Harpenden

<h2>Conflict Management</h2><p>'Conflict' is a word that conjures up many emotions. It is something that most people would prefer to avoid, if possible. Work can be an emotive place. Positive relationships can make your life at work exciting, motivating and challenging, whilst relationships you regard as negative can make your life very difficult and stressful, especially if there is conflict between you and your manager.</p><p>This workshop is essential for people who want to understand where conflict can be used to positive effect, how to manage it in working relationships and how to use it as something positive that can stimulate the working environment.</p><p>Research has shown that relationships at work are an extremely high motivational factor, significantly more important than salary for a lot of people. It is therefore essential that we invest in relationships and search out new ways to make them better in order to have a more positive influence on our surroundings. By understanding why other people are in conflict we can manage the conversation a lot better, with outcomes managed more effectively so the 'conflict' will add value to the organisation.</p><p>This highly participative one-day workshop covers a wide variety of exercises and personal stories, and leaves participants with a clear strategy to identify when they are in conflict with someone and how they will structure their approach to get to a satisfactory outcome.</p><h3>Learning Objectives</h3><p>At the end of the session, participants will be able to:</p><ul><li>Understand their key relationships and the strength of those relationships</li><li>Use their Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) profile to identify where to deploy their strengths</li><li>Understand what is important to them and their key stakeholders</li><li>Know how motivational value systems can influence behaviour</li><li>Tailor their communication style to match other people's</li><li>Use proven strategies to resolve conflict with others</li><li>Be more assertive when challenging</li><li>Achieve key personal, departmental and organisational objectives</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Where are you now?</h3><ul><li>How effective are your current working relationships?</li><li>Can I work effectively without input from others?</li><li>Who do you need to be a success?</li></ul><h3>The Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI)</h3><ul><li>Completion of the SDI questionnaire</li><li>An understanding of the theory</li><li>A 'trip around the triangle'</li><li>Predicting relationship interaction</li><li>Your scores and what they mean in your relationships</li></ul><h3>Conflict theory</h3><ul><li>What is conflict?</li><li>The 3 flags of conflict</li><li>What are your conflict triggers?</li><li>Your conflict scores plotted</li><li>The conflict sequence</li></ul><h3>Conflict resolution strategies</h3><ul><li>Early warning signs</li><li>Most productive behaviours</li><li>Least productive behaviours</li><li>Preventable/unwarranted conflict</li><li>Review of the dynamic triangle</li><li>Review of the day, personal learning and action planning</li></ul>


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Maximum Performance

Conflict Management

<h2>Dealing with Change: In-House</h2><p>Change happens! It's pointless trying to ignore it or resist it - neither of these is an effective strategy for making your life easier or furthering your career.</p><p>We all need to embrace change positively. But that's easier said than done. This workshop will help. It's an opportunity to understand how we're all affected by change in different ways and to explore a range of possible responses to it. You'll leave the session with practical tools and techniques that enable you to embrace change in a way that promotes and sustains success, both organisationally and personally.</p><ul><li>Understand why most people find change challenging when they have limited control over it</li><li>Be aware of the KÃ¼bler-Ross change curve and know how to manage your emotions better</li><li>Understand how people cope with change differently and the strategies they use</li><li>Recognise the role beliefs play in resisting and embracing change and how to reframe limiting beliefs</li><li>Know what you can do to support change initiatives and think creatively to make things work</li><li>Be more aware of the need for change and the role you can play in challenging the status quo</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Why change is constant</h3><ul><li>Today's environment</li><li>Change and personal career success</li><li>Change and organisational success</li></ul><h3>Understanding change</h3><ul><li>Personal experiences of change</li><li>What neuroscience tells us about how people deal with change</li></ul><h3>The Kubler-Ross curve</h3><ul><li>Exploring the KÃ¼bler-Ross change curve<ul><li>Shock</li><li>Denial</li><li>Frustration</li><li>Depression</li><li>Experiment</li><li>Decision</li><li>Integration</li></ul></li><li>How to move through the curve in a healthy way and deal with emotions rather than store them up</li><li>Change questionnaire - the SARAH model</li><li>How to manage our sense of control (using the circle of concern and the circle of influence) to help us let go of the things we cannot control in times of change</li></ul><h3>Managing emotions</h3><ul><li>The importance of experiencing emotions rather than suppressing them</li><li>How we can hear the messages our emotions bring to us</li><li>How labelling emotions can help alleviate them</li><li>The PTFAR model for managing emotions<ul><li>Programming</li><li>Thoughts</li><li>Feelings</li><li>Actions</li><li>Results</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Coping strategies for change</h3><ul><li>Control v escape coping</li><li>The transactional model of coping</li><li>How to choose the most appropriate strategy</li></ul><h3>Beliefs and change</h3><ul><li>How beliefs drive behaviour</li><li>Limiting and empowering beliefs</li><li>How to reframe beliefs</li></ul><h3>Be a change agent</h3><ul><li>Change isn't all 'top-down'</li><li>Disruptors in the marketplace</li><li>The aggregation of marginal gains</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Dealing with Change: In-House

<p>This is a highly participative workshop aimed at giving line managers additional strategies, skills and confidence to handle the myriad of sensitive and challenging issues that may arise in the workplace. It will provide practical tools and tips for dealing with these issues appropriately, in accordance both with the client's internal policies and procedures and with any relevant employment legislation. The programme will encourage group discussion and will allow participants time to raise any specific issues they find the most challenging to handle.</p>
<p>The emphasis is on encouraging managers to manage positively and proactively, to role model appropriate behaviour, to recognise issues at an early stage and to take prompt action to resolve concerns informally or formally as appropriate.</p><ul><li>RECOGNISE WHEN AN ISSUE IS SENSITIVE</li><li>KNOW HOW TO HANDLE IT, WHETHER THROUGH INFORMAL ACTION OR FORMAL PROCEDURES</li><li>ENSURE THAT THEY ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR ORGANISATION'S POLICIES AND PROCEDURES</li><li>IMPROVE THEIR FEEDBACK SKILLS</li><li>DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH CHALLENGING RESPONSES</li><li>MANAGE ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS APPROPRIATELY</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></ul><h3>2. Handling sensitive issues well</h3><ul><li>Types of sensitive issue</li><li>What makes an issue sensitive?</li><li>Why are these situations difficult to manage?</li><li>Participants' experiences and challenges</li></ul><h3>3. The organisational context</h3><ul><li>Quiz to refresh participants' understanding of relevant legislation such as discrimination and dismissal law</li><li>Relevant policies and procedures</li><li>Roles, responsibilities and sources of support</li></ul><h3>4. Personal issues</h3><ul><li>What personal issues may affect work?</li><li>Dealing with health issues, eg, disability, stress and mental illness, terminal illness, etc</li><li>Alcohol and drug addiction</li><li>Changes to circumstances, eg, divorce, bereavement, etc</li><li>Group exercise on strategies for handling personal issues</li></ul><h3>5. Dealing with sensitive issues</h3><ul><li>Checklist of 'managerial' skills</li><li>A conversational approach: preparing for and holding the meeting</li><li>Group exercise: understanding and managing emotional reactions in others</li><li>Managing your own emotions</li></ul><h3>6. Other sensitive issues</h3><ul><li>Group exercise focused on other sensitive issues relevant to the group such as personal hygiene, personality clashes, appearance at work, capability and performance issues, etc</li><li>Practical tips and strategies including how to give effective, constructive feedback</li></ul><h3>7. Skills practice</h3><ul><li>Preparing for, and conducting, a meeting around a sensitive situation and / or managing challenging responses</li></ul><h3>8. 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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Handling Sensitive HR Issues

<h2>Presentation Skills: In-House</h2><p>Presenting with confidence is an essential business skill.</p><p>Whether you are delivering a client presentation or addressing an internal gathering, good presentation skills are crucial for success.</p><p>This programme cover the foundation skills you need to improve the impact, clarity and structure of your presentations. Master the physical factors, harnessing the power of non-verbal communication. Engage your audience. Learn how to structure your presentation for best results. Deal with questions more effectively. Boost your confidence. And learn to enjoy doing it!</p><p>You will be expected to bring a 3-minute pre-prepared presentation to the workshop. You'll get supportive feedback to ensure that you leave the session with greater confidence and competence to present effectively in any situation.</p><ul><li>Have a benchmark for what powerful presenters do and don't do</li><li>Know how to structure a presentation to maximise impact and engagement</li><li>Be able to master the use of posture and gesture for maximum impact</li><li>Be able to avoid 'death by PowerPoint'</li><li>Improve your ability and confidence to get buy-in to your ideas</li><li>Feel more confident when handling questions or challenges</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Handling nerves, feeling confident</h3><ul><li>What makes someone a confident presenter?</li><li>Why feeling nervous is a normal human reaction to being in the spotlight</li><li>The mindset that will help you be a confident presenter</li><li>Techniques for handling nerves</li><li>The matrix of authentic presenting</li><li>Pre-prepared individual presentations (3 minutes max) - practice activity</li></ul><h3>2 The 3Vs of powerful presenting</h3><ul><li>The three primary channels of communication - Visual, Vocal and Verbal.</li><li>Bringing the 3Vs to life - practice activity</li></ul><h3>3 Avoiding 'death by PowerPoint'</h3><ul><li>Hints and tips to make PowerPoint powerful</li><li>Participants receive coaching from other participants and the trainer on their slides - what's working and what needs to change? </li></ul><h3>4 Delivering with passion</h3><ul><li>How to ensure that you are the presentation, not your slides</li><li>Unscripted individual presentations - practice activity</li></ul><h3>5 Creating and structuring an audience-centred presentation</h3><ul><li>Why the best presentations are audience-centred</li><li>Organising materials to make presentations relevant and compelling</li></ul><h3>6 Getting your key messages across</h3><ul><li>If you don't get your key messages across clearly, you will never achieve the outcome you want</li><li>Reducing the pre-prepared individual presentations from 3 minutes to just 90 seconds - individual activity</li></ul><h3>7 Managing audience attention spans</h3><ul><li>How to keep your audience engaged</li><li>How attention typically varies throughout a presentation</li><li>Review the structure of the 90-second presentations and improving them - group activity</li></ul><h3>8 Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Presentation Skills: In-House

<p>This intensive one-day training programme has been developed to help those involved in producing specifications create high quality documents in an organised and effective way.</p><p>The programme explains the primary purpose of specifications and the importance of understanding the context in which they are used. It focuses particularly on how to develop and structure content and write requirements that are clear and concise. The methods and techniques presented will provide a practical foundation course for those new to the topic whilst offering new insights to those with more experience.</p>The objectives of the workshop are to:<ul><li>Review and discuss the role and purpose of specifications</li><li>Present a structured approach for organising and producing specifications</li><li>Explain each of the key steps involved in creating effective specifications</li><li>Review some methods for assisting in defining requirements</li><li>Explain how to define the scope and develop the structure for a specification</li><li>Present methods to assist the writing and editing of specifications</li><li>Review how specifications should be issued and controlled</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Course objectives</li><li>Review of participants' needs and objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 Specifications in perspective</h3><ul><li>The role and purpose of specifications</li><li>The impact of specifications on commercial performance</li><li>The qualities of an effective specification</li><li>The five key steps of 'POWER' writing: prepare-organise-write-edit-release</li></ul> <h3>3 Step 1: Preparing to write</h3><ul><li>Defining the purpose the specification; integrating the specification and contract</li><li>Deciding how to specify: when to specify in functional and technical terms</li><li>Getting the right people involved at the right time; engaging stakeholders</li><li>Applying procedures for writing, issuing and controlling specifications</li></ul> <h3>4 Step 2: Organising the specification content</h3><ul><li>Scoping the document: scope maps, check lists, structured brainstorming</li><li>Clarifying requirements; separating needs and desires</li><li>Dealing with requirements that are difficult to quantify</li><li>Useful techniques: cost benefit analysis, Pareto analysis</li><li>Deciding what goes where; typical contents and layout for a specification</li><li>Creating and using model forms: typical sections and sub sections</li></ul> <h3>5 Step 3: Writing the specification</h3><ul><li>Identifying and understanding the readers needs</li><li>Choosing and using the right words; dealing with jargon</li><li>Important words; will, shall, must; building a glossary</li><li>Using sentence structure and punctuation to best effect</li><li>Understanding the impact of style, format and appearance</li><li>Avoiding common causes of ambiguity; being concise and ensuring clarity</li></ul> <h3>6 Step 4: Editing the specification</h3><ul><li>Why editing is difficult; how to develop a personal editing strategy</li><li>Key areas to review: structure, content, accuracy, clarity, style and grammar</li><li>Editing tools and techniques</li></ul> <h3>7 Step 5: Releasing and controlling the specification</h3><ul><li>Key requirements for document issue and control</li><li>Final formatting and publication issues; document approval</li><li>Requirements management: managing revisions and changes</li></ul> <h3>8 Course review and action planning</h3><ul><li>What actions should be implemented to improve specifications?</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul> 


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Technical Writing

Service Design Courses (SDC)

Content Writing

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Book Writing

Business Writing

Specification writing (introduction) (In-House)

<p>Telephone selling can be a challenge. It can be a pressured environment and sales professionals need to be able to maintain peak performance in order to meet - and preferably exceed - their targets. This programme will help make it easier for them.</p><p>The expert trainer covers the whole process, to help participants see it from their customer's perspective. The focus is on how to use a practical understanding of sales psychology, and of the nature of the telephone sales conversation, to help make it easier for customers to buy.</p><p>This programme will give your team the skills to:</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Understand why people buy - and how that makes it easier to sell</li><li>Manage the sales process better</li><li>Steer their sales calls to a more positive outcome</li><li>Recognise - and respond to - customer buying signals</li><li>Meet and overcome objections</li><li>Choose the most appropriate techniques for closing with confidence</li><li>Enhance their resilience</li><li>Improve their communication skills on the telephone</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Aims and objectives</li><li>Overview</li><li>Self-appraisal of current skills and development areas</li></ul> <h3>2 The sales approach</h3><ul><li>What selling means</li><li>Why selling is like nature</li></ul> <h3>3 The telephone as an instrument of communication</h3><ul><li>Qualities of the telephone</li><li>How telephone communication differs from face-to-face</li><li>Advantages and drawbacks of the telephone</li><li>How to optimise selling over the telephone</li><li>Communication techniques to help you stand out from the crowd</li></ul> <h3>4 Creating a relationship</h3><ul><li>Professional telephone etiquette</li><li>Building a rapport</li><li>Connecting with the customer so that they feel you are on the same wavelength</li></ul> <h3>5 The structure of a sales call</h3><ul><li>Opening the call - creating a positive first impression</li><li>Effective questioning to gather information and establish need</li><li>Identifying and presenting the features and benefits of the product or service</li><li>Matching the benefits to customers' needs</li><li>Recognising and responding to buying signals</li><li>Anticipating, meeting and overcoming objections</li><li>Closing the sale and asking for the order - different closing techniques</li><li>The importance of testimonials - how to obtain them and when to use them</li></ul> <h3>6 Listening skills</h3><ul><li>The challenges of accurate listening</li><li>How to enhance listening skills</li><li>Ensuring the customer feels heard and understood through empathetic listening</li></ul> <h3>7 Shaping and using a script</h3><ul><li>Developing a script to increase levels of confidence</li><li>Leaving the door open</li></ul> <h3>8 Managing the campaign</h3><ul><li>Organisation and call planning</li><li>Identifying your target market group</li><li>Planning who and when to call</li><li>Logging constructive information</li></ul> <h3>9 Personal management</h3><ul><li>The importance of persistence</li><li>Is there a time to back off?</li><li>Stamina - optimising energy levels</li><li>Bouncing back</li></ul> <h3>10 Practising the new information</h3><ul><li>Pulling the details together</li><li>Practising in a supportive environment</li></ul> <h3>11 Action planning</h3><ul><li>Personal learning summary and action plan</li></ul> 


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Coaching Skills

Professional Selling Skills (PSS)

Counselling Skills

Sales Management

Telesales

Teaching & Training

Telephone Sales - outbound (In-House)

<h2>Honest Conversations: In-House</h2><h3>Giving and receiving feedback - with confidence, grace and clarity</h3><p>Few of us are naturals when it comes to having honest conversations, especially around giving and receiving feedback.</p><p>We struggle to find a path between being too direct and confrontational, as against softening our message so much that it gets lost in an emotional fog.</p><p>We need to structure information in a non-emotive way, giving clear feedback and delivering messages with empathy and compassion. We need a toolkit we can use on a day-to-day basis to build an honest, open working culture with those who report to us - and, indeed, with those to whom we report. This very popular programme is the answer.</p><h3>What's in it for you?</h3><ul><li>Understand what honest conversations are and why they're important</li><li>Be able to identify and manage your emotions</li><li>Be able to use a variety of techniques for structuring honest conversations</li><li>Learn how to get key messages across, with empathy and compassion</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>What's a difficult conversation? What's an honest conversation? And what's the difference?</h3><ul><li>What makes a conversation &amp;'difficult'?</li><li>What makes for an &amp;'honest' conversation?</li><li>Why they're not the same</li></ul><h3>The role emotions play</h3><ul><li>What neuroscience tells us about how our emotions work</li><li>How certain situations can prompt strong reactions</li><li>The NLP model of communication and how our brains will delete, distort and generalise information based on our own unique map of the world</li><li>The belief cycle</li><li>Techniques for identifying your emotions and managing them</li></ul><h3>Understanding your purpose</h3><ul><li>Where most conversations go wrong</li><li>Are you looking for them to change behaviour, to understand new information, to influence them or to express your feelings?</li><li>The A to B model for structuring your honest conversation</li></ul><h3>Giving and receiving feedback</h3><ul><li>The benefits of giving and receiving feedback</li><li>How emotions play a role in feedback</li><li>How to structure feedback using the See/Saw Model</li><li>How giving positive feedback can be just as difficult for some people</li><li>How to manage your emotions and accept feedback with grace</li><li>Keeping focused on the positives</li></ul><h3>Raising issues</h3><ul><li>How to build up to an honest conversation</li><li>Maintaining rapport while raising issues</li><li>The LADDER model for planning and executing the discussion</li></ul><h3>Empathy and understanding others' perspectives</h3><ul><li>How a perceived lack of understanding and empathy raise the temperature</li><li>Practical techniques for &amp;'standing in the other's shoes'</li><li>Effective questioning and listening</li><li>The role of positive intentions and values in honest conversations</li></ul><h3>Making sure you get it right</h3><ul><li>The &amp;'must haves' for effective honest conversations</li><li>Unconscious biases<ul><li>Affinity bias</li><li>Attribution bias</li><li>Conformity bias</li><li>Confirmation bias</li><li>Gender bias</li></ul></li><li>Factual inaccuracies</li><li>The Ladder of Inference as a model for taking a fact-based approach</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Honest Conversations: In-House

<h2>Assertiveness: In-House</h2><p>When people are assertive they portray a strong, confident image and can put their views across while still taking other people's opinions into account.</p><p>Non-assertive, passive aggressive or aggressive behaviour can cause misunderstandings, frustration and even a breakdown in relationships at work.</p><p>In this highly practical session participants discover how effective body language, voice, and the words they say make a big difference to the results they get. Importantly, they learn how to build confidence that leads to assertive behaviour more of the time. And how to disagree without being disagreeable!</p><ul><li>Recognise the differences between assertive, aggressive and passive behaviour</li><li>Understand the impact your behaviour has on people</li><li>Make assertive requests - and follow up effectively</li><li>Say 'no', where appropriate</li><li>Be more assertive in meetings</li><li>Give negative feedback - without giving offence</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Why be assertive?</h3><h4>Assertiveness defined</h4><ul><li>What is assertiveness?</li><li>Why does it matter?</li><li>The assertiveness spectrum<ul><li>Passive</li><li>Assertive</li><li>Aggressive</li></ul></li><li>Skills practice: demonstrating the spectrum</li></ul><h3>Channels of assertiveness</h3><ul><li>The three channels of assertiveness<ul><li>What we show</li><li>What we say</li><li>How we sound</li></ul></li><li>The 'I'm OK / you're OK' model<ul><li>Avoiding non-assertive behaviour as a default position</li></ul></li><li>Skills practice: confidently stating your opinion</li></ul><h3>Assertive language</h3><ul><li>The importance of direct communication</li><li>The problems with indirect communication</li><li>Skills practice: standing your ground</li><li>'Wimp talk'v'power talk'<ul><li>'Wimp talk' quiz</li></ul></li><li>Voice</li><li>Body language</li><li>Skills practice: making assertive requests</li></ul><h3>Refusing requests and saying 'no'</h3><ul><li>The hardest word</li><li>When to use it...</li><li>... and how</li></ul><h3>Assertive follow-up</h3><ul><li>Empathic assertion</li><li>The broken record technique</li><li>Keeping body language consistent with verbal</li><li>Skills practice: making assertive requests</li><li>Self-disclosure and empathy</li><li>Escalating requests</li></ul><h3>How to disagree without being disagreeable</h3><ul><li>The 3As model<ul><li>Acknowledge</li><li>Agree</li><li>And (not 'but')</li></ul></li><li>Skills practice: disagreeing in an assertive way</li></ul><h3>How to be assertive in different situations</h3><ul><li>How to raise an issue<ul><li>How to be proactive and assertive with your manager</li><li>Barriers</li><li>Skills practice: suggesting a change</li></ul></li><li>How to give negative feedback<ul><li>Have the right mindset</li><li>Have a framework</li><li>Skills practice: giving feedback to a colleague</li></ul></li><li>How to be assertive in a meeting<ul><li>Why do it</li><li>How to do it</li><li>Skills practice: group exercise</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Assertiveness: In-House

<p>Sickness absenteeism is still a problem for the UK. According to recent CIPD surveys, average sickness absence continues to increase year on year in many organisations and such absence is particularly significant in the public sector, where it is now 50% higher than in the private sector. The need to manage sickness absence effectively and consistently remains a challenge for many organisations, as does balancing a robust approach alongside a desire and need to treat individuals sensitively and with compassion and respect.</p>
<p>This workshop equips managers with the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage sickness absence proactively and appropriately in accordance with your organisation's policies, best practice and legal considerations.</p><ul><li>UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF SICKNESS ABSENCE AND THE NEED TO MANAGE ABSENCE FAIRLY, CONSISTENTLY AND APPROPRIATELY</li><li>UNDERSTAND THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF LINE MANAGERS AND HOW TO WORK EFFECTIVELY WITH HR AND OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPORT SUCH AS OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH</li><li>ADOPT A POSITIVE AND PROACTIVE APPROACH TO MANAGING SICKNESS, INCLUDING CONDUCTING EFFECTIVE RETURN TO WORK INTERVIEWS</li><li>MANAGE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ABSENCE, INCLUDING SHORT-TERM PERSISTENT ABSENCE AND LONG-TERM ABSENCE, AS WELL AS CONTINUING HEALTH ISSUES THAT HAVE AN IMPACT ON WORK</li><li>BUILD CONFIDENCE IN ADDRESSING SENSITIVE ISSUES, INCLUDING SUPPORTING AND MANAGING EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE A DISABILITY, AND ISSUES SUCH AS MENTAL HEALTH, WORK RELATED STRESS, ETC.</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></ul><h3>2. The context</h3><ul><li>Understanding the impact of absence and health issues at work</li><li>Different types of absence - short-term and long-term absence</li><li>Understanding disability</li><li>Balancing the need to manage absence fairly while treating individuals with compassion and respect</li><li>What is expected from an employer and from employees in relation to managing absence</li></ul><h3>3. Managing sickness absence</h3><ul><li>Sickness absence policy and procedures</li><li>Clarifying roles and responsibilities - manager, employee, HR, Occupational Health, EAP, etc</li><li>Notification and certification of absence - what happens in practice?</li><li>What happens when someone returns? Conducting effective return to work interviews</li><li>Monitoring absence and understanding trigger points</li><li>An overview of key stages in managing absence informally and formally, including formal reviews and dismissal</li></ul><h3>4. The law</h3><ul><li>Legal requirements and risks associated with unfair dismissal claims</li><li>Understanding discrimination, what is a disability in law, and reasonable adjustments</li><li>Case law</li></ul><h3>5. Having the conversation</h3><ul><li>On-going short-term persistent absence with a pattern, potentially a disability; knowing when to escalate</li><li>Long-term absence, working with Occupational Health, and consideration of dismissal</li><li>Work-related stress and mental health issues affecting conduct at work</li><li>Working proactively to support attendance, eg, flexible working, phased returns to work, reasonable adjustments</li></ul><h3>6. 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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Managing Absence and Health Issues Effectively

<h2>Change management</h2><p>Change is a given in any organisation today. You can choose to lead it, go along with it or ignore it - but the last of these options is not a route to success.</p><p>The best approach is to be positive and proactive, whether that's in a context of organisation-wide strategic-level transformational change, or whether it's a question of making changes within the areas of the organisation that are within your direct control.</p><p>This engaging and interactive workshop will take you on a journey exploring your role in driving and supporting change, the impact of change on the human brain, and the steps needed to bring about successful change.</p><p><strong>Delivery:</strong> Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options. </p><ul><li>Understand your role in change</li><li>Be more aware of the need to challenge the status quo</li><li>Know how to maximise the value and power of the 'aggregation of marginal gains'</li><li>Understand that most people find change challenging when they have limited control over it</li><li>Be aware of the KÃ¼bler-Ross change curve and know how to handle your and others' emotions</li><li>Understand John Kotter's 8-step change model and relate it to the challenges you face</li><li>Recognise the power of managing your own emotional state and that of other stakeholders</li><li>Boost your confidence in getting buy-in and commitment to your suggestions</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Why change?</h3><ul><li>Why change is necessary in today's environment</li><li>Why challenging the status quo is important</li></ul><h3>The manager's / leader's role in change</h3><ul><li>Managing change</li><li>Initiating change</li><li>Consequences of not changing</li><li>'Marginal gains' - the value of continuous improvement</li><li>How managers can encourage their teams to create a culture where change is seen as positive</li></ul><h3>Barriers to change</h3><ul><li>Most people find change challenging when they have limited control over it</li><li>The challenges of 'top-down' change</li><li>What neuroscience tells us about change</li><li>Using the KÃ¼bler-Ross change curve<ul><li>Shock</li><li>Denial</li><li>Frustration</li><li>Depression</li><li>Experiment</li><li>Decision</li><li>Integration</li></ul></li><li>Knowing how to handle your/others' emotions</li><li>The 'raise it &gt;feel it &gt;talk about it &gt;let it go &gt;move on' model</li></ul><h3>Using John Kotter's 8-step model for leading and managing change</h3><ul><li>Create urgency</li><li>Form a powerful coalition</li><li>Create a vision for change</li><li>Communicate the vision</li><li>Remove obstacles</li><li>Create quick wins</li><li>Build on the change</li><li>Make it stick</li></ul><h3>Communicating change</h3><ul><li>Being prepared for dealing with the five questions people have about change<ul><li>Why is it necessary</li><li>What is it?</li><li>What will it look like when we get there?</li><li>How will we get there?</li><li>What's my role now, during and at the end?</li></ul></li><li>Communicating a change message - dos and don'ts</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Change Management

<p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">1 Days - 8 CPD Hours</strong></p><div title="Page 1" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">This workshop is designed to help you manage your time more effectively. It will explore issues with time management, prioritisation and delegation, managing meetings and emails, Managing other peoples priorities and action planning.</span></p></div>

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Adult Leadership & Management (ALM)

Time Management

Allied Health Professions (AHP)

Health Care Management

Health Education

This workshop is designed to help you manage your time more effectively. It will explore issues with time management, prioritisation and delegation, managing meetings and emails, Managing other peoples priorities and action planning.

Time Management for Healthcare Professionals

Loughborough

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		<p></p><h4>Today's workforce demands a lot from leaders: to be purpose-driven, authentic, inclusive, visionary yet humble; to create a space of psychological safety for their people and to show up without the armour of hierarchy. These demands can create a significant emotional load on leaders who are facing into a tide of consumer and shareholder activism, disruptive change to business practices and endless cost focus. Now is the time to understand that working on our personal resilience is not a sign of weakness, but of strength.</h4>
<h4>Join this course to engage with other leaders in learning resilience habits that make a difference now and can serve you for a lifetime.</h4>
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		<p></p><h3>Module 1: Your Personal Resilience Baseline, Strengths and Challenges</h3>
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<li>Knowledge: The link between resilience and sustainable high performance</li>
<li>Knowledge: Inconvenient truths and empowering beliefs about resilience</li>
<li>Q&amp;A and signposts: to 30 small habits to build your resilience</li>
<li>Action planning: one behaviour you will implement, starting today.</li>
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<h3>Module 2: Turning Knowing into Doing</h3>
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<li>Skills: Aligning your actions with your core values</li>
<li>The courage, conviction and commitment to 'doing differently'</li>
<li>Q&amp;A and signposts: to a range of specific tools to build your confidence</li>
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<li>The cost of presenteeism is double the cost of absenteeism</li>
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<p>Increase your capacity to take on new challenges, reduce existing stress and prepare yourself for unexpected adversity.</p>
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<li>The resilience habits in the FREEDOM model are simple, powerful, fast, free and readily implemented</li>
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Resilience is the ability to take the challenges and changes of life in your stride and say yes to the opportunities that excite you.

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<p id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.</p><p style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"></p><h3 style="color: rgb(71, 199, 245); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(71, 199, 245);">Course Category</h3><p style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Relationships</p><p style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Racial bias</p><h3 style="color: rgb(71, 199, 245); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(71, 199, 245);">Description</h3><p style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.</p><p style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups and these biases stem from one&rsquo;s tendency to organise social worlds by categorising.</p><p style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">So join us on a reflective, engaging day where we tackle real life issues in depth and create action plans for future practice.</p><h3 style="color: rgb(71, 199, 245); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(71, 199, 245);">Learning Objectives</h3><ul style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Increased confidence and understanding regarding Unconscious Bias</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Action planning</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">New skills and processes to strengthen the inclusion of diverse groups</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Opportunity to reflect and understand more deeply on what might be happening due to unconscious bias&rsquo;</li></ul><h3 style="color: rgb(71, 199, 245); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(71, 199, 245);">Who Is It For?</h3><ul style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Any professional, carer or parent</p></li></ul><h3 style="color: rgb(71, 199, 245); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(71, 199, 245);">Course Content</h3><ul style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We will explore what is known about:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Restorative Justice</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Diversity</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Attitudes and Values</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Professional duties</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reflective practice</li></ul></li></ul>

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<div data-testid="summary" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Living in the Present</span></strong></span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Do you ever find that your brain can&rsquo;t enjoy the present? Maybe you are wandering into the past to ruminate on what&rsquo;s happened? Or looking to the future worrying about what there is to do? Whilst past and future thinking have their uses, they can suck the joy from our day to day lives.&nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We want to help you to relish the present and make the most of everything it has to offer.&nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This session will introduce you to GEM; How Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness are at the core of living presently. We&rsquo;ll be sharing tools to help you:</span></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Use gratitude to increase joy in your daily life</li><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Use empathy to strengthen relationships with others</li><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Use mindfulness to calm your nervous system and feel grounded in the moment</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And we&rsquo;ll end with a meditation to help you take wellness into the next part of your day.</span></p></div><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">______________</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Wellness Lab: Helping you to prioritise your wellbeing</span></strong></span></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;"><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Are you always giving to others and forgetting yourself?</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Are you juggling loads and finding it hard to find a healthy balance?</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Do you find it hard to follow through on the wellness goals you set for yourself?</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">You are not alone.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Wellness Lab is here to help you make time for yourself, empower you with wellbeing activities and support your personal growth.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Each month you can expect</span></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A deep dive into a different aspect of your wellbeing</li><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tried and tested tools for you to experiment with</li><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A safe space to ask questions and share</li><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Meditations and visualisations to help you find calm</li><li style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Action planning prompts to hold you accountable</li></ul><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">The Wellness Lab is designed to be an inclusive space. You are most welcome to participate in whatever way works for you:</span></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">join with your camera off and simply &lsquo;listen in&rsquo;</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">pop your reflection, comments and questions in the chat</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">show up on screen and unmute to participate</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;We look forward to helping you to live in the present of your life.</span></p>

The Self Leadership Initiative

Health & Wellbeing

Mindfulness

Emotional Wellbeing

Psychological Wellbeing

Empathy

Wellbeing

Self Esteem & Confidence

Wellness Coach

Gratitude

Learn three practices to fully enjoy the present. 

Wellness Lab: Living in the Present

London

<h2>Program Management Skills: In-House Training</h2>
 <p>Program managers coordinate and give oversight to the efforts of marketing groups, project teams, product delivery, maintenance and support, operations and staff from various functional groups, including suppliers, business partners, and other external bodies. The goal is to ensure that proposed business transformation, through the delivery of complex products and processes, is implemented to realize the organization's strategic benefits and objectives, for which the program was selected.</p>
 <p>The goals of this course are twofold: To provide participants with key program management principles and techniques, recognized as best practices, to enable more effective program management; and to leverage core elements of the program management life cycle, processes, tools and techniques, to enable program management effectiveness.</p>
 <p>The participant will learn and apply the principles of program management through discussions, activities, and case study exercises.</p><h3>What You Will Learn</h3>
 <p>At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:</p>
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 <li>Maximize the transformational impact of a program according to the business needs</li>
 <li>Explain management principles and techniques and apply them within a program context</li>
 <li>Implement program governance and organization that will produce expected benefits</li>
 <li>Plan for and manage benefit realization, risks, issues, and quality</li>
 <li>Manage component projects' interdependencies that are linked to both program and strategic objectives</li>
 <li>Engage program stakeholders effectively.</li>
 <li>Improve communication and action planning effectiveness for programs in organizations</li>
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                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul> <li>Introductions</li> <li>Course structure</li> <li>Course goals and objectives</li> </ul> <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Fundamental definitions and concepts</li> <li>Program challenges and benefits</li> <li>Program best practices and success criterion</li> <li>Stakeholder management</li> <li>Governance: program management office and program boards</li> <li>Standard for Program Management overview</li> </ul> <h3>Vision, Leadership, and the Business Case</h3> <ul> <li>What is vision, why, and how?</li> <li>Leadership vs. Management</li> <li>Program business case</li> </ul> <h3>Program Organization and Governance</h3> <ul> <li>Program organization</li> <li>Program governance</li> <li>Program board roles and responsibilities</li> </ul> <h3>Benefits Management</h3> <ul> <li>Benefits explored</li> <li>Benefits management</li> <li>Benefits realization</li> </ul> <h3>Program Management Planning</h3> <ul> <li>Program management plan</li> <li>Program blueprint and roadmap</li> <li>Program component dossier</li> <li>Program tranches</li> <li>Program estimating</li> <li>Program scheduling</li> </ul> <h3>Program Monitoring and Controlling</h3> <ul> <li>Program Control - An Overview</li> <li>Program Monitoring and Controlling</li> <li>Monitoring and Controlling Transition</li> </ul> <h3>Program Risk and Issue Management</h3> <ul> <li>Risk and issue management overview</li> <li>Program risk management</li> <li>Program issue management</li> </ul> <h3>Program Quality Management</h3> <ul> <li>Program quality management overview</li> <li>Program quality management principles</li> </ul> <h3>Program Stakeholder Management</h3> <ul> <li>Stakeholder engagement overview</li> <li>Stakeholder engagement planning</li> <li>EI, trust, communication and stakeholder engagement</li> </ul> <h3>Program Closure and Benefits Sustainment</h3> <ul> <li>Program closure overview</li> <li>Closing the program</li> <li>Program benefits sustainment</li> </ul> <h3>Summary</h3> <ul> <li>What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?</li> </ul>


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Program Management Skills: In-House Training

<h2>Program Management Skills: Virtual In-House Training</h2>
 <p>Program managers coordinate and give oversight to the efforts of marketing groups, project teams, product delivery, maintenance and support, operations and staff from various functional groups, including suppliers, business partners, and other external bodies. The goal is to ensure that proposed business transformation, through the delivery of complex products and processes, is implemented to realize the organization's strategic benefits and objectives, for which the program was selected.</p>
 <p>The goals of this course are twofold: To provide participants with key program management principles and techniques, recognized as best practices, to enable more effective program management; and to leverage core elements of the program management life cycle, processes, tools and techniques, to enable program management effectiveness.</p>
 <p>The participant will learn and apply the principles of program management through discussions, activities, and case study exercises.</p><h3>What You Will Learn</h3>
 <p>At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>Maximize the transformational impact of a program according to the business needs</li>
 <li>Explain management principles and techniques and apply them within a program context</li>
 <li>Implement program governance and organization that will produce expected benefits</li>
 <li>Plan for and manage benefit realization, risks, issues, and quality</li>
 <li>Manage component projects' interdependencies that are linked to both program and strategic objectives</li>
 <li>Engage program stakeholders effectively.</li>
 <li>Improve communication and action planning effectiveness for programs in organizations</li>
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                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul> <li>Introductions</li> <li>Course structure</li> <li>Course goals and objectives</li> </ul> <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Fundamental definitions and concepts</li> <li>Program challenges and benefits</li> <li>Program best practices and success criterion</li> <li>Stakeholder management</li> <li>Governance: program management office and program boards</li> <li>Standard for Program Management overview</li> </ul> <h3>Vision, Leadership, and the Business Case</h3> <ul> <li>What is vision, why, and how?</li> <li>Leadership vs. Management</li> <li>Program business case</li> </ul> <h3>Program Organization and Governance</h3> <ul> <li>Program organization</li> <li>Program governance</li> <li>Program board roles and responsibilities</li> </ul> <h3>Benefits Management</h3> <ul> <li>Benefits explored</li> <li>Benefits management</li> <li>Benefits realization</li> </ul> <h3>Program Management Planning</h3> <ul> <li>Program management plan</li> <li>Program blueprint and roadmap</li> <li>Program component dossier</li> <li>Program tranches</li> <li>Program estimating</li> <li>Program scheduling</li> </ul> <h3>Program Monitoring and Controlling</h3> <ul> <li>Program Control - An Overview</li> <li>Program Monitoring and Controlling</li> <li>Monitoring and Controlling Transition</li> </ul> <h3>Program Risk and Issue Management</h3> <ul> <li>Risk and issue management overview</li> <li>Program risk management</li> <li>Program issue management</li> </ul> <h3>Program Quality Management</h3> <ul> <li>Program quality management overview</li> <li>Program quality management principles</li> </ul> <h3>Program Stakeholder Management</h3> <ul> <li>Stakeholder engagement overview</li> <li>Stakeholder engagement planning</li> <li>EI, trust, communication and stakeholder engagement</li> </ul> <h3>Program Closure and Benefits Sustainment</h3> <ul> <li>Program closure overview</li> <li>Closing the program</li> <li>Program benefits sustainment</li> </ul> <h3>Summary</h3> <ul> <li>What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?</li> </ul>


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Program Management Skills: Virtual In-House Training

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			<p>This highly practical workshop will help you become a more effective negotiator and learn the skills that master negotiators use.</p>
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		<h3>Description</h3>
		<p></p><p>The program covers the key skills for effective negotiation:</p>
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<li>Identifying your unique negotiation proposition</li>
<li>Negotiating strategy and tactics</li>
<li>Keeping emotional distance</li>
<li>Dealing with deadlocks</li>
<li>Good listening skills</li>
<li>Clarity of communication</li>
<li>Understanding and dealing with different personality and negotiating styles</li>
<li>Men and women in negotiation</li>
<li>Knowing how to close a contract or agreement</li>
<li>Negotiating in teams</li>
<li>Achieving win-win outcomes</li>
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<p>The workshop is interactive and interspersed with practical exercises and role-play scenarios.  There is a particularly useful team negotiating exercise which is both fun and challenging.  At the end of the course you should be fully prepared to tackle your next negotiation!</p>
<p>Participants should come to the workshop prepared to discuss past or forthcoming negotiations and these may be used in class exercises.  Confidentiality will be honoured in all cases.</p>
<p><strong>Available as private Face to Face and virtual sessions (max 12 delegates) - £1,745  Plus VAT</strong></p>
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		<p></p><h3>Session 1</h3>
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<li>The ten best personality traits for effective negotiation and the ten most common negotiating errors</li>
<li><span>Negotiating Styles - What sort of negotiator are you?</span></li>
<li><span>How to become a master negotiator:  The key stages of negotiation from </span>preparation to close</li>
<li><span>The key stages/cont.</span></li>
<li>Negotiating by phone and email</li>
<li>Negotiating in teams</li>
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<h3>Session 2</h3>
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<li>Your unique negotiating proposition</li>
<li>Different communication and behavior styles and how to influence them</li>
<li><span>Negotiation and Emotional Intelligence</span></li>
<li><span>Negotiating role play scenarios</span></li>
<li><span>Feedback and course review</span></li>
<li><span>Action Planning</span></li>
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This highly practical workshop will help you become a more effective negotiator and learn the skills that master negotiators use.

Negotiation Skills

<h2>Program Management Skills: On-Demand</h2>
 <p>Program managers coordinate and give oversight to the efforts of marketing groups, project teams, product delivery, maintenance and support, operations and staff from various functional groups, including suppliers, business partners, and other external bodies. The goal is to ensure that proposed business transformation, through the delivery of complex products and processes, is implemented to realize the organization's strategic benefits and objectives, for which the program was selected.</p>
 <p>The goals of this course are twofold: To provide participants with key program management principles and techniques, recognized as best practices, to enable more effective program management; and to leverage core elements of the program management life cycle, processes, tools and techniques, to enable program management effectiveness.</p>
 <p>The participant will learn and apply the principles of program management through discussions, activities, and case study exercises.</p><h3>What You Will Learn</h3>
 <p>At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:</p>
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 <li>Maximize the transformational impact of a program according to the business needs</li>
 <li>Explain management principles and techniques and apply them within a program context</li>
 <li>Implement program governance and organization that will produce expected benefits</li>
 <li>Plan for and manage benefit realization, risks, issues, and quality</li>
 <li>Manage component projects' interdependencies that are linked to both program and strategic objectives</li>
 <li>Engage program stakeholders effectively.</li>
 <li>Improve communication and action planning effectiveness for programs in organizations</li>
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                    <h3>Getting Started</h3> <ul> <li>Introductions</li> <li>Course structure</li> <li>Course goals and objectives</li> </ul> <h3>Foundation Concepts</h3> <ul> <li>Fundamental definitions and concepts</li> <li>Program challenges and benefits</li> <li>Program best practices and success criterion</li> <li>Stakeholder management</li> <li>Governance: program management office and program boards</li> <li>Standard for Program Management overview</li> </ul> <h3>Vision, Leadership, and the Business Case</h3> <ul> <li>What is vision, why, and how?</li> <li>Leadership vs. Management</li> <li>Program business case</li> </ul> <h3>Program Organization and Governance</h3> <ul> <li>Program organization</li> <li>Program governance</li> <li>Program board roles and responsibilities</li> </ul> <h3>Benefits Management</h3> <ul> <li>Benefits explored</li> <li>Benefits management</li> <li>Benefits realization</li> </ul> <h3>Program Management Planning</h3> <ul> <li>Program management plan</li> <li>Program blueprint and roadmap</li> <li>Program component dossier</li> <li>Program tranches</li> <li>Program estimating</li> <li>Program scheduling</li> </ul> <h3>Program Monitoring and Controlling</h3> <ul> <li>Program Control - An Overview</li> <li>Program Monitoring and Controlling</li> <li>Monitoring and Controlling Transition</li> </ul> <h3>Program Risk and Issue Management</h3> <ul> <li>Risk and issue management overview</li> <li>Program risk management</li> <li>Program issue management</li> </ul> <h3>Program Quality Management</h3> <ul> <li>Program quality management overview</li> <li>Program quality management principles</li> </ul> <h3>Program Stakeholder Management</h3> <ul> <li>Stakeholder engagement overview</li> <li>Stakeholder engagement planning</li> <li>EI, trust, communication and stakeholder engagement</li> </ul> <h3>Program Closure and Benefits Sustainment</h3> <ul> <li>Program closure overview</li> <li>Closing the program</li> <li>Program benefits sustainment</li> </ul> <h3>Summary</h3> <ul> <li>What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?</li> </ul>


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Program Management Skills: On-Demand

<div data-testid="summary" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><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;">Understand and mitigate your own personal drivers of conflict</strong></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><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;"><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Have you ever said &#39;They really push my buttons&#39; or &#39;I can&#39;t stand it when people...&#39;?</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">That&#39;s the sound of you being &#39;hooked&#39;. We all have values that we want to live by, and when they are challenged, that&#39;s when we are most likely to engage in a conflict.&nbsp;</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">In this online workshop, Gemma will teach you the conflict hooks model so that you can identify your common hooks and how to handle them to reduce or prevent conflict.&nbsp;</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">What you will get from this 60-minute session:</span></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Self-awareness of your conflict hooks</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Empathy for what may hook others</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Confidence to diplomatically speak about conflict with others</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">How we will do it:</span></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Exploration of how conflict hooks show up in teams</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Learning how core values are inherent to conflict hooks</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Identifying your own conflict hooks</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Practice articulating your conflict hooks to others</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Tips for how to use your self awareness to reduce or prevent conflict</li></ul></span><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span 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;">This online session is designed to be as interactive or passive as you wish. You are most welcome to ask questions, share challenges and discuss your ideas. You are equally we</span>lcome to join with your camera off and just listen in.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">This session will be held on zoom &ndash; you will receive the meeting link once you book your place.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">________</span></p><p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Meet your trainer:</span></p><p style="color: rgb(111, 114, 135); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(111, 114, 135);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Hi, I&rsquo;m Gemma Perella; a Personal Development Trainer and founder of The Self Leadership Initiative. 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Help group discussions run more smoothly



Do you ever find yourself in team meetings or group conversations that get stuck? Even with great people in the room there seem to be clashes of priorities or miscommunications? Well, that might be because of the underlying patterns that drive most conversations. 
In this online workshop, Gemma will help you to identify the patterns and motives in group conversations so that you can get things back on track in diplomatic ways. 
What you will get from this 60-minute session:
Confidence to intervene in conversations that get stuck
Awareness of your own communication patterns
Insights into group dynamics
How we will do it:
Learning a model of core components of conversations
Practicing intervening and coaching in conversations with missing components
·earning three motivational drivers for communication
Reflecting on the strengths and challenges of your and your team’s current communication patterns
Personalised action planning
This online session is designed to be as interactive or passive as you wish. You are most welcome to ask questions, share challenges and discuss your ideas. You are equally welcome to join with your camera off and just listen in.
This session will be held on zoom – you will receive the meeting link once you book your place.
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Meet your trainer:
Hi, I’m Gemma Perella; a Personal Development Trainer and founder of The Self Leadership Initiative. The SLI is all about helping you to develop young leaders.

As a teenager in 2006 I stumbled across a leadership training programme that changed my life. I went from an introverted outsider to a confident and driven educator. Ever since, my mission has been inspiring and empowering young people to become the best versions of themselves.

Over the last 10 years I've been working with organisations that support young people. I deliver interactive and practical training programmes to equip students with the kinds of skills ‘they don’t teach you in school’ in order to help them become the confident, resilient and emotionally intelligent leaders that the world needs.



Conflict Resolution

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		<p></p><h4><span>This course is for anyone wishing to understand their strengths and development areas and those who are seeking assistance to progress their careers and convey their abilities confidently; projecting a positive impression to the employer. It is designed to help you focus on your skills, experience, and personal motivators, and how these can be used for personal and career development.<br /></span></h4>
<h4><span>We will consider some of the main barriers to getting the ideal job, how to overcome them, and also the factors that can improve or dent your confidence, enabling you to take charge of your career development and plan and achieve your career goals. <br /></span></h4>
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		<p></p><h3>Module 1 -  How to break out of your comfort zone</h3>
<p>Understanding yourself and what holds you back, find the breakthrough to push on to your desired career path. Discover what motivates you and will help drive you forward, what are you looking for in your career. </p>
<h3>Module 2 -  Creating a high-impact CV</h3>
<p>Understanding what the components of a high-impact CV are, and what is your potential employer looking for. Demonstrate your skill sets in both technical and personal areas in the best way possible. Create a lean mean CV that will get you that interview. </p>
<h3>Module 3 -  Interview Preparation</h3>
<p>What are the things you need to do before going for an interview, research the business, Know yourself (SWOT), prepare for anticipated questions, your personal presentation, and what are the questions to ask the interviewer? </p>
<h3>Module 4 -  Creating a positive first impression</h3>
<p>The key things you need to have in place to create a positive first impression: your appearance, attitude, body language, and tone of voice. The key things the interviewer expects from you. Interview formats and questions, what to expect from each. Dealing with interview nerves, how best to stay calm under pressure. Action planning for your future interviews, what are your next steps.</p>
<h3>By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:</h3>
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<li>create a personal SWOT analysis to identify their development needs</li>
<li>understand the components of a high impact CV</li>
<li>gain an insight into their specific, personal motivators </li>
<li>feel more confident about their interview technique</li>
<li>increase in confidence in preparing for and undertaking a structured interview</li>
<li>communicate their skills, experience and competencies with confidence</li>
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