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Advanced Workplace Skills (CC-003) PDF Print E-mail
2 day course

If you are tired of applying dead-end solutions to recurring problems in your company, this workshop should help you reconstruct your efforts and learn new ways to approach problem-solving, and develop practical ways to solve some of your most pressing problems and reach win-win decisions.

We will also cover conflict resolution and how to interact with a wide range of personality types, including some who are inconsiderate, stubborn, incorrigible, inappeasable, indecent, or downright sleazy. Success sometimes depends on your ability to work well with all the above.

And lastly you’ll be shown how to negotiate for results: preparing for negotiation, developing alternatives and recognizing options.

This workshop covers the following:

MODULE 1: PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING
    1. Sustainable Solutions
    2. Win-Win Decisions

SECTION 1 – WHAT IS PROBLEM SOLVING?
    1. Problem Solving Defined
    2. 3 Classifications of Problems
    3. 4 Types of Problems
    4. 3 Approaches to Problems
    5. 7 Characteristics of Problems
    6. The Ideal Problem Solver

SECTION 2 – THE PROBLEM SOLVING MODEL
    1. Solving Problems the Right Way
    2. Legitimizing Problems

SECTION 3 – THE PROBLEM SOLVING TOOLKIT

SECTION 4 – PHASE ONE OF THE PROBLEM SOLVING MODEL
    1. Identify
    2. Analyse
    3. Define

SECTION 5 – PHASE TWO OF THE PROBLEM SOLVING MODEL
    1. Alternative Generation
    2. Evaluation
    3. Decision Making

SECTION 6 – PHASE THREE OF THE PROBLEM SOLVING MODEL
    1. Planning and Organising

SECTION 7 – GRADIENTS OF AGREEMENT

SECTION 8 – FACTS VS INFORMATION
    1. Basic Ingredients
    2. The Substitutes

SECTION 9 – TEN INGREDIENTS FOR GOOD DECISION MAKING

SECTION 10 – PITFALLS
    1. Decision Making Traps

SECTION 11 – IMPLEMENTING A DECISION
    1. Implementation

SECTION 12 – TYPES OF DECISIONS
    1. 3 Types of Decisions
    2. Bad Decisions

MODULE 2: CONFLICT RESOLUTION

SECTION 1 – DEFINING CONFLICT
    1. What is Conflict?
    2. Assumptions
    3. Positives and Negatives

SECTION 2 – TYPES OF CONFLICT
    1. Inner Conflict
    2. Interpersonal Conflict
    3. Group Conflict

SECTION 3 – OPEN CONFLICT VS HIDDEN CONFLICT
    1. Open Conflict
    2. Hidden Conflict

SECTION 4 – SPONTANEOUS & REFLECTIVE ACTION

SECTION 5 – STAGES OF CONFLICT
    1. The Stages of Conflict

SECTION 6 – CONFLICT STRATEGIES & OUTCOMES
    1. Lose-lose
    2. Win-lose
    3. Win-win

SECTION 7 – SEVEN STEPS TO IRONING THINGS OUT

SECTION 8 – CONFLICT & ITS RESOLUTIONS
    1. Conflict Resolution Process
    2. Assumptions

SECTION 9 – TIPS: L.E.C.S.R.
    1. Listen
    2. Empathize
    3. Clarify
    4. Seek Permission
    5. Resolve the Issue

MODULE 3: NEGOTIATING FOR RESULTS

SECTION 1 – WHAT IS NEGOTIATING?
    1. Negotiating Defined

SECTION 2 – TYPES OF NEGOTIATING
    1. Hard and Soft Negotiating
    2. Negotiating Styles

SECTION 3 – PROBLEMS WITH POSITIONAL BARGAINING

SECTION 4 – THE SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATOR
    1. Characteristics of the Successful Negotiator

SECTION 5 – NEGOTIATING ESSENTIALS
    1. Negotiating as a Process

SECTION 6 – PREPARING FOR NEGOTIATING

SECTION 7 – INVENTING OPTIONS FOR MUTUAL GAIN

SECTION 8 – BODY LANGUAGE IN NEGOTIATION

SECTION 9 – FEAR
    1. Fear of Humiliation
    2. Fear of Failure
    3. Fear of Rejection
    4. Fear of Powerlessness

SECTION 10 – NEGOTIATING CHALLENGES

SECTION 11 – DEALING WITH NEGOTIATING EMOTIONS

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