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The Workshop on Soft Skills for Young Executives is designed for young professionals with less than five years of experience and students looking to enhance their management and interpersonal skills. This course focuses on the essential soft skills required to thrive in today’s dynamic and ever-evolving work environment.
Participants will explore key topics such as leadership, teamwork, and negotiation skills, helping them develop the confidence and interpersonal skills needed to manage teams effectively and navigate workplace challenges. The course also addresses the importance of personal development, helping executives set goals and manage emotions in the workplace.
Time optimization and prioritization are also covered, with a focus on reducing stress, improving efficiency, and achieving a healthy work-life balance. In addition, participants will learn effective communication techniques, including writing impactful emails and reports, along with improving presentation skills.
Finally, the course covers the human dimension of organizational change, teaching participants how to anticipate, manage, and defuse conflicts that may arise during periods of change, ultimately helping them thrive in fast-paced, complex business environments.
By the end of the workshop, young executives will be equipped with the skills and strategies needed to excel in their roles and contribute meaningfully to their organizations.
Entry Requirements
This course is mainly aimed at young executives with less than 5 years of experience in their professions. It will also be useful for students who want to enhance their management skills.
Commencement
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Programme Fees
Current Fee Structure
Course Fee: LKR 15,000 (Per Day)
Course Structure and Modules
Introduction to the 21st-century work environment: current socio-economic trends, local and international, office practices of the 21st century, technological interventions, modern management practices, telecommuting, Flexi-office practices, ergonomics, decision making in a changing business world
Leadership, teamwork, negotiation and personal development skills: Types of leaders, managing a team, working with team members, developing self-confidence, interpersonal skills, negotiation skills, managing emotions and setting a personal development plan
Time Optimization and Selection of Priorities: manage the working time best to reduce stress and improve efficiency, setting priorities, acknowledge that experiencing stress is an opportunity for change, work-life balance, personal health
Effective Communications: communication techniques as part of the duties and asserting one’s self in professional relationships, writing effective e-mails and reports, presentation skills
Managing the Human Dimension of Organizational Change: identifying the different types of change, anticipating and reduce conflicts associated with change, preventing and / or managing the internal and external conflicts, defusing the mechanisms that induce conflicts, learning to anticipate, understand and defuse situations of disagreement and misunderstanding that can escalate into individual or collective disputes.