Essential Skills for Technologists to Enhance Performance and Productivity

Course details

This program focuses on building the essential skills of a successful technologist in the work place. It provides the participants with the necessary information on the essential skills of success and builds on rooting them as necessary habits. The program focuses on making positive habits, breaking negative habits, self developments, positive attitudes, effective communication skills, work ethics, team building, time management and stress management.

Course Contents:

Part 1: The Ten Habits of Success

Theoretical Part to the Ten Habits of Success:

• Definition of a habit
• Sources of habit formation
• The Make & Break of habits   

  Positive Thinking (First Habit)

• Removal of Negative Emotions.
• Capitalizing on the Laws of the Inner Mind.

    Be Proactive (Second Habit)

• Seeking excellence.
• Motives   

   Aims (Third Habit)

• The Circle of Concerns
• Start with the End in Mind

   Priorities (Fourth Habit)

• Start with the most Important before the important.
• Balance Strategy   

   Planning ( Fifth Habit)

• Logical Results
• Flexibility

    Commitment (6th Habit)

• Focus.
• Style seven minutes.    

   Continuity (7th Habit)

• Time management.
• Applying self-restraint.

    Stand together with others (8th Habit)

• Principle of mutual benefit for all.
• Team building.   

   The art of Communication (9th Habit)

• Try to understand before they understand.
• Knowledge of types of people.

Balancing (10th Habit)

• The Wheel of Life
• Do not rush to results.

Part 2: Stress Management

• Types of stress
• Sources of stress
• Body and mind reactions to stress
• Coping strategies to combating stress
• Target Group: 
• All newly appointed technical staff.
• Technical staff with customer service duties.
• All technologists considered for promotion to higher positions.
• Newly appointed supervisors.