Harpenden

<p>This very practical two-day workshop analyses the content and implications of key MoD terms and conditions of contract. The programme explains the principles and terminology of the contractual aspects of defence procurement as well as considering a number of relevant policies and initiatives. The course covers key components, constructs and methodologies associated with any commercial venture entered into with the UK MoD.</p><p>Starting at the MoD organisational level the workshop sets the scene by looking at the acquisition process and organisation, detailing the various roles and responsibilities of MoD personnel. The workshop provides an in-depth examination of MoD DEFCONs and many narrative terms, setting them in the context of the organisation and its structures. The workshop helps participants to gain an understanding of the content and purpose of the range of MoD DEFCONs and narrative conditions commonly used throughout the acquisition lifecycle. It includes a review of Part 2 of the Defence Reform Act 2014 regarding Single Source Pricing, which comes into effect in 2015 and is already starting to be applied to significant contracts.</p>On completion of this programme the participants will understand the terminology associated with the MoD terms and conditions of contract and will have an accurate view of their relevance, usage and their legal basis and how they can affect contractual and commercial decision-making. They will have gained an insight into defence acquisition contracting and they will be more commercially aware.<section>
                    <h3>DAY ONE</h3> <h3>1 The commercial environment</h3><ul><li>Key roles and responsibilities of the MoD organisations at the heart of the acquisition process</li></ul> <h3>2 Tendering to MoD</h3><ul><li>An appraisal of some of the obligations placed upon contractors when they are submitting a proposal to the MoD pre-contract</li></ul> <h3>3 Standardised contracting</h3><ul><li>MoD have introduced non-negotiable standardised contracts for certain levels of procurement. This section considers their use and relevance to defence contracting</li></ul> <h3>4 Pricing, profit, post-costing and payment</h3><ul><li>The parameters specific to a costing structure and the differences between competitive and non-competitive bidding</li><li>The role of the QMAC, the profit formula, the requirements for equality of information and post-costing</li><li>Different types of pricing and issues surrounding payment</li></ul> <h3>5 Defence Reform Act - Single Source Pricing</h3><ul><li>Single Source Pricing under Part 2 of the new Defence Reform Act</li><li>Changes from the existing position, how contractors are affected and the compliance regime that accompanies the new requirements</li></ul> <h3>6 Delivery and acceptance</h3><ul><li>Specific requirements and the significance and impact of failing to meet them</li><li>Acceptance plans</li><li>Non-performance and the remedies that may be applied by the Customer - breach of contract, liquidated damages and force majeure</li></ul>  <h3>DAY TWO</h3> <h3>7 Protection of information and IPR</h3><ul><li>Contractor's and MoD's rights to own and use information</li><li>How to identify background and foreground intellectual property</li><li>Technical information and copyright in documentation and software</li><li>How to protect IPR at the various stages of the bidding and contracting process</li></ul> <h3>8 Defence Transformation and Defence Commercial Directorate</h3><ul><li>Widening and increasing roles and functions of the Defence Commercial Directorate</li><li>Background to the Defence Reform Act 2014</li></ul> <h3>9 Legal requirements</h3><ul><li>Terms used in MoD contracts to reflect basic legal requirements</li><li>Records and materials required for MOD contracts and therefore the obligations, responsibilities and liabilities that a company undertakes when it accepts these conditions</li><li>Overseas activities</li></ul> <h3>10 Subcontracting and flowdown</h3><ul><li>Understanding the constructs required by the MoD for subcontracting</li><li>Which terms must be flowed down to the subcontractor and which are discretionary</li></ul> <h3>11 Termination</h3><ul><li>Termination of a contract for default</li><li>Termination for convenience</li><li>How to optimise the company's position on termination</li></ul> <h3>12 Warranties and liabilities</h3><ul><li>Obligations and liabilities a company might incur and how they might be mitigated</li><li>MoD policy on indemnities and limits of liability</li></ul> <h3>13 Electronic contracting environment</h3><ul><li>Electronic forms of contracting</li><li>Progress toward a fully electronic contracting environment</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Procurement & Supply

MoD contract terms and conditions (In-House)

<p>Businesses that don't control their costs don't stay in business. How well are you doing? Is everyone in your organisation sufficiently aware of costs, managing them effectively and maximising opportunities to reduce them? If there is scope for improvement, this course will help get you back on track. It will demonstrate that cost reduction is so much more than cost control and cost cutting. True cost management is about being aware of costs, seeking to reduce them through good design and efficient operating practices whilst taking continuing action on overspending.</p>This course will develop the participants' skills in:<ul><li>Being aware of costs at all times</li><li>Seeking cost reduction from the start (including life-cycle costing)</li><li>Appraising projects / production to identify and take out risk</li><li>Understanding real budgeting</li><li>Using techniques such as ZBB and ABC where appropriate</li><li>Ensuring cost reports lead to action</li><li>Managing a cost reduction process that delivers</li></ul><p>Benefits to the organisation will include:</p><ul><li>Identification of cost reduction and business improvement opportunities</li><li>Better reporting and ownership of costs</li><li>Greater awareness and control of everyday costs</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction - the cost management process</h3><ul><li>The risks of poor cost control</li><li>Capital and revenue costs</li><li>The importance of cost awareness</li><li><em>The importance of cost reduction</em></li><li>Cost management - the key aspects</li><li>How to build a cost management and control process checklist for your areas of responsibility</li></ul> <h3>2 Cost removal - taking out costs</h3><ul><li>Cost awareness</li><li>Costs of poor design / poor processes</li><li>Value engineering</li><li>Removing redundant costs</li></ul> <h3>3 The need for commercial, technical and financial appraisals</h3><ul><li>Understand the problems before cash is committed and costs incurred</li><li>Making the effort to identify commercial and technical risk</li><li>The time value of money - DCF techniques for long term projects</li><li>Cost models for production processes and projects</li><li>Costing models - project appraisals</li><li>The use of spreadsheets to identify sensitivity and risk</li><li>How to focus on risk management</li></ul> <h3>4 Budgeting - proper budgeting challenges costs</h3><ul><li>The philosophy of the business - are costs an issue?</li><li>The importance of having the right culture</li><li>The need for detailed business objectives</li><li>Budgetary control measures</li><li>Designing budget reports - for action</li></ul> <h3>5 Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) - the principles</h3><ul><li>Much more than starting with a clean sheet of paper</li><li>What ZBB can achieve</li><li>The concept of decision packages - to challenge business methods and costs</li><li>Only necessary costs should be incurred</li><li>A review of an operating budget - demonstrating what ZBB challenges and the costs it may lead to being taken out</li></ul> <h3>6 Awareness of overheads and other costs</h3><ul><li>Definitions of cost - direct and indirect</li><li>Dealing with overheads - what is meant by allocation, absorption or apportionment?</li><li>The apparent and real problems with overheads</li><li>Different ways of dealing with overheads</li><li>Review of overhead allocation methods and accounting and reporting issues</li></ul> <h3>7 Overheads and product costing</h3><ul><li>Activity-based costing (ABC) - the principles</li><li>Where and how the ABC approach may be helpful</li><li>Know the 'true' cost of a product or a project</li><li>Should you be in business? Will you stay in business?</li><li>Identifying weaknesses in a traditional overhead allocation</li><li>How ABC will help improve product or service costing</li><li>Identifying which products and activities should be developed and which abandoned</li></ul> <h3>8 Cost reduction culture</h3><ul><li>The need for cost reports</li><li>What measures can be used to identify over-spends as early as possible</li><li>Cost control performance measures and ratios</li></ul> <h3>9 Design of cost control reports</h3><ul><li>Reports should lead to action and deliver</li><li>Selecting cost control measures which can be acted upon</li><li>Practice in designing action reports</li></ul> <h3>10 Course summary - developing your own cost action plan</h3><ul><li>Group and individual action plans will be prepared with a view to participants identifying their cost risks areas and the techniques which can be immediately applied to improve costing and reduce costs</li></ul> 


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Business Analysis

Business Case Development

Manager Training

Finance For Non Finance Managers

Management Skills

Practical Accounting

Cost reduction (In-House)

<p>Are you struggling with the 'creeping kilograms?' Many of us find that not only has our weight increased over the last few years but the diets either no longer work or become harder and harder to commit to.</p><p>This session will help you re-evaluate your approach to losing weight and give you the foundations for creating a plan that makes it easy for you to reach and maintain a weight that feels right for you.</p><p>Take away a tool that will enable you to assess your eating type, whether you are a protein or carbohydrate based eater, and eating style, whether you prefer to be a grazer or three meals a day, and develop an eating plan that works for you.</p>You will have the opportunity to:<ul><li>Explore the myths and reality of losing weight</li><li>Examine self-defeating eating habits and how to replace them with energy enhancing food</li><li>Learn about one change you can make today that will not only help you lose weight but improve your ability to think and manage your emotions more constructively</li></ul>

Diet

Nutritional Therapist

Home Workout

Weight Loss

Lose Weight

Nutrition & Weight Management

Eat - Sleep - Work - Repeat (In-House)

<p>If you are a Mental Health First Aider or MHFA Champion you have skills for life that support you and the people around you.</p><p>We believe that mental health should be treated equally to physical health - and just like physical first aid, Mental Health First Aid training should be kept up to date.</p>The four-hour MHFA Refresher course will empower you to:<ul><li>Keep your awareness of mental health supports current</li><li>Update your knowledge of mental health and what influences it</li><li>Practice applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Outline</h3><ul><li>About mental health</li><li>Stress and factors that influence mental health</li><li>Mental health continuum and stigma</li><li>Frame of reference and non-judgement</li><li>Reintroducing ALGEE</li><li>Warning signs of mental ill-health</li><li>Depression and anxiety</li><li>Suicide and first aid for suicidal crisis</li><li>Psychosis and first aid for severe psychotic episodes</li><li>Practising our MHFA sills</li><li>Self-care, wellbeing and recovery</li></ul> 


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Mental Health Awareness

Mental Health First Aid

Medical First Aid

Psychological First Aid

Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)

Mental Health Nurse

MHFA Refresher (In-House)

<p>Stress continues to have a major impact in organisations. According to HSE research, the total number of working days lost due to this condition last year was 9.9 million days with stress accounting for 43% of all working days lost due to ill health. Despite this huge impact, CIPD research shows that many organisations are failing to take adequate steps to proactively identify and reduce stress in the workplace and many struggle to recognise and support staff who are already suffering from stress-related symptoms.</p>
<p>This programme has therefore been designed to help HR professionals identify how they can best support their organisation in preventing, reducing and managing stress. It recognises the role that HR can play in helping develop proactive strategies to reduce incidents of work-related stress as well as helping individuals to cope with or recover from stressful situations. It also recognises the important role that HR has in equipping managers with the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to manage stress within their team appropriately. The workshop provides participants with a wealth of ideas, strategies and tools to use within their organisations. It draws on current research, best practice guidance, lessons from case law and learning from a wide range of organisations in the form of case studies.</p><ul><li>UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF STRESS AT WORK AND THE CAUSES OF WORK-RELATED STRESS</li><li>UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF PROACTIVELY MANAGING STRESS, INCLUDING MINIMISING LEGAL RISK</li><li>KNOW HOW HR CAN BEST SUPPORT THE ORGANISATION AS A WHOLE IN MANAGING STRESS AND, IN PARTICULAR, HOW TO SUPPORT MANAGERS PREVENT AND RESPOND APPROPRIATELY TO STRESS WITHIN THEIR TEAM</li><li>HAVE LEARNT HOW OTHER ORGANISATIONS TACKLE STRESS AND THE RANGE OF SUPPORT AND WIDER TOOLS AND INITIATIVES AVAILABLE</li><li>HAVE REVIEWED HOW THEIR ORGANISATION PREVENTS AND MANAGES STRESS AND HAVE IDENTIFIED AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1. Introduction</h3><ul><li>Course objectives and benefits from attending this course</li><li>Participants' experience and confidence in this area</li><li>Personal objectives</li><li>Ground rules re confidentiality</li></ul><h3>2. Understanding stress</h3><ul><li>Group exercise</li><li>Understanding what stress is and how to recognise stress at work</li><li>Exploring the impact of stress and the business benefits of managing stress proactively</li><li>Reducing risk; an overview of legislation and practical application of four legal principles; relevant case law</li></ul><h3>3. Sources of stress</h3><ul><li>Understanding typical sources of stress; learning from CIPD and HSE research</li><li>Group exercise: Analysing sources of stress in your organisation against the six factors identified in the HSE Stress Management Standards</li><li>Ideas and actions to help reduce stress against these factors</li></ul><h3>4. Delivering difficult messages</h3><ul><li>Identifying key responsibilities within the organisation for preventing and managing stress</li><li>Identifying the important role managers have in: grievance, preventing stress, recognising stress at an early stage, demonstrating a positive attitude towards stress, and responding appropriately</li><li>Recognising the specific role, responsibility and influence HR has in this area</li><li>Other sources of support, eg, Occupational Health, EAP, etc</li></ul><h3>5. Levels of action</h3><ul><li>Understanding different levels of action, eg, proactive actions to prevent stress or help individuals cope with stressful situations and reactive actions designed to help individuals recover from and deal with the impact of stress</li><li>Examples of interventions that are implemented at an organisational level, eg, risk assessments identifying stress 'hot spots' in the organisation, determining strategy and policy</li><li>Examples of interventions aimed at managers or teams and those designed to support individuals with stress management, eg, raising managers' awareness of stress, adjustments to role, coping strategies, etc.</li></ul><h3>6. Practical ideas and resources</h3><ul><li>Practical tools and resources</li><li>How to develop and support line managers; a management toolkit</li><li>Promoting positive wellbeing; the Workplace Wellbeing Charter</li><li>Case studies: Learning from other organisations. A wide range of interventions that cover areas such as promoting health and wellbeing, providing positive information and support on stress and mental health, up-skilling managers, training on coping strategies such as resilience, mindfulness, etc.</li><li>Group exercises to embed learning and identify practical applications</li><li>Group exercises on challenging situations</li></ul><h3>7. And finally...</h3><ul><li>Open forum - remaining challenges and 'what if' scenarios</li><li>Action planning - identifying how participants will transfer this learning into the workplace and what else they may need which will help them to do this effectively</li><li>Review and close</li></ul>


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Maximum Performance

Stress Management for HR Professionals

<h2>High Performance Teams: In-House</h2><p>To stay ahead of the competition, it's vital for organisations to develop a high-performance work culture, so it should be a key goal for all managers to build high-performing teams. Building a team that can make better decisions and execute tasks at pace is the best route to increased productivity and engagement.</p><p>This workshop explores a range of concepts to support managers to successfully develop high-performing teams. It's a very practical session, blending group discussions and exercises with expert trainer input. It will help ensure that you have your people in the right place, doing the right things, together.</p><h3>Learning objectives</h3><p>This very &amp;'hands on' workshop will help you:</p><ul><li>Discover how understanding the five dysfunctions of a team can help you develop your own team</li><li>Understand and apply the Belbin team roles model</li><li>Be able to balance task, team and individual</li><li>Lead your team through the different stages of team development</li><li>Help your team make the most of hybrid working</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Welcome, objectives and introductions</h3><ul><li>Meet your &amp;'new' team</li><li>What does a high-performing team look like?</li><li>The five dysfunctions of a team</li></ul><h3>Belbin's team roles</h3><ul><li>Understanding Belbin's team roles</li><li>What role do I play in a team?</li><li>Applying Belbin's team roles to your team</li><li>Balancing strengths and weaknesses</li></ul><h3>Action-centred leadership</h3><ul><li>Introduction to the action-centred leadership model</li><li>Action-centred leadership in practice: balancing task, team and individual</li><li>Assessing your team and your role as team leader</li></ul><h3>The stages of team development</h3><ul><li>Understanding Tuckman's stages of team development: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing</li><li>Tools and techniques to lead teams through each stage</li><li>Creating high-performing teams in a hybrid working environment</li></ul><h3>Action planning</h3><ul><li>Re-introducing your &amp;'new team'</li><li>How do we apply what we've learnt?</li><li>Review learning and personal action planning</li></ul>


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High Performance Teams: In-House

<h3 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Overview</h3><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Infection prevention and control is essential for all businesses, particularly where the working environment or work activities could put employees and those around them at risk of infection. This includes those working in healthcare, in close contact with people or animals, and those involved in the cleaning of human and animal waste. Infections can be easily spread, but by understanding the correct steps to take, the risk of their occurrence can be both prevented and controlled.</p><h2 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Details</h2><h3 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">What will I learn on this course?</h3><ul style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the meaning of infection prevention and control and why it is important</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Know both your own and your employer&#39;s role and responsibilities and be aware of the relevant legislation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the chain of infection and the most common types of infections</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognise the importance of risk assessments and why they should be followed</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Be aware of some of the key ways infection risk can be controlled</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the importance of good hygiene and personal protective equipment</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Know the meaning of COSHH and how it relates to infection prevention and control</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the role of additional steps and adaptations when managing the risk of infection outbreaks</li></ul><h3 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Certification</h3><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Successful candidates will receive certification of achievement.</p>

Prima Cura Training

Health & Hygiene

Occupational Health & Safety

Infection Prevention & Control

Health & Safety

Hygiene

Infection Control

Infection prevention and control is essential for all businesses, particularly where the working environment or work activities could put employees and those around them at risk of infection. This includes those working in healthcare, in close contact with people or animals, and those involved in the cleaning of human and animal waste. Infections can be easily spread, but by understanding the correct steps to take, the risk of their occurrence can be both prevented and controlled.

<h3 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Overview</h3><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">An autistic spectrum disorder is a lifelong developmental impairment that affects how a person communicates and relates to people around them. Children and young people, and adults with autism spectrum disorders are affected in a huge variety of ways and to very different degrees. This is why it is called the autistic spectrum.</p><h2 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Details</h2><h3 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">What will I learn on this course?</h3><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">At the end of this training, you will be able to:</p><ul style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand what autism is, and the terminology associated with it.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the need to approach autism as a difference, rather than a disorder or impairment.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand how autism may be identified and diagnosed.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the areas of difference and how these may affect an individual.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand that every autistic individual experience autism differently and that an individual&rsquo;s strengths, aspirations, and needs should drive any provision.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand what is meant by advocacy and ways in which autistic individuals can be supported.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand and identify some strategies that can help to support autistic individuals in a range of contexts.</li></ul><h3 style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Certification</h3><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Successful candidates will receive certification of achievement.</p>

Autism

Social Care

This course explores Autism and the current body of thinking and knowledge around Autistic Spectrum Disorders. This enables learners to consider how to adapt their practice with useful strategies to better support an individual with autism.

Autism Awareness

<p>An insightful, enjoyable and experiential programme to help you analyse data and information and make a balanced decision based upon sound commercial reasoning. It will enable you to identify options, make decisions and take actions based on a thorough analysis combined with instinct and intuition to make a positive effect on profitability.</p>This programme will help you:<ul><li>Identify ways to analyse data and sort relevant from irrelevant information</li><li>Develop analytical and numerate thinking, and consider the financial implications of a decision</li><li>Make decisions based on sound commercial reasoning - a mix of intuition and analysis</li><li>Select from a range of tools to analyse a situation and apply these effectively</li><li>Understand how costs and profits are calculated</li><li>Use tried-and-tested techniques to manage and control your budgets</li><li>Appreciate the fundamentals of financial analysis</li><li>Focus on the bottom line</li><li>Identify the basics of capital investment appraisal for your business</li><li>Evaluate results and seek opportunities for improvement to your business</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 The commercial environment</h3><ul><li>What do shareholders and investors want?</li><li>What do managers want?</li><li>Profit <em>v</em> non-profit organisations</li><li>Investor expectations</li></ul> <h3>2 Financial and non-financial information</h3><ul><li>Risk and reward considerations</li><li>Drivers of commercial decisions</li></ul> <h3>3 Running a business</h3><ul><li>A practical exercise to bring financial statements to life</li><li>Different stakeholder interests in a business</li><li>The impact and consequences of decisions on financial statements</li></ul> <h3>4 Where do I make a difference to the organisation?</h3><ul><li>How can I contribute to an improved business performance?</li><li>Key performance indicators - measuring the right things</li><li>A 'balanced scorecard' approach - it's not all about money!</li></ul> <h3>5 A 'balanced scorecard' approach</h3><ul><li>Analysing and reviewing my contribution to the business direction</li><li>What is the current focus of my commercial decisions?</li><li>Developing the business in the right way - getting the balance right!</li><li>Where should/could it be in the future?</li><li>Do my decisions support the overall vision and strategy?</li></ul> <h3>6 Making commercial decisions</h3><ul><li>Left-brain and right-brain thinking</li><li>Convergent and divergent thinking</li><li>Analysis and instinct</li><li>Interactive case study exercise - emotional and rational decisions</li><li><em>Reflection - what is my style of making decisions</em></li></ul> <h3>7 Let's consider the customer!</h3><ul><li>Identifying target markets</li><li>Differentiating propositions and products</li><li>Customer service considerations</li><li>Marketing considerations and initiatives</li><li>Pricing strategies and considerations</li></ul> <h3>8 Strategic analysis</h3><ul><li>The external environment</li><li>The internal environment</li><li>LEPEST analysis</li><li>SWOT analysis</li><li>Forecasting</li><li><em>Group activity - analysing markets and the competition</em></li><li>How do these improve your decisions?</li></ul> <h3>9 Comparing performance</h3><ul><li>Analysing key financial ratios</li><li>Ways to compare performance and results</li><li>Break-even analysis</li></ul> <h3>10 Profit and loss accounts and budgeting</h3><ul><li>Managing income and expenditure</li><li>The budgeting process</li><li>How does this link to the profit and loss account?</li><li>Managing and controlling a cost centre/budget</li><li>The role of the finance department</li><li>Different ways of budgeting</li><li>Incremental budgeting</li><li>Zero-based budgeting</li></ul> <h3>11 Understanding the balance sheet</h3><ul><li>Purpose of balance sheets</li><li>Understanding and navigating the content</li><li>What does a balance sheet tell you?</li><li>How do you affect your balance sheet?</li><li>Links to the profit and loss account</li><li><em>A practical team exercise that brings financial statements to life</em></li></ul> <h3>12 Business decisions exercise</h3><ul><li>How does this improve your decisions?</li><li><em>A practical exercise to apply new knowledge and bring commercial thinking to to life</em></li><li>The impact and consequences of decisions on financial statements</li></ul> <h3>13 Working capital</h3><ul><li>Why is this important?</li><li>The importance of keeping cash flowing</li><li>Business decisions that affect cash</li><li>Calculating profit</li></ul> <h3>14 Capital investment appraisal</h3><ul><li>Capex <em>v</em> Opex</li><li>Payback</li><li>Return on investment</li><li>The future value of money</li><li>The concept of hurdle rate</li></ul> <h3>15 Lessons learned and action planning</h3><ul><li>So what?</li><li>Recap and consolidation of learning</li><li>The decisions that I need to consider</li><li>Actions to achieve my plan</li></ul> 


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Financial Modelling & Analysis

Business Accounting

Corporate Finance Level 1

Commercial instinct (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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Professional HR | A Performance Improvement Workshop

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">Are you responsible for implementing Data Governance? Are you expected to have all the answers?</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">It can be a scary position to be in, especially if you are new to the role, and even if you have done it before, what worked for the last organisation doesn&#39;t always work for the new one.</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">You can end up feeling lonely, vulnerable and frustrated. After all, you are trying to implement Data Governance to help your organisation - why is it turning out to be so difficult?!</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">You can spend hours on the internet or reading books but it can be challenging trying to turn the theory into something practical that will work for your organisation. If only you could fast forward to a few years&rsquo; time when you have done many more Data Governance initiatives and had a wider range of experience to fall back on.</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">If you don&#39;t have a time machine to help you with that, the other option is to build a network of experienced trusted peers who are willing to share the benefit of their experience with you. But that can be easier said than done. These days many networking events still aren&rsquo;t taking place and those that are are online and it&rsquo;s very hard to get a chance to speak let alone get advice for your challenges.</p>

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<p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);">Why not join this 1 Day Data Governance Mastermind Workshop, where you get allocated time to get specific advice on your current Data Governance challenges and get the chance to network with others in similar situations.</p>

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Untangle your Data Governance issue and collaborate with your peers during this one-day Mastermind
Discuss Data Governance approaches with people who get it
Are you struggling with a Data Governance issue and wish you had a team of other Data Governance professionals you could bounce it around with?
You’ve done Data Governance training and you know what you’re focusing on. While your team is supportive, you spend a lot of time dealing with, and driving forward, culture change, managing stakeholders, and fielding questions from people who have their own priorities and now need to do this ‘Data Governance stuff’ on top. 
It would be nice, once in a while, to have a conversation about how to achieve something free from internal issues. You want to talk about best practices and get some alternative ideas.
That’s what my Data Governance Mastermind gives you: space to reflect with the support of your peers and practical solutions you can implement.
What is a mastermind?
Mastermind groups are the definition of ‘sharing is caring’. It’s you and your fellow peers – people who do what you do - gathering to brainstorm, problem solve, set goals and be each other’s support network.
At the Data Governance Mastermind, you will meet and learn from other people implementing Data Governance initiatives. 
It’s a one-day event, on Zoom. One of the benefits of attending is you’ll get 30 minutes in the ‘hot seat’ where you can share something you’re struggling with and get input from the group. 
What you can expect during the day
Discussions about different aspects of Data Governance and the opportunity to share what’s worked for you.
Tailored advice specific to your situation from me.
Insights from other people implementing Data Governance about what’s worked for them, what hasn’t worked, and how they have tackled issues.
30 minutes in the hot seat so you can share something you need help with and get practical suggestions from the rest of the delegates.
Time to reflect and share learnings from discussions so you have your key takeaways written down, ready to take back to work with you.
Get to know other Data Governance professionals and build a support network
Get an action plan and confidence to take your next steps with Data Governance
Get ready to discover new ways of approaching your Data Governance challenges, while getting to know professionals from a range of industries.
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Get a clear action plan to take away with you to tackle your specific Data Governance issues.
Develop a wider network of supportive Data Governance professionals, people got your back and will be available to continue to network and ask advice or in the future.
Leave with the confidence that you're not alone in tackling these issues. There are other people going through similar experiences that are willing to help you out.
Is attending a Mastermind right for me? 
Every individual's Data Governance journey is unique. Take my scorecard to determine if my Mastermind programme is the right fit for you and will effectively support your specific needs. You can also find out more about the day on my website.

The Data Governance Coach 

Data Management

Professional Development

A day of Data Governance, support, networking, and answering your questions. Join me for my 1 Day Data Governance Mastermind where you get allocated time to get specific advice on your current Data Governance challenges and get the chance to network with others in similar situations.

1 Day Data Governance Mastermind

1 Day Data Governance Mastermind Workshop

<h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Course description</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Bunnyfoot were the pioneers and are now one of the leading providers of the Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience &ndash; Foundation Level (CPUX-F) in the United Kingdom. Created in association with the international UXQB, this professional 3-day UX certification programme covers user experience methods and theories &ndash; and is independently assessed/certified.</p><blockquote style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important;">&ldquo;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The CPUX course was hugely insightful and I thoroughly enjoyed taking it. I left with the knowledge and understanding that has allowed me to talk confidently to senior managers about human-centred design and user experience, and the certification really demonstrates my expertise in the field.</em>&ldquo;</p><cite style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Debbie Maxwell</strong></strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Digital Marketing Manager, Legal &amp; General</cite></blockquote><figure style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img alt="" data-src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-description.png" src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-description.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></figure><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Is it for you?</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Absolutely! The Foundation level certification is appropriate for anyone who works in UX or who wants to become familiar<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong>with the basics of usability, for example, Product Managers, Software Developers and Designers of all interactive systems that have a user interface.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If you want to:</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">&bull; ensure that your knowledge of usability and user experience is completely up-to-date;<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; acquire knowledge and skills that follow the established conventions;<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&bull; have recognised proof of your knowledge of usability and user experience&hellip;</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">&hellip;then CPUX-F is for you!</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The certification gives you the qualification needed to advance to the higher certificates in the areas of usability testing (CPUX-UT) and user requirements engineering (CPUX-UR).</p><figure style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img alt="" data-src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></figure><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">What you will learn</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The course is based on content from the <a href="http://www.uxqb.org/en/" style="color: rgb(172, 55, 180); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(172, 55, 180);">International Usability and User Experience Qualification Board</a> (UXQB) and is delivered remotely.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The course provides an introduction to usability and user experience in the areas of:</p><ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Usability principles and guidelines</strong></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Understanding and defining the context of use:</strong><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Procedures for analysis</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Observation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Interviews</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Personas</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scenarios</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">User groups</li></ul></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">How to gather and specify user requirements</strong></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Describing user interactions:</strong><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Design</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Low and high-fidelity prototypes</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dialogue principles</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Heuristics</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Guidelines</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best-practice error messaging</li></ul></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Usability testing and other evaluation methods</strong><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A step-by-step approach to running a usability test</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Typical errors</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Heuristic evaluation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Questionnaires</li></ul></li></ul><ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Interviews</strong><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Personas</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Scenarios</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">User group profiles</li></ul></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Systematically deriving user needs from context of use descriptions</strong><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Differentiate between types of user needs</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Apply quality factors for user needs</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognise user needs in context of use information</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Formulate user needs so that enables requirements can be derived</li></ul></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Deriving, specifying, structuring and prioritising user requirements</strong><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Validate user requirements with users</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Use of a structured scheme for prioritisation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ranking the relevance of user requirements together with users<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></li></ul></li></ul><blockquote style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important;"></p><cite style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">&ldquo;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Really enjoyed the course at Bunnyfoot! It gave me a good overview of human centred design, and our teacher helped us understand how this fitted with latest industry practice, and it put me in a good position for the exam!</em>?<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Amy Tatton-Brown</strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Digital e-Commerce Conversion Manager, Lloyds Banking Group<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></cite></blockquote><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Certification</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">In order to gain the CPUX-Foundation certification, you must pass the 75-minute test that consists of 40 multiple choice questions. To pass, you must score at least 28 points out of the 40 possible.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">You can find a complete example of a certification test on the <a href="https://uxqb.org/en/certification/foundation-level/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: rgb(172, 55, 180); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(172, 55, 180);">UXQB website</a></p><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">What are the UXQB and CPUX?</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The International Usability and User Experience Qualification Board (UXQB) is a consortium of internationally recognised experts in usability and user experience. UXQB&rsquo;s objective is to develop, maintain and manage the CPUX certification programs.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">CPUX is an international standard for qualification of people working professionally within UX. So far unions in six European countries have joined UXQB: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, Holland and Denmark.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Read more about UX certification at <a href="https://uxqb.org/en/certification/foundation-level/" style="color: rgb(172, 55, 180); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(172, 55, 180);">uxqb.org&nbsp;</a>where you can also find curricula and examples of the tasks that you have to solve if you want to be certified. The course includes many additional, unpublished examples of test tasks.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Necessary for Remote learning</h2><ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Access to Zoom</li></ul>

Bunnyfoot

UI / UX Design

Ux Research

Bunnyfoot were the pioneers and are now one of the leading providers of the Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience – Foundation Level (CPUX-F) in the United Kingdom. Created in association with the international UXQB, this professional 3-day UX certification programme covers user experience methods and theories – and is independently assessed/certified.

Certified Professional for Usability and User Experience – Foundation Certification (CPUX-F)

General Admission

Tom Reynolds

Product Management

Agile

Agile PM

Productivity

Kanban

Agile Coach

Attend our world class Kanban University accredited Certified Kanban System Design training course and learn to implement Kanban in your company

Certified Kanban System Design – KMP I - 24-26 September

Standard

Early Bird

Reading

Nottingham

Dickson Training Ltd

ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management

Online Course

Classroom Course

<p align="justify" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">This course has been designed and approved by the ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management). The recognition from the ILM means delegates receive an ILM Recognised Certificate from the ILM upon successful completion of the course.</p><p align="justify" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">All of our ILM Programmes are provided in partnership with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thebcfgroup.co.uk/interpersonal/train-the-trainer.php" style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">The BCF Group</a>, which is the ILM Approved Centre we deliver under.</p><p align="justify" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Venue Details</h3><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Nottingham</h5><p style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">The BCF Group Ltd, 5 Wheatcroft Business Park, Landmere Lane, Edwalton, Nottingham, NG12 4DG</p><img src="https://www.dicksontraining.com/images/wheelchair-icon.jpg" alt="" width="20" height="20" border="0" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125);" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><span style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">&nbsp;Suitable for Wheelchairs</span><br style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><img src="https://www.dicksontraining.com/images/venue-pics/nottingham.png" alt="" width="150" height="96" border="0" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125);" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><p align="justify" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">All Nottingham courses are held at the head office of The BCF Group. The comfortable training suites (which are situated on ground level, as well as the toilet facilities, making them wheelchair-friendly) are fully air conditioned with natural daylight. Plentiful on-site free car parking is also available.</p><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><article style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">In-House Courses</h3><section fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="https://www.dicksontraining.com/images/group1a.png" alt="In-House Training Courses" title="In-House Training Courses" width="327" height="219" border="0" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Our Train The Trainer course has been developed and refined over the many years we have been providing it to delegates from organisations in virtually every industry.</p><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The course syllabus is flexible and can be tailored to the specific requirements of your organisation and industry.</p><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">If you would like to discuss how we can tailor this Train The Trainer course for you and/or run it at your premises, please contact us.</p></section></article><br style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><a name="Coursedates" style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);"></a><article style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Scheduled Courses</h3><section fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Classroom Course - Nottingham (NG12 4DG)</h5><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Classroom training courses enable you to benefit from having the tutor and other delegates right there in the room with you. Face-to-face training sessions are one of the best ways to learn, as it is easy to ask questions and have group discussions.</p><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Cost: &pound;895 + vat</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strike fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">16-17 April 2024</strike>&nbsp;- COURSE FULL</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">29-30 April 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">18-19 June 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">15-16 August 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">14-15 October 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">03-04 December 2024</li></ul><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Classroom Course - Reading (RG41 5QS)</h5><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Classroom training courses enable you to benefit from having the tutor and other delegates right there in the room with you. Face-to-face training sessions are one of the best ways to learn, as it is easy to ask questions and have group discussions.</p><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Cost: &pound;895 + vat</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">05-06 March 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">25-26 June 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">26-27 September 2024</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">05-06 December 2024</li></ul><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Zoom&trade; Course</h5><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Attending a course via Zoom videoconferencing gives you all of the benefits of classroom training without the need to leave your home or office. You still benefit from a real tutor facilitating the programme, and the content is exactly the same.</p><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Cost: &pound;795 + vat</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">March 2024</strong>&nbsp;- 25th March (morning), 25th March (afternoon), 26th March (morning), 26th March (afternoon)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">May 2024</strong>&nbsp;- 21st May (morning), 21st May (afternoon), 22nd May (morning), 22nd May (afternoon)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">July 2024</strong>&nbsp;- 18th July (morning), 18th July (afternoon), 19th July (morning), 19th July (afternoon)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">September 2024</strong>&nbsp;- 18th September (morning), 18th September (afternoon), 19th September (morning), 19th September (afternoon)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">November 2024</strong>&nbsp;- 13th November (morning), 13th November (afternoon), 14th November (morning), 14th November (afternoon)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">January 2025</strong>&nbsp;- 21st January (morning), 21st January (afternoon), 22nd January (morning), 22nd January (afternoon)</li></ul></section></article><section style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><section style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><article style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></article></section></section>

Train The Trainer Course

<h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Course description</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This course covers the basics &ndash;&nbsp;from what we mean by accessibility and why we should be thinking about it, through to how to design and test your websites and apps for accessibility.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">You will get loads of supporting information &ndash; everything you need to bring your team and management on your accessibility journey &ndash; and there will be plenty of practical exercises, looking at and analysing real websites for basic accessibility. It&rsquo;s fun, it&rsquo;s interactive and you will meet interesting people to exchange ideas and experiences with!</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); border-left: 2px solid rgb(94, 53, 177); margin-left: 0px; padding-left: 5px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important;">&ldquo;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I would definitely recommend Bunnyfoot&rsquo;s courses. The day was useful, informative and had the evidence to back it all up.</em>&ldquo;</p><cite style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Jessica Woods</strong></strong><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">UX Designer, House of Commons</cite></blockquote><figure style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img alt="" data-src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-description.png" src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-description.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></figure><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Is it for you?</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If you are responsible for writing website content, designing websites or coding them, and you want to know how to do that in such a way that as many people as possible are able to navigate and interact with them, then this course is for you.</p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><figure style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img alt="" data-src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></figure><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">What you will learn</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Topics covered in the course include:</p><ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What we mean by accessibility and disability</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why we should design accessible websites</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">An overview of assistive technologies</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to find out how accessible your website or app is</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Useful processes and tools for evaluation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">12 principles for evaluating and producing accessible design, content and code</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">An introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><figure style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img alt="" data-src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></figure><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Learning objectives</h2><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></p><p style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">After completing the training, you will be able to:</p><ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand more about the access needs of your users</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Communicate the importance of accessibility&nbsp;to senior stakeholders</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Confidently explain ways of improving your website&rsquo;s accessibility to your teams</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Test your website to check if it meets basic accessibility requirements</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Produce content that is accessible</li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(97, 32, 103); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(97, 32, 103);">Necessary for remote learning</h2><ul style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Access to Zoom</li></ul><figure style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img alt="" data-src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" src="https://www.bunnyfoot.com/wp-content/plugins/bunnyfoot-wp-helper/inc/images/training-beneath-all.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></figure>

Web Accessibility

Accessibility

This one-day course introduces the field of user experience and provides an excellent entry point to our other specialised training courses. UX processes and practices have become a central component of product design, service design and web design. 

Practical Accessibility

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Strategic planning is often perceived as being difficult and requiring specialist skills - and also as being too challenging or lacking value when the future is so uncertain; leaders can often find it difficult to know how best to go about strategic planning in their organisation, and how to ensure that strategy is managed successfully.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this<em id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;Strategy Insights</strong></em> <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Masterclass</em></strong> we will start from &#39;first principles&#39; and explore what strategic planning is <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">really</em> about and how to approach it effectively (including how to consider the uncertainty of the future). The aim is to stimulate your thinking about what might be the right approach to strategic planning in <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">your</em> organisation (every organisation is different!); the Masterclass will be participative, with opportunities to work and share ideas with other delegates (without disclosing any organisational confidences).</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">[<em id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Masterclass has been given previously for specific groups, and given the feedback from participants is now being made available for open booking</em>.] &nbsp;<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">** David Booth has kindly donated a complimentary copy of  his book, &#39;<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Strategy Journeys - a guide to effective strategic planning</em>&#39; (shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2018) to be made available to those attending this Masterclass **&nbsp;</p>

Strategic planning is often perceived as being difficult and requiring specialist skills - and also as being too challenging or lacking value when the future is so uncertain; leaders can often find it difficult to know how best to go about strategic planning in their organisation, and how to ensure that strategy is managed successfully.

In this Strategy Insights Masterclass we will start from 'first principles' and explore what strategic planning is really about and how to approach it effectively (including how to consider the uncertainty of the future). The aim is to stimulate your thinking about what might be the right approach to strategic planning in your organisation (every organisation is different!); the Masterclass will be participative, with opportunities to work and share ideas with other delegates (without disclosing any organisational confidences).
[This Masterclass has been given previously for specific groups, and given the feedback from participants is now being made available for open booking.] 

** David Booth has kindly donated a complimentary copy of his book, 'Strategy Journeys - a guide to effective strategic planning' (shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2018) to be made available to those attending this Masterclass ** 

Strategy Insights

Strategic Management

Strategic Planning

Business Strategy

Leadership Development

This Strategy Insights Masterclass explores what strategic planning is really about and how to approach it effectively (including how to consider the uncertainty of the future).

Demystifying strategic planning

Chesterfield

<h2 id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">FAA Level 3 Award In Supervising First Aid For Mental Health (RQF)</h2><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li id="isPasted" style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Classroom (two day course), Virtual (6 x 2 &frac12; hour sessions)</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Gives learners knowledge of Mental Health First Aid and associated conditions</strong></li><li style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-weight: bold;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">This course is especially suitable for managers, supervisors and other staff that have the power to make changes in the workplace</strong></li></ul><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Course Contents:</h3><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is Mental Health?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why people develop mental health conditions</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What the role of a mental health first aider is</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Knowing how to provide advice and practical support</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Knowing how to recognise and manage stress</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the impact of substance abuse on mental health</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the first aid action plan for mental health and be able to put it in place</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Know how to implement a positive mental health culture in the workplace</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognising a range of mental health conditions:</li><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Depression</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Anxiety</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Psychosis</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eating disorders</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suicide</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Self-harm</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">PTSD</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Personality disorders</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bipolar disorder</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Schizophrenia</li></ul></ul><h3 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Benefits of this course:</h3><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">37% of all work-related ill-health is due to mental health problems</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Problems with mental health cover 45% of all working days lost</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A whopping 12.8 million working days, or 49, 042 years, were lost due to mental health problems in 2018/19</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">602,000 workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2018/19</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">One in four people will have a mental health problem at some point during their lives</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whether work is causing or aggravating mental health problems, employers have a legal responsibility towards their employees</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Work-related mental health issues must to be assessed to measure the levels of risk to staff</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Where a risk is identified, steps must be taken to remove it or reduce it as far as reasonably practicable</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This two day r employees&#39; mental health and wellbeing</li></ul><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Accredited, Ofqual regulated qualification</h3><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/pochat-training/b9029833-7afc-45fb-ac5c-79b01debf2f0/original.jpeg" style="width: 300px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 300px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></div><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our Mental Health First Aid Courses are nationally recognised, Ofqual regulated qualifications accredited by First Aid Awards Ltd in association with NUCO Training.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This means that you can be rest assured that your Mental Health First Aid <img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/pochat-training/226a4cec-3383-433f-8d41-69ebfe8d5701/original.png" style="width: 300px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 300px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Certificates fulfill the upcoming legal requirements and are a very good way to make sure you and your employees have a supporting workplace to deal with staff&#39;s mental health conditions.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ofqual Register number</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&nbsp;for this course is 603/3770/9</span></p><img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/pochat-training/7cbdb7f4-2060-482c-aab7-6d4ad4183309/original.png" style="width: 658px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 658px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">

Pochat Training

Emotions

Emotional Wellbeing

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Psychological Wellbeing

Mental Health

Emotional Resilience

First Aid

Accredited Mental Health First Aid

Wellbeing

Mental Resilience

Mental Health At Work

Resilience

Positive Psychology

Supervising First Aid for Mental Health

This price includes an Ofqual regulated certificate

With Ofqual regulated certificate

This price includes a CPD certificate instead of an Ofqual regulated certificate (it's exactly the same course)

With CPD certificate

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR</strong>: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION</p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Kate Walsh has built up many years of agenting experience across her own list, and another senior agent&#39;s list at United Agents for 9 years before parting ways and going it alone for a while. Fiction-wise, she works on a hugely broad list for expansive commercial genre fiction and is on the lookout for historical fiction, upmarket women&rsquo;s fiction, clever commercial thrillers, romance and some SFF, particularly those with a dystopian slant, or earth-bound science fiction, however that comes. Kate will also look at YA, though is not the right fit for high fantasy.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">On the non-fiction side, Kate has worked with an impressive list of clients across the commercial spectrum. She&#39;s on the lookout mainly (although not exclusively) for music titles, history and broad-spectrum popular science, but is open to anything that feels like a fresh and original way of looking at the world. She is especially drawn to 20th and 21st century affairs, and welcomes anything from anyone willing to speculate on what comes next.&nbsp;</span></div><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Kate would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the opening three chapters (max 5,000 words).</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Kate is offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The submission deadline is: Wednes</strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">day 21 August 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION
Kate Walsh has built up many years of agenting experience across her own list, and another senior agent's list at United Agents for 9 years before parting ways and going it alone for a while. Fiction-wise, she works on a hugely broad list for expansive commercial genre fiction and is on the lookout for historical fiction, upmarket women’s fiction, clever commercial thrillers, romance and some SFF, particularly those with a dystopian slant, or earth-bound science fiction, however that comes. Kate will also look at YA, though is not the right fit for high fantasy.On the non-fiction side, Kate has worked with an impressive list of clients across the commercial spectrum. She's on the lookout mainly (although not exclusively) for music titles, history and broad-spectrum popular science, but is open to anything that feels like a fresh and original way of looking at the world. She is especially drawn to 20th and 21st century affairs, and welcomes anything from anyone willing to speculate on what comes next.
Kate would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the opening three chapters (max 5,000 words).
(In addition to the paid sessions, Kate is offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Monday 16th September 2024

I Am In Print

Fiction Writing

ONE SPACE LEFT! 24th September Kate Walsh #Agent121. Looking for: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px;">Discernment Formation for Course Leaders</span></strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 24px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px;">with Rachel Overton and Nick Helm</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This programme aims to enable course leaders to develop or sharpen up discernment processes within formation programmes for spiritual directors from all traditions.&nbsp;</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">A previous participant says:</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&#39;This programme really helped me to find a language with which to fully&nbsp;</em><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">understand discernment processes for myself and for my facilitating the development of others.&rsquo;&nbsp;</em></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Discernment is not something that we &lsquo;do&rsquo; at certain moments of decision in life.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rather it is the stance we should assume in every aspect of life and can be articulated in the question &lsquo;how am I centred and responsive to God?&rsquo;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">As course leaders and people responsible for the formation of spiritual directors, we need to be aware of our own discernment processes if we are to enable others to grow in their ability to discern well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such awareness also enables us to offer congruence between the formation programme we are a part of, the nature of spiritual accompaniment and being faithful to God in life.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Over the course of the four day sessions, we will enable participants to engage with questions such as:&nbsp;</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What do you pay attention to within your own experience?&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why do you pay attention to that?<span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How do you respond to what you notice?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What choices do you make?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How does all of this apply to you personally, your role as a spiritual director and your role in the formation of spiritual directors.</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;These will be explored in relation to the &lsquo;triangle model&rsquo; of relationships within spiritual direction &ndash; a model which helps to sharpen awareness of the multiple aspects of discernment that we need to pay attention to.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The programme will be experiential, involving small group work as well as plenary sessions. &nbsp;Participants will also be expected to take time to reflect and continue to work with their own process in between sessions.</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By the end of the programme, participants can expect to:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">be more aware of their own process and language of discernment</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">have greater awareness of how discernment is lived in spiritual direction and spiritual direction formation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">be more secure in their role as a trainer enabling discerning processes</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">have clarity about ways in which this discerning stance can be developed in the course they are involved in</li></ul>All sessions will run on Zoom from 9.45am to 4.15pm<div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Previous participants share their responses to this programme:&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;A safe space to open your heart to the unexpected.&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;It opens up the process of discerning far better than reading it in a book.&#39;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;[It] may well change your perception of what discernment is all about and, with practice, it will change the way you live and pray. I would thoroughly recommend this learning process and experience.&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;Approach with an attentive, open heart, recognising the potential to go deeper through exploring discernment by journeying both as individual and with others.&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;A very in-depth programme that really gets to the heart of discernment. Don&rsquo;t miss it - it can change your life!!&rsquo;</em></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&lsquo;It wasn&#39;t until I experienced this programme with Nick and Rachel that it became obvious how vital this clarification of, and approach to discernment is, and would whole-heartedly recommend this empowering course to the most seasoned of trainers as well as those just starting out.&rsquo;</em></p>

Discernment Formation for Course Leaders
with Rachel Overton and Nick Helm
This programme aims to enable course leaders to develop or sharpen up discernment processes within formation programmes for spiritual directors from all traditions. 
A previous participant says:
'This programme really helped me to find a language with which to fully understand discernment processes for myself and for my facilitating the development of others.’ 
Discernment is not something that we ‘do’ at certain moments of decision in life. Rather it is the stance we should assume in every aspect of life and can be articulated in the question ‘how am I centred and responsive to God?’
As course leaders and people responsible for the formation of spiritual directors, we need to be aware of our own discernment processes if we are to enable others to grow in their ability to discern well. Such awareness also enables us to offer congruence between the formation programme we are a part of, the nature of spiritual accompaniment and being faithful to God in life. 
Over the course of the four day sessions, we will enable participants to engage with questions such as: 
What do you pay attention to within your own experience?
Why do you pay attention to that?
How do you respond to what you notice?
What choices do you make?
How does all of this apply to you personally, your role as a spiritual director and your role in the formation of spiritual directors.
 These will be explored in relation to the ‘triangle model’ of relationships within spiritual direction – a model which helps to sharpen awareness of the multiple aspects of discernment that we need to pay attention to.
The programme will be experiential, involving small group work as well as plenary sessions. Participants will also be expected to take time to reflect and continue to work with their own process in between sessions.
By the end of the programme, participants can expect to:
be more aware of their own process and language of discernment
have greater awareness of how discernment is lived in spiritual direction and spiritual direction formation
be more secure in their role as a trainer enabling discerning processes
have clarity about ways in which this discerning stance can be developed in the course they are involved in
All sessions will run on Zoom from 9.45am to 4.15pm
Previous participants share their responses to this programme: 
‘A safe space to open your heart to the unexpected.’
‘It opens up the process of discerning far better than reading it in a book.'
‘[It] may well change your perception of what discernment is all about and, with practice, it will change the way you live and pray. I would thoroughly recommend this learning process and experience.’
‘Approach with an attentive, open heart, recognising the potential to go deeper through exploring discernment by journeying both as individual and with others.’
‘A very in-depth programme that really gets to the heart of discernment. Don’t miss it - it can change your life!!’
‘It wasn't until I experienced this programme with Nick and Rachel that it became obvious how vital this clarification of, and approach to discernment is, and would whole-heartedly recommend this empowering course to the most seasoned of trainers as well as those just starting out.’

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