Bec Development
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4. DEVELOPING PEOPLE
Here at Bec Development we create bespoke courses for most of our clients so that the content reflects their company culture, specific goals and language.
However, we know sometimes you need a place to start, so take a look at our in-house agendas then call us with your specific requirements. Click on the courses/workshops below for more information.
Developing People
1. Presenting with Impact
What’s it about?
Making a presentation in a business environment holds fears for most people. Most of these fears can be overcome with confidence. Whilst confidence comes naturally to some, it doesn’t for others. We use coaching skills to pinpoint barriers to confidence, ways to create more presence and identify each person’s strengths and make more of them.
The course will also include a ‘surgery session’ – nerves, voice and body language (or whatever you want to talk about)
Each person is asked to come with a presentation they would like to work on and to consider their areas to develop.
Who should come?
Anyone who has some experience of presenting either to small or large groups, those who need to pitch, present or public speak.
What will you learn?
- How to build a strategy and a structure for your presentation
- What works personally for you to enhance your presenting style and build your confidence
- How to deal with questions and objections
- Presentation delivery skills
2. Time Management
What’s it about?
A one day course that focuses on ways to better organize time. It will enable delegates to identify where their time goes and how to claw some back. The session will provide a forum to discuss how they prioritise and what is stopping them from being more organised. The end result will be that you will find yourself more in control of your time to ensure maximised output.
Who should come?
Anyone who needs some support in managing their time and prioritising their tasks.
What will you learn?
- How to prioritise
- How to identify what the ‘time-wasters’ are in your day
- What you can realistically do in a day
- The benefit of putting a plan together
3. Emotional Intelligence
What’s it about?
This half day workshop is a blend of theory and practical exercises designed to give participants an understanding of what EI is, why it is important to become “EQ savvy” in the workplace and how to use it to the best effect. It covers self-awareness and self-motivation along with how to understand and manage our relationships with others in the workplace (and beyond). The end purpose is to maximise collaborative effort within a team.
Who should come?
This workshop is for anyone who is responsible for managing and / or developing staff.
What will you learn?
- An understanding of EI and how to use it in the workplace
- How to better read your team and work with the emotional strengths and vulnerabilities
- Methods of resolving differences, solving problems, building motivation (for self and team) and effective communication
4. Impact with Clients
What’s it about?
This one day course is about building strong and successful client relationships. It focuses on understanding what a client’s needs are and how best to meet them to the highest standard. It covers successful influencing, strategic questioning, developing rapport, understanding your client type and your own personal style.
Who should come?
This workshop is for anyone whose role involves managing client relationships and either needs to develop and hone their client skills or just wants to consider some new methods for tackling certain clients or situations.
What will you learn?
- How to improve your client relationships through understanding who your client is
- Strategies for driving your client relationship forwards
- Questioning techniques, methods for building rapport and how to identify client opportunities and potential pitfalls
5. Storytelling in Pitches
What’s it about?
This one day interactive course is designed to give participants a different angle on how they present to clients. Using a blend of story-structure and improvisational acting techniques presentations can become more immediate, enjoyable, memorable, and relevant. This technique is particularly effective when there is a dense amount of material to work through.
As a practically focused course, you will get the chance to create and present a specific business story within the session. Plus it’s a lot of fun!
Who should come?
This workshop is for anyone who presents to clients and would like to learn how to make their presentation structure and style more engaging and compelling.
What will you learn?
- An understanding of how and why stories work
- How to identify opportunities for using stories in your presentations
- Tools and techniques to create other presentations bespoke to specific clients and scenarios
6. The Successful Working Parent
What’s it about
Starting a family can mean some pretty big and exciting changes in your life. The prospect of bringing up a baby whilst managing a successful career might feel a bit daunting at times. This ½ day workshop is designed to help parents assess what changes need to happen, what their priorities are and strategies to manage expectations from their boss, team and family. Parents will come away with some practical tips and tools to help them achieve a harmonious work/life balance.
Who should come?
Mums returning to work following maternity leave and working mums or dads!
What will you learn?
- How balanced your work vs home life feels and where you need to focus your attention
- How to set the right expectations for yourself as a parent and as a professional
- How to set meaningful goals that match your priorities and expectations
- Communication styles to manage and influence key stakeholders expectation
7. How to Have Great Ideas
What’s it about?
Ideas are the high octane fuel on which successful businesses run and on which they depend to remain faster and fitter than their competitors. This one day course will focus on two separate areas-
- How to have great ideas at work
- How to boost your ‘everyday creativity’
Depending on your business area, the skills you learn will assist you to – indentify and develop new revenue streams, orchestrate a compelling creative pitch to win that large piece of new business, come up with the ‘big idea’ for a communications campaign or even develop a new concept in NPD
Who should come?
Absolutely anyone!! We can all have great ideas, given the right guidance; and employees of all levels and ages, will have different and interesting perspectives on your business needs
What will you learn?
- Innovation Toolkit, to take away and use – helping you have great, business focused, ideas on your own or with your colleagues
- Tips for ‘everyday creativity’ – How to change your everyday behaviour, so that you are more able to access your inner creative genius.
The combination of the above will allow you to step outside of the box, and develop genuinely innovative and game changing ideas.
8. Keeping up with the Digital Revolution
What’s it about?
A one day course, that brings you up to speed with the key trends and innovations in the digital world. Things are changing so fast it’s impossible to keep up with all the latest developments, let alone separate those that are of vital importance, from those which are just a ‘flash in the pan’. We will make specific reference to the industries and subject areas that are of importance to you – ensuring you are fully up to speed with future trends and how you can apply these to your business.
Who should come?
Senior personnel active in the digital space – client, agency or sales side. The digital arena is important to you and your business, but you may not have the time to keep up with the changes.
What will you learn?
- Key developments across – Social, Search, Mobile, Content Creation, the Data Revolution and Creative Thinking in the digital world.
- An exercise in groups will ask you to consider how these developments may impact on your own business sector; and how you can best leverage them to your own advantage.
- Action orientated take-aways, will provide information on how you, individually, can keep up to speed with the digital world, in order to benefit you both commercially and individually
