Personal effectiveness

These courses are available free of charge to Institute members.

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Communicating Complex Ideas
How do you explain complicated concepts and issues to colleagues or others who do not have your technical expertise? Whether getting support for ideas from senior management or communicating critical issues to customers and non-technical colleagues.
Course profile (PDF, 24 KB)

Effective Communication
The way you communicate can affect all aspects of your work. This course will help to master the areas of communication that will assist in being successful in your organisation, including: how to listen, how to present and how to write reports.
Course profile (PDF, 43 KB)

Managing Workload
This course will help you learn techniques for managing your workload through identifying your priorities correctly, setting effective goals, and making the best use of your time. It also looks at how you can cope when your workload becomes excessive.
Course profile (PDF, 38 KB)

Managing Your Behaviour at Work
This course will look at four key areas of behaviour and will help you the learner to understand how you can interpret and shape your own behaviour to improve your performance in the workplace.
Course profile (PDF, 50 KB)

Remote and International Working
Whatever organisation someone works in, they are bound to collaborate with colleagues who work at home, across the globe or at different locations and times. By working through this course you will discover the challenges and rewards of working at a distance and explore some practical tools and techniques to improve their own and their colleagues’ performance. Learners will consider how to adapt their own working style to new work patterns and learn how to communicate effectively across cultures.
Course profile (PDF, 34 KB)