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Stress, Change & Team Resilience through Humor: An Interactive Playshop

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IjonaSkills  -  HR M anagement Training   Overview In a 24/7 always on, TNT - Time-Numbers-Technology - Driven-Distracted World, filled with change and uncertainty, to build personal-professional resilience we must rapidly identify stress "smoke signals." Also vital, is understanding the individual and organizational characteristics that facilitate burnout, as well as the burnout battlefront stages. Then, let the Stress Doc's "Get FIT" - FUN-Interactive-Thought-provoking - program provide tools for: a) Burnout Prevention/Recovery, b) Psychological Hardiness, and c) Natural SPEED. Learn techniques for dealing with loss and change and for disarming self-defeating power struggles. Learn to positively set boundaries while gaining structures and strategies for building more diverse-inclusive-participatory teams. Finally, experience the power of sharing playful and powerful stories to break down the "Intimate FOE," status barriers, and generate op

Performance Reviews: a step-by-step Process for Conducting them Meaningfully and Effectively

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IjonaSkills  -  HR M anagement Training Overview One of the most critical areas of employee relationships--and one of the biggest challenges management faces today--is conducting effective performance appraisals and determining appropriate merit increases. Learn to give performance appraisals that help motivate employees to achieve goals and increase their value to the organ........ Why should you attend? How to conduct motivational and directional performance appraisal reviews Planning the review Managing the review process Subtle ways to keep sensitive employees from having their feelings hurt How to suggest an improvement in an employee's performance in a way that boosts an employee's spirits  Why employees sometimes fear reviews Ways to increase standards of performance Areas Covered in the Session: State of the Art Practices in Performance Reviews  Why annual reviews are not adequate  Staff involvement and ownership through self-appraisal

21st Century Leadership: Use Discretionary Effort Principles and Microsoft Outlook to Take Employees to New Heights

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IjonaSkills  -  Soft Skills Training   Overview The new century demands fresh management and leadership techniques. This webinar introduces you to discretionary effort principles of engagement and combines the instruction with Microsoft Outlook. You are getting the best techniques to update your management techniques with a technology focus.  Why should you attend? Discretionary Effort is the difference between what an employee has to do to get a paycheck and what that employee is capable of contributing. By combining discretionary effort principles with the technology tool of Microsoft Outlook, you can experience a dramatic gain in employee engagement and thus productivity.  There is a dramatic difference between management and leadership. Management is making sure tasks are delegated properly and that deadlines are met. Leadership is about inspiring workers to give their best on a regular basis.  This webinar hands many management duties over to Outlook. When some tactica

Project Management Best Practices: The 8 Keys to Completing Every Project On Time and On Budget!

IjonaSkills  -  HR M anagement Training Overview Managing projects can be a big headache sometimes; well, our Webinar is the perfect prescription! Our Webinar will provide the best practices of managing projects - you will receive tools, techniques and best practices to enable you to more effectively manage the projects you are assigned successfully - on time and on budget. We will facilitate better understandings of process and project documents - including scope statements, communication plans, risk management plans, risk registers and change management plans - in order to better manage your initiatives. We'll also discuss approaches to better identifying and engaging stakeholders. We also will review consistent Key Project Challenges and Best Practices to Solve Those Challenges. We will address meeting project goals, developing the project business case, effective project planning with the team, five stages of team development, driving decision making from stakeholders an

Using Social Media as Business Tool

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IjonaSkills  - C orporate Finance Training Overview Social Media are not just for marketing. There are many benefits to using social media as business tools in many different areas of businesses. Understanding the possibilities and your audience are the first steps. Then focusing on the right message and being committed can provide real value from using social media as business tools. In this class we will discuss the possibilities, deciding on the audience, various social media sites and how to use social media as business tools.  Why should you attend? Social Media are growing across all areas of business and despite the constant changes, they are not going away. Business professionals who continue to ignore or distance themselves from social media will soon find they are left behind others who have adopted their use in meaningful ways. This class is designed to help you begin adopting social media as a business tool, thus positioning yourself ahead of those who won&#