36 Meeting Skills courses in Bradford

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This workshop is very practical in its nature and aims to give delegates an opportunity to not only learn about the key aspects of successful bid writing, but to also put them into practice. The workshop helps delegates understand what is most important to buyers and how to successfully convey they proposition to them. 1 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS 2 THE MINDSET OF SUCCESSFUL BID WRITING * The mindset needed for successful bid writing * Thinking from the buyer's perspective and not your own 3 DECISION MAKING * The way buyers make decisions - rational and emotional * Understanding buying motives * Looking at how to present ideas against those motives * The idea of cognitive fluency * How to pitch an idea in a way that leads to a positive decision 4 TO BID OR NOT TO BID? * Writing a bid is a big commitment; a clear understanding of the chances of winning is required * Understanding of the implications of winning and the impact it will have on the organisation 5 UNDERSTANDING YOUR VALUE PROPOSITION * Framework to help identify unique proposition and how that fits in with the requirements of the bid 6 THE TENDER PROCESS * Understanding the process to enable a successful chance of winning the bid * Different types of tender processes * Evaluation of criteria and the impact on bid writing 7 WRITING SKILLS * Different ways of writing and structuring bids to ensure their messages gets across well in a way that will be looked on favourably by the buyer 8 SUMMARISE 9 CLOSE

Taking minutes is a much under-rated skill. It can be challenging at the best of times. So how do you do it for virtual meetings? This trainer-led session will help. It's a very practical programme which explores the issues specific to minuting on-line meetings and gives solutions to some of the trickier problems. Full of useful tips, the session will enable participants to: * Identify how to adapt their current minute-taking skills to on-line meetings * Plan and prepare for a meeting * Follow a line of discussion * Work in partnership with a remote Chair * Deal confidently with minute-taking challenges. 1 WELCOME * Programme objectives * Personal introductions 2 ADAPTING MINUTE-TAKING TO VIRTUAL MEETINGS * How is it different? * What changes in approach are needed? 3 PREPARATION * Preparing for the meeting * Technology and equipment * Dress and personal presentation * Liaising with the Chair * Practical preparation tips 4 MINUTING TIPS * Managing the 'techie' elements, eg. poor sound/visual quality * Knowing who is speaking * Following a line of discussion * What if I don't hear or understand? * Tips for producing a set of minutes 5 SESSION REVIEW * Summary, key learning points, feedback and close

Meetings are a traditional and essential component of local government. For both elected members and officers, meetings serve as a forum for discussion and agreement, planning and monitoring, communication and leadership, and decision-making. Used appropriately, meetings can challenge, inspire, illuminate and inform. And while they are not the only meetings that elected members will be asked to attend, committee meetings, in particular, are a mainstay of the political management process. Effective chairing is important because it can provide clear leadership and direction, ensure that debates are focused and balanced, enable decisions to be reached and ensure that resources are used to best effect. This two-hour 'masterclass'-style workshop will help elected members to understand their role, offer some approaches and ideas that will help to tackle typical challenges, and help to generally improve their effectiveness as a chair. * To understand the skills and qualities of a good chair * To learn ideas and approaches for chairing a successful meeting that is on time and achieves its outcomes * To understand the protocols and boundaries for appropriate meeting etiquette and the chair's role in managing this effectively * To appreciate how to manage yourself and others appropriately * To take away personal actions to apply to your role 1 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS * Objectives * What's the challenge for you? 2 WE CAN'T GO ON MEETING LIKE THIS * Common meeting challenges for chairs and why they succeed or fail * Consequences and impact for the Council * What's the context? 3 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE CHAIR * Activities and input that explore the role, skills and qualities needed * Role of the chair: what is it and how to do it well 4 CHAIRING FOR SUCCESS - IDEAS AND APPROACHES TO MEET THE CHALLENGES * Managing time and boundaries * Preparation and planning * Creating the right environment * Self-management * Challenging personalities and good meeting behaviour 5 FINAL PLENARY SESSION * What's your plan? Take away actions

This one-day workshop focuses on building a professional presentation from scratch, giving you essential hints and tips on how to utilise the key features of PowerPoint, including speaker notes, inserting charts, diagrams and pictures, and utilising slide transitions and animation. You will also learn about PowerPoint templates and themes to ensure your presentations have the best impact. This course will help participants: * Using Slide Master * Create a presentation using a template * Insert slides and change the layout * Manage slides and control formats * Enhance slides using animation, pictures, charts and graphics * Work with tables, rows, cells and columns * Create and control paragraph lists * Insert titles and labels * Effectively use slide show controls and presenter view * Print slides, handouts and notes 1 INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT * Navigating the features * Creating a simple presentation * Inserting new slides and changing layouts * Creating speaker notes 2 USING LAYOUTS IN SLIDE MASTER * Editing templates in slide master * Adding a design theme * Adding transitions, pictures and logos * Using Slide Show View 3 DRAWING SHAPES AND SMARTART * Using Drawing Tool Formats * Creating shapes * Aligning shapes and stacking order * Creating a cycle graphic * Creating an organisation chart 4 ANIMATION * Visually enhancing slides with animation * Using text and object animation * Adding animation to lists * Making animation work for you 5 PRESENTING * Confidently running a presentation * Using presenter view * Using the slide show controls

This training day will help managers explore what they need to do to create a motivating environment at work and learn some theory, tools and ideas to inspire motivation at individual and team level. Motivation is a key factor in effective people management and successful team performance. It involves engaging and inspiring your people and developing them in such ways as to improve their effectiveness and thus have a greater benefit to customers. It can also involve having tough conversations with those who do not seem to be motivated. By the end of the workshop participants will be able to: * Identify key motivating factors at work and learn and create ideas to better engage staff * Learn a conversation tool to use for challenging discussions * Explain their role in motivating staff and understand a range of techniques and approaches to use in the workplace * Review learning and have an action plan to take back and implement at work 1 WELCOME, HOUSEKEEPING, OBJECTIVES * Breaking the ice * Setting personal objectives 2 GROUP WORK: IDENTIFYING PERSONAL MOTIVATORS AND WHERE THEY COME FROM 3 DEFINING MOTIVATION * The characteristics of a motivated team * Input and group discussion 4 FACTORS IMPACTING ON MOTIVATION AT WORK * Using pre-work to identify challenges, hotspots and obstacles * Feedback in plenary * Exploring the benefits of motivation that address current challenges and agreeing outcomes for change 5 COMMITMENT VS. COMPLIANCE - ORGANISATIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE MANAGER'S APPROACH TO BUY IN 6 TEAM CHALLENGE TASK USING A THEORY ABOUT MOTIVATION * Trainer input and review in plenary 7 GROUP TASK - COMPLETE A PLAN FOR INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED IN PRE-WORKSHOP TASK 8 SKILL / WILL - A MOTIVATION TOOL: TRAINER INPUT, FOLLOWED BY TASKS THAT ARE ASSESSED AND DISCUSSED IN PEER GROUPS * 1-2-1 feedback task on approaches and plans to be taken back and used at work * Feedback and plenary review 9 DEAL - A CONVERSATION TOOL: HOW TO CONSTRUCT A CONVERSATION PLAN ABOUT MOTIVATION WITH AN INDIVIDUAL * Peer professional 1-2-1s to practice the discussion planned and gain feedback 10 REVIEW, EVALUATION AND ACTION PLANNING

Meetings are a fact of working life - both virtual and physical meetings. Recording the key points from meetings is critical to making sure that accurate information is captured, and action points are clearly identified and allocated. This virtual training session will support members of staff to develop their skills in recording the key points from meetings and discussions. This course will help participants: * Describe the different levels of note taking and pick the appropriate style for the meeting * Prepare to take minutes in the virtual and the physical environment * Liaise and work in partnership with the meeting Chair * Use a template to enable the capturing of key points * Set up the room ready for the meeting * Identify key points to record, versus what not to record * Interrupt the meeting confidently to check key points * Take neutral, accurate and concise records * Produce a well-laid out set of minutes. 1 INTRODUCTION * Objectives and overview * Introductions and personal aims 2 AN INTRODUCTION TO MINUTES * Purpose and use * Different levels of notetaking 3 PREPARING TO TAKE MINUTES * Identifying the purpose of the meeting * Working with the Chair * Tips and techniques to prepare effectively * Case studies, review and discussion * The physical environment: setting up for a meeting 4 LISTENING AND RECORDING * Tips and techniques to make the process easier * How to interrupt a meeting * What to record; what to leave out * Recording in short-form using playscript and bullet-points * Listening neutrally * Activity: Minuting a Meeting * The tricky ones and how to overcome problems in the meeting 5 PREPARING THE MINUTES * Producing a set of draft minutes * Tips on grammar, punctuation and layout * Stylistic variation * Managing feedback from the Chair 6 REVIEW * Summary of key learning points * Action planning

The ability to influence others is a life skill but also one that has never been so critically useful at work. This one day workshop will set you on the road to discover what you need to be able to think and do that will help you take people with you. This involves learning some new tools and strategies that fit the situation you are in and making sure you use the right skills and behaviours to influence well, whether it is a single person or a room full of cynical expectant people! This workshop will enable you to: * Learn about and understand influencing styles and strategies available and formulate plans and ideas on how to use them in influencing situations * Understand which skills and behaviours to use to be the most effective influencer * Have greater confidence in situations where they need to influence someone * Use thinking, speaking and behavioural techniques that enable influencing to be effective and positive * Review and evaluate learning and have an action plan to take back and implement in the workplace 1 WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS & GETTING TO KNOW YOU AND WHY YOU ARE HERE * Course objectives 2 PERSONAL OBJECTIVES * Introducing a learning diary 3 GALLERY EXERCISE - USING IMAGES OF EXEMPLARS BROUGHT BY PARTICIPANTS * Plenary discussion * The skills and behaviours of an exemplar influencer 4 GROUP TASK - WHAT DOES YOUR SELF-EVALUATION SAY? * Discussion and conclusions 5 INFLUENCING - WHAT IS IT? - WHY DO WE NEED IT? * The current organisational landscape including values and behaviours the influencer operates in 6 PIT STOP - 'PULL / PUSH', 'THE LOST HORSE' AND 'TALKING AT' 7 DIRECT / SUPPORT / DELEGATE / COACH: THE DIFFERENT CHOICES AND APPROACHES TO CHOOSE FROM 8 UPDATING THE LEARNING DIARY 9 POWER AND TYPES OF POWER - ITS IMPACT ON INFLUENCING ABILITY AND APPROACH AND WHAT IS WITHIN YOUR CONTROL * Group task and discussion 10 THE 5 INFLUENCING STYLES TOOL * Series of tasks and exercises * Drilling down to a personal action plan for maximising influence 11 'THE PERSON WITH THE MOST FLEXIBILITY HAS THE MOST INFLUENCE' * Skills and behaviours for effective influencing * Exercises and techniques that develop skills for influencing 12 REVIEW AND EVALUATION * Action planning

This intensive one-day IACCM-approved programme helps participants develop the skills, knowledge and competencies required to plan for and carry out effective negotiations in a range of different environments. By the end of the programme participants will be able to: * Understand the basic concepts of negotiation and how it adds value to the organisation * Recognise the stages of negotiation and the skills required at each stage * Make use of tried-and-tested negotiation planning tools * Apply a range of negotiation tools and techniques to support the organisation in obtaining value for money, quality and fit-for-purpose outcomes * Set negotiation objectives * Appreciate the importance of interpersonal skills in maximising the opportunities for reaching win/win agreements 1 WELCOME * Introductions * Aims and objectives * Plan for the day 2 WHY NEGOTIATE? * Understanding the negotiation context * Negotiating with suppliers * Negotiating with stakeholders 3 UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS * The phases of negotiation and what to do in each phase * Before * During * After 4 PLANNING * Appreciating the importance of planning * Different approaches * Identifying the key variables * Setting objectives for each of them * Practical negotiation planning exercise 5 DOING * The key skills required, * Communication * Numeracy * empathy * Applying these skills in a role play: practical exercise 6 CLOSE * Review of key learning points * Personal action planning

We need to talk openly about how we are performing and we sometimes need to have an 'honest' conversation with our manager. We all know this, but it can be difficult. This short, focused workshop will give you the confidence and skills to have a conversation with your manager (or anyone else for that matter) about your performance and how you can add value. It will focus on how to get yourself heard and build better working relationships with those key to your success. The programme will help you: * Overcome the barriers to effective performance conversations * Receive feedback without taking it personally * Improve working relationships with your manager * Agree realistic expectations and targets (and get 'buy-in' for them) * Improve your communication style * Plan and prepare for honest conversations in the workplace 1 WHAT IS AN HONEST CONVERSATION? * Why don't we have them more often? * What stops us? * The cost of not having them 2 ASKING FOR FEEDBACK 3 PREPARING FOR CHALLENGE 4 THE EXPECTATIONS CONVERSATION 5 YOUR COMMUNICATION STYLES 6 PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR AN HONEST CONVERSATION