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The foundation for success Showing the way forward Handling delicate interactions Out of the box into the blue Structuring teams that deliver How to inspire personal development How to become decisive The key to successful transformation Promoting ideas & defending core values Running them efficiently and effectively What makes RTTA special International, cross-sector client base Soft skills for real results in building confidence Don’t tell people to be more confident. What RTTA does. True confidence is not about ignoring the problems. True confidence is knowing that problems exist but also knowing that you can solve those problems. RTTA will uplift your soft skills to enable real results for you personally and your company. ‘Soft skills for real results’ starts with individuals. Energy is no use if you cannot harness it. Going into over-drive. Inevitable. The right tools. The result. New ground. Staying ahead. Nurturing. Diversity. Teamwork. What we do. What’s in a name? The reality. Reframing. Too many options. The reality. How we help. High value decisions. The reality. Why RTTA? Strength. Domino effect. What we do. Clarity. Transparency. What we do. FROM “SHOULD-WORK” TO “IT ACTUALLY WORKS”. Real results. Flexibility. High achievers. Sectors: Public sector: are some of the sectors where RTTA’s ‘soft skills for real results’ program has provided help. If you have people who are already good and you want them to be even better, then get in touch.Building confidence
Applying leadership
Mastering relationships
Driving innovation
Productive teams
Sharing feedback
Being a decision maker
Catalysing change
Safeguarding positions
Managing projects
How we do it
Who we work with
Building confidence
Confidence is tremendously important. Low confidence means goals are not set high enough. Over-confidence can lead to not taking sufficient precautions.
Simply telling someone to be more confident (or perhaps less confident) doesn’t give them any feeling about where to set challenging but achievable goals.
RTTA gives understanding about how confidence is built and so gives people the tools to be more confident while retaining a realistic regard for the very real obstacles on the way.
Applying leadership
George Carlin said: There may be no “I” in “TEAM” but there definitely is one in “Independent”, “Intelligent” and “Innovative”. Knowing and adapting to the needs of individual team members is essential when leading groups of high achieving people.
Groups of highly intelligent people are prone to their own set of problems. Teams made up of highly motivated and well qualified men and women (who have strong and well thought out opinions) are powder kegs waiting to go off if not managed skilfully.
RTTA maximises client’s leadership skills so that you can get the best out of your best people. Soft skills that achieve real results.
Mastering relationships
Encountering difficult people is an unavoidable part of working. Dealing with them within the team or as customers takes up valuable time and energy. It is essential to do this efficiently to minimise the costs.
RTTA boosts your team’s insight into the real motivation behind difficult behaviour and gives them the appropriate tools and confidence to deal with problematic people and situations.
This enables your team to eliminate unnecessary costs and conflicts. ‘Soft skills for real results’ means a significant reduction in these unnecessary costs.
Driving innovation
Innovative solutions are essential for success in the modern world. Evolve or die is fine if you are happy just to run with the herd.
If you want to accelerate and be ahead of the crowd, you need to actively test new approaches and transform your team’s attitude to innovation. However, finding the right balance between being productive and maintaining innovation can be difficult.
‘Soft skills for real results’ builds the team’s capacity for innovation in two ways: Increasing the creativity of the individuals and also by developing the team environment. This means the costly ideas get identified early and the most profitable ideas flourish.
Productive teams
It is often said that trying to get intelligent people to agree is like trying to herd cats. Innovative teams need diversity, disagreement and different skills. However there is a problem, too much disagreement and you go from team to war-zone.
Achieving the correct balance that drives both innovation and productivity is difficult. Maintaining that balance over an extended period requires constant attention.
RTTA’s ‘soft skills for real results’ ensures that individual team members are energised, flexible and aware of their own contributions and skills. Only then can the team as a whole be truly productive.
Sharing feedback
Whether you call it criticism or the slightly more sanitised “feedback”, giving someone the news that you are not happy with their performance has the potential to anger and demotivate them.
Criticism is a necessary part of improving and although people know that when talking about criticism, the story is usually different when they are actually receiving it. They usually just defend themselves against the information.
‘Soft skills for real results’ focuses on ways to deliver criticism such that people actually accept the information and are inspired to perform better in the future. These soft skills quickly yield real results.
Being a decision maker
Intelligent people often have difficulty making decisions. They usually see more possible consequences of any given choice and that inevitably leads to other choices and then an overwhelming number of possibilities to take into account.
However being able to make swift decisions when needed is necessary to capitalise on new opportunities and ideas.
RTTA’s ‘soft skills for real results’ training enhances your staff’s ability to focus in what really matters and so make timely decisions that keep your group out in front.
Catalysing change
Persuading someone to spend a lot of money or make a big change or commitment isn’t easy. If it is easy then you are probably not demanding enough and you could be striking a better deal.
The techniques that work best for big deals and long-term commitments are different to the usual persuasion techniques of “It is really great, you should buy/do it”. Developing the long-term relationships and trust that big commitments require is a marathon not a sprint. Even small problems can derail the whole process.
RTTA’s ‘soft skills for real results’ commitment is to sustainable techniques that work over the long term. This is not a quick fix. This is a commitment to the future.
Safeguarding positions
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Strong and capable teams are made up of strong and capable individuals.
Being able to robustly defend ideas and positions is not just important to the individual. It challenges the team in a productive way and makes the whole team stronger.
RTTA’s ‘soft skills for real results’ workshops promote individual strength because the stronger people are the more they can contribute to the group.
Managing projects
The foundation for a well-managed project is clarity. Knowing the goal of the project, the strategic value and the best approach to the management of the project.
It is also essential that everyone has the same understanding of the goals and the progress of the project. This includes not just every member of the project team but also other stakeholders like clients, customers and management.
There is a lot of theory in project management but the ‘soft skills for real results’ program targets the main challenge which is to make things work in real situations. RTTA training and consulting focuses on pragmatic and down to earth solutions for your projects.
How we do it
No surprise: there is a difference between what should work and what actually works.
RTTA is driven by practical methods that deliver real results. Every management situation is different and so the very best managers must be agile and flexible.
RTTA’s extremely flexible workshop style means that the participants actually shape the workshop as it takes place. This means they quickly learn the soft skills needed to deliver real results.
Who we work with
RTTA takes people who are already good at what they do and makes them better. We help highly qualified and intelligent people to hone their already extensive skills and make them even more effective.
Private sector:
● Healthcare
● Information Technology
● Pharmaceutical
● Academic Research Institutes
● Utilities
● Social services
● Local government
We also provide expertise on better communication, conflict resolution, being assertive, influencing skills, persuasion, team building, networking skills and other interpersonal skills. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
