Day Intensive ...ho wants to increase their personal effectiveness through better interpersonal skills and reliable tools for peak performance. Objectives: On completion of the course you will be able to: * Build deep levels of rapport with others quickly and easily * Develop instant self-confidence in any situation * Communicate far more effectively and precisely * Influence others ethically  more...

Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback Giving effective feedback is an essential tool for managers in maintaining standards and helping staff reach their full potential. Staff who understand what is expected of them are more motivated and perform more effectively. This programme is for you if you want to develop your own skills in order to improve organisational effectiveness, implement a continuous development of individuals and  more...

Developing and Implementing an Employee Engagement Strategy ...Workforce is a Happy Workforce Engaged employees perform better than others. They experience increased job satisfaction and more positive attitudes and emotions towards their work, benefiting both individual and employer. This practical two day course provides the tools and techniques to develop, communicate and measure an employee engagement strategy in your organisation. This programme is  more...

Facilitation Skills To facilitate is a to free from difficulties or obstaclesa Facilitators, whose job is to help manage the flow and process of information exchange, are more concerned with smoothing the way of the journey than its destination. This programme will give you the skills and techniques to be able to facilitate teams and groups in a business environment. You will learn just how valuable the art  more...

Mentoring in the Workplace ...u. There is a general acceptance that most people achieve better levels of professional success if they have the guidance and help of a mentor; someone with whom they can discuss their career plans, evaluate options and achievements, and work through issues. This programme is for you if you are responsible for mentoring others to develop and improve their performance. You will learn a  more...

Driving High Performance "A process that contributes to the effective management of individuals and teams in order to achieve high levels of organisational performance." Armstrong and Baron Performance management should be strategic, in that it involves broader and longer-term organisational goals, whilst linking various aspects of the business, people management, individuals and teams. This involves identifying  more...

Writing Impressive CVs ...job search, feel more confident about marketing yourself, better prepared during interviews and one step along the road to obtaining a meaningful career. This programme is for you if you wish to write an attention-grabbing CV and gain confidence about marketing themselves to further their career. Your current role, involves numerous functions and responsibilities and these core skills  more...

Career Planning Explore openings and career opportunities This programme is designed specifically to help people who have been in work for several years to maximise on their future prospects by building on the valuable experience they have gained for far. This may mean perhaps considering new work/ life balance considerations. This programme is for you if you want to explore new career opportunities that  more...

PRINCE2 Foundation ...nditions apply. Best price guarantee: If you obtain a better price offer for an accredited PRINCE2 Foundation or PRINCE2 Practitioner course in the same location and time period than ours, we will beat it - just present it to us. Our quality guarantee: If you adhere to all trainer's instructions, participate in the whole course and in spite of that do not pass the PRINCE2 Foundation  more...

PDF Production & Preflighting with Acrobat 8 & Enfocus PitStop Pro - Introduction Two Day Training Course ...st of new features suited for print production, including better preflighting, colour separation previews, colour conversion, ink management, trapping presets etc. Enfocus PitStop Professional 7 is the standard tool for editing and preflighting PDF files for print workflows. With Enfocus PitStop Professional you can make manual changes to PDF documents, check the properties of individual  more...

Body Language Awareness Training Course (1-day Interactive Workshop in London) Although sometimes over hyped body language awareness is very important in many aspects of our everyday business and social life. If you're leading a meeting, delivering a proposal or trying to convince people that what you are saying is a good idea, your body language is also "communicating" as you speak. And if your body language is in sync with your message then you stand a far greater  more...

Change Leadership ... upon you. Change Management is about transforming to better serve the organizationa ™s mission. The more complex the change, the greater the leadership challenge to coordinate a range of processes from strategy formulation, to defining what needs to change and who will be affected. Change only happens effectively and efficiency when all of these are balanced and optimized. Course  more...

Graduate Development - Developing Business Awareness ...jectives: This programme is for you if you wish to: Better understand your organisation and the business environment in which it operates Interpret and demonstrate the organisations values Recognise your professional role as part of the team and develop strategies for enhancing your service provision Create meaningful relationships with your colleagues at all levels and from a variety  more...

Social Media Marketing Training Course ...logs give companies the chance to raise their profile and better connect with customers. This module provides an introduction to the process of setting-up, designing and managing a business blog. You will see and learn about every stage of the production, hosting and posting process. In the UK a staggering 19 million people use Facebook. That's just under a third of the population. A large,  more...

Blogging For Business Training Course ONE-TO-ONE Training Workshop, relevant to you and your business. Many companies are now incorporating blogs into their marketing strategies to interact directly with their audiences, give their brands a personality, drive targeted web traffic and increase engagement. Easy to set up and with a very low outlay, blogs give companies the chance to raise their profile and better connect with customers.  more...

Assertive Behaviour There you go again you have said yes to something you know you should have said no to. How did it happen this time? We can all benefit from an increased awareness of the way we interact with others and the effect of what we say and do. In a healthy and professional workplace we need to be able to negotiate clear boundaries around work demands and pressures and this requires assertive behaviours  more...

Better Proof Reading Course Objectives: This half-day proof reading training course will benefit anyone who has responsibility for checking and correcting documents, including press releases and web pages. This highly interactive programme will help to improve your speed, accuracy and confidence. You will be trained by a highly experienced tutor and you will learn the techniques used by professionals to enable you  more...

The art of effective communication ...monstrate tools and techniques you can use to communicate better with colleagues and customers. A variety of different day-to-day workplace situations such as meetings and telephone conversations will be examined. Contents: The difference between communicating ideas and selling ideas Barriers to good communication Using a simple structure to plan effective communication How behaviour  more...

Outbound Telephone Sales ...for making productive telephone sales calls. This enables better results to be achieved through the use of correct structures and control techniques. Contents: By the end of this course each delegate will be able to: Understand and describe the sales process (cycle) Describe and use a simple telesales structure Use simple communication skills to gather information and gain commitment  more...

Value Adding Appraisals ...back Reflect on what went well... ... and what could be better Motivate your team members Set objectives Plan future development As you are required to do appraisals, why not make the most of them? This workshop provides all of the building blocks to hold a successful appraisal meeting - one that adds value to your staff member and to you - and shares a powerful framework for giving  more...

Building Better Relationships for Sales Negotiation Whether selling products or services to valued customers, or wanting to communicate more effectively with other departments, trust based relationships are the key to long term success. Smarter 'Selling' is the workshop to build sustainable business relationships and help develop individuals, teams and groups that: -Sell products and want to understand customers' personal needs, build rapport  more...

Asset Allocation and the Business Cycle ...r This programme is for anyone who wants to understand better the economic forces behind the performance of different asset classes including: * Chief investment officers * Asset managers * Strategists * Private bank relationship managers * Hedge fund managers Prior Knowledge The more experience the better for this highly interactive, participatory course. Participants  more...

MongoDB for Developers ...en expert on MongoDB, this two-day course prepares you to better understand the MongoDB command shell, query API and driver tools. Through a variety of hands on labs and exercises, you will learn how to troubleshoot common issues and failures. Spanning the MongoDB gamut, covering CRUD, schema design, performance tuning, map-reduce, replication, and sharding, this workshop gives you the  more...

Gojko Adzics BDD for Developers Leading developer, architect and author of "Bridging the Communication Gap" and "Specification by Example" Gojko Adzic, will be delivering a two-day hands-on BDD for Developers course, helping you gain the skills you need to apply the ideas and practices of BDD to solve real-world problems. Through a combination of simulations and practical hands-on exercises, you will learn how to apply the  more...

Jonas Boners Akka Simpler Scalability Fault-Tolerance Concurrency Remoting through Actors and STM course ...Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance it adopts the "Let it crash" model which have been used with great success in the Telecom industry to build applications that self-heals, systems that never stop. Akka's Remote Actors, together with the Clustering module, provides the abstraction  more...

Jonas Boners Akka Simpler Scalability Fault-Tolerance Concurrency Remoting through Actors and STM ...Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance it adopts the "Let it crash" model which have been used with great success in the Telecom industry to build applications that self-heals, systems that never stop. Akka's Remote Actors, together with the Clustering module, provides the abstraction  more...

Simon Browns Software Architecture for Developers Workshop ... more 'architecturally aware', and will help you to build better software. It's about pragmatic and real-world software architecture rather than academic "ivory tower" software architecture and is presented by Simon Brown. Software Architecture for Developers is a comprehensive two day training course that will jumpstart your way to becoming a software architect. The course is an interactive  more...

International Association of Software Architects IASA Foundation Gold Course This 5 day International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Foundation Gold Course provides you with a detailed understanding of the skills that the worldwide IASA community has found to be essential for the practicing IT Architect along with practical, useable architectural skills that you can start using immediately. The course combines the best of the IASA 101 and 102 foundation  more...

Myers-Briggs Workshop Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) allows individuals in a team to firstly better understand themselves and secondly understand others in the team. This leads to higher productivity of the team through increased levels of cooperation and acceptance. Research into effective teams has shown that self understanding and emotional intelligence are key for success.  more...

Progressive .NET Course - 3 days - UK ... practices, ideas and tools that help us deliver software better and faster. Students will get hands-on experience and a solid introduction to test driven development, agile acceptance testing, continuous integration, dependency injection, object-relational mapping, aspect oriented programming, agile web development and asynchronous systems using leading open-source .NET tools. We build a  more...

Martine Devos Agile Project Management Workshop ... worlds by storm. Why? Because they're effective and they better align with the realities of software development projects, i. e. changing requirements, ever more challenging technologies, highly compressed schedules and evolving teams. This workshop teaches you how to adapt and respond to all of these challenges within your software projects. Software Projects Require more than traditional  more...

Java Power Tools Bootcamp - 5 days - UK ...r programming skills and know-how, and ultimately produce better software. And have fun while you're doing it! The course is an intensive 5-day workshop, with a mixture of teaching and lab exercises. You will learn how to implement modern Agile best practices for Java development within your own organisation. Each day starts with a discussion of Agile development practices and covers what  more...