Personal Effectiveness Skill Builder

Almost every enterprise spends time trying to ensure that the entire organisation works effectively. This could be through team building, a focus on quality and customer service, improving communication processes, or many other worthwhile initiatives. However, an organisation will only be as effective as the individuals within it.

In other words, all of these valuable initiatives and many like them will only be successful if individuals are personally committed to improving. The more each person takes responsibility for his or her own personal effectiveness, the more likely it is that the entire enterprise will ultimately be successful.

No matter how successful you currently are, the key areas described in this Skill Builder will help you assess if making simple changes will result in becoming even more personally effective in the future, to the benefit of you as an individual, and the organisation in which you work.

The Personal Effectiveness Skill Builder covers:

1. Take - being individually responsible and engaging in change
2. Exchange - ensuring quality, mutually satisfying communication
3. Develop - having a willingness to learn and taking action to do so
4. Listen - committing attention to others in the spirit of empowerment
5. Stretch - understanding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to achievement
6. Deliver - personally valuing quality and results

What are Skill Builders?

These short, sharp and succinct resources provide best practice thinking on a range of key topics and are currently available in 35 titles. Skill Builders are 12 page black and white booklets printed on 140gsm paper and hole-punched for easy insertion into a 3-ring binder. They are designed to provide a practical method for improving skills and focus on explaining the main steps in the process. On the back page of each booklet, a template illustrates how the process fits together for practical and immediate application.

What can Skill Builders be used for?

• Staff meetings or other group gatherings where time is limited and you want to discuss a specific skill or topic
• Pre-course work (to provide a brief and practical introduction to a topic)
• One-on-one or group coaching
• Self development
• Any other situation where a practical best practice process is required and time is limited