Personal Productivity

Let’s draw a similarity with your team and your workplace. Your team and workplace are also unique. Just like cards, you’ll find that you may have not been dealt a Royal Flush. But the secret is to work with what you’ve got and strive to make it better.

Have you ever observed people playing bridge? Even with a poor hand, they work fervently improving their position.

In a nutshell, this course will help participants shift from complaining to proactively making the workplace more cohesive and effective.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

~ Voltaire (1694 – 1778)

‘Dealing with the Cards You’re Dealt’ Workshop Content:

• Plan your objectives for the latter part of the 2020s
• Accept that every workplace is unique with flaws and opportunities
• Help your team bounce back from disappointment quicker
• Rally the team around objectives
• The Martin Keane Bridge Strategy – Application to workplace
• Discuss the TSP guide to curb workplace whinging
• Deal with difficult people
• Remove all ambiguity
• Communicate freely and transparently
• Build a team charter
• Celebrate team successes
• Interrupt the pattern of whinging and replace with a positive vision
• Create a Start-Continue-Stop framework

‘Dealing with the Cards You’re Dealt’ Program Details:

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your workplace. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: Each course can be tailored to your timeframes.

Target Audience: Managers and staff.

How good are your chaos management skills?

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Our people make fast and correct decisions during a chaos
2. Our people can read the signals of a potential chaos
3. Our people can map out a problem which might be intertwined with the organisational processes
4. Our people have a proven platform to work from during a chaos
5. We have a culture that acknowledges intuition and interpretation
6. Our people have a positive attitude when chaos is looming
7. We have contingency plans to avoid likely chaos
8. Our people know how to communicate in chaotic times
9. Our people know how to manage their priorities and tasks
10. Our people set realistic goals
11. Our people think on their feet
12. Our people have allocated resources for managing chaos
13. Our people know how to effectively manage anxiety, body language and stress levels during a chaos
14. Our people are in control and know what to do when chaos arrives
15. Our people are calm during chaos
16. Our people reassure others that the chaos will end and things will normalise
17. Our people use active listening and questioning skills

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4 – 12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Employees, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Senior Managers or CEOs.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact:

Deborah Dear – Marketing Manager
PH: 1300 323 752
Email:[email protected]

If the employer and employee can work together on mutual goals then career management is an opportunity for both parties to grow.

Benefits to your employer

By knowing a team member is planning their career, the employer will benefit from having enough time and resources to:

1. Consider any changes to current roles and begin any succession planning activities.
2. Build relationships with any departing employees, ex-employees are now viewed as excellent sources of referral if they have departed the company on good terms.
3. Identify critical skills necessary for different roles.
4. Set a transparent career development path.

Benefits to employee

By knowing the organisation is planning their career, the employee will benefit from having enough time and resources to:

1. Become aware of personal strengths and weaknesses.
2. Understand the importance of fitting with the right role and organisational culture.
3. Understand their personality type.
4. Make better decisions.
5. Prepare for behavioural interviewing techniques.
6. Position themselves as value assets rather than knowledge assets.
7. Feel more secure.

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4 – 12 participants

Venue: For your convenience,you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Employees, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Senior Managers or CEO’s

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact:

Deborah Dear – Marketing Manager
PH: 1300 323 752
Email: [email protected]

Plan of action

Ambiguity causes havoc in communications. Due to our cultural upbringing and our conditioning, we perceive the world differently to everyone else. Our clear as crystal instructions are clear as mud to other people. By developing contrast skills, we will learn to chip away at the edge of our perceptive world and see a much bigger picture.

• How to identify workplace ambiguity tell tale signs.
• How to overcome the 4 most common types of ambiguity in a workplace.
• How to communicate with clarity.
• How to appreciate the influence of contrast.
• How to understand the cognitive urge to chunk information.
• How to identify people who use ambiguity as a tool to not comply.
• How to get ‘task saboteurs’ to follow instructions.
• How to appreciate different decision-making styles.
• How to use NLP communication skills to reduce workplace ambiguity.

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” – Abraham Lincoln

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4 – 12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Supervisors, Team Leaders and Management

If you would like more information on this training program,
please contact: Deborah Dear – Marketing Manager
Phone: 1300 323 752
Email: [email protected]