Enhance Your Business Skills with Trimbos Training
Trimbos Training specialises in providing professional skills and management training across the UK, Europe and Asia. Our courses are designed to be interactive, practical, and engaging, catering to the needs of lawyers, engineers, and accountants. With a focus on effective communication and hands-on learning, we ensure that participants gain valuable skills that stick with them. Explore our comprehensive range of courses to find the right training for your business needs.
Writing & Drafting Skills
Course Overview: The need for effective and economical writing skills is as important today as it ever was, whether we communicate electronically or on paper. John’s writing and drafting courses typically comprise half-day modules and cover these areas:
- Writing in plain English
- Drafting legal documents
- Writing for the press and business development
- Business emails
- Grammar and spelling crash course
Negotiation Skills
Course Overview: Negotiating is a crucial skill in both personal and professional settings. This course takes a comprehensive look at negotiation techniques and strategies, typically over a full day, and covers:
- How to structure a negotiation strategy
- The typical phases of negotiations
- Projecting confidence and assertiveness
- Reading signs and body language
- Dealing with ploys and tactics
- Telephone negotiations
- Questioning techniques
- Summarising and concluding effectively
Presentation Skills
Course Overview: Effective presentation skills are essential for conveying ideas clearly and confidently. This masterclass, lasting either a day or half a day, includes:
- The optimum structure for an effective presentation
- Use of visual aids
- Vocal projection
- Body language
- Ironing out distractions
- Handling questions
- Combating nerves
Project Management
Course Overview: Project management is key for successful project execution. This one-day workshop provides a crash course covering:
- Setting parameters for the project
- Budgeting and controlling costs
- The iron triangle – controlling quality, time and costs
- Work breakdown summaries
- Creating a timeline and establishing the critical path
- Team communication
- Building the optimum project team
- Leading and motivating
Managing People
Where do you begin with such a sprawling subject? Although it can be broken down into modules, John typically favours an intensive one day workshop which looks at what motivates people and draws out their best performance – and then provides a set of tools and techniques for people managers to use.
Course Overview: Managing people effectively is essential for any organisation. This intensive one-day workshop covers:
- Motivation – how to harness people’s motivators
- Supervisory skills
- The art of delegation
- Giving feedback
- Performance management
- Dealing with tricky people management situations
- Dealing with different personality types
Benefits: This training is recommended for professionals just starting to manage people. Attendees will learn ways to motivate and reward their teams effectively.
Testimonial: “I thought the examples were very realistic and enabled us to put into practice what we were trying to learn. The presenter’s style made the topic interesting when it could have been a very dry ‘let’s get back to school’ approach. Excellent course.”
In-house support staff training – London
Training The Trainer
Many jobs contain an element of training or coaching, but most business people are simply not taught these skills. This intensive one day Training the Trainer Skills Workshop provides a crash course in training techniques and know-how including:
- How people learn
- Training techniques – which techniques work for which learning styles
- Setting proper objectives for your training programmes
- Training needs analysis
- Evaluating the success of training
- The differences between training, coaching, and mentoring
Course Overview: Many jobs include an element of training or coaching, but most business people are not taught these skills. This intensive one-day workshop covers:
Benefits: This course helps organisations harness the tools to get more from their people.
Testimonial: “I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you for working through the training with me. I have learnt so much and I am very grateful to you.”
Solicitor, Birmingham
Cultural Awareness & Diversity
This is another sprawling subject. It is ideally run as a one day masterclass, although the course can be broken down into its constituent components for shorter sessions. Typical topics would be:
- Principles of equal opportunities legislation
- Contents of an effective equal opportunities policy
- Management techniques for promoting diversity in the workplace
- Building blocks of national cultures
- Corporate cultures
- Doing business with people from other cultures
- Managing people from other cultures
- Sensitising yourself to your own cultural outlook – and how to see the world through the eyes of others
Course Overview: This one-day masterclass, which can be broken down into shorter sessions, covers:
Benefits: This training helps organisations fulfil legal requirements and prepare for globalisation.
Testimonial: “John made quite a dry subject interesting by using case studies and injecting humour into the training. Mr Trimbos held my attention and I found his style amusing. I enjoyed his examples. Certainly made me think!”
Solicitors, London
Client Care
Research has shown for many years that it typically costs eight times as much to win work from a new client as it does to win repeat business from an established client. Yet time and again professional organisations lose sight of basic client care rules, and fail to hold onto some of their best clients. This half-day workshop addresses this by covering:
- Why clients leave
- How to make clients feel valued
- Ethical cross-selling
- Detecting the danger signs
- Running an effective client relationship management programme
Course Overview: This half-day workshop addresses how to maintain and enhance client relationships by covering:
Benefits: This course is recommended for managers with client responsibility, helping them retain more clients and win more business from existing clients.
Testimonial: “Our company recently contracted John to work with one of our senior managers who was experiencing difficulties in influencing and persuading her UK colleagues using business emails that contained both sensitive and complex information. After only one coaching session with John, her entire perspective changed and she is now receiving positive feedback on her communication skills.”
International Solicitors, London
Time & Stress Management
Do you ever wish you could squeeze more hours out of the day? Time pressure is one of the principal causes of stress, and John offers a variety of modules to address these issues. Typically the course would cover:
- Warning signs of workplace stress
- Optimum stress levels – rust out versus burn out
- Looking after your physiology
- Time thieves and how to deal with them
- Time audits – where do the hours go?
- Anti-procrastination measures
- Setting objectives for medium to long-term plans
- Prioritising tasks
- Running effective meetings
Course Overview: Managing time and stress effectively is critical for productivity and well-being. This course typically covers:
Benefits: This training helps managers manage their time effectively and reduce stress, improving efficiency and reducing time lost to stress-related issues.
Testimonial: “The session was really good and enjoyable, just perfect.”
“The presenter was really good and had a good sense of humour. I thoroughly enjoyed it.”
“He made the session fun.”
London Law Firm
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