Graduate Development - Developing Business Awareness
Spectrum Training Services
Duration: 16 Hours
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| Type: | Training |
|---|---|
| Method: | Onsite |
| Prepares for: | his programme has been designed to provide you with a toolkit of business survival techniques by being more aware of your options you will be armed with choices and skills to make valuable contributions to a variety of situations. You will work efficiently (doing things right) and effectively (doing the right things). This programme aimed at new entrants, graduates, and field based employees/remote teams. |
| Geared towards: | New entrants, graduates, field based employees/remote teams. |
| Requirements: | The programme will be customised to include the organisations values |
| Students per class: | 12 |
Do you need further information?
Contact the person in charge , free and at no obligation, for information on how to enroll, enrollment limit/availability and more.
Course program
Developing Business Awareness
Duration: 2 Days
Introduction
This programme has been designed to enable you to understand what the business values, and to provide you with the skills, behaviours techniques and tools that you require to make a huge and successful contribution to business. The pace and complexity of change in the business world means that we all need to evaluate constantly how we interact with the business environment.
Course Aim
Every business situation is unique – and tomorrow, it will be unique in a different way. Competitors, suppliers and customers are constantly making decisions and acting to maximise their efficiency and effectiveness and align to changing environments. Your success depends on your ability to respond and add value.
This programme has been designed to provide you with a toolkit of business survival techniques by being more aware of your options you will be armed with choices and skills to make valuable contributions to a variety of situations. You will work efficiently (doing things right) and effectively (doing the right things). This programme aimed at new entrants, graduates, and field based employees/remote teams.
Learning Objectives
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 of cultural backgrounds
Develop strategies for planning and organising work
Deliver Quality Communications. Recognise the importance of timing when communicating messages and time those messages for maximum effect
Adopt a systematic approach to problem solving and decision making
Discover techniques to enable you to accurately define a problem. Utilise appropriate techniques such as Mind Mapping ©, Brainstorming, Ishikawa Diagrams, Lateral Thinking Techniques, Evaluation Techniques, SWOT analyses to solve problems
You will sell credible solutions to stakeholders
Assess interpersonal skills and communicate effectively at all levels
Content – Day One
Discover the different aspects of business organisations and their economic, political and social contexts.
Explore how the organisation of the production of goods and services can add value to a business.
Business in the Community and its Environment
External Factors affecting Business
Types of Business Organizations: Ownership and Operation
Comparing Businesses
Business Objectives and Your Contribution
Working effectively with cultural differences
The Value of diversity - Appreciating, and understanding cultural differences
Your Culture - What makes you proud?
Analysing and evaluating situations from a variety of cultural perspectives
Analysing non verbal behaviour - Appreciate the meaning of gestures, posture, voice and context.
Formal and non formal behaviours and preferences
Communications
The quality of the communication dictates the response you get! This session aims to help you to recognise the elements of effective communication and develop the skills to deliver clear, concise and powerful messages.
Identifying the core purpose and content of communications
Recognising the barriers to effective communications
Appealing to a range of senses & emotions when communicating
Effective questioning techniques
There is more to listening than you might have heard!
Word Power - How to use different styles and patterns of language
Structuring your message and clarifying expectations
Recognising the importance of timing when communicating messages
Time to reflect on how and what you deliver to others and identify the Key Results Areas for your job.
What our organisation values
Identifying the space that you occupy in your organisations structure and your key result areas – purpose and performance
The SAND Analysis (Strengths Achievements, Needs, Demands) How do these factors impact your service provision?
Content – Day Two
Getting Results is down to Detail
The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. What are the ingredients for complete personal effectiveness? During this module you will assess yourself against criteria for work effectiveness. We will also consider the importance of details in a team based activity where you will be responsible for managing cash and processing wages payments for a group of employees – and we really don’t want to get that wrong – do we?
Deadline 30 minutes team activity
Managing and minimising the impact of mistakes
Work effectiveness indicator, assess yourself against 20 work effectiveness competencies
Powerful Problem Solving
An opportunity to learn how to make smarter decisions, and become a master of techniques and methodologies that enable competent problem solving. You will know how to accurately define a problem and you will be sure you are working on the problem itself - and not the symptoms.
The Decision Making Model
Apply the Six Step Approach
A Toolkit of Techniques
o Weighting Criteria,
o Brainstorming
o Mind Mapping
o SWOT
o Ishikawa Technique
Next steps
Identifying what you should Stop ►Start ► Continue►
Personal planning – for project YOU
Duration: 2 Days
Introduction
This programme has been designed to enable you to understand what the business values, and to provide you with the skills, behaviours techniques and tools that you require to make a huge and successful contribution to business. The pace and complexity of change in the business world means that we all need to evaluate constantly how we interact with the business environment.
Course Aim
Every business situation is unique – and tomorrow, it will be unique in a different way. Competitors, suppliers and customers are constantly making decisions and acting to maximise their efficiency and effectiveness and align to changing environments. Your success depends on your ability to respond and add value.
This programme has been designed to provide you with a toolkit of business survival techniques by being more aware of your options you will be armed with choices and skills to make valuable contributions to a variety of situations. You will work efficiently (doing things right) and effectively (doing the right things). This programme aimed at new entrants, graduates, and field based employees/remote teams.
Learning Objectives
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 of cultural backgrounds
Develop strategies for planning and organising work
Deliver Quality Communications. Recognise the importance of timing when communicating messages and time those messages for maximum effect
Adopt a systematic approach to problem solving and decision making
Discover techniques to enable you to accurately define a problem. Utilise appropriate techniques such as Mind Mapping ©, Brainstorming, Ishikawa Diagrams, Lateral Thinking Techniques, Evaluation Techniques, SWOT analyses to solve problems
You will sell credible solutions to stakeholders
Assess interpersonal skills and communicate effectively at all levels
Content – Day One
Discover the different aspects of business organisations and their economic, political and social contexts.
Explore how the organisation of the production of goods and services can add value to a business.
Business in the Community and its Environment
External Factors affecting Business
Types of Business Organizations: Ownership and Operation
Comparing Businesses
Business Objectives and Your Contribution
Working effectively with cultural differences
The Value of diversity - Appreciating, and understanding cultural differences
Your Culture - What makes you proud?
Analysing and evaluating situations from a variety of cultural perspectives
Analysing non verbal behaviour - Appreciate the meaning of gestures, posture, voice and context.
Formal and non formal behaviours and preferences
Communications
The quality of the communication dictates the response you get! This session aims to help you to recognise the elements of effective communication and develop the skills to deliver clear, concise and powerful messages.
Identifying the core purpose and content of communications
Recognising the barriers to effective communications
Appealing to a range of senses & emotions when communicating
Effective questioning techniques
There is more to listening than you might have heard!
Word Power - How to use different styles and patterns of language
Structuring your message and clarifying expectations
Recognising the importance of timing when communicating messages
Time to reflect on how and what you deliver to others and identify the Key Results Areas for your job.
What our organisation values
Identifying the space that you occupy in your organisations structure and your key result areas – purpose and performance
The SAND Analysis (Strengths Achievements, Needs, Demands) How do these factors impact your service provision?
Content – Day Two
Getting Results is down to Detail
The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. What are the ingredients for complete personal effectiveness? During this module you will assess yourself against criteria for work effectiveness. We will also consider the importance of details in a team based activity where you will be responsible for managing cash and processing wages payments for a group of employees – and we really don’t want to get that wrong – do we?
Deadline 30 minutes team activity
Managing and minimising the impact of mistakes
Work effectiveness indicator, assess yourself against 20 work effectiveness competencies
Powerful Problem Solving
An opportunity to learn how to make smarter decisions, and become a master of techniques and methodologies that enable competent problem solving. You will know how to accurately define a problem and you will be sure you are working on the problem itself - and not the symptoms.
The Decision Making Model
Apply the Six Step Approach
A Toolkit of Techniques
o Weighting Criteria,
o Brainstorming
o Mind Mapping
o SWOT
o Ishikawa Technique
Next steps
Identifying what you should Stop ►Start ► Continue►
Personal planning – for project YOU
Do you need clarification regarding the course program?
Contact the person in charge , free and at no obligation, for information on how to enroll, enrollment limit/availability and more.
Spectrum Training Services
Spectrum Training Services specialise in providing flexible learning and development solutions.
Established in 1998 Spectrain is dedicated to creating flexible competency based learning and development solutions to enable organisations to maximise their potential
Our blended learning programmes offer a high impact, cost effective method of addressing major corporate initiatives. We know that different challenges require distinct solutions, and the key to a successful and flexible solution is in selecting the most effective combination of media and delivery methods to create the greatest business impact at the lowest possible cost.
Spectrain are Certified Learning Practitioners, Fellows of The British Institute For learning & Development and Recognised BY The ILM as Providers of Training
Established in 1998 Spectrain is dedicated to creating flexible competency based learning and development solutions to enable organisations to maximise their potential
Our blended learning programmes offer a high impact, cost effective method of addressing major corporate initiatives. We know that different challenges require distinct solutions, and the key to a successful and flexible solution is in selecting the most effective combination of media and delivery methods to create the greatest business impact at the lowest possible cost.
Spectrain are Certified Learning Practitioners, Fellows of The British Institute For learning & Development and Recognised BY The ILM as Providers of Training