Personal Effectiveness Health Checks

Dear Reader

I’m sure you take your health seriously. Regular health checks are important to make sure you’re fit and healthy. They also help to highlight potential problems before they arise.

But it’s not just your health and wellbeing you should monitor regularly. You should also review your business skills.

How good are your communication skills?

As part of our range of complimentary services to celebrate our 20th Anniversary, we are offering you or your organisation free Personal Effectiveness Health Checks in one of the following areas:

• Written communications
• Presentation skills
• Interview skills

Do you write right?

First impressions count, and often the first contact people have with you is a written communication.

Make sure your writing skills are up to scratch – send us an example of your corporate letters or emails and we’ll critique it. You’ll receive a report on your layout, punctuation style, presentation and grammar and a few suggestions on how to improve – for free.

It is with great pleasure that I present to you…

Presenting may not be your favourite job, but it is an essential part of business. How you go about your presentation will determine whether it is a success or not.

To boost your presentation performance, send us a presentation on PowerPoint and we’ll critique it. Our feedback will offer tips to improve the overall effectiveness of your message – for free.

Are you ready to interview?

Conducting an interview to find the candidate who is right for the job can be daunting. To make sure you’re not committing any interview cardinal sins, email us for a checklist. Then, as part of our Personal Effectiveness Health Checks, contact us for advice on how to avoid three of your guilty sins – for free.

Ask the Editor

Have a question about a development or training issue? Email us your questions and we’ll answer them in the next issue.

Favourite Quotes

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” Aristotle

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius

“The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do.” Anonymous

“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” Euripedes

Tips for Achievers

Three things to stop doing to boost your personal effectiveness:

• Check emails too frequently – this can be distracting, will affect your concentration and lower your performance; so turn off your email notification and build into your day regular slots to check emails.

• Gravitating towards urgency rather than importance – important tasks need more brainpower, skill and time. Neglect them and they’ll become urgent too. Then you really will be stressed.

• Holding meetings without action-centred agendas – you’ll just waste your time and that of others and get poorer outcomes.

Would you like a daily tip? Just send us an email and we’ll send you a fresh tip every day.

Make sure you’re in tip-top health

Writing, presenting and interviewing are all important skills to master. With our help you can become a black belt in all three disciplines and boost your effectiveness.

Email us today and take the first step towards greater personal effectiveness.

Kind regards

Alison Miles-Jenkins

Managing Director

Training To Achieve ( UK) Ltd

0845 165 6269

www.t2achieve.com

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