Personal Effectiveness

With a steadfast 40-year background dedicated to the UK banking and financial services sector, our personal effectiveness course leader experienced a highly successful career with Lloyds Bank. By an early age, he was in senior management, later headhunted by a merchant bank to join at the main board director level.

Working as a freelance soft skills training consultant since retirement, Redcliffe’s trainer is proud to be an external Master Trainer at HSBC and Bank of China. Delivering various soft skill-related sessions, he has helped screen and assess prospective and existing trainers for their capabilities and requirements moving forward.

Our productivity course specialist has delivered ‘train the trainer’ programs in addition to those already mentioned. Specifically for the Bank of China he has designed, created and delivered a highly successful and comprehensive personal effectiveness course.

Our versatile trainer brings extensive industry experience to deliver comprehensive, engaging and impactful sessions, collaborating with everyone from small firms and partnerships to large global companies. This great depth of knowledge ensures that all course participants receive practical, relevant and actionable insights specifically tailored to their specific needs, significantly enhancing the effectiveness of the overall training experience.

Personal effectiveness training at Redcliffe is suitable for professionals working in financial services and any industry where high levels of personal effectiveness are required.

Upon course completion, participants will be confident and knowledgeable to:

• Describe time use in terms of Knowledge, Attitude, Skills and Habits (KASH)
• Define principles of effective decision-making in deciphering what is important and urgent
• Consider how mental well-being influences personal effectiveness at work
• Demonstrate the fallacy of multitasking and develop task focus
• Practice developing personal effectiveness habits

If there’s a specific aspect you would like to cover during this session that isn’t in our personal effectiveness training outline, please speak with us to discuss bespoke options.

• Sessions combine the application of basic techniques with more advanced skills to further develop financial ability.
• Our course allows participants to consider personal effectiveness improvements in everyday situations.
• The course is led by a trainer with extensive industry experience, allowing participants to gain valuable insights from real-world scenarios.
• Our course allows participants to consider personal productivity methods and customisation tools for effective working use.
• Participants learn skills and techniques that can be adapted and refined over time, promoting continuous personal and professional growth.
• Redcliffe Training works with time-served, industry professionals with lengthy, dedicated careers.

Given this is such a crucial skill, everyone will benefit from our personal effectiveness course. Specifically, training is a must-know for:

• Management, team leaders & oversight roles
• Individuals required to work as a team or upon initiative to ‘get things done’ effectively
• Individuals in a leadership or team role no matter how junior
• Senior, middle and line managers who need to ‘make things happen’
• Personnel staff
• Any professionals looking to refresh or enhance existing skills with a professional productivity course

Personal effectiveness training allows participants to take some dedicated time out and focus on themselves. “I don’t have the time”, is an excuse used by many and whilst usually true, allocating space for progression brings results in abundance. With a little effort, this course encourages the skills you already have whilst providing additional techniques on top. Across just half a day (3 hours - including a break), delegates are shown the main focus principles for improving personal productivity. Thoughtfully considered, these principles reveal a well-rounded personal effectiveness training outline.

Participants will explore the management of mental capacity while addressing common misconceptions about time. This investigation helps them understand how to optimise their focus and energy, leading to more effective time management strategies.

We’ll also consider how to handle distractions and interruptions guilt-free and with ease. This personal productivity training course teaches stress-reducing techniques for managing an ever-increasing task list. Additionally, we’ll discuss effective responses for when you genuinely feel like you “don’t have the time.” Personal effectiveness training will provide participants with practical strategies to boost their productivity and overall well-being. This course focuses on actionable techniques that empower individuals to manage their time, handle distractions, and approach tasks with greater confidence and efficiency.

You may never have 25 hours in a day, but you can continuously improve your personal productivity and output to manage your time more effectively. By implementing the right strategies, as demonstrated in this personal effectiveness training course, you can optimise each day and achieve your goals with greater efficiency.