ELEVATE YOUR PERSONAL BRAND: CONNECT FOR INFLUENCE

ELEVATE YOUR PERSONAL BRAND: CONNECT FOR INFLUENCE

Funded

Course Duration

7.0 hr(s)

Mode of Assessment

Written Assessment, Presentation

Who Should Attend

Individuals or professionals who want to achieve the know-how on expanding their sphere of influence in the workplace to achieve their professional goals.

What's In It for Me

The course helps learners to be equipped with the know-how to identify and leverage different types of workplace relationships to achieve professional goals with influencing and relevant communication skills.

Course Overview

The modern workplace requires individuals to be both task- and relationship-oriented. Our work now focuses on collaboration, communication and problem solving as building blocks to work cohesively and productively within an organisation. At work, in the process of presenting and exchanging ideas, we are constantly being influenced or trying to influence others.

Through this course, learn how you can become more competent at understanding stakeholders, developing relationships and eventually influence them and solve problems collaboratively.

Course Schedule

Next available schedule

Course Objectives

The course helps learners to be equipped with the know-how to identify and leverage different types of workplace relationships to achieve professional goals with influencing and relevant communication skills. Learners will learn to:

  • Recognise diversity dimensions, preferences, and cultural sensitivity of others through EI dimensions and application at workplace
  • Demonstrate empathy to observe responses and behaviours of others to understand their needs at workplace
  • Understand different types of communication techniques to identify appropriate channels and tools for communication in the workplace
  • Discuss appropriate methods to draw opinions and views from others to achieve desired goals and objectives through effective questioning techniques
  • Apply personal brand to influence others

Pre-requisites

The admission requirements are:

  • Be able to speak, listen, read, and write English at a proficiency level not lower than the Employability Skills Workforce Skills Qualification (ES WSQ) Workplace Literacy (WPL) Level 4.
  • (Only for Online Classes) Hardware & Software
    • This course will be conducted as a Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom platform.
    • Participants must own a Zoom account and have a laptop or a desktop with “Zoom Client for Meetings” installed. Download from zoom.us/download.

System Requirement

Must-have:
Please ensure that your computer or laptop meets the following requirements.

  • Operating system: Windows 10 or MacOS (64 bit or above) 
  • Processor/CPU: 1.8 GHz, 2-core Intel Core i3 or higher 
  • Minimum 20 GB hard disk space 
  • Minimum 8 GB RAM 
  • Webcam (camera must be turned on for the duration of the class) 
  • Microphone 
  • Internet Connection: Wired or Wireless broadband 
  • Latest version of Zoom software to be installed on computer or laptop prior to the class. 

Good-to-have:

  • Wired internet connection
    Wired internet will provide you with stable and reliable connection.
  • Dual monitors
    Using a dual monitor setup will undoubtedly improve your training experience, enabling you to simultaneously participate in hands-on exercises and maintain engagement with your instructor. 

Not recommended:
Using tablets are not recommended due to their smaller screen size, which could cause eye strain and discomfort over the course of the program's duration.

Course Outline

LU1: Active listening in the workplace

  • Diversity and Preferences
  • Active Listening

LU2: Cultivating connections in the workplace

  • Communication Channels, Tools and Techniques
  • Open Conversations and Misunderstanding

LU3: Creating a sphere of influence in the workplace

  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Questioning Techniques
  • Problem Solving Techniques
  • Adapting Personal Brand to Communication

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

  • Upon meeting the attendance and assessment(s) criteria, participants will be awarded with a digital Statement of Attainment (SOA), accredited by SkillsFuture Singapore. SOA will be reflected as Influence CCS-IFL-B001-1
  • Upon meeting the attendance and assessment(s) criteria, participants will be awarded with a digital Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub.
  • External Certification

Additional Details

Medium of Instruction: English
Trainer to trainee ratio: 1:20

Mode of Delivery: <Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom> or <Physical class>

Price

Course Fee and Government Subsidies

  

Individual Sponsored 

Company Sponsored 

 

Non-SME 

SME 

Before GST 

After GST 

Before GST 

After GST 

Before GST 

After GST 

Full Course Fee
(For Foreigners and those not eligible for subsidies)

$250.00

$272.50

$250.00

$272.50

$250.00

$272.50

For Singapore Citizens aged 39 years and below
and
For all Singapore Permanent Residents
(The minimum age for individual sponsored trainees is 21 years)

$125.00

$147.50

$125.00

$147.50

$75.00

$97.50

For Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above

$75.00

$97.50

$75.00

$97.50

$75.00

$97.50

 

Funding Eligibility Criteria

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.
  • Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not meet the eligibility criteria.
  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.
  • Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
  • NTUC LearningHub reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from the employer if trainee did not meet the eligibility criteria.

 

Remarks

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Company Sponsored Trainee

SkillsFuture Credit: 

  • Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding.

UTAP: 

  • This course is eligible for Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP).
  • NTUC members can enjoy up to 50% funding (capped at $250 per year) under UTAP.

PSEA: 

  • Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) funds to offset course fees payable after funding. 
  • For Virtual Learning Class (VLC), check my SkillsFuture (TGS- 2023020697), scroll down to “Keyword Tags” section to verify for PSEA eligibility.
  • For Face-to-Face class, check my SkillsFuture (TGS- 2023020697), scroll down to “Keyword Tags” section to verify for PSEA eligibility.
  • If there is “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is eligible for PSEA.  
  • And if there is no “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is ineligible for PSEA. 
  • Not all courses are eligible for PSEA funding.

Absentee Payroll (AP) Funding: 

  • $4.50 per hour, capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year.
  • AP funding will be computed based on the actual number of training hours attended by the trainee.
  • Note: Courses / Modules under Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) will not be eligible for AP funding claim.

 

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Prices are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees.

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