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Personal effectiveness training

Refine essential skills to boost your professional and personal growth. Explore courses designed to enhance communication, decision-making, and leadership capabilities. 

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Harness success with personal effectiveness training

ILX's Personal Effectiveness courses provide practical strategies to develop core skills such as resilience, feedback delivery, and communication. By completing these courses, you’ll improve your ability to collaborate, lead, and create meaningful outcomes in your career. Designed to be used by project managers, these courses help you to develop the soft skills you need to ensure the success of your projects. 

Why develop personal effectiveness?

Personal effectiveness skills are essential for improving productivity, collaboration, and professional growth. These courses prepare you to navigate workplace challenges with confidence, develop strong interpersonal skills, and achieve your goals efficiently. By mastering decision-making, communication, and leadership techniques, you’ll build the resilience and adaptability needed to thrive in diverse environments. Strengthen your ability to inspire trust, foster teamwork, and create impactful solutions in your career. 

What you’ll gain
  • Become your best self 
  • Develop improved decision-making and problem-solving skills 
  • Develop strategies to manage stress and build resilience 
  • Gain tools for delivering impactful feedback 
  • Master effective communication and leadership techniques 
  • Build the confidence to influence and lead authentically 

Courses explained

The Personal Effectiveness course titles are listed here. 

Personal Effectiveness: Influencing with integrity
Personal Effectiveness: Resilience and managing stress
Personal Effectiveness: Facilitating with confidence and inclusion
Personal Effectiveness: Developing others through feedback
Personal Effectiveness: Confident presentation skills
Personal Effectiveness: Authenticity, focus and confidence
Personal Effectiveness: How to make good decisions confidently
Personal Effectiveness: Influencing with integrity

Master the art of influencing decisions ethically and with integrity in this engaging course. Through practical exercises and real-world case studies, learn psychological techniques like nudges, storytelling, and motivational levers to build trust and guide decision-making. Gain skills in framing ideas effectively to persuade and resonate with your audience. Discover how to apply subtle "nudge" techniques to shape behaviours transparently. Refine your communication abilities to connect, build rapport, and create positive outcomes in professional interactions. 

Personal Effectiveness: Resilience and managing stress

This course provides tools to identify stress triggers, manage their impact, and build resilience for improved wellbeing. Understand the effects of prolonged stress and learn to recognise early signs to take proactive steps. Discover proven habits like reframing challenges and adopting a growth mindset to enhance adaptability and life satisfaction. Gain strategies to address high-pressure situations, maintain productivity, and regain balance. Extend these skills beyond the workplace, applying them to personal relationships and communities to create positive, lasting change. 

Personal Effectiveness: Facilitating with confidence and inclusion

This course equips leaders with techniques to manage challenging meetings and create productive, collaborative discussions. Learn to handle difficult or dominant stakeholders confidently while encouraging quieter participants to contribute. Gain practical strategies for structuring effective meetings, keeping discussions on track, and achieving results. Refine your facilitation skills, boost your confidence, and build a collaborative environment in both virtual and in-person settings. Master the art of balancing diverse attendee dynamics and leading with professionalism to ensure impactful meetings. 

Personal Effectiveness: Developing others through feedback

This course teaches practical techniques to deliver feedback effectively and constructively in any scenario. Learn step-by-step frameworks for clear, actionable feedback and develop strategies for navigating complex emotions during sensitive discussions. Understand the importance of feedback as a tool for growth, trust-building, and continuous improvement. Gain skills to deliver objective input that highlights strengths and areas for improvement, fostering productive dialogue and meaningful development. 

Personal Effectiveness: Confident presentation skills

Build the skills to deliver impactful, confident presentations. Begin by addressing presentation anxiety, learning techniques to manage nerves and build assurance. Discover how to prepare and structure compelling presentations, aligning key messages with audience needs. Practise effective delivery techniques, including body language, tone, and pacing, in a supportive environment. Master the use of visual aids to complement your message and engage audiences effectively. One week later, apply your skills in a group session to reinforce learning and gain practical experience. 

Personal Effectiveness: Authenticity, focus and confidence

This transformative workshop helps you elevate motivation, focus, and confidence while embracing your authentic leadership style. Define your "Authentic Leadership Brand" by projecting your genuine self and focusing on your strengths. Build confidence through self-awareness and a clear sense of purpose, aligning your personal and professional identity to communicate effectively and inspire trust. Learn strategies to navigate challenges, make sound decisions, and achieve positive outcomes in difficult situations. 

Personal Effectiveness: How to make good decisions confidently

Develop practical decision-making skills, enabling you to analyse evidence, minimise bias, and assess risks effectively. Learn to make swift, objective decisions by understanding key influencing factors and overcoming obstacles to logical thinking. Gain techniques for evaluating multiple solutions, weighing pros and cons to select the best course of action. Master the ability to identify, assess, and report risks clearly, fostering transparency and collaboration. Develop communication skills to present decisions confidently, ensuring understanding and alignment among teams and stakeholders. 

Personal effectiveness courses available
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The Secret Life of the Brain
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Business Development Techniques
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Innovation and Problem Solving Deep Dive - for Complex, Intractable or Seemingly Unsolvable Problems
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Personal Effectiveness
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Influencing with Integrity
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Personal Effectiveness
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Resilience and Managing Stress
From £660.00
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Personal Effectiveness
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Facilitating with Confidence and Inclusion
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Personal Effectiveness
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Developing Others Through Feedback
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Personal Effectiveness
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Confident Presentation Skills
From £1,045.00
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Authenticity, Focus and Confidence
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Personal Effectiveness
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How to Make Good Decisions Confidently
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FAQs

All our Personal Effectiveness programmes are run in-house and are designed to help you develop the soft skills you need to ensure the success of your projects. 

What do Personal Effectiveness courses cover?

They cover essential skills like decision-making, communication, resilience, and leadership to enhance personal and professional success. 

Who are these courses for?

Suitable for professionals at any career stage looking to improve personal skills and workplace effectiveness. 

Do I need experience in project management to complete the personal effectiveness courses?

No prior project management experience is required. The courses are suitable for anyone looking to improve their skills in business and leadership. 

Are there any Prerequisites for the personal effectiveness courses?

No, these courses require no previous knowledge or experience and are suitable for professionals learning these skills for the first time, as well as those with experience who wish to brush up their knowledge and skillset. 

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“I’ve already recommended ILX to other departments within our business, but I would definitely tell anyone who’s looking for project management or IT training to contact ILX. They’re our go-to training provider for a reason!” 

Susanne Seidl, Specialist Learning & Development, Konica Minolta