Harpenden

<p>Wouldn't sales be a 'walk in the park' without challenging customers? Why is it that some customers are so difficult to please, so quick to call 'foul' at the slightest blip and so mean with their gratitude after we've bent over backwards to accommodate them? Whether we are looking at prospective or existing customers, there is a toolkit for dealing with the most challenging of them.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Use broad open questions to give the customer a platform for their opinions or issues</li><li>Improve listening skills to really understand what's behind the customer's challenging style</li><li>Probe specific phrases to show listening and earn deeper disclosure</li><li>Use silence to let challenging customers 'blow off steam'</li><li>Understand the negative impact of certain phrases on a challenging customer</li><li>Summarise effectively and reassure the customer of our understanding of their needs</li><li>Recognise the 'behaviour cycle' and avoid emotional escalation</li><li>Understand 'transactional analysis' and how to bring people from 'child' to 'adult' state</li><li>Create loyalty in customers who are slow to give trust</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 What makes a customer 'challenging'?</h3><ul><li>Why customers challenge us - understanding their drivers</li><li>'Wearing their shoes' - seeing things from their perspective</li><li>Understanding our own personality style</li><li>How to flex with a style that is different from our own</li><li>Ways to quickly recognise a customer's style</li><li>The benefits of flexing with a challenging customer's style</li></ul> <h3>2 Practical exercise - forum theatre</h3><ul><li>Participants take it in turns to deal with the trainer (who plays the role of the challenging customer)</li><li>Observers stop the action when they hear or see something they deem wrong</li><li>The participant in the seat gets a chance to use a suggested alternative line</li><li>The participant who makes the suggestion has the chance to occupy the seat and deliver it themselves</li><li>Frequent feedback from the trainer as to how the participant's words are making him feel</li><li>Opportunities to rewind the action if an ill-advised line is suggested and delivered</li><li>Flipchart for capturing what worked, what didn't work and why</li><li>Mehrabian principle - the importance of body language and tone over words used</li></ul> <h3>3 Questioning and listening skills</h3><ul><li>How to use open questions to get the customer talking</li><li>What questions to avoid and why</li><li>The use of pauses and silence to reduce tension and build trust</li><li>What listening is and what it isn't</li><li>Question funnelling - how to earn deeper disclosure through probing</li><li>The power of summary</li></ul> <h3>4 Transactional analysis explained</h3><ul><li>What is transactional analysis (TA)?</li><li>Exploring the TA states and why people behave in that way under pressure</li><li>How to bring challenging customers to 'adult' state to reduce tension</li><li>How 'parent' or 'child' behaviours can be inadvertently triggered</li><li>Understanding the 'behavioural cycle' and how to break it</li><li>Mini-role play 'vignettes' to demonstrate real time impact of ill-chosen words</li></ul> <h3>5 How to build trust with challenging customers</h3><ul><li>Techniques for placating current challenging customers</li><li>Methods that the participants have already used effectively - understanding why those methods worked and how other participants can model them</li><li>Participants' experiences of trust having been lost - understanding why those experiences had that negative outcome</li><li>How to 'go the extra mile' with challenging customers</li></ul><h4></h4> <h3>6 Bringing a 'real' challenging customer to life</h3><ul><li>Participants give the trainer a brief profile of a specific challenging customer of theirs</li><li>5-10 minute roleplay in which the trainer brings that individual to life</li><li>Observing participants - without interrupting - make notes on what is and isn't working</li><li>Trainer stops the action half-way through to give feedback on how he is feeling</li><li>Participant goes back into the roleplay having recalibrated their approach based on feedback</li><li>Observers give feedback on what did and didn't work</li><li>Trainer comes out of character to explain the impact of the participant's words and behaviours</li></ul> <h3>7 Wrap-up</h3><ul><li>Key learnings from each participant</li><li>Individual action planning - steps that can and will be implemented in the workplace</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Action Learning Facilitator

Coaching Skills

Meeting Skills

Counselling Skills

Challenging Behaviour

Dealing With Difficult Customers

Dealing with challenging customers (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

<p><strong>Workplace investigations</strong></p><p>This workshop is designed to build participants' knowledge, skills and confidence in conducting investigations in the workplace. The workshop will benefit all those, both managers and HR professionals alike, who may be involved in a full of range of investigations, including:</p><ul><li>Disciplinary investigations</li><li>Investigations into allegations of harassment / bullying</li><li>Grievance investigations, etc</li></ul><p>The skills and processes learnt will ensure that participants are able to carry out robust investigations in line with best practice and employment law. Internal company policies and procedures will be referred to throughout the workshop as appropriate.</p><p><em><strong>Learning objectives</strong></em></p><p>On completion of this highly practical programme participants will:</p><ul><li>Understand the importance of the investigation in disciplinary and grievance procedures and the significance of conducting a fair and robust investigation</li><li>Be clear on the role and responsibility of the investigating manager and how to work effectively with others providing support, such as HR</li><li>Know the importance of planning and preparation in relation to the investigation</li><li>Be able to conduct an effective investigation including investigation interviews and taking statements</li><li>Be confident to make a recommendation based on the investigation and produce a high-quality report which will stand up at any subsequent hearing</li><li>Have an awareness of the legislation affecting how employers discipline their employees and respond to staff complaints, including those of bullying and harassment and the practical implications this has for investigations</li><li>Have built knowledge, skills and confidence through practical exercises addressing challenging issues and participant concerns</li></ul><section>
                    <p><strong>Workshop outline</strong></p><p><em><strong>1 Introduction</strong></em></p><ul><li>Workshop objectives and benefits from attending</li><li>Participants' experience and confidence in this area</li><li>Personal objectives</li></ul><p><em><strong>2 The context</strong></em></p><ul><li>Establishing the range of investigations that participants are involved in</li><li>Participants' experiences of investigations</li><li>Existing knowledge, skills and experience</li></ul><p><em><strong>3 Making workplace investigations robust</strong></em></p><ul><li>Best practice; ACAS guidance</li><li>Employment law risks and legal challenges<ul><li>An overview of current legislation in this area</li><li>Exploring what constitutes a fair and reasonable investigation</li><li>Lessons from case law</li></ul></li><li>Policies and procedures</li></ul><p><em><strong>4 The investigation</strong></em></p><ul><li>The purpose and outcomes of an investigation</li><li>Key responsibilities of the investigatory managers</li><li>Role and responsibilities of HR, etc</li></ul><p><em><strong>5 Key steps to an effective investigation</strong></em></p><ul><li>Deciding when and how to investigate; determining the best person to investigate</li><li>Understanding the scope / terms of reference of the investigation</li><li>Taking immediate action - suspension, temporary redeployment, etc</li><li>Planning the investigation: a checklist</li><li>Individual preparation: ensuring objectivity</li><li>How to conduct effective interviews and take witness statements</li><li>Gathering and evaluating evidence; dealing with conflicting information</li><li>Making a recommendation</li><li>Documenting the investigation: a checklist and template</li><li>Next steps</li></ul><p><em><strong>6 Avoiding common investigation mistakes</strong></em></p><ul><li>Six common mistakes and how to avoid them</li></ul><p><em><strong>7 Essential investigation skills</strong></em></p><ul><li>A checklist of effective investigation skills</li><li>Participants' strengths and development areas</li><li>Skill building activities, eg, effective questioning and listening skills, how to remain objective<br />and avoid assumptions, etc.</li></ul><p><em><strong>8 Putting it into practice</strong></em></p><ul><li>Practical scenarios to assist participants build knowledge, skills and confidence in conducting workplace investigations:<ul><li>Developed individually for each client to ensure maximum learning and relevance (eg, include planning for and conducting an investigatory interview; reporting and presenting the recommendations; etc)</li><li>Group work to consider approach in particularly challenging or sensitive 'what if ...?' scenarios (eg, what happens if a grievance is raised during the investigation, counter-allegations are made or there is evidence of a disability, etc)</li></ul></li></ul><p><em><strong>9 And finally...</strong></em></p><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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Workplace Investigations

<h2>Influencing and Persuading with Impact</h2><h3>Use the psychology of influence to help get your way</h3><p>We all need to influence and persuade others, but most of us have a limited range of strategies, so we're not effective in certain situations or with certain people.</p><p>But this is a skill that can be learnt - an essential skill for anyone in business. This interactive and engaging workshop will give you practical tools and techniques you can use immediately to get others to say &amp;'yes' more often, to buy in to your ideas and to give you commitment.</p><p><strong>Delivery:</strong> Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options. </p><h3>What's in it for you?</h3><ul><li>Acquire practical techniques and strategies for influencing with impact</li><li>Be able to get the information you need to influence others, through questioning and listening</li><li>Increase your awareness of your own behavioural style and how to adapt to others</li><li>Boost your confidence in getting buy-in to ideas (and persuading upwards)</li><li>Learn how to win people over, maintain trust and make a positive impact when persuading</li><li>Be more aware of the impact your persuasion style has and be able to vary it as needed</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Everyday influencing</h3><ul><li>Typical situations</li><li>The difference between influencing, persuading and manipulation</li><li>How behaving ethically helps foster sustainable working relationships</li></ul><h3>Rapport and trust</h3><ul><li>Cialdini's &amp;'6 Weapons of Influence' - the seventh principle</li><li>The importance of rapport and connecting with others</li><li>Understanding the part non-verbal communication plays in influencing with impact</li><li>How trust plays a vital part in influencing others to buy your ideas</li><li>Maister's &amp;'trust equation'</li></ul><h3>Questioning and listening</h3><ul><li>Understanding what makes the other person tick</li><li>How to ensure you're asking the right questions</li><li>Effective techniques for identifying needs, motivations and circumstances in others</li><li>Listening at a deeper level for emotions, not just facts</li></ul><h3>Influencing through behavioural styles</h3><ul><li>Identifying your behavioural style</li><li>The importance of self-awareness, self-management and identifying your preferred style of persuasion</li><li>Adapting your style to persuade others</li><li>Positive intention</li></ul><h3>Getting others to do what you want</h3><ul><li>Push or pull?</li><li>How to encourage managers to see things from a different perspective</li><li>The &amp;'broken record' technique</li></ul><h3>Assertiveness</h3><ul><li>Most people fail at influencing due to a lack of confidence and assertion</li><li>What is assertiveness?</li><li>The differences between assertive, aggressive and submissive behaviour</li><li>Identifying different levels of assertion and assertive rights and responsibilities</li><li>How to make assertive requests and challenge thinking and suggestions when they're not right</li><li>How to say no without appearing difficult</li></ul><h3>Presenting your ideas to get buy-in</h3><ul><li>Six effective strategies</li><li>Why a fact-based and objective approach, with a structured argument supported by evidence, is central to influencing</li><li>How to take a logical structured approach when negotiating</li><li>The power of the word &amp;'because' and why it's essential to give reasons</li><li>How being specific helps get people to do what you want</li></ul><h3>Influence as &amp;'selling ideas'</h3><ul><li>How are you influenced? What makes you say yes? What makes you say no?</li><li>Selling the sizzle - turning features into benefits</li><li>What motivates people?</li></ul><h3>Leveraging contrast and choice</h3><ul><li>Why people like to have choice - but not too much</li><li>How to make it easier it is for them to choose</li><li>The &amp;'anchoring' technique</li></ul><h3>Persuading upwards</h3><ul><li>The challenges of persuading when others have positions of authority or power</li><li>Standing your ground - how to be assertive and come across as confident with strong characters</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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Influencing and Persuading With Impact

<h2>Emotional Intelligence</h2><p>Rational, problem-solving intelligence is not enough.</p><p>You need EQ - the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions - as well.</p><p>Surprisingly, perhaps, this realisation has been one of the most important business developments in recent times. This session will help you explore what it means for you and understand how to use it to make your life easier, less stressful, more successful.</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>Get to grips with the different elements of emotional intelligence and appreciate their importance</li><li>Identify your own emotional intelligence 'blind spots'</li><li>Learn how to use emotional intelligence to bring out the best in others</li><li>Be able to cope with disappointments, challenges and obstacles more effectively</li><li>Know how to demonstrate empathy in a wide range of situations</li><li>Discover how to 'read' the 'silent messages' other people send out and know what they're really saying</li><li>Find out how to give emotionally intelligent feedback that people can take on more easily</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Why emotional intelligence (EQ) matters</h3><ul><li>The origins of EQ and the thinking behind it</li><li>The business case for EQ - making the difference between good and great</li><li>The relationship between EQ and IQ</li><li>The value of developing your emotional intelligence from a personal and professional perspective</li><li>Welcome, agenda and personal objectives</li><li>Test your own EQ - a simple tool to establish your personal strengths and development areas</li></ul><h3>Test your own EQ</h3><ul><li>A simple tool to establish your personal strengths and development areas</li></ul><h3>Where do emotions come from?</h3><ul><li>The physiology of emotion</li><li>The value of thinking of emotions as 'messages' - and responding to them appropriately</li></ul><h3>The EQ model</h3><ul><li>Introduction to the factors that make up Emotional Intelligence</li><li>Getting to know the four-quadrant EQ model: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management</li></ul><h3>Exploring self-awareness</h3><ul><li>Self-awareness as the door to self-control</li><li>How seeking honest, constructive feedback from others can give us a more accurate perspective on how we come across</li><li>Tools to monitor your own emotions in a variety of different situations to increase your self-awareness</li></ul><h3>Managing your emotions</h3><ul><li>Learning to take control of your emotions - instead of being a victim of them</li><li>Developing behavioural flexibility</li><li>The mind/body connection</li><li>Manage impulsive feelings - and harness the power of positive emotions</li><li>The power of visualization</li><li>Managing motivation</li><li>Practical activities to help you notice and manage your emotions in the moment</li></ul><h3>Developing social awareness</h3><ul><li>Recognising and understanding other people's emotions</li><li>Showing sensitivity and understanding the needs and feelings of other people</li><li>Developing awareness that others from different countries and cultures may have diverse perspectives and opinions. Being prepared to challenge bias, intolerance, prejudice and stereotyping</li><li>Learning to read a group's emotional currents and power relationships. Understanding the forces that shape the views and actions of clients, colleagues and competitors</li></ul><h3>Enhancing relationships</h3><ul><li>The importance of interpersonal skills - how to connect with people and build rapport with them</li><li>Trust, reliability and empathy</li><li>Active, reflective listening</li><li>Using emotions to influence and inspire others</li></ul><h3>Dealing with difficult people and difficult situations</h3><ul><li>Staying controlled and unflappable in time of stress and tension</li><li>How to resolve disagreement and conflict easily and effectively</li><li>Dealing with strong emotions such as anger and frustration</li></ul><h3>Using EQ at work</h3><ul><li>Practical techniques and strategies for using EQ effectively in a range of situations, including meetings, negotiations, appraisals and presentations</li><li>Sending Emotionally Intelligent emails</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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Emotional Intelligence

<p>High quality specifications are of paramount importance in achieving the right technical performance and value for money. This long-established training programme has been developed to help those involved in producing specifications to create high quality documents in an organised and effective way. It provides a sound foundation for those new to the topic whilst at the same time offering new insights to those with more experience.</p><p>The programme emphasises the need for a clear definition of requirements combined with the ability to communicate those requirements effectively to third parties. A structured method of preparing specifications is provided, and a range of practical techniques is presented, to enable participants to put the principles into practice. The commercial and contractual role of specifications is also addressed.</p>The objectives of the workshop are to:<ul><li>Provide a clear understanding of the role and purpose of specifications</li><li>Present a framework for organising and producing specifications</li><li>Define the key steps involved in creating effective specifications</li><li>Demonstrate methods for assisting in defining requirements</li><li>Provide tools and techniques for scoping and structuring specifications</li><li>Show the role of specifications in managing variations and changes to scope</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>
                    DAY ONE <h3>1 Introduction</h3><ul><li>Review of course objectives</li><li>Review of participants' needs and objectives</li></ul> <h3>2 Creating effective specifications</h3><ul><li>The role of specifications in communicating requirements</li><li>The costs, benefits and qualities of effective specifications</li><li>Understanding the differences between verbal and written communication</li><li>The five key steps of 'POWER' writing: prepare-organise-write-edit-release</li><li>Exercise: qualities of an effective specification</li></ul> <h3>3 Step 1: Preparing to write - defining readership and purpose; the specification and the contract</h3><ul><li>Designing the specifications required; applying BS 7373</li><li>Defining the purpose, readership and title of each document</li><li>Effective procedures for writing, issuing and controlling specifications</li><li>The roles and responsibilities of the key players</li><li>Understanding contracts; the contractual role of the specification</li><li>Integrating and balancing the technical and commercial requirements</li><li>Writing specifications to achieve the appropriate contract risk strategy</li><li>Deciding how to specify: when to use functional and technical specifications</li><li>The role of specifications in managing variations and changes to scope</li></ul> <h3>4 Case study 1</h3><ul><li>Teams review a typical project scenario and identify the implications for the specification</li><li>Feedback and discussion</li></ul> <h3>5 Step 2: Organising the specification content</h3><ul><li>Defining the need and establishing user requirements</li><li>Deciding what issues the specification should cover</li><li>Scoping techniques: scope maps, check lists, structured brainstorming</li><li>Clarifying priorities: separating needs and desires</li><li>Dealing with requirements that are difficult to quantify</li><li>Useful techniques: cost benefit analysis, QFD, Pareto analysis</li></ul> <h3>6 Case study 2</h3><ul><li>Teams apply the scoping techniques to develop the outline contents for a specification</li><li>Feedback and discussion</li></ul> DAY TWO <h3>7 Step 2: Organising the specification content (cont)</h3><ul><li>Deciding what goes where; typical contents and layout for a specification</li><li>The three main segments: introductory, key and supporting</li><li>Creating and using model forms: the sections and sub-sections</li><li>Detailed contents of each sub-section</li><li>Tools and techniques for outlining and structuring specifications</li></ul> <h3>8 Case study 3</h3><ul><li>Teams develop the detailed specification contents using a model form</li><li>Feedback and discussion</li></ul> <h3>9 Step 3: Writing the specification</h3><ul><li>The challenges of written communication</li><li>Identifying and understanding the readers needs</li><li>Choosing and using the right words; dealing with jargon</li><li>Problem words; will, shall, must, etc; 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</li><li>Being concise and ensuring clarity</li><li>Choosing and using graphics to best effect</li><li>Exercises and examples</li></ul> <h3>10 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>11 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>12 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

Creating effective specifications (In-House)

<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 Analysis

Business Accounting

Corporate Finance Level 1

Finance For Non Finance Managers

Practical Accounting

Commercial instinct (In-House)

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If yes, then the Workplace Essentials Bundle Course is the perfect choice for you!</span></p><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;">The Workplace Essentials Bundle Course is a comprehensive online training program that covers five key areas of workplace skills: professionalism, communication, difficult conversations, time management, and action planning.</span></p><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;">By enrolling in this Workplace Essentials Bundle Course, you will learn how to:</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;">Demonstrate a positive attitude and expand your skills in the workplace</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Build effective relations and networks with your colleagues, clients, and stakeholders</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Understand your role and responsibilities in the office and how to contribute to the organisational goals</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Communicate clearly and confidently in various situations, using verbal, non-verbal, written, and electronic methods</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Deliver engaging presentations, participate in productive meetings, and handle feedback</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Work effectively with your boss and manage their expectations</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Manage difficult conversations with tact and diplomacy, and resolve conflicts constructively</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Manage your time efficiently and prioritise your tasks</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Identify your goals and create a realistic action plan to achieve them</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;">The Workplace Essentials Bundle Course is designed to suit your learning needs and preferences. 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After you complete and submit your assignment, our tutors will assess your assignment and give you feedback if needed.&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; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">After your assignment has been assessed and you have passed, you will be qualified and will be able to apply for a course completion certificate.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 18px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Certification</strong></span></p><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;">CPD Certification from The Teachers Training</span></p><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;">Successfully completing the MCQ exam of this course qualifies you for a CPD-accredited certificate from The Teachers Training. You will be eligible for both PDF copy and hard copy of the certificate to showcase your achievement however you wish.</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;">You can get your digital certificate (PDF) for &pound;4.99 only</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">Hard copy certificates are also available, and you can get one for only &pound;10.99</li><li style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;">You can get both PDF and Hard copy certificates for just &pound;12.99!</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;">The certificate will add significant weight to your CV and will give you a competitive advantage when applying for jobs.</span></p>

The Teachers Training

Office Management

This Workplace Essentials Bundle Course equips you with the critical skills needed to navigate the workplace with confidence.  Develop a strong foundation in communication, time management, teamwork, and professionalism. Invest in your professional development and unlock a rewarding career path!

Workplace Essentials Bundle Course

General Admission

<p>Recruiting the right employee for your team is an incredibly important decision. The process itself can be both time-consuming and costly, so attracting and selecting the very best candidate for your position is an essential outcome. This one-day course provides a solid foundation for anyone new to recruitment or those seeking a refresher or update. The emphasis is on the use of a structured approach where good preparation and effective interviewing skills and techniques help maximise the success of your process, ensure consistency with your internal procedures, and minimise risk.</p>
<p>Participants will be asked to bring along information that relates to a vacancy they are, or are likely to be, recruiting to in the future, such as a relevant job description and person specification. They will work with this material throughout the training including reviewing criteria, determining appropriate selection methods and writing high quality interview questions. Participants will have the opportunity of trying out these questions in the afternoon when they will prepare for and conduct an interview. Participants will receive individual feedback, coaching and support throughout the session to enhance their skills and to build their confidence as interviewers.</p><ul><li>UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING RECRUITMENT RIGHT BY ADOPTING A STRUCTURED, OBJECTIVE AND CONSISTENT APPROACH IN LINE WITH INTERNAL PROCEDURES</li><li>KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION IN UNDERPINNING THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND HAVE IDENTIFIED APPROPRIATE SELECTION CRITERIA FOR A RELEVANT ROLE</li><li>UNDERSTAND HOW TO SHORTLIST EFFECTIVELY AND HOW TO GAIN EVIDENCE BY USING DIFFERENT ASSESSMENT METHODS APPROPRIATELY</li><li>KNOW HOW TO PREPARE FOR AND CONDUCT EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWS; INCLUDING HOW TO WRITE HIGH QUALITY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND HOW TO ASSESS CANDIDATES' RESPONSES</li><li>HAVE EXPLORED TYPICAL BARRIERS THAT PREVENT AN INTERVIEW BEING ROBUST AND ADOPT PRACTICAL STRATEGIES TO KEEP AN INTERVIEW ON TRACK</li><li>BE ABLE TO OBJECTIVELY EVALUATE ALL CANDIDATES AND MAKE THE RIGHT SELECTION</li><li>HAVE BUILT KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE THROUGH PRACTICAL EXERCISES INCLUDING PREPARING FOR AND CONDUCTING A PRACTICE INTERVIEW</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1. Welcome</h3><ul><li>Workshop objectives and benefits from attending</li><li>Participants' experience and confidence in this area</li><li>Personal objectives</li></ul><h3>2. Getting recruitment right</h3><ul><li>The purpose and importance of recruitment and selection</li><li>The cost and potential consequences of poor selection</li><li>Minimising legal risk: practical implications of The Equality Act 2010 and other relevant legislation</li><li>The benefits of a structured, objective and consistent approach</li></ul><h3>3. The process</h3><ul><li>Key stages (with reference to internal procedures)</li><li>Roles, responsibilities and sources of support</li><li>The importance of having robust job descriptions and person specifications</li><li>Identifying specific knowledge, skills and behaviours required for the role</li><li>Checking and refining essential and desirable selection criteria</li><li>Advertising the vacancy and how to screen / short-list against your selection criteria</li><li>Essential documentation and data protection</li></ul><h3>4. Selection methods</h3><ul><li>Assessing candidates against your selection criteria; the search for evidence</li><li>Understanding and using a range of different assessment methods and tools</li><li>Exploring common beliefs about interviewing; understanding the psychology and limitations of interviewing, eg, the 'Horn and Halo' effect, unconscious bias, etc</li><li>Making interviews robust and ensuring a fair and objective approach</li></ul><h3>5. Preparing to interview</h3><ul><li>Preparing for different types of Interview, eg, 1:1, panel interviews</li><li>Preparing your questions; the value of different question types; questions to avoid</li><li>How to write high quality behavioural questions for the role</li><li>Structuring the interview; developing an interview plan</li><li>Planning the logistics and preparing the interview room</li><li>Preparing yourself; planning your approach; creating a positive impression</li></ul><h3>6. The interview</h3><ul><li>Welcoming the candidate and creating rapport</li><li>Essential interviewing skills, eg, questioning, active listening skills and non-verbal communication</li><li>How to assess responses; looking for STAR answers</li><li>Controlling the interview; practical tips on managing difficult situations</li><li>Taking notes; documentation</li></ul><h3>7. Interviewing skills practice</h3><ul><li>Participants prepare for and conduct an interview in small groups</li></ul><h3>8. Evaluation: making the right decision</h3><ul><li>How to evaluate candidates against your criteria</li><li>Making an objective decision</li><li>Next steps: offering the position, feedback to unsuccessful candidates, etc</li><li>Taking time to reflect: enhancing your skillset and incorporating learning for next time</li></ul><h3>9. Evaluation: making the right decision</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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Recruitment and Selection Interviewing for Managers

<p>'Team identity' is an umbrella term that describes a team in terms of its vision, purpose, values, objectives and approach; in fact, everything that makes it unique. It brings a shared sense of what is important and what the team wants to achieve together. Building a team identity is an important step in enhancing commitment, trust, synergy and collaboration within the team.</p>
<p>This workshop provides an opportunity for your team to work together as 'one HR team' and begin the journey of creating a team identity. It enables participants to reflect on where the team has been, where it is going and how the team is perceived by the business. The workshop highlights existing strengths within the team, builds on and reinforces other initiatives being undertaken and supports the team in identifying practical steps that will help improve team effectiveness, create a team charter and enhance the value HR adds.</p>
<p>Underpinning the event is an analysis of how effectively the team is currently working together. This is typically achieved through the completion of a Team Effectiveness Survey before the event or a SWOT analysis on the day. If the survey is used, participants are asked to complete the survey before the training day and the feedback is collated by us and anonymised before being fed back on the day. It provides insight into ten key elements of teamwork and asks participants to respond to a series of open questions designed to get a view of team strengths and weaknesses as well as identifying what participants value about working within the team, what they find frustrating, and their ideas for improving team effectiveness. The questions can be tailored to individual client requirements.</p>
<p>Key outcomes for the day typically include a draft 'Team Charter' in the form of vision and mission statements, work on establishing a common approach and / or values and an action plan designed to build on the success of the team and enhance its effectiveness.</p><ul><li>A GREATER SENSE OF TEAM SPIRIT</li><li>A CLEARER FOCUS</li><li>FRESH IMPETUS BEHIND THE VISION AND MISSION</li><li>AN AGREED SET OF NEXT STEPS</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1. Introductions / scene setting</h3><ul><li>Why are we here? What do we all want to achieve?</li><li>What will be important to ensure we get the most from the day?</li></ul><h3>2. Understanding team identity</h3><ul><li>What is a team identity?</li><li>What are the benefits of establishing a 'Team Charter'?</li><li>Exploring what makes a team. The importance of a common purpose, performance objectives and approach. Application to your team</li></ul><h3>3. Your team</h3><ul><li>In what way we do we operate as one team now?</li><li>What examples do we have of working well together? Challenges?</li><li>Team Effectiveness Survey feedback (if done as 'pre-work') or SWOT analysis</li><li>Ideas, insights and actions to enhance team effectiveness</li></ul><h3>4. Team perception</h3><ul><li>The importance of perception</li><li>How do others perceive us? How does the business perceive us? Linked to any internal measures such as customers surveys, feedback given, etc</li><li>How is this similar to, or different from, how we perceive ourselves?</li><li>How do we see ourselves in the future?</li></ul><h3>5. Added value</h3><ul><li>What do we mean by added value?</li><li>What do we do already that adds value?</li><li>What do we spend time and energy doing that doesn't add value?</li><li>Are we focusing on the right things? How can we improve the value we add?</li><li>The need for continuous improvement. Aggregation of marginal gains</li></ul><h3>6. Developing a team identity / team charter</h3><ul><li>What is a team vision?</li><li>Creative exercise in developing a team vision and vision statement</li><li>Understanding our team purpose. Ultimately, why does our team exist?</li><li>Developing a mission statement (optional)</li><li>Determining how we want to work together. What values and behaviours are important to us? (optional)</li><li>Actions: What will we start, continue and stop doing?</li></ul><h3>7. Closing the gap</h3><ul><li>How clear are we on the vision for our team?</li><li>Where are we now in relation to this vision, on a scale of 1-10?</li><li>What are the next steps / actions we will take?</li><li>What will help or hinder us? Forcefield analysis approach</li><li>What will we do to strengthen the helping forces and minimise the hindering forces?</li><li>Identifying resources and support</li></ul><h3>8. Action planning</h3><ul><li>Having FUN = Follow Up Now!</li><li>How will we keep this on the radar?</li><li>What are our individual commitments to the team?</li></ul>


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HR Team Identity Day

<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>

M&K Update Ltd

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>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></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>Self-awareness: The road to burnout is paved with good intentions</li>
<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>
<li>Action planning: one behaviour you will implement, starting today.</li>
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<h3>Why now?</h3>
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<li>Workplace stress has reached epidemic proportions in many regions across the globe</li>
<li>The cost of presenteeism is double the cost of absenteeism</li>
<li>Over two years of heightened pressure means many people are operating with lower personal capacity</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>Resilience can be learned the easy way (taught) or the hard way (personal experience of adversity)</li>
<li>There are 7 categories of resilience, most people score very low on at least 2-3 categories</li>
<li>Having at least some resilience habits in every category means you have a tool for every situation</li>
<li>The resilience habits in the FREEDOM model are simple, powerful, fast, free and readily implemented</li>
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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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<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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IIL Europe Ltd

Program Management Skills: In-House Training

<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

<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>
 </ul><section>
                    <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>Thorough preparation</li>
<li>Setting limits and goals</li>
<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. The SLI is all about helping you to develop young leaders.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">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.<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Over the last 9 years I&#39;ve been working with organisations that support young people. 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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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