Targetspace - Courses
Targetspace Courses
Each course is 1 day and available at all Targertspace centres. For more information on a course click on the title below. To book please call 0800 2888 999.
Business & Personal Skills
- Assertive You
- Assertive You
Building and maintaining positive relationships at work is not always easy. Striking
the balance between being too accommodating or too aggressive can be a challenge.
However, there are a variety of ways of getting the best out of people and situations,
winning respect and creating a positive atmosphere. This course uses a range of
learning methods to illustrate assertiveness. It encourages self-belief and the
development of a more confident attitude.
- Effective Meeting Skills
- Effective Meeting Skills
The ability to confidently chair a meeting to a time frame and ensure everyone has
a platform to contribute is a skill. This skill can be learned and developed through
this course. The course encourages participants to actively develop their existing
skills and learn from the experiences of each other.
- Dealing with difficult customers and colleagues
- Dealing with difficult customers and colleagues
Managing relationships and conflicts that arise in business is a skill required
in all facets of life. This course will equip you with the knowledge, strategies
and finesse to turn around complaints to compliments.
- Influencing and persuasion skills
- Influencing and persuasion skills
Obtaining the best outcome through influencing and persuasion depends on a combination
of personal qualities and professional techniques. This comprehensive course provides
guidance to ensure delegates are equipped with the positive ability to influence
a range of situations.
- Powerful Presentations
- Powerful Presentations
Presentations are a high impact tool, that used effectively, achieve positive results.
Making a presentation requires confidence, professionalism and a convincing style,
developing these skills will enhance the outcome from your future presentations.
This course encourages active participation within a safe learning environment.
- Time and self management
- Time and self management
Virtually everyone feels under increasing pressure at work. Yet they could release
that pressure with better powers of self and time management. This course will help
achieve better results and avoid unnecessary stress. This course pinpoints the barriers
that stop this happening and equips delegates with an effective strategy and system
for personal success.
- Train the trainer
- Train the trainer
For a business to share skills and knowledge and to encourage continuous improvement
it requires individuals that can hone the skills of others by transferring knowledge
and facilitate learning and development. This course introduces delegates to different
learning styles and how to facilitate learning and personal growth in others.
- Coaching for maximising performance
- Coaching for maximising performance
The route to maximising an individuals and a teams potential lies in motivating
for continuous improvement. Successful and timely coaching is the key to achieving
this. This course provides a clear structure for coaching for any situation and
consolidates the skills and styles of delegates to increase their potential for
coaching.
- Effective team leader
- Effective team leader
The first leadership role is the most demanding, since individuals are selected
based upon their performance as a team member. The team leader faces the challenge
of providing organization and direction, motivation and establishing positive working
relationships and commanding respect. This course equips team leaders with a variety
of techniques and strategies to employ to achieve success.
- Introduction to management
- Introduction to management
Effective line management doesn’t just happen, it requires an awareness of the business
and the ability to apply a range of tools and techniques. This must be coupled with
sound interpersonal skills and people skills. This course provides a firm foundation
for first time managers from which to progress in management.
- Successful Selling
- Successful Selling
Business today has become more competitive and in order to grow we all need to understand
the art of selling and persuasion. In order for businesses to gain competitive advantage
they need people who are professional at selling. This interactive course provides
an introduction to the sales process through to reaching a commitment at the close.
- Successful Telesales
- Successful Telesales
Selling over the phone is a key sales channel and relies on the ability of building
rapport immediately and understanding the process of pre call planning through to
securing commitment within the call. This course enables delegates to develop the
skills necessary to be completely effective.
- Marketing for non Marketeers
- Marketing for non Marketeers
Marketing influences all aspects of business. To be informed those in a management
role need to have an understanding of the ways marketing affects all parts of the
business. A business that is seamless in its marketing approach can make the difference
between being a success or a failure. This course aims to demystify the processes
and techniques of marketing and will enable participants to understand their role
in exploiting opportunities to achieve the businesses aims.
- Successful Key Account Management
- Successful Key Account Management
Once a customer has been acquired this relationship has to be managed. For businesses
it is much more profitable to nurture and satisfy existing customers rather than
neglect and allow them to become vulnerable for competitors. This course equips
delegates with the understanding and skills to ensure they fully exploit customer’s
needs and continue to build the relationship over time.