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Proactive Thinking and Taking Action at Work: The Forward-Thinking Manager

The Art of Proactive Thinking and Taking Action at Work

27-31 Jan 2025
Rome
$5,950
 
12-16 May 2025
Dubai
$5,950
 
07-11 Jul 2025
Houston
$6,950
 
01-05 Sep 2025
London
$5,950
 
10-14 Nov 2025
Paris
$5,950
 

Course Introduction

The Proactive Thinking and Taking Action at Work: The Forward-Thinking Manager training course will equip you with essential principles, practical techniques, and skills to advance your career. You will gain the competence, techniques, and mindset necessary to enhance your performance and presence.

This personal development course helps participants build confidence, refine their thinking skills, and harness personal power to strengthen their individual presence.

This COPEX training course will feature:

  • The skills of personal goal setting, creating energy, and self-motivation
  • Master pro-active and positive thinking and correct decision making
  • Presenting and communication at a high level
  • Taking action and focusing on key priorities
  • Planning for performance using proven techniques

Training Objectives

By the end of this  training course, participants should be able to:

  • Understand your ability as competencies and skill sets you can develop
  • Know what your organization and others expect from you
  • Know how to lead by example through excellent communication
  • Analyse your preferred personal style for greater effectiveness
  • Learn planning techniques to transform your goals into action
  • Be able to be a better problem solver and decision maker
  • Develop a powerful, positive mindset every day

Who should Attend?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Developing leaders and managers
  • Professionals seeking great results and responsibilities
  • Those looking to grow and develop

Course Outline

Day One:  Key Principles of Maximizing your Personal Potential
  • Definition, key principles, and personal learning objectives
  • Trends and challenges for managing yourself in the workplace
  • How do you really use your potential now? How would you like to be?
  • Beliefs and feelings about success, performance, and self-development
  • The VAVA method of self-motivation and self-discipline
Day Two: Goal Setting, Positive-Thinking and Workplace Performance
  • Different ways set and use goals as way of managing time
  • Converting outcomes and objectives into realistic action plans
  • Setting personal and work goals that complement each other
  • What four types of positive thinking and why managing your attitude matters
  • Five ways to stay focused, keep positive and avoid digital distractions
  • Using the 18-minute rule to structure your day
Day Three: Managing Priorities, Workload and Planning Systems
  • Prioritising your workload, tasks, and activities
  • Using priority ratings not urgency to react to tasks
  • Using the Pareto principle and Parkinson’s law to increase your productivity
  • Making meetings worthwhile – preparation and conduct
  • Delegating and reverse delegation; co-working effectively
  • Assertiveness techniques for handling colleagues and clients
Day Four: Improving your Communication Skills and Presenting Ability
  • How to send fewer and more concise emails and reports?
  • Learning to trust and reducing overcommunication and micro-management
  • Personal presentation and public speaking skills
  • Higher-level questioning techniques to investigate and solve problems
  • Listening to lead – active listening and structuring your conversation
  • Verbal and non-verbal techniques; body language explained 
Day Five: Planning and Scheduling for Personal Performance
  • Planning, executing, and monitoring projects
  • Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and defining the tasks to be done
  • Establishing the dependencies and relationships between tasks
  • Estimating techniques to identify expected duration of tasks (PERT)
  • Monitoring and controlling execution, and managing changes to achieve objectives
  • Communication styles and how to use positive communication to aid productivity

Certificates

  • COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ section provides quick answers to the most common questions about our services, procedures, and policies. We aim to make your experience with us as straightforward as possible. For further assistance, our support team is ready to help.

How can I register?

There are several ways to register in our public training courses:
Online – Browse the Training Plan, select the course of choice, click on the button
“Register Now” inside the course outline page.
E-mail – Send the details (name, company name, email address and training course of
choice) of your nomination to [email protected]
Telephone – +971 4 368 6886 or +971 50 106 2750

When will I receive the confirmation for my registration/s?

Upon successful registration, processing window will take not more than 24 hours from the time of registration. An email including the registration confirmation, invoice and joining instructions will be sent to the provided email address.

What is included in the training fee?

Published training course fees are inclusive of the training venue, training manual, writing materials, lunch and coffee breaks with refreshments over the entire duration of the training course.

What are the available payment methods?

The training course fee can be settled by either:

  • Bank transfer
  • Credit Card

How many hours per day, and what are the timings of your training courses?

Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.

Where do you usually hold your training courses?

Our training courses courses are being held at five-star hotels in prime and iconic destinations across the globe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Houston, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, etc.

Do you provide hotel booking assistance to your delegates?

Once officially registered, we can assist by providing the corporate rates provided by the hotel where the training course will be conducted. Early confirmation will enable us to secure the room at reduced rates

In case of failure to attend, what is your cancellation policy?

Our cancellation policy varies depending on the circumstances presented. Generally, cancellations must be initiated in formal writing at least 14 days prior to the commencement date of the training course. Further, the option to shift an existing registration to another training course on a later date is possible. Otherwise, a full refund will be initiated.

What will I receive after the training course?

Delegates who will attend and successfully complete the training course will earn a COPEX Certificate of Completion. This certification is designed to validate the successful knowledge transfer, and that the desired learning objectives and outcomes to further advance your professional competency are achieved.

We can customize this
training course for you!

At Copex Training, we offer customizable courses designed to fit your specific needs. whether it's refining procurement practices or enhancing leadership and management skills, we tailor our programs to meet your unique goals and challenges. Let us create a training solution that delivers real results for your team.
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