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WE ALSO PROVIDE A WIDE RANGE OF SUPPORT for emotional intelligence. Learn more about THis by selecting from the links below...

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Insight

Richard Branson, Winston Churchill, Sir John Harvey Jones. None of them exactly sparkled at school – and yet it didn’t seem to hold them back. Maybe you know someone yourself who was a genius in the classroom but who’s made heavy weather of their career. The reason is simple. I.Q is only one aspect of doing well. The other is our ability to empathise, to fit in, to understand, to handle others - and ourselves. We call it Emotional Intelligence or EI.

It is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. - Daniel Goleman, 1998

EI refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions in us and in our relationships. EI describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence or the purely cognitive capacities measured by IQ.

Traditionally, the emphasis when evaluating potential performance has been on intellectual; now compelling research indicates that emotional intelligence is twice as important as IQ plus technical skills for outstanding performance. When IQ test scores are correlated with how well people perform in their careers, the highest estimate of how much difference IQ accounts for is about 25%.

As a manager of a telecommunications company sums it up, "You don't compete with products alone anymore, but how well you use your people".

 

If you are serious about more effective performance, Edison have one of the most effective approaches. This programme of learning will take the best people and make them better. And take mediocre performing people and turn them into effective leaders.

So if you think that improved personal effectiveness may be your route to increased personal performance.
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or want to discuss it further with a member of our learning support team then contact us now!


Learning in a box

All personal effectiveness courses will be soon become fully blended, giving you access to the best learning content in the most cost effective way.

Learning in a box

 

 

INTRODUCTION TO TRAINING FOR MANAGERS

A Focused Approach To Training And Development

New equipment, new policies, new procedures - in almost every organisation, the speed of change is on the increase. For managers, the biggest challenge may well be keeping pace with the change - and making sure that staff keep pace too. Crucial to the flexibility and confidence that rapid change demands is effective training.

This three day programme has been designed to give today's managers an effective training tool that can be used at the sharp end. This programme addresses the managers direct, in clear, practical terms. Its targets are realistic cost-free and highly visible, reduced: wastage, learning times, re-work and errors; increased: quality, flexibility of staff and individual performance.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:
 How to set performance standards.
How to identify styles of learning and the factors which facilitate training.
The role of coaching and counseling to improve performance.
The role of training and development in the management of change.
Elements of evaluation necessary to ensure results centred training.
The various training methods and how to select the most suitable method for a particular situation.

RECOMMENDED FOR:
Improved motivational skills.
Improved skills to increase team productivity.
Introduction to team building.
Introduction to training and coaching.
Improvement of interpersonal skills and communication.
Extension of personal development programme.

 

GETTING THE PERSONAL ADVANTAGE:

coaching Our coaches have worked with a wide range of organisations and coached CEOs as well as small business owners and business unit managers. The key to our coaching programmes is flexibility, which means that we have ongoing programmes that have lasted over two years to programmes that will last only for one or two meetings. During each coaching programme the participant is supported by online communication and ongoing activities through the Pathfinder web portal which is included in every coaching plan.
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Why Use Pathfinder?
It can be stimulating and even enlightening to receive feedback— especially multi-rater competency feedback. However, many people have difficulty knowing what to do with their feedback once it is received. What is it telling them? Where should it take them? And, it is no easy task to create a development plan that people feel committed to. Once the plan is developed, it may be harder still to carry out the plan and monitor and update personal pathfinderdevelopment progress.

Pathfinder makes the development process easier and more fun than if the individual attempted to find his or her way alone. Personal development is a process and a journey. Rarely do people make meaningful progress on their development goals in less than a year's time. For this reason Pathfinder is a one-year programme with the ability to renew the subscription as often as needed or desired. Although the Pathfinder is designed so that any individual can use the site, those who are taking part in ongoing coaching will achieve the greatest success. The coach will be there to answer questions, clarify feedback, and provide direction and support for the development plan.

WHAT IS AN ECI?

Our coaching programmes are initially generated from the Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI). Prior to being assigned a coach, each individual carries out an ECI to assess their current emotional competencies. An reportemotional competence is a learned capacity based on emotional intelligence that results in outstanding performance at work. For superior performance in jobs of all kinds, emotional competence matters twice as much as IQ plus technical skill combined.

Our coaches have worked with a wide range of organisations and coached CEOs as well as small business owners and business unit managers. The key to our coaching programmes is flexibility, which means that we have ongoing programmes that have lasted over two years to programmes that will last only for one or two meetings. During each coaching programme the participant is supported by online communication and ongoing activities through the Pathfinder web portal which is included in every coaching plan.

competency assessment programme

Your team may be producing results, but how much better could they be?

How would you answer that question, well that's where Edison Personal Development can help. Our pro-assess competency and benchmarking process can help your organisation get fit for any project. Developed directly from the experienced gained from working in a number of different markets and also recently updated to take account of changing market trends, pro-assess will help your organisation identify not only how it will measure up to the market you sell in, but how it will also compare to our increasing data from organisations that have recently used pro-assess from a wide range of industries.