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							</p><p>Any business life is completely dependent on Sales and Marketing. It delivers a significant business benefit. Providing effective training in Sales and Marketing helps boost sales, increase profit, create a brand image and also improve customer satisfaction. </p>

<p>The role of a sales director is crucial in improving an organization's revenue and sales. A good sales director can affect the overall performance of a business. The course is designed with a lot of practical exercises, and modern techniques, taking the delegates' skills to an advanced level. This will help the delegates to attain the skills they require and implement what they learn in their work efficiently and to their highest potential. This course will help review overall sales strategies and how they can contribute in order to achieve a desired positive outcome. It will set measurable objectives and standards within the team and will boost the confidence in their performance and achieve the objectives. </p>
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GBA Corporate

Advance Strategic Sales Management

Online

On Site

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							</p><p>Any business life is completely dependent on Sales and Marketing. It delivers a significant business benefit. Providing effective training in Sales and Marketing helps boost sales, increase profit, create a brand image and also improve customer satisfaction. This course has been designed to gain essential skills in Marketing and Sales, learn new sales techniques and how to reach the right audience at the right time. If there is a shortage of skills or resources within the business, you might want to provide this specially designed-training to help develop those skills. </p>

<p>This course will help review overall sales strategies and how marketing can contribute in order to achieve a desired positive outcome. It will set measurable objectives and standards within the team and will boost the confidence in their performance and achieve the objectives. </p>

<p>This course will discover various sales and marketing techniques and will provide the participants with more tools and techniques to increase individual and team sales. It will highlight all of the major components required to build good connections, know the consumer and their needs and gain commitment to a sale.</p>
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Advance Skills in Sales and Marketing

London

<h2>Global Project Management: In-House Training: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>In this course, you will dig deeper-and differently-into project management processes, tools, and techniques, developing the ability to see them through the lens of global and cultural project impacts.</p>
 <p>In today's increasingly global environment, managing a project with customers and support organizations spread across multiple countries and continents is a major challenge.</p>
 <p>From identifying stakeholders and gathering requirements, to planning, controlling, and executing the project, the basic logistics of a global project present their own standard challenges. However, with additional cultural, language-based, and regional elements, global projects involve more complexities than teams often realize. There are unique communication needs, cultural awareness elements, varying customs and work expectations, and critical legal differences to consider.</p>
 <p>In this course, you will dig deeper-and differently-into project management processes, tools, and techniques, developing the ability to see them through the lens of global and cultural project impacts. This will leverage you to problem solve differently on global projects, prevent problems, and ensure success. The goal is for you to effectively navigate the challenges of leading projects with multi-regional footprints and globally diverse sets of stakeholders.</p><h3>What you Will Learn</h3> 
 <p>At the end of this program, you will be able to:</p> 
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 <li>Determine when a project meets the criteria of being a true global one</li> 
 <li>Articulate global project needs based on the project grid and framework</li> 
 <li>Identify and analyze global project stakeholders</li> 
 <li>Recognize cultural differences and articulate how they impact project work</li> 
 <li>Determine global project estimating, scheduling, and staffing challenges</li> 
 <li>Assess global project risks and develop problem-solving responses</li> 
 <li>Analyze complex cultural situations and align optimal project communication and negotiation tools and techniques</li> 
 <li>Apply best practices for conducting virtual team work and mitigating virtual challenges</li> 
 <li>Evaluate ways to control for global project scope, cost, and procurement</li> 
 <li>Align customer management best practices with global customer needs</li> 
 <li>Implement key global project closing activities</li> 
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                    <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul>  <li>What is a global project?</li>  <li>What makes a global project different?</li>  <li>A global project management framework</li>  </ul>  <h3>Initiating the Global Project</h3> <ul>  <li>Launching a global project</li>  <li>Respecting cultural differences</li>  <li>Identifying and analyzing stakeholders</li>  <li>Developing the communications plan</li>  <li>Defining the ideal global project manager</li>  <li>Crafting a global project charter</li>  </ul>  <h3>Planning the Global Project</h3> <ul>  <li>Gathering requirements for a global project</li>  <li>Defining the scope, region by region</li>  <li>Estimating and scheduling for global projects</li>  <li>Staffing the global project</li>  <li>Developing the global risk management plan</li>  </ul>  <h3>Executing the Global Project</h3> <ul>  <li>Managing global stakeholder expectations</li>  <li>Embracing cultural diversity</li>  <li>Honing global negotiation techniques</li>  <li>Procuring goods and services on a global basis</li>  <li>Managing global legal and regulatory issues at the micro and macro level</li>  </ul>  <h3>Monitoring and Controlling the Global Project</h3> <ul>  <li>Status reporting</li>  <li>Virtual communication</li>  <li>Cost control</li>  <li>Schedule control</li>  <li>Scope control</li>  <li>Customer satisfaction</li>  </ul>  <h3>Closing the Global Project</h3> <ul>  <li>Contract closure at the macro and micro levels</li>  <li>Administrative closure with global reach</li>  <li>Lessons learned</li>  </ul>


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IIL Europe Ltd

Global Project Management: In-House Training

General Admission

Harpenden

<p>Successful account management requires time and investment to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction and develop new business opportunities. Ensuring you are equipped with the right tools to approach every customer interaction in a structured way will help you have productive relationships with your clients. Whether you're new to account management or experienced in business development and looking to expand your skillset, understanding how you can maximise customer relationships will be key to your success.</p><p>We have developed this programme to be practical, fun and interactive. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice a number of key skills that will see successful results, and are encouraged to bring real life examples to the course so that learning can be translated to real world scenarios.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Learn how to plan growth and increase revenue from existing accounts</li><li>Develop skills to build and develop essential relationships to increase value and visibility</li><li>Learn how best to create loyalty and customer satisfaction</li><li>Identify how to set account targets and development plan for building contacts and cross-selling</li><li>Develop persuasion and influencing skills to better define needs and develop opportunities</li><li>Learn how to add value at all stages; plus gaining competitive advantage</li><li>Develop an up-selling, cross-selling strategy</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Performance metrics for account management</h3><ul><li>Introduction to the PROFIT account management model</li><li>Using practical tools to measure account performance and success</li><li>Planning your account strategy - red flags and green lights</li></ul> <h3>2 Relationships for account management</h3><ul><li>How to build and manage key relationships</li><li>Producing a 'relationship matrix'</li><li>Developing a coach or advocate</li></ul> <h3>3 Setting objectives for your account</h3><ul><li>Developing an upselling cross-selling strategy</li><li>Setting jointly agreed goals, objectives and business plans</li><li>Planning session</li></ul> <h3>4 Feedback and Retention - building loyal and satisfied customers</h3><ul><li>How to monitor and track your customer's satisfaction</li><li>Building a personalised satisfaction matrix</li><li>Customer service review meetings</li></ul> <h3>5 Influence</h3><ul><li>Getting your message and strategy across to C-level contacts</li><li>Being able to better develop a business partnership within an accountes</li></ul> <h3>6 Teamwork and time management</h3><ul><li>Working with others to achieve your account goals</li><li>Managing and working with a virtual team</li><li>Managing your time and accounts effectively</li></ul> <h3>7 Gaining commitment and closing the sale</h3><ul><li>Knowing when to close for commitment</li><li>How to ask for commitment professionally and effectively</li><li>Key negotiation skills around the closing process - getting to 'yes'</li><li>Checklist of closing and negotiation skills</li><li>Practice session</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Account Manager

Account Management

Sales Management

Management Accountant

Manager Training

Management Skills

Account management (In-House)

<p>Agility has become a prized business attribute. Although Agile methods were once most associated with software development, they are now applied in a host of different areas. Agile continues to find new applications because it is primarily an attitude.</p><p>This programme delivers a solid grounding in both the Agile mindset and Agile methods. It covers three methods, illustrates the benefits of each and shows how they can be integrated. It includes practical techniques as well as background knowledge.</p><p>By the end of the session, participants will be able to:</p><ul><li>Apply Agile concepts to self-manage their work</li><li>Understand the roles people take on in Agile teams</li><li>Use a variety of techniques to help deliver customer satisfaction</li><li>Focus on delivering against priorities</li><li>Employ a range of estimating techniques</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Overview of the programme</li><li>Review of participants' needs and objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 The basics of Agile</h3><ul><li>What makes Agile different</li><li>Agile Manifesto and Principles</li><li>Using feedback to deliver what is needed</li></ul> <h3>3 Agile teams</h3><ul><li>Multi-disciplinary teams</li><li>Team size and empowerment</li><li>Agile values</li></ul> <h3>4 Agile at the team level - Scrum</h3><ul><li>Scrum roles</li><li>Scrum 'events'</li><li>Scrum 'artifacts'</li></ul> <h3>5 Agile for teams juggling multiple demands - Kanban</h3><ul><li>Taking control of the work</li><li>Improving throughput</li><li>Dealing with bottlenecks</li></ul> <h3>6 Agile in projects - AgilePM</h3><ul><li>The phases of an Agile project</li><li>Managing change requests</li><li>Delivering on time</li></ul> <h3>7 Estimating</h3><ul><li>T-shirt / Pebble sizing</li><li>Yesterday's weather</li><li>Planning poker</li></ul> <h3>8 Pick 'n' mix - some useful techniques</h3><ul><li>The daily stand-up</li><li>User stories</li><li>Retrospectives</li><li>Work-in-process limits</li><li>Burndown charts</li><li>Minimum viable product</li><li>A / B testing</li></ul> <h3>9 Review and action planning</h3><ul><li>Identify actions to be implemented individually</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul> 


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Agility

Agile Business Analyst

Certified SAFe Agilist

ICP-ACC (ICAgile Certified Agile Coaching)

Agile

ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)

Agile: an introduction (In-House)

<p>The principles of effective time management are applicable to all aspects of life. When successfully applied in a sales environment they can lead to improved performance, higher sales and increased customer satisfaction. All salespeople would benefit from learning the tools and techniques to introduce impactful time management to their working lives.</p><p>We have developed this programme to be practical, fun and interactive. Participants will better understand how to increase the amount of time spent on high-value sales activities, be able to improve their self-motivation and ability to get more done, and be better able to plan, delegate and speed up routine tasks.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Learn key principles of managing sales priorities, meeting targets and getting 'everything' done!</li><li>Learn proven techniques for structuring your day, week and normal routine</li><li>Develop effective sales time management at the office and on the road</li><li>Learn a seven-step process for setting goals and objectives in your work and personal life</li><li>Understand how to make time for sales prospecting, designated call days</li><li>Understand practical ways to improve your time management</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Key principles of sales time management</h3><ul><li>Course objectives and review of time log</li><li>Essential principles of sales time management</li><li>How do you use your time now?</li><li>Reviewing your working day (from pre-course survey)</li><li>Beliefs and feelings about time</li></ul> <h3>2 Managing sales priorities and planning systems</h3><ul><li>Managing priorities and planning systems</li><li>Use organised persistence to plan your sales activity</li><li>Planning your territory and prospecting activity</li><li>How to use priority ratings not urgency to react to tasks</li></ul> <h3>3 Dealing with distractions and communication skills</h3><ul><li>Know your time 'bandits' and creating more positive habits to overcome them</li><li>Making time by saying 'no' assertively and managing expectations</li><li>Assertiveness techniques for handling colleagues and clients</li><li>Making meetings worthwhile - preparation and planning</li></ul> <h3>4 Sales goal setting and action planning</h3><ul><li>Set clear, concise, and motivating sales goals and action plans</li><li>How to set and use goal setting as way of managing your time and increasing results</li><li>The principles of linking SMART objectives to action plans and daily activities</li></ul> <h3>5 Creating results focus - every day, week, and month</h3><ul><li>Batch sales tasks together, starting with emails</li><li>Planning your day and week and protecting sales 'prime' time</li><li>Apply the 80/20 to your sales contacts, clients, and prospects</li></ul> <h3>6 Overcoming procrastination and structuring your day</h3><ul><li>Understanding procrastination, what it is and how to recognise it in yourself and others</li><li>How to stop procrastinating and start making progressing</li><li>Build a power prospecting hour into every day</li><li>Smart stuff to make more sales time: five automated tools</li><li>Live the $64,000 dollar question</li></ul> 


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Sales Manager

Office Skills & Productivity

Time Management

Personal Productivity

Sales time management (In-House)

<p>When staff are new to sales it can seem daunting, especially when they have targets to meet. If the staff you need to promote your products and services get it wrong then it can knock their confidence and negatively impact how your customers see you as an organisation.</p><p>This programme provides staff with the basic skills they need to sell.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Profile customers</li><li>Research and identify potential new customers</li><li>Use the consultative sales process</li><li>Build effective rapport with customers</li><li>Identify customer needs through effective questioning and listening</li><li>Position products and services effectively</li><li>Close the sale or gain commitment to further action</li><li>Manage their customer portfolio to maximise sales</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Aims and objectives of the training</li><li>Personal introductions and objectives</li><li>Self-assessment of existing sales skills</li><li>Overview of content</li></ul> <h3>2 Knowing your customers</h3><ul><li>Who are your customers, and what do they want from you?</li><li>What are your strengths, compared to your competitors?</li><li>Who are your new potential customers?</li><li>How do you communicate with new customers?</li><li>What do you need to know about your customers before you start to sell?</li><li>Making the initial approach</li><li>Planning your pipeline - keeping the customers coming</li></ul> <h3>3 The four-step sales process</h3><ul><li>Overview of the consultative sales process</li><li>Key benefits of using the consultative sales process</li><li>Focusing on behaviours not targets</li><li>The behaviours of a good salesperson</li><li>Common pitfalls and mistakes</li><li>Personal strengths and weaknesses</li></ul> <h3>4 Building rapport</h3><ul><li>First impressions - Mehrabian theory of communication</li><li>Short cuts to building rapport</li><li>Looking out for clues as to how the customer is thinking</li><li>Looping back to keep the conversation flowing</li><li>Acknowledging past communication</li><li>Dealing with emotions such as anger</li><li>Setting the agenda to keep control</li><li>Getting past gatekeepers</li></ul> <h3>5 Questioning and listening</h3><ul><li>How to ask open questions to uncover information</li><li>Left brain questions</li><li>When closed question can be useful</li><li>What stops us listening?</li><li>The four levels of listening</li><li>How to develop your listening skills</li></ul> <h3>6 Presenting products and services to customers</h3><ul><li>When to present</li><li>Using benefits not features</li><li>Making it personal</li><li>Using reciprocity</li><li>The tendency towards the middle</li><li>Using consistency</li></ul> <h3>7 Gaining commitment</h3><ul><li>Testing the water</li><li>Dealing with objections using ACLEO</li><li>Asking for the business</li><li>Getting referrals</li><li>Ending with a personalised close</li><li>Following-up</li></ul> <h3>8 Managing your customer pipeline</h3><ul><li>Spotting opportunities for cross-sales</li><li>Managing your portfolio</li><li>Maximising sales proactively</li><li>Review meetings</li><li>Customer satisfaction measures and surveys</li><li>Mystery shopping</li></ul> <h3>9 Putting it all together</h3><ul><li>Skills practice</li><li>Personal learning summary and action plans</li></ul> 


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Online Course Marketing

Professional Selling Skills (PSS)

Meeting Skills

Counselling Skills

Presentation Skills

Introduction to sales (In-House)

<p>If you're looking to move to the next level in your career in sales, then understanding how to maximise your sales results, using a consultative and structured approach, will be key to your success. In order to develop the competitive advantage that enables you to stand out from the crowd, it is important to understand the tools and techniques to take your selling to new heights and build the confidence to apply them in work-based scenarios.</p><p>We have developed this programme to be practical, fun and interactive. Learners will gain a range of practical skills that they can take back and apply to the workplace straight away, that will have a positive impact on sales and customer satisfaction.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Develop a structured and client-focused approach to creating high quality sales opportunities and account growth</li><li>Learn persuasion and influencing skills to better define needs and develop opportunities</li><li>Understand how to have better sales conversations, presentations, and proposals - leading to higher order value and increased sales</li><li>Develop advanced sales questioning skills and techniques; understand the importance of listening</li><li>Understand how to add value at all stages; plus gaining competitive advantage</li><li>Develop proven ways to overcome and reduce price pressure</li><li>Know when to use options and upselling when presenting products and solutions</li><li>Develop techniques and skills for improved negotiation and closing</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Advanced Selling - How to Increase your sales results</h3><ul><li>Review of pre-course data and questionnaire</li><li>The AVC model of increasing your sales results</li><li>Creating a sales growth plan to achieve higher sales targets</li><li>Mapping the accounts and products for targeted growth</li></ul> <h3>2 The Four Cs to structure a sales call</h3><ul><li>Research before the meeting or call; setting objectives, planning and preparation</li><li>How to gain instant rapport and taking control - including online meetings</li><li>Qualifying and initial questioning skills</li><li>Creating an agenda and first-meeting structure: Four Cs</li><li>Planning and practice sessions</li></ul> <h3>3 Building bigger and better sales opportunities</h3><ul><li>How to use questions to 'build' more opportunities</li><li>Learning and using high-impact and third-level questions</li><li>Advanced sales questioning techniques: five questioning techniques</li><li>Qualifying and gaining commitment to the next stage</li><li>Planning and practice sessions - advanced questioning skills</li></ul> <h3>4 Presentation and persuading skills best practice</h3><ul><li>Compelling benefits and reducing perceived risk - key messages to deliver</li><li>Helping the customer choose your proposition by using options</li><li>Professional and effective presentation skills</li><li>Writing compelling sales proposals that improve your conversion rate</li><li>Planning and practice session - presenting your solution</li></ul> <h3>5 Overcoming concerns and client questions</h3><ul><li>Proven techniques for answering client objections and concerns</li><li>How to isolate, prioritise and answer objections, including price</li><li>Overcoming delay and procrastination</li><li>Planning and practice session - answering client concerns</li></ul> <h3>6 Gaining commitment and closing the sale</h3><ul><li>Knowing when to close for commitment</li><li>How to ask for commitment professionally and effectively</li><li>Key negotiation skills around the closing process - getting to 'yes'</li><li>Checklist of closing and negotiation skills</li><li>Practice session</li></ul> 


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Coaching Skills

Increasing sales results (In-House)

<p>This programme has a simple objective: to help a sales team create and implementa comprehensive account development plan.</p><p>If you want to earn strategic partner or preferred supplier status with your clients and customers then you need to add value to their business, consistently, and you can only do this if you have a plan - a key account management plan.</p>This programme will help participants:<ul><li>Discover opportunities - through a deeper understanding of the customer's business</li><li>Develop partnership - through a better 'value proposition' for the customer</li><li>Increase repeat business - based on higher customer satisfaction</li><li>Improve synergy - by getting everyone to 'sing from the same hymn sheet'</li><li>Develop a collaborative account plan - validated by the customer and their own management</li><li>Secure resources - management <em>will</em> align resources to execute <em>soundly based</em> account plans</li><li>Win an increased share of 'customer wallet' - through systematic account development</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 The six principles of strategic account development</h3><ul><li>Introduction to the PROFIT account development model:<ul><li>- Performance</li><li>- Relationships</li><li>- Objectives and goals</li><li>- Feedback</li><li>- Integration</li><li>- Teamwork</li></ul></li><li>Practical account development strategies: overview and case studies</li></ul> <h3>2 Performance</h3><ul><li>Use practical tools to help you manage and measure account performance and success</li><li>Design and build a monthly account dashboard for all sizes of account</li><li>Prioritise and manage accounts and customers pro-actively and successfully, using proven planning tools</li><li>Develop a cross-selling strategy to integrate products or solutions into the customer's business as closely as possible</li></ul> <h3>3 Relationships</h3><ul><li>How to build and manage key relationships within an account</li><li>Qualifying and managing key influencers accurately</li><li>Producing a 'relationship matrix' for each account quickly and easily</li><li>Approaching and developing new contacts strategically</li><li>Tools and techniques for successful tracking of contacts and call-backs</li><li>Developing a coach or advocate in every customer organisation pro-actively</li></ul> <h3>4 Objectives and goals</h3><ul><li>Where are you now? - how to establish your competitive position within an account</li><li>Know how to set, monitor and track key objectives for accounts over the short, medium and long term</li><li>Selling against the competition - developing both long- and short-term sales strategies</li></ul> <h3>5 Feedback - building loyal and satisfied customers</h3><ul><li>The correct way to manage customer expectations and create listening loops within an account</li><li>How to monitor and track your customer's perception and satisfaction with your organisation</li><li>Building a personalised satisfaction matrix for each account</li><li>Customer review meetings - best practice in building loyalty by regular joint planning events</li><li>Understanding the concept of long-term customer value and the importance of adapting a customer-focused attitude</li></ul> <h3>6 Integration</h3><ul><li>How to integrate your products or solutions with the customer's business needs and processes</li><li>Spot and react to early warning signals that may cause an account's loyalty to fade, reduce revenue or switch to a competitor</li><li>Developing a loyalty strategy for key accounts or groups of smaller accounts</li><li>Getting your message and strategy across to C-level contacts</li></ul> <h3>7 Teamwork</h3><ul><li>Working with others to achieve your account goals</li><li>Gaining internal commitment from your organisation</li><li>Managing and working with a virtual team</li><li>Creating cross-departmental communication loops</li></ul> <h3>8 Putting it all together</h3><ul><li>Personal account reviews</li><li>Personal learning summary and action plans</li></ul> 


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ACCA Strategic Business Leader (SBL)

Coaching & Consulting Business

Business Development

Key account management (In-House)

<p>This unique two-day workshop programme is focused on helping HR teams achieve new levels of peak performance. It uses a framework based on the four inter-locking strands of high-performance HR: the core skills of HR, legal requirements, best practice, and organisational policies and procedures.</p>
<p>The precise content of the programme varies, according to current levels of HR performance in your organisation and any particular issues of concern, but the object is always the same: to enhance the participants' mastery of the core skills of HR, to ensure that they have an up-to-date knowledge of employment law and to facilitate a review of organisational policies and procedures to appropriate standards of best practice. This workshop-led approach is an ideal method for identifying the steps needed to bring all members of the HR team up to the same level of peak performance.</p><ul><li>UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE ROLE WITHIN HR AND IDENTIFY SPECIFIC CHALLENGES</li><li>UNDERSTAND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE HR FUNCTION AND TO ORGANISATIONAL OBJECTIVES</li><li>RECOGNISE THE ESSENTIAL CORE HR SKILLS, THEIR OWN STRENGTHS AND DEVELOPMENT AREAS</li><li>DEVELOP ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR</li><li>RECOGNISE THE POWER TO INFLUENCE, AND PLAN AN EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE STRATEGY</li><li>MANAGE CONFLICT CONSTRUCTIVELY</li><li>EMPLOY A STRUCTURED APPROACH WHEN COACHING OTHERS</li><li>MANAGE THEMSELVES, THEIR TIME AND THEIR MEETINGS EFFECTIVELY</li><li>USE THE CORE SKILLS OF HR FLEXIBLY IN 'DIFFICULT' OR 'SENSITIVE' SITUATIONS</li><li>COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY IN GROUP SETTINGS AND IN 1:1 SITUATIONS</li><li>UNDERSTAND THE OVERALL LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF EMPLOYMENT LAW</li><li>APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS</li><li>AVOID AND DEFEND CASES OF UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION</li><li>MANAGE SHORT- AND LONG-TERM ABSENCE LAWFULLY</li><li>ENSURE THAT THE ORGANISATION IS NOT UNNECESSARILY EXPOSED TO CLAIMS FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL</li><li>IMPLEMENT DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES FAIRLY AND LAWFULLY</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>DAY ONE</h3><h4>1. Introduction and course objectives</h4><h4>2. The role of HR</h4><ul><li>Roles and responsibilities</li><li>Your customers. Customer satisfaction.</li><li>Challenges of the role</li><li>The contribution of the HR function to organisational objectives</li></ul><h4>3. Core skills of an effective HR advisor</h4><ul><li>Communication skills</li><li>Assertiveness</li><li>Influencing skills</li><li>Managing conflict</li><li>Coaching skills</li><li>Management of self and time</li><li>Other key skills and behaviours</li></ul><h4>4. Identifying individual strengths and weaknesses</h4><ul><li>Self-assessment diagnostic</li></ul><h4>5. Communication skills</h4><ul><li>Enhancing our impact at work through good communication</li><li>Understanding the communication process and its flaws</li><li>Checking for understanding and avoiding assumptions</li><li>How we communicate. Verbal and non-verbal communication.</li><li>The importance of communicating congruently</li><li>Exercise: effective questioning and listening skills</li><li>Enhancing your communication skills</li></ul><h4>6. Assertiveness</h4><ul><li>Recognising different types of behaviour</li><li>Understanding what assertiveness is and the benefits of behaving assertively</li><li>Barriers to acting assertively</li><li>The link between our beliefs and our behaviour. The self-fulfilling prophecy.</li><li>Challenging beliefs and acting assertively</li><li>Planning an assertive and confident approach</li><li>Responding assertively in challenging situations</li><li>Application to participants' own situations</li></ul><h4>7. Influencing skills</h4><ul><li>Understanding influence and persuasion</li><li>Identifying who influences us and how we are influenced</li><li>Identifying sources of power and how to use these effectively and appropriately</li><li>Influencing styles. Participants' preferred style.</li><li>Exercise: flexing your style</li><li>Preparation and planning your approach. A checklist.</li><li>Putting it into practice</li><li>Application to participants' own situations</li></ul><h4>8. Managing conflict</h4><ul><li>Exploring conflict and why it is inevitable</li><li>Recognising how we perceive conflict. Reframing conflict.</li><li>Types and sources of conflict at work</li><li>Five typical responses to conflict. Participants' typical responses.</li><li>How to select the best response</li><li>Strategies to resolve conflict</li><li>Exercise: A conflict tool</li><li>Application to participants' own situations</li></ul><h4>9. Coaching</h4><ul><li>Defining coaching</li><li>Recognising the benefits of a coaching approach</li><li>What coaching involves</li><li>A structured approach to coaching. GROW model.</li><li>Opportunities to coach</li></ul><h4>10. Management of self and time</h4><ul><li>Understanding how well you use your time</li><li>Identifying key priorities and planning how you use your time</li><li>Top tips on time management</li><li>Effective meetings</li></ul><h4>11. Putting it into practice</h4><ul><li>Action planning</li></ul><h3>DAY TWO</h3><h4>1. The legal framework</h4><ul><li>The UK legal system and employee rights</li><li>Employment status</li><li>The contract of employment - express and implied terms</li><li>Dismissal and redundancy</li><li>Enforcement of rights through the courts</li><li>Employment law quiz on discrimination and other topical issues</li></ul><h4>2. Working with representatives</h4><ul><li>Experience of working with union / employee representatives</li><li>Rights, roles and responsibilities</li><li>Informal and formal involvement</li><li>Challenging issues</li></ul><h4>3. Discipline</h4><ul><li>Conduct v capability</li><li>Purpose of taking disciplinary action</li><li>Statutory requirements and ACAS Code of Practice</li><li>Managing conduct issues informally</li><li>Formal stages in line with your disciplinary procedure</li><li>Assessing risk and determining appropriate action. Acting fairly and consistently. Scenarios.</li><li>Your role and responsibility</li><li>Legal implications and case law</li><li>Group exercise: Fair or unfair dismissals?</li></ul><h4>4. Grievances</h4><ul><li>Understanding what constitutes a grievance</li><li>ACAS Code of Practice</li><li>Resolving issues informally</li><li>Managing grievances formally</li><li>Your role and responsibility</li><li>Legal implications</li><li>Challenging situations</li></ul><h4>5. Absence</h4><ul><li>Impact of absence. Managing absence v individual support.</li><li>Your health capability procedure. Informal and formal stages.</li><li>Managing short-term and long-term absence</li><li>Your role and responsibility</li><li>Understanding the law in relation to disability</li><li>Stress, mental health and other challenging issues</li><li>Other legal implications and case law</li></ul><h4>6. Bullying, discrimination and harassment</h4><ul><li>Diversity, dignity at work and discrimination</li><li>Harassment, bullying and working with respect</li><li>Managing informally and taking formal action</li><li>Assessing risk and determining appropriate action. Acting fairly / consistently.</li><li>Your role and responsibility</li><li>Legal implications and case law</li></ul><h4>7. Flexible working and 'family friendly' policies (optional)</h4><ul><li>An update on 'family friendly' policies, including shared parental leave</li></ul><h4>8. And finally...</h4><ul><li>Open forum</li><li>Legislative changes on the horizon</li><li>Action planning</li></ul>


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