Be the Best Version of Yourself With Our Weekly Training Booster
These boosters are designed to help you improve your soft skills practically and pragmatically within the workplace.
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith as they guide you through the world of soft skills, from negotiation to time management and everything in between.
Every week, a new video will be uploaded to MBM’s YouTube channel. Alongside this, the audio will be uploaded with the transcript on our award-winning podcast page.
#1 How to Improve Your Negotiation Skills
In the first episode of the Weekly Training Booster, Andy and Darren discuss and guide you through how to improve your negotiation skills with better preparation. Using the squaredance, being more ambitious, and knowing that there are 8 methods of resolving conflict.
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#2 How to Improve Your Time Management Skills
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in episode two. This episode was about how to improve your time management skills with frogs, badgers, and woolly mammoths. Plus, the 7 hurdles of time management.
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#3: How to Improve Your Communication Skills (HBDI)
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the third episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about how to improve your communication skills using HBDI. Know someone that you just can’t seem to communicate with effectively? I bet you are speaking a different ‘language’.
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#4: How to Work from Home Effectively/ Remotely
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the fourth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about how to work from home effectively. Also, known as remote working. We discuss the M.I.N.D.S.E.T. mnemonic that will help you to work from home more productively.
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#5: How to Deal with Conflict/Managing Conflict
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the fifth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about how to deal with conflict, or manage conflict. We discussed how important tone is to the situation, the use of irritators, and the Thomas-Kilman conflict behavioural model.
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#6: How to Use Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats & their Sequences
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the sixth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about the six thinking hats. Designed by Edward De Bono, these 6 hats help teams to solve problems with this incredible problem-solving tool. You can choose how you sequence the hats to get the best results.
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#7: How to Use Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats & their Sequences
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the seventh episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about the GROW Coaching model; Goal, Reality, Options, and Way Forward. An overview of this coaching model to help you to begin coaching.
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#8: How to Understand and Use the Urgent and Important Matrix
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the eighth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about understanding the urgent and important matrix. Also known as the Eisenhower matrix. A tool for helping you to understand how to improve your time management.
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#9: How to Tell Stories at Work to Improve Your Presentation Skills
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the ninth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about storytelling. Using stories to achieve greater engagement with your audience. Everyone can tell stories – Tell me about an accident you had, or a time you were embarrassed.
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#10: What is the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument assessment?
Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the tenth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode is about ‘What is the H.B.D.I. Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument assessment’. Exploring a number of questions to understand this assessment tool.
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