Personal Development
Personal Development
Participating in Meetings
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
Most of us will agree there are too many meetings and that many of them are unnecessary. This programme will make you aware of reasons for holding meetings, inviting the right participants, the need for agendas and alternatives to meetings. It will also advise the reason for basic ground rules that everyone follows.
Outcome & Benefits:
This programme aims to improve meetings generally and help ensure the meetings you participate in are productive and rewarding experiences. As meetings can be expensive, there needs to be a good reason to meet and this programme will help you reduce non-essential meetings and keep the essential ones to a minimum.
Mentor Training
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
Mentoring is a learning and support mechanism where an experienced person provides guidance, knowledge and advice to someone in development or who has less experience in a given topic or function. Mentors have a varied role from a ‘challenging friend’ who acts as a sounding board, shares experiences and facilities the mentee’s development to an ‘assessor’ who may also be required to access competences and skills.
Outcome & Benefits:
This programme helps you understand the role of the mentor and how they are expected to act throughout the relationship with the mentee being clear on their objectives and to give guidance and support throughout. This programme focuses on a number of useful tools and techniques that mentors can use, which will help develop your mentoring skills.
Time Management
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
Time management is all about the effective use of how you use the time available to you; how you manage yourself. People who take control of their time are invariably more efficient in their work, whilst at the same time a lot happier in and outside of work. This programme looks at what you can do to make the most effective use of your time.
Outcome & Benefits:
This programme encourages you to stop and think about how you operate and will help anyone who wants to make better use of their time. This session will provide you with the tools to be able to make necessary long, medium and short term plans to help schedule and organise activities and manage your own ‘to do’ list effectively as well as controlling interruptions so they have limited impact.
Think your way to success
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
We all have the capability required to achieve the outcomes we want and deserve in life; the only restriction being our self-imposed beliefs and conditioning. This programme explains how our conscious and subconscious work together and helps you become successful at the things that matter to you, following a clear action plan for success.
Outcome & Benefits:
By the end of this programme, you will feel revitalised, realising that you have the power to achieve your goals and ambitions. You will not only understand the reasons for restricting yourself in the past but have the necessary understanding to set out clear goals for the future.
Team Building
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
Every team must have a clear understanding of what they’re trying to achieve and how this fits into the wider organisational picture in order to work effectively. This programme will show how a well organised team have good processes and understand that communication is a two-way process. It’s also important that the team learn to share ideas, value each others contributions and give and receive feedback in a positive way.
Outcome & Benefits:
This session provides you with a set of skills and understanding of working in a team that will help you focus on overcoming many of the difficulties that sometimes occur. It’s a fact that we can achieve more together than we ever will alone, so good team working is paramount.
Anxiety at Work
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
This programme is designed to clarify anxiety, the causes and the reasons for resolving it in the workplace. Suitable for anyone at work, it has been designed to assist us all with understanding anxiety and how it might be handled, whether as a sufferer or as a manager or colleague of a sufferer.
Outcome & Benefits:
After this programme, you will have a good understanding of anxiety; what it is and what it is not. You’ll understand the role of the manager, employer and colleague of an anxious person as well as the role of the sufferer. You’ll also be able to discuss the impact of anxiety on colleagues, on productivity and on your work and draw sensible comparisons between anxiety and physical illness.
Stress Management
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
This programme has been developed to help identify the causes and effects of stress and to assist you in developing the skills required to manage stress in your own life. The focus is on positive changes you can make to your life to reduce the impact of ‘bad stress’ in the workplace and in your personal life.
Outcome & Benefits:
The word ‘stress’ is used to describe the physical and/or emotional response to the demands and pressures that modern living means we come under from time to time. At the end of this programme, you will be able to define stress and the effect it has on your body, use specific relaxation techniques to overcome stress, follow a model for coping with stress and reduce your own stress by following clear techniques.
Professional Emails
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
With email becoming such an important means of communication in business, we need to ensure they are always professional and effective. This programme shows you how to eliminate common mistakes, apply professional standards and follow accepted email protocol.
Outcome & Benefits:
This programme allows you to consider all aspects of writing and sending business emails in order to ensure your emails are always professional and business like. You will benefit by learning how to use professional standards such as grammar, sentences, paragraphs, greetings, sign off and structure. Your emails and communication will improve as a result and you’ll be much more likely to avoid email disasters.
Managing Emails
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
We all get too many emails and most of us will agree there is a need to manage our inbox better. Research published by Henley Management College found 32% of emails were considered unnecessary and that managers spend an average of 2 hours a day, every day dealing with emails. This programme is designed to help you take control back over your emails and therefore make more effective use of them.
Outcome & Benefits:
This programme will show you how you can benefit from learning how to control your incoming email so you can make the most of the time you spend dealing with it. At the end of the session, we will have shared a number of ideas for you to put into practice which should improve the management of emails throughout your working day.
Planning & Prioritising
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
There is so much to do now in an average working day that it gets harder and harder to plan and prioritise effectively and this is what we’ll be tackling in this interactive training programme. You’ll learn how to judge when something is urgent, important or both and which tasks need your attention now.
Outcome & Benefits:
This training course will help you improve your day to day planning as well as giving you tips on dealing with popular time management issues. You’ll improve your approaches towards crucial elements of prioritising and planning and ultimately identify areas that are the most productive to your day.
Questioning Skills
Duration: 1 day
Content & Target Audience:
Successful communication is vital to any business. It is also a key skill for us as individuals.
At the heart of good communication is the ability to question and listen effectively. Through effective questioning we can uncover vital information, gather ideas and thoughts from other people and truly understand the emotional context of a situation.
Outcome & Benefits:
Whatever our job the ability to question and listen well cannot be over emphasised.
Together we will develop your skills in demonstrating why questions are important, how different techniques can be useful and the various ways in which we can use these techniques.