
Development

We believe that every individual has the potential to be a great communicator, an excellent team player, an effective manager and even an inspirational leader. What they may need is to be shown how to use the skills they already have to their best effect.
Development training helps to develop people and enable organisations to become more effective, more able, more agile and more competitive.
An individual’s effectiveness is fundamental to personal career development and to the success of an organisation. Our range of personal development programmes will help you enhance delegate portfolios and transfer skills by improving their ability to communicate effectively at all levels, gain confidence and increase overall business effectiveness.
Development Courses
- Course Types Key
- In House Courses
- Tailored Courses
- Public Courses
Assertive Communications
Effective communications deliver real rewards, for the individual and the business. There is a marked difference between those who communicate assertively and successfully, and those who do not. That difference stands between success and failure, be it in business, life, or at a personal level. It is essential that everyone learns to overcome the challenge of communicating assertively.
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Available Dates:
Bristol, UK - 28 Apr 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/assertive-communications_465.shtml
Oxford, UK - 06 May 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/assertive-communications_466.shtml
Cross Cultural Communication
How to interact and communicate more effectively in the multi-cultural business environment.
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Effective Decision Making and Problem Solving
This workshop focuses on the tools and techniques enabling effective decision-making in business and diagnostic tools helpful in solving problems.
Course Objectives:
- Define an effective decision making process
- Check sources for informed facts
- Gather evidence and data to enhance decision making
- Identify problems and issues before they arise
- Generate strategies for dealing with the unexpected
- Recognise “risk” and work within safe margins
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Effective Presentations
This course addresses the core skills of presentation: planning, structure, delivery and audience management. Throughout the course participants will build their skills around real time business presentations. Participants will clearly be able to measure their growth and development by utilising individual and group feedback sessions.
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Effective Project Skills
This programme is designed to introduce delegates to the principles of Project Management Techniques and to apply tools and tactics to ensuring successful outcomes
Course Objectives:
- Set clear project objectives and outcomes
- Identify the key components
- Design success measurements
- Track project progress
- Identify key dependencies
- Allocate and use resources effectively
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Emotional Intelligence
“Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection and influence.”
Robert Cooper and Ayman Sawaf
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Available Dates:
Cambridge, UK - 20 May 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/emotional-intelligence_469.shtml
Manchester, UK - 29 Jun 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/emotional-intelligence_474.shtml
Influencing Skills
This intensive course has been adapted from our highly successful programme. It introduces participants to the foundation elements of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). It provides participants with the key tools and ideas from a model for influencing, that are transforming the way businesses and business leaders communicate throughout the world. As a result they will be able to be more flexible and more effective when influencing others. This course draws from the knowledge, skills and philosophy of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
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Available Dates:
Oxford, UK - 13 Apr 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/influencing-skills_462.shtml
City of London, UK - 24 Jun 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/influencing-skills_473.shtml
ITOL - Certificate in Training and Occupational Learning
This qualification provides trainers with a broader range of knowledge and skills in order to operate as a rounded professional in the workplace. There will be further opportunities for skill development, as well as the acquisition of key models and frameworks of relevance to the professional trainer who is gaining influence in his or her organisation.
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Leading a Team
How to build and maintain a high performing team.
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Managing meetings
This course aims to introduce managers to the skills required to facilitate effective meetings, assess the value of time and the return on investment of meetings.
Course Objectives:
- Plan effective Team Meetings
- Conduct effective meetings
- List two major types of meetings
- List the benefits of being an effective Chairperson
- Describe the main components of a meeting
- List the key objectives in conducting Team Meetings
- Demonstrate techniques to achieve key objectives in conducting team meetings
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Managing Stress Better
How to handle stress better so that performance can be maintained under pressure.
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Managing Time and Priorities
How to prioritise time and tasks better, manage your workload more effectively, meet deadlines, attain your self-chosen goals and achieve more at work.
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Musikscool
This event is designed to hold up a mirror to anyone who attends, and thus provide an honest independent assessment of their ingrained abilities and skills relevant to success in today’s workplace.
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Available Dates:
Birmingham, UK - 07 May 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_542.shtml
City of London, UK - 23 Jun 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_543.shtml
Cardiff, UK - 15 Jul 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_544.shtml
Manchester, UK - 26 Aug 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_545.shtml
Liverpool, UK - 29 Sep 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_547.shtml
City of London, UK - 07 Oct 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_546.shtml
Cambridge, UK - 18 Nov 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/musikscool_548.shtml
Recruitment & Interviewing Skills
This workshop is designed to assist those who are, or may shortly be recruiting others. It will help to identify appropriate behaviours; attitudes, values, and beliefs that meet their organisation’s culture, and equip them with clear decision-making parameters.
Course Objectives:
- Produce an effective approach to recruiting
- Identify the skills and competencies needed in vacant positions
- Produce questions to assess the skills, knowledge, behaviour attitudes of candidates
- Structure a professional interview
- Manage the exchange during an interview using time effectively
- Operate an objective and fair process in accordance with legal requirements
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Speaking to Groups
This course is aimed at delegates who need to speak to groups in different environments from internal meetings to meeting with customers or suppliers face to face.
Course Objectives:
- Explain the stages of preparation involved when speaking to groups
- Produce effective briefing notes
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of visual aid equipment
- Use group participation in future events
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The Authentic Communicator
The key to rebuilding relationships, improving morale and job satisfaction is rethinking the way in which we communicate, and putting more meaning back into these transactions. Authentic communication is a style which can be learnt, and this one day course aims to equip you with the essentials.
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Available Dates:
City of London, UK - 27 May 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_535.shtml
Manchester, UK - 17 Jun 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_536.shtml
Birmingham, UK - 14 Jul 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_537.shtml
Edinburgh, UK - 25 Aug 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_538.shtml
Oxford, UK - 02 Sep 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_539.shtml
Bristol, UK - 06 Oct 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_540.shtml
Leicester, UK - 17 Nov 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-authentic-communicator_541.shtml
The Successful Virtual Meeting
The course is designed to create learning through doing, and as such runs as a series of mini meetings to cover the ground, giving us parallel learning of the content as well as generating individual specific feedback on what people do well in this field and what needs to be improved.
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Available Dates:
City of London, UK - 28 May 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_525.shtml
City of London, UK - 28 May 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_527.shtml
Manchester, UK - 16 Jun 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_528.shtml
Birmingham, UK - 13 Jul 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_529.shtml
Edinburgh, UK - 24 Aug 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_530.shtml
Oxford, UK - 01 Sep 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_531.shtml
Bristol, UK - 05 Oct 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_532.shtml
Leicester, UK - 16 Nov 10
http://www.gptrainingconsultants.com/courses/development-training/the-successful-virtual-meeting_533.shtml






