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Managing time creatively
Key tools for time management
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Category: | Skills and Competences |
| Type: | Workshops and Seminars | |
| Duration: | Between 5 and 8 hours | |
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DESCRIPTION
When speaking about "time management" at work, we talk about how to optimize the time we have, and how to use it according to our needs, that it to say, managing it. Throughout the workday, unforeseen situations always arise, calls, and unexpected visits leave no time for other activities. In the end, there is little time left to do what was intended.
At the end of the workshop, each participant will identify and assess the need for rational and productive use of time, by analyzing its cost-benefit implications, and the application of methods which lead to the creative optimization of the resource, in both personal and organizational activities.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify and assess the need for rational and productive use of time, by analyzing its cost-benefit implications and the application of methods which lead to the optimization of this resource in both personal and organizational activities
- React consciously when facing frequent situations that involve risk due to a bad use of time
- Identify accurately the reasons that explain the waste of the resource (time)
- Develop "smart" lists to prioritize actions
- Distinguish effectively, and not just in theory, the difference between important and urgent actions
- Assess objectively your future use of time, in order to undertake the necessary corrective actions
IN THIS COURSE YOU LEARN TO
- Be aware that time management depend totally on the administration made of our own habits
- Review and analyze different methodologies regards the use of time
- Review concepts of suitable application of the use of time
- Identify ways to improve the use of time
- Be familiar regards the use of additional support tools to control a correct use of time
Proactive employees
Where to look at for having inspiration and new ideas
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Category: | Skills and Competences |
| Type: | Workshops and Seminars | |
| Duration: | Between 5 and 8 hours | |
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At present organizations have a major challenge as far as their employees participate in its future. And they can do it in two ways: proactively or reactively. In general, people in organizations like having a clear guidance about what to do and the objectives to achieve, but they also wish to have room to propose new projects and ideas valuable and different for the company. To manage these proactive teams may have a huge impact on the organization business since it allows that important ideas arise from any workplace. But how to get proactive employees? In order to encourage the participation of employees’ talent it’s important to know the sources of inspiration that work best in innovative companies, and mental paradigms which make easier to see routine differently, finding some space for novelty and innovation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To understand the mechanisms that promote creativity at individual level
- To understand the mechanisms that promote creativity and group participation
- To learn and adopt a creative attitude continuously
- In short, to learn the different sources of ideas and mental paradigms that we need to see the routine in a different way, finding some space for novelty and innovation
IN THIS COURSE YOU LEARN TO
- Which are the main sources of ideas
- What mental paradigms will help us to see routine in a different way
- How to promote creative thinking in the organization
- Tactics to improve the latent efforts or to initiate them
Increasing business competitiveness with the electronic signature and invoicing
Rules and business processes to increase competitiveness both in new companies and in those already established
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Category: | Methods and Tools |
| Type: | Workshops and Seminars | |
| Duration: | Between 5 and 8 hours | |
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DESCRIPTION
The workshop aims to provide concepts, tips and resources to facilitate the implementation of the electronic signature and electronic invoicing in the company. It will be known the applicable law in practical cases, such as the obligation to use electronic invoicing with the Central Government Administration. It focuses on making it easy for the company the integration to its processes and the use of these applications, providing recommendations, tools, mechanisms and useful resources that facilitate its implementation. To do this, data will be offered in order to get order of magnitude in the costs for the various tools implementation, as well as examples of approved programs both for a fee and free.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To share ideas and basic concepts, in order to know the use of electronic signatures and electronic invoicing in the company as well as their involvement.
- To contribute to the participants’ training so that they can implement the necessary processes and comply with current legislation, using the electronic signatures and electronic invoicing easily
- To provide documentation and useful resources to adapt business processes , taking advantage of the competitive that the electronic signature and electronic invoicing mean
IN THIS COURSE YOU LEARN TO
- To know what digital signature is and what is not, electronic invoicing and scanned invoice certification
- To learn what to do and how to do it, in the company, to implement the mentioned applications in compliance with current legislation and taking its advantages.
- Learning to locate software and approved platforms to choose those that best suited to the company
- To know the most common mistakes and that they should not be made.
- To learn how to install programs in a basic level, how they work and what features are offered by the most widely used
Learning from your customers to identify new markets
A broader approach to innovation
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Category: | Organizational Culture |
| Type: | Workshops and Seminars | |
| Duration: | Between 5 and 8 hours | |
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As soon as markets became saturated, every company had a 360 degree turn to see which were really the consumer’s needs. However, even with the Closed Innovation paradigm in their minds, the companies were only able to observe and analyze the consumer, without bearing in mind even the possibility of collaborating with him. But it seems that the time to rethink the innovation culture has come. Throughout this module we will explain in what ways we can extract the full potential from those consumers willing to innovate, the process to follow and the benefits the company can extract from such a surprising collaboration.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To understand the term Open Innovation and its benefits as well as the term Crowdsourcing
- To understand the current situation about consumer-innovators
- To establish the suitable process to collaborate with consumers
- To understand the motivations that lead consumer to innovate
- To understand the cultural changings and the process the company will have to suffer
IN THIS COURSE YOU LEARN TO
- To develop an appropriate innovation strategy that integrates consumer in the innovation process according to the Open Innovation principles
- To manage the consumer integration in the innovation process
- To understand the consumer-innovators’ current state
- To understand consumers’ motivations to get their collaboration
- To understand the necessary cultural changes to assist consumers
- To go deep through some examples and real case studies that illustrate this new paradigm
Effective search of funding for entrepreneurial R & D + i projects
Public funding options and techniques for its effective implementation in the current context
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Category: | Skills and Competences |
| Type: | Workshops and Seminars | |
| Duration: | Between 5 and 8 hours | |
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DESCRIPTION
The workshop aims to provide concepts, resources and advice (based on the experience in proposal preparation and evaluation processes) about what to do and what not, in order to get funding for a project. It explains what resources help to find the latent lines, and the main programs of the exercise’s call, indicating the possibilities may change depending on the new plans, reorganizations and annual calls. It informs about what are the administrations’ objectives, prioritizing R & D + i to bring about a change in the competitive model and offers a realistic outlook about the process competitiveness, noting that "opportunistic" positions are not advisable. It is also introduced the importance of managing innovation in a systematic manner and the possibility of access to tax deductions for R + D + i.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To share ideas and basic concepts, to focus properly the search of funding for " your projects."
- To contribute to the participants’ training to get funding for R + D + I projects effectively
- To provide documentation and useful resources for the efficient search of funding
IN THIS COURSE YOU LEARN TO
- The following competences will be developed:
- Learning to search funding for R & D + I projects efficiently
- To know the different sources of funding
- To write up innovative proposals for funding attraction
- To know the most usual mistakes to avoid
- In addition, to go deep through exemples and real case studies that illustrate this way of doing