Introduction To The Foresight MDP® Course

Session Agenda

  • Management Skills 360 Degrees Evaluation Form
  • How to Calculate the ROV
  • How to Understand Resistance to Change in the Workplace
  • Project Management and Execution

How to Set and Achieve Your Goals, Prioritize your Time and Combat Stress

Learning Objectives

  • Identify your personality traits and understand other people’s personalities.
  • Understand and manage generational values in the workplace.
  • Understand how to better manage diverse personalities and generations.

How To Sharpen Your Personal & Professional Communications Skills – Part I

Learning Objectives:

  • Transactional Analysis in Team and Personal Communications
  • Four Communication Responses and how they Affect Communications
  • Seven Levels of Listening
  • 4 Active Listening and Empathy

How To Sharpen Your Personal & Professional Communications Skills – Part II

Learning Objectives:

  • Are you a good listener? Active listening.
  • The role of empathy in communications and four steps to becoming more empathetic.
  • Theory X and Theory Y assumptions in business and their impact.
  • How to manage communications in a Theory ‘Y’ organization.

How to Develop, Lead & Successfully Manage Different Personalities & Generations

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify your personality traits and understand other people’s personalities.
  • Understand and manage generational values in the workplace.
  • Understand how to better manage diverse personalities and generations.

How to Resolve Conflict and Practice Interest-Based Negotiations

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn tools to diagnose the causes of conflict
  • Explore strategies to de-escalate and change the course of conflict toward resolution
  • Introduce concepts, procedures and attitudes of positional and interest-based negotiation
  • Explore when to use positional or interest-based negotiation techniques
  • Practice the interest-based negotiation process

The Psychology and Practice of Influence & Persuasion

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the difference between influence and persuasion
  • Understand the importance of knowing when to use the ‘Push’ or ‘Pull’ methods of influence
  • Learn the psychology behind persuasion…why we can / cannot be persuaded
  • Learn three types of power and how they can be successfully utilized in influence and persuasion
  • Learn six principles of persuasion which address deeply-rooted human responses to persuasion

How to Motivate Yourself and Your Team in Challenging Times

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn what motivation is, the basic rules and types of motivation / motivational states
  • Learn to create a motivational environment
  • Identify the non-monetary components of a sound motivational environment
  • Learn to develop a plan to motivate your employees

How to Develop Teams and Create Motivational Environments

Learning Objectives:

  • Characteristics of high performance teams
  • Effective team development techniques
  • Learn what motivation is, the basic rules and types of motivation/motivational states
  • Learn to create a motivational environment

Delegating As A Coaching Tool: How to Delegate For Growth

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the benefits of delegation
  • Learn the keys and steps to effective delegation
  • Identify the ten levels of delegation
  • Learn how to conduct a delegation meeting
  • Learn the importance of delegation and discretionary time

How To Build An Internal Customer-Centric Organization

Learning Objectives:

  • How to understand your customer’s experience to identify growth opportunities
  • How internal guarantees enhance the internal and external customer experience
  • How to develop an internal customer guarantee program

Creativity in Business: Creative Thinking Techniques

Learning Objectives:

  • Why should you be interested in creativity in business.
  • How to identify and kill the “Voices of Judgment” and issues that block creativity.
  • How to be more creative by applying four basic techniques of creativity development.
  • How to solve business problems through creative thinking.