Closed Trainings Catalogue – general development trainings

1. Improving interpersonal skills

 Training Programme:

• Diagnosis of one’s own social style (based on a psychometric tool to analyse one’s own Social Style)
• The characteristics of social styles
• Workshop on adapting one’s own behaviour to other social styles
• Communication tailored to different social styles

The training will result in: increased flexibility in adapting one’s own behaviour to people with different types of personality; increased sensitivity and understanding of others’ behaviour; increased efficiency in interpersonal communication.

1. Stress Management

Training Programme:

• What is stress, how to recognize it?
•  Event interpretation model
•  How to prevent burnout
•  Relaxation techniques

The training will result in: reducing stress in professional and private life; learning relaxation techniques; identifying sources of stress; increasing self-confidence and capacity.

1. Assertiveness Training Workshops

Training Programme:

• Principles of assertive communication
• My own value – how to strengthen it
• Feelings of others – how not to hurt them
• Exercises of expressing messages in an assertive way: “I” message, assertive “no”, “worn record”, “Jujitsu” technique
• Expressing and accepting reservations and criticism in an assertive manner
• Full Expression Model
• Defending one’s own rights
• Assertive techniques useful for dealing with pressure and manipulation

The training will result in: learning to speak openly about one’s needs; understanding the role and place of assertiveness in the process of shaping relations with another person; using assertiveness techniques in communicating with others; dealing constructively with criticism, pressure, manipulation; increasing self-esteem.

1. Own Efficiency

 Training Programme:

• Individual analysis of “time thieves”
• Biological clock and performance efficiency
• Prioritising of one’s own actions
• Time planning techniques
• Techniques of organising information
• Good work organisation
• Internal motivation to achieve goals
• Auto-motivation and proactivity

The training will result in: planning and setting priorities; using techniques to effectively manage one’s own time and information; making decisions and effectively implementing them; proactive approach to achieving goals.

5. Creative Thinking Workshops

Training Programme:

• Diagnosis of the level of creativity in an organisation
• Barriers and Rigid Thinking
• Techniques developing Question, Combinatorial and Transformational Thinking
• Six Thinking Hats – E. de Bono
• Classic 6-step Brainstorming.
• SCAMPER Method
• Focused Brainstorming
• 365 Method

The training will result in: using individual and team methods of creative thinking; approaching problem situations creatively; developing constructive and out-of-the-box solutions; using creative techniques in the organisation.