Training And Professional Development
At EDLAB Pakistan, our goal is to prepare and present, well-structured and carefully designed trainings, which will assist professionals of all levels to unlock and discover their potential to grow.
We have curated trainings to upgrade the mindset and skillset of Junior and Senior personnels up to Executive level. Our trainings cover several categories including Management, Leadership, Communication and Administration. Furthermore, this year we have introduced our brand new and exclusive Crisis Communication Training.
Team Building
Description
One man may be an important member on a team but one man cannot make a team! .Team building is about providing the skills, training and resources that your people need, so that they can work in harmony. But, to be truly effective, it needs to be a continual process, embedded into your team and organization’s culture. This workshop is going to focus on how to enhance group dynamics and foster long term collaboration.
Training Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Foster awareness of team spirit
- Reinforce commitment to the team’s shared goals and objectives
- Improve and instill management and interpersonal development
- Increase communication, learn new strengths, and gain insights within the team
- Develop all elements of team work including creativity, communication, trust, problem solving, time management, etc.
- Develop a high performance team with long term core values
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Description
The most successful professionals can assess the environment, analyze a situation, and design alternative solutions to solve real life problems. Critical thinking and Decision making is not just a group talk – rather, it requires structured team learning situations. Although we are most familiar with individualistic and competitive structures, psychologists and cooperative thinking scholars suggest that a cooperative structure can be very useful in developing higher order problem solving skills needed in today’s business environment. This training will demystify, discuss, and provide holistic critical thinking application techniques to develop decision making skills in a business context.
Training Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Understand steps of Critical thinking strategies
- Practice critical thinking strategies to approach business problems
- Apply techniques to analytical and creative thinking that help in team work.
- Create an awareness of personal bias and its impact on our thinking.
- Explore open-mindedness to everyday situations.
- Develop strategic problem analysis skills surrounding a problem with options.
- Learners will draw connections to their work experience by analyzing and critiquing cases using critical and creative thinking framework. Best practices for collaborative thinking will be discussed and illustrated including how to weigh alternative solutions, incorporate feedback from stakeholders, and how and when to start over.
Negotiation skills
Description
We use negotiating techniques in our everyday lives, sometimes without realizing it. In our professional lives, however, negotiating is a necessary and versatile skill. The ability to negotiate appropriately can be your edge in achieving success. Whether you’re dealing with colleagues, employees, senior management, prospects, clients or suppliers, you will achieve your goals more often by using powerful, appropriate and effective negotiating strategies and techniques. In this workshop will better understand the ins and outs of negotiation, and develop effective strategies, tactics and counter-measures through experiencial methods
Training Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Explain the real purpose of constructive negotiation leading to win-win
- Develop the emotional, logical and ethical components of an influencing negotiator
- Plan and structure a win-win negotiation event
- Assess personal negotiating motivation and aptitudes
- Use communication skills critical to successful negotiating
- Handle conflict situations as they arise during negotiation events
- Identify and expand upon your personal style of managing conflict
- Close negotiations more professionally
Super presentation skills
Description
Imagine that every time you give a presentation, the other person comes away with a strong and positive sense of what you are about, what your message is, and why they should join hands. Wouldn’t it be great to know that every time you meet someone for a presentation, you are coming across your very best? In this training on Presentation Skills, you will learn the following exactly how to do that
Training Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Give effective presentations and avoid the common blunders
- Eliminate nervousness before presentations
- How to focus on your key messages for the presentation
- Practice hands on presentation strategies
- Plan moments of engagement for each one on one presentation
Emotional intelligence
Description
Emotional intelligence is the capacity to understand and manage your emotions. ecently, it has become a bit of a buzz word in human resources departments across the globe but researchers are saying that it is time emotional intelligence be taken seriously. The unfortunate trenea that has swept eastern society is the inability to fully understand and tackle human emotions. This trend has spilled into other areas of life – including in the workplace. businesses but also employees Embracing the nuances of human emotion in the workplace can have pragmatic benefits, such as better collaboration among employees and a happier workplace, because ” we are human beings every day, not just when we leave the office” – Rex Huppke.
Training Objectives
After the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Recognize how emotional intelligence impacts workplace interactions.
- Increase self-awareness, self-management and develop a clear understanding of interpersonal dynamics.
- Use strategies to manage counterproductive tendencies.
- Communicate professionally and effectively-in all situations.
- Identify and apply key emotional skills to a broad variety of workplace situations-regardless of emotional stress.
- Improve sensitivity to organizational and social cues.
- Avoid behaviors that will derail success in the workplace.
- Practice effective engagement skills for organizational success.
Kaizen
Description
Japanese companies are internationally renowned for their high levels of innovation and productivity. But what systems have they put in place which allows them to achieve such spectacular results?With an increased sense of commitment to the company, Kaizen also helps boost your employee retention rates while strengthening teams, as well as introducing a healthy degree of competitiveness into the workforce with continuous problem solving. Join this workshop to discover this tried and tested philosophy to foster positivity in your company.
Training Objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
- Create a company culture in which employees are empowered to contribute ideas and solutions
- Challenge the status quo and seek proactive engagement with problems
- Gather data and opinions from a wide cross-section of your business
- Be creative: search for low cost solutions and small improvements
- Look to resolve issues as soon as you make mistakes
Stress management
Description
Stress, anxiety, and burnout are rampant across workplaces today: 80 percent of workers feel stress on the job, and nearly half say they need help learning how to manage it. While many organizations may assume that intense stress is unavoidable, even admirable, research suggests that too much stress is toxic to our health and performance, leading to burnout and harming the culture of organizations as a whole. This workshop offers research-based strategies for building resilience to stress and fortifying our well-being in the face of challenges. It explains the biological and psychological impact of stress, helps you distinguish between harmful and helpful forms of stress at work, and provides strategies for handling stress in healthy and productive ways.
Training Objectives
After the end of the program, participants will learn:
- How stress can impair our performance and well-being at work, and harm organizations
- The differences between healthy and toxic stress, and how to leverage healthy stress for success
- The benefits of mindfulness for helping you build resilience to stress, as well as innovation and team spirit at work
- Research-based strategies for cultivating mindfulness within yourself and your organization
Leadership mindset
Description
Business leaders today face unprecedented challenges. An increasingly connected global economy, nonstop technological advances, and rapid demographic shifts are disrupting the business environment on a scale never seen before. This pace of change places enormous demands on leaders. Leaders are being asked to reinvent themselves and their organizations simultaneously. Leaders trapped in yesterday’s mindset often struggle to find their place and voice in this new business world. Adopting a new leadership mindset will allow leaders to keep pace with and stay ahead of the changes. This training will facilitate leaders to think strategically and globally, inspire innovation and culture change, lead with strong vision and purpose, drive financial results and increase shareholder value. collaborate across the enterprise, and manage ever-increasing levels of complexity.
Training Objectives
After the end of the program, participants will learn:
- Develop the most important leadership quality: the growth mindset
- Feel confident in your ability to learn any skill you need to be a great leader
- Understand the true depth of human potential
- Stop holding yourself back due to a fear of failure
- Be less sensitive to constructive criticism and embrace ways to improve
- Avoid the fatal mistakes that leads many organizations to fail
- Instill a growth mindset in your employees and coach them to reach their potential
- Inspire a growth-oriented culture that values learning and creativity
- Bring your organization into the future by understanding disruptive innovation and blue ocean thinking
- Use proven strategies to set growth-oriented goals and action plans
Gen - Z
Description
The Millennials and Gen Z have arrived, and in a big way! They are the largest generation in the workforce, and expected to represent 75% of workers by 2025. Business leaders and senior management who effectively motivate, coach, and engage these young professionals in the workplaces need to bridge the gap to match their level of optimism and creativity. This training is created for leaders who have a desire to strengthen their relationship, become stronger coaches, and individual contributors interested in learning how to maximize the potential of the new generation. The skills that are taught in this workshop are applicable and resonate with all generations
Training Objectives
After the end of the program, participants will learn:
- Understand the differences between the characteristics of the four working generations
- Engage, develop, and retain Millennials and Gen Z
- Become a more effective coach for all generations
- Discover what young professionals are looking for in their careers
- Increase your communication, competency and level of influence
- Learn common skill gaps for Millennials and Gen Z entering the workforce
Design thinking
Description
Do you want to use creativity and design thinking to create innovative new products, services, or systems that will expand and evolve your business to the next level? If so, you need to create an innovative corporate culture and a creative friendly workplace environment. In this course, you’ll explore why creativity and innovation are more important for businesses today than ever before. You’ll examine why and how leading edge companies have turned conventional business culture models on their head through embracing creativity and how to apply design thinking – a powerful creative-problem-solving technique
Training Objectives
After the end of the program, participants will learn:
- Create a cultural environment that fosters creativity and innovation
- Establish an open idea-sharing program in for employees and managers
- Attract creative and innovative talent
- Truly “think outside-of-the-box”
- Master creative thinking skills and teach them to your team
- Implement Design Thinking methodology and process
- Overcome common blocks that hold organizations back from growth
- Use proven processes for generating ideas and brainstorming solutions
- Develop a deeper understanding of your users or clients
- Create and test prototypes in order to rapidly identify the validity of ideas
- Create disruptive innovation and look to the future