Short Courses

SHORT COURSES

Managing Workplace Stress

For Whom

  • Managers at all levels

Objectives

  • To help participants develop an informed appreciation of the causes of stress
  • Identify personal stress indicators
  • Recognize and manage symptoms of stress
  • Avoid, prepare for or manage stress
  • Learn basic stress management techniques

Contents

  • Introduction to stress management
  • Stress diary
  • Job analysis
  • Performance Planning
  • Imagery- mental stress management
  • Physical relaxation techniques
  • Thought awareness, rational and positive thinking
  • Anger management
  • Burn-out self test
  • Building self confidence
Duration

4 Weeks

Tuition

$150

SHORT COURSES

Building A Great Team

For Whom

  • All levels of staff, inclusive of line Managers and supervisors

Objective

  • Skills acquired from this course will enable participants to develop excellent key working skills
  • Build an effective team
  • Stimulate high performance
  • Achieve high levels of team satisfaction and efficiency
  • Improve team cohesion and bonding
  • Provide interesting and challenging work
  • Help team members set and achieve meaningful goals
  • Recognize and effectively reward performance

Contents

  • Team building
  • Team bonding
  • Team decision making
  • Performance appraisal and reward
  • Provision for flexibility
  • Employers branding
  • Continuous training and coaching
  • Succession planning
  • Brain storming and random input
  • Building self confidence
Duration

4 Weeks

Tuition

$150

SHORT COURSES

Effective Communication Skills

For Whom

  • Marketing officers, Customer Care Officers and all levels of Staff

Objectives

  • At the end of the course, participants will;
  • Appreciate the elements of an effective communication process
  • Identify barriers to effective communication
  • Develop effective and impactful writing skills
  • Communicate effectively through emails
  • Develop public presentation skill
  • Understand the art of persuasion and effective negotiation

Contents

  • Introduction to communication skills
  • Making a great first impression
  • The Johari window
  • Effective public speaking and presentation
  • Effective writing skills
  • Effective e-communication
  • Active listening
  • Running an effective meeting
  • Ice breaking win-win negotiation
  • Audience targeted presentation
  • Presentation planning checklist
Duration

4 Weeks

Tuition

$150

SHORT COURSES

Tools for Managerial Effectiveness

For Whom

  • Managers at all levels

Objectives

  • To equip participants with effective managerial skills
  • To train participants on excellent team building and bonding skills
  • To coach participants on techniques for improving team productivity
  • To guide participants on effective delegation
  • To furnish participants with effective crisis analysis and resolution skills

Contents

  • Team motivation
  • Team decision making
  • Effective delegation and empowerment
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Self accountability
  • Effective goal setting
  • Risk analysis and management
  • Value chain analysis
  • Cashflow forecasting
  • USP analysis: The technique selling proposition
  • Cost/Benefit analysis
Duration

4 Weeks

Tuition

$150

SHORT COURSES

Workplace Safety (Operational Hazards And Safety)

For Whom

  • All levels of staff

Objectives

  • Participants will; Appreciate the effects of injuries as an inducement against taking risks
  • Recognize potential hazards in their workplace environment
  • Perceive the importance of evaluating potential hazards in workplace
  • Appreciate the importance of incident and hazard reporting and record review
  • Acquire the capability to take informed safety decisions
  • Acquire basic self defense skills
  • Acquire safety skills in fire and robbery incidents

Contents

  • Workplace hazards
  • Types of hazards- physical, chemical and biological
  • Safety risks
  • Manual handling
  • Ergonomics in the workplace
  • Risk assessments
  • First aid Safety standards (occupational safety), fire drill
  • Basic self defense techniques
  • Incidents and hazards reporting
  • Accident and safety record review
Duration

4 Weeks

Tuition

$150

SHORT COURSES

Effective Project Planning

For Whom

  • Project Managers, Team Leaders and other personnel saddled with project planning

Objectives

  • Participants will acquire;
  • Skills required to run projects successfully
  • Skills for scheduling projects with dependent stages
  • Skills for scheduling complex projects
  • Skills for conceptualizing effective planning processes for projects
  • Skills for excellent stakeholders’ management

Contents

  • Estimating time accurately
  • Scheduling simple projects
  • Gantt charts- scheduling projects with dependent stages
  • Critical path analysis and PERT- scheduling complex projects
  • The planning cycle- a planning process for middle- sized projects
  • Planning large projects and programs
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Stakeholders management
Duration

4 Weeks

Tuition

$150

SHORT COURSES

Developing Effective Leadership Skills

For Whom

  • Team Leaders, New Managers and MD/CEOs

Objectives: Participants will;

  • Objectively evaluate self motivation status
  • Develop the passion to lead
  • Acquire effective task allocation skills
  • Appreciate various leadership styles
  • Acquire conflict resolution skills
  • Acquire successful delegation skills

Content

  • Leadership motivation assessment
  • Leadership motivation tools- find the passion to lead
  • Information gathering
  • Building expert power
  • Task allocation
  • Understanding developmental needs
  • Leadership styles
  • Mission statements and vision statements
  • Successful delegation
Duration

3 Weeks

Tuition

$200

SHORT COURSES

Exceptional Customer Service

For Whom

  • Front line Executives, Customer Service Representatives (CSR), Telephone Operator, and all Customer- interfacing Executives

Objectives: Participants will be able to,

  • Understand fundamentals of customer service
  • Develop improved and professional service
  • Win new customers
  • Build customer loyalty and retention
  • Increase organizational competitive differentiation

Content

  • Importance of customer service
  • Building a profitable customer service
  • CRM critical success factors
  • Professional attitude with customers customer knowledge
  • Developing standards of service delivery
  • Enhanced service using technology
  • Telephony basics
Duration

2 Weeks

Tuition

$150