650 Business courses in Adwick-le-Street

The Site Safety Plus SMSTS course was introduced on 1 April 2002 as part of the Site Safety Plus CITB Site Management Safety Training Scheme. All Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) certificates issued after 1st January 2001 are valid for a five year period from the date of issue. The two day refresher course will enable current SMSTS certificate holders to renew their qualification, however this course can only be attended by current and valid CITB SMSTS certificate holders. The CITB SMSTS Refresher certificate training course is designed to ensure that personnel maintain and up-date their current health and safety knowledge. The course covers changes to legislation, approved codes of practice and best working practice within the industry. Individuals wishing to renew their SMSTS training certificate must provide a copy of the original five-day course certificate. Details of the course venue and the date of the course should also be provided if known. Only those individuals who have passed the five day course and provided evidence of this will be eligible to take the two day refresher course. OBJECTIVES OF SMSTS REFRESHER COURSES * APPRECIATE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONSTRUCTION LEGISLATION ACCIDENT CAUSES * COSTS AND REASONS FOR PREVENTION * UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL SYSTEM * RELEVANT LEGISLATION * APPROVED CODES OF PRACTICE * GUIDANCE NOTES * CODES OF PRACTICE AND CASE LAW * CONDUCT RISK ASSESSMENTS * MONITOR HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE * UNDERSTAND BEST PRACTICE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SUB-CONTRACTORS * DISSEMINATE INFORMATION TO OPERATIVES AND SUB-CONTRACTORS COURSE DURATION: 2 DAYS SMSTS REFRESHER TRAINING COURSE ASSESSMENT Assessment is determined by reaching a minimum level of achievement against four criteria: * FULL ATTENDANCE OF ALL TRAINING COURSE SESSIONS * PERFORMANCE IN EACH OF THE FOUR CORE EXERCISES * AN OVERALL REVIEW BY THE COURSE TUTOR * A PASS MARK IN THE 25 QUESTION MULTI-CHOICE PAPER Successful candidates will be awarded the Site Safety Plus CITB Construction Site Management Safety Training Certificate (SMSTS). This certificate will remain valid for 5 years.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Objective * Understanding the Importance of Business Analysis Model * Determining various techniques of Process Modelling * Understanding the scope of modelling * Efficiently mapping the business landscape * Analysing the enterprise structure * How to avoid project failures. * Learning efficient skills of being a successful business analyst. * Understand and document various techniques for the organization delivers value. * Successful project conversion * Building team, changing the organization and overcoming resistance. * Creating an effective Business Case.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The course provides fundamentals of business contracts and changes that took place in business contracts. It will train you with the skills to avoid contract drawbacks and understand the documents, agreements or letters of intent and carefully review them before you enter into a contract. It will also train you with the skills required to secure clauses in the contracts to protect your business and to draft effective contracts or even to negotiate amendments with the ultimate aim of protecting your business.

Business Psychology Programme 

OVERVIEW Networking has become a crucial factor in the modern workplace. It is the most effective method of developing your business or career and is a key component of your personal brand. This one day course will teach you how to be able to build strong business relationships, develop a level of personal credibility and increase your network of contacts in order to enhance your visibility and create opportunities for yourself and your organisation. DESCRIPTION This training course will help your participants build a professional reputation and develop a network of connections through the two key methods available to them; face-to-face and online. Attendees will discover how to effectively combine these two approaches and create a strategy for networking success that will generate their own community and actively grow their personal network. This will result in an improved performance in their approach to networking and consequently provide opportunities and prospects that will increase their business success. The training provides them with the tools and techniques to both plan a successful, strategic approach to networking and develop their personal communication skills, which will ensure they build effective business relationships. Topics covered: * Why Network? – Establishing the importance of networking with some shocking statistics and an activity that defines the importance of networking to the individual. This is followed by some insight into the key aims of a networking strategy, what puts people off, as well as some personal revelations about networking. * Increase Your Business Presence – Looking at the components of a strong business presence, including; credibility, personal brand, visibility and social capital. * Developing a Networkers Attitude – An exercise that clarifies the perfect attitudes and behaviours of great networkers and comparing the participants against this. Thus identifying areas for development. * Face to Face Networking – An overview and insight into the main types of face to face networking opportunities available with the benefits and pitfalls of each. * Online Networking – An overview of the different social media and online networking tools and how to get the best out of them. Includes; LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and online forums. * Communication Skills for Networking Success – Ensuring a good first impression, creating an opening sound bite and writing an online profile that promotes and engages. * Developing a Conversation – Building on the opening sound bite and developing a conversation through good questioning techniques and following a selection of key networking rules. Including an activity to test and practice the skills. * Working a Room – A fun activity that embeds and develops learning while encouraging practice and communication. This activity covers 10 of the main skills required to work a room. * Breaking into a Group – Identifying body language to spot when a group or pair is open to new people entering the conversation or would rather not encourage participation. Knowing how to break into a group, what to say and how to remain professional. * Exiting a Conversation – Developing some techniques to extricate oneself from a conversation without causing embarrassment or rudeness. * The Follow-Up – Using a structure to identify the most important contacts created and establishing when and how to follow up with each group. Includes example follow-up email and a chance to develop their own. * Creating a Network Plan – Participants are provided with a networking action plan to review and complete. This sets them on the journey of developing their networking skills and ensures they have a strategy and goals to target.   WHO SHOULD ATTEND Anyone who is looking to improve their networking performance, or the networking performance of a management or sales team. REQUIREMENTS FOR ATTENDEES No pre-requisites required.

Are you looking to create the perfect business strategy to put you higher than your competitors? Are you tired of not hitting your strategic objectives? If your answers to above questions are 'yes', this course helps you a lot.    What you will learn: 1. To build your own ‘blue ocean strategy’ to avoid fierce competition & price wars. 2. To understand strategy process and strategy mapping. 3. To appropriately position your company in the marketplace. 4. To make the competition irrelevant.   How you will benefit from this workshop: 1. You will gain key insights into the strategy articulation process. 2. We help you develop your leadership skills with some practice. 3. You will learn how to use the Balanced scorecard to map your strategy. 4. You will learn how effective your current differentiation is and how to improve that.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This course is specially designed to increase the fundamental knowledge of business analysts and their roles and functions more efficiently. In this course, participants attain skills and knowledge of efficient ways to approach, the best methods to elaborate the supplies for business system projects.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Strategic thinking and feasibility study is an effective way to safeguard against the wastage of investment or scarce resources. Organisations can reduce the risk of developing unpopular and impractical projects by conducting a feasibility study. A business plan can start only after a proposed business idea has been proven feasible. If feasible, we can proceed with a high level of confidence that the business plan will result in a profitable opportunity. It will provide a “roadmap” that shows how a business may be created and developed.

OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This will include lectures, a detailed simulation exercise, and group discussions. Delegates will recognize the elements where their organizations may have the skills and resources to manage a crisis, but the course will help identify where specialist external support may also be required. The course is designed to provide a balanced view of how best to manage specific crisis issues while simultaneously minimizing any negative impact on ongoing business operations. Delegates will develop a list of subjects to address upon returning to their sponsoring organization

This half day course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to write a simple but effective business plan for their organisation. It considers aspects of why business planning is important, what background research is needed, what subject areas to include and how to monitor progress against the business plan. For in-house courses the session could be extended to a whole day with participants spending the afternoon working on a first draft of a business plan.