1 Educators providing Analytical Skills courses in Manchester

Clinical supervision is the term used to describe a formal process of professional support and provides an opportunity for staff to: reflect on and review their practice, develop their analytical skills and change or modify their practice.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Financial analysis gives you a wide understanding of a company's financial information which further helps you to analyse risks in the future and improve business prospects. It plays a vital role in calculating business profit. Professionals with the necessary skills help you to know how your business and forecast the future of the business. It helps to analyse financial statements and also to appraise the present and future prospects of the business. This course is specially designed to enhance the skills of financial professionals, in financial analytics by having in-depth knowledge of fundamentals of financial statement analysis thereby empowering their analytical skills in measuring the risk business investors are dealing with and also asking the appropriate questions. It will enhance the skills of the participant and will boost their confidence uplifting their ability to comment on business activities and analyse financial health for management. These skills and the required technical knowledge will be put into practice throughout the course using interactive examples and case studies. 

This is an essential programme for any member of staff whose role requires a high level of attention to detail. The focus is specifically on the handling of text and data, whether at the input stage or when collating information into reports and documents for use by others. The session looks at both prevention and cure. For 'prevention', it focuses on understanding how common errors occur and on developing an awareness of the factors which influence our level of attentiveness. It introduces key psychological theories around attentiveness including the 'capacity' and 'bottleneck filter' models. And it looks at how working styles can affect attention to detail. For 'cure', the programme looks at how to minimise the effect of stress on concentration as well as introducing a number of tools and techniques for promoting accuracy - at both the input and the checking stages. Particular attention is paid to proof-reading techniques. By the end of the session, participants will: * Appreciate why errors occur * Understand how stress and other factors can affect focus and accuracy * Know how to improve accuracy and reduce errors when handling text and data * Be able to proof-read text and number-based documents more accurately 1 THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURACY * The impact of mistakes * Why accuracy is so important * Main reasons why errors occur 2 ATTENTIVENESS THEORY * The 'capacity' and 'bottleneck filter' models * Selective attention * Chunking - big picture / little picture 3 PREPARING FOR ACCURACY * Working styles - how they affect detail-orientation * Identifying and minimising the impact of stress on concentration 4 PRACTICAL STRATEGIES * How to improve accuracy and reduce errors when inputting text * Managing interruptions and distractions * Proofing text and numbers