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Developing personal effectiveness skills enhances an individuals personal profile within an organisation. Developing skills to influence others, enhances careers, builds networks and enhances personal recognition and contribution.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

1. Assess and identify personal effectiveness including strengths and weaknesses

2. Indentify and work with individuals to assist in developing personal skills, particularly addressing areas of weaknesses

3. Develop skills working effectively as part of a team, understand your role and responsibilities and how this relates to others

4. Set personal development targets, including addressing identified weaknesses, and develop approaches to enable these targets to be met

5. Assist others in developing their knowledge and skills

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MRS Excellence Awards 2026

London

Join us at our annual awards lunch celebrating outstanding personal contributions to research, marking the 80th year of MRS.

Jun
05
2026

Friday
12:30–16:30

Behavioural Science for Transforming Business Outcomes

Virtual training course

Enhance your insights and impact in challenging economic times

Jun
09
2026

Tuesday
09:30–16:00

Listening Better: Polling, Misinformation, and Democratic Engagement

London

Democratic engagement depends on a shared evidence base and on public confidence that what we measure reflects what people actually think. Both are under strain. AI-generated content, algorithmic curation, and rising polarisation have fragmented the information environment in which citizens form views and researchers seek to capture them. For the polling and research sector, the questions are harder to avoid.

Jun
09
2026

Tuesday
14:00–16:00

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