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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

 

 

EFFECTIVE REPORT WRITING

Increase The Impact Of Written Communication

Difficulty in expressing ideas on paper means that good ideas may never be fully understood or valued. EFFECTIVE REPORT WRITING will show how to communicate ideas in a clear, well structured report, examining the various stages of report writing and the disciplines required to construct an effective persuasive document. Through two days of practical sessions delegates will be able to use different formats of writing and report layout and gain ideas for increasing the quality and design of their written communication.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:
 The setting of objectives - clarifying the position.
How to structure contents and plan the stages and sequence of the report.
How to write clearly and concisely, gearing the language to the reader, avoiding jargon.
Setting a style that will make the report digestible and attractive to the reader.
Layout and presentation techniques.
Techniques to display detailed figures and complex tabular information.
The use of appendices to filter out all supporting data.
How to develop techniques for proof reading and checking your own work.
Design methods and the role of desktop publishing in the production of reports.

RECOMMENDED FOR:
Structuring and planning of documents.
Developing a written communication style.
Improved layout and presentation of documents.
Improved clarity of written communication.
Developing report writing skills.
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.