Our 90 Minute Workshops
Management & Leadership Skills
Successfully manage your team through motivation & communication
Course includes:
- Understanding the fundamentals of excellent people management
- Looking at motivational factors of individuals and what makes your team ‘tick’
- Knowing the value of team roles and how each person fits
- Being a great communicator
- Setting direction, monitoring progress and sharing success
Build trust in your team
Course includes:
Understanding the importance of trust and how it manifests itself in the workplace
Identifying the key elements of trust in your team and assessing where you are
Developing the stages of trust building and taking responsibility
Testing and improving the process
Ensuring trust and respect become part of your organisation’s culture
Provide constructive feedback
Course includes:
Knowing how to provide negative/balanced/positive feedback using the 5 step feedback model
Being constructive and planning your feedback
Listening and being supportive
Providing examples and evidence to support your feedback
Following through and reinforcing where necessary
Implement and manage change
Course includes:
Understanding the reason for change in your organisation
Introducing the 8 stages to managing and monitoring change
Keeping everyone informed and ensuring they are on board
Keeping people motivated through changing situations and circumstances
Building change into your culture to ensure success
Facilitate successful 1-2-1 performance reviews
Course includes:
Planning and preparing for the meeting and gathering evidence
Setting and agreeing an agenda and purpose for the review
Developing short open questions to encourage conversation
Ensuring the meeting is positive and realistic
Setting out and agreeing a plan for monitoring progress and success
Develop others through 1-2-1 coaching
Course includes:
- Understanding the benefits of coaching for individuals and teams
- Developing coaching language and questions
- Using a coaching model to fit your organisation
- Preparing your approach and structuring your sessions
- Monitoring progress and providing continuing support
Plan and hold effective difficult conversations
Course includes:
- Understanding why we need to hold difficult conversations
- Preparing and introducing the conversation
- Having a selection of tools and techniques to ensure the conversations are effective
- Developing your listening and questioning skills
- Following simple stages for successful outcomes
Interview, select and recruit great people
Course includes:
- Identifying exactly what you need the job to look like for the future
- Avoiding the ‘replacement’ mind set
- Understanding the most effective questions and listening techniques
- Developing a simple process to record the candidates’ responses
- Making the decision, following through and welcoming the new recruit
Core Skills
Plan & prioritise your workload
Course includes:
- Knowing where you are now in terms of time and pressure
- Understanding the importance of using our own time effectively
- Planning and prioritising to become more effective
- Barriers and ‘time stealers’
- Handling interruptions – telephone; email; people
- Prioritising tools including Urgent/Important
Work as a successful & productive team
Course includes:
Defining what constitutes the best team for your organisation
Skills; abilities; behaviours and capabilities of your group
Belbin Team Roles – the ideal scenario
Exploring and establishing team rules
Seeing yourself as a team member
Communicating effectively
Organise and facilitate effective meetings
Course includes:
- Identifying the reason for the virtual or face-to-face meeting
- Designing an effective agenda with timings
- Preparing for the meeting and gathering relevant information
- Ensuring excellent meeting communication and control
- Summarising actions and agreeing a way forward
- Allocating responsibilities and next steps
Deliver great written business communications
Course includes:
Planning to write and gathering the right information
Choosing the best ‘vehicle’ for your message or report
Structuring your communication
Using plain English; keeping it simple; correct grammar and punctuation
Laying out and presenting for impact
Editing and proof reading before sending
Design and run amazing team or training events
Course includes:
- Knowing how to target the audience and set the desired outcome for your event
- Developing and following a check list to ensure nothing is forgotten
- Knowing the importance of planning and preparation
- Having a contingency plan and assessing risk
- Keeping the energy going through the event
- Monitoring and celebrating success
Plan and manage small projects
Course includes:
- Agreeing the scope of the project and the key people to involve
- Assessing and agreeing the parameters for the project
- Understanding and plotting the life cycle
- Using the six steps to success
- Having a ‘tool box’ of techniques and tips
- Assessing risks and building in a contingency plan
Developing Influencing & Negotiation Skills
Course includes:
- Understanding the power of influence and persuasion, and how to use it
- Identifying your own influencing style
- Skills and techniques to ensure you communicate effectively
- Assessing what you want and what’s reasonable
- The four key stages of negotiation and how to build long term relationships
Train the workplace trainer
Course includes:
- Planning your session and what must; should and could go in
- Understanding learning styles and the audience needs
- Designing and using activities, exercises and questionnaires
- Developing your presentation and your style
- Gathering feedback and monitoring progress from the workshop or event
Wellbeing & self-development
Manage yourself and support others
Course includes:
Understanding and developing your emotional intelligence
The Kubler-Ross Curve, people’s behaviour and reaction to change
Expectations from ourselves and others
Keeping a healthy body and mind by practicing self-care
Looking out for others and identifying people in trouble – finding the balance
Assertiveness at work and in life
Course includes:
- Realising the benefits of being assertive in the workplace
- Identifying specific situations you want to tackle
- Understanding different behaviours and their impact on others
- Tools and techniques to handle difficult behaviours and unwanted demands
How to be resilient in a changing world
Course includes:
- Understand what being resilient means
- Dealing with constant change and how to cope
- Exploring current changes in our lives and the impact
- Identifying how change affects us and those around us
- Ensuring you have an effective ‘tool kit’ to keep you strong in the future
Use mindfulness techniques to keep calm in any situation
Course includes:
Understanding the benefits of using mindfulness and what it is
Identifying and noticing your ‘auto pilot’ and what that means
Learning to focus on ‘the now’ and breath properly
Practising and harnessing the power to control your mind and emotions
Using different techniques and knowing what works best for you
Set yourself realistic objectives and desired outcomes
Course includes:
Identifying what your future looks like and how you can influence that
Setting desired outcomes – seeing; feeling; hearing what they’ll be like
Developing the stepping stones to reach your outcomes
Using specific and realistic objectives
- Monitoring your success and being flexible
Overcome and manage ‘Imposter syndrome’
Course includes:
- Understanding this growing phenomenon and where it comes from
- Identifying the affects and impact on ourselves and others
- Focusing on what behaviours we need for ourselves and why
- Realising that we are in control of our own future
- Identifying role models and key focus areas for the future
Understand yourself and who you really are
Course includes:
- Understanding the four key elements of your body; feelings; thinking and spirit
- Identifying what it is that makes you unique
- Realising the advantage that knowing yourself gives you
- Using practical activities and exercises to find your true self
- Putting together a plan of action for tweaking the things that will ‘make you whole’
Equality & Diversity
Be courageous and build confidence
Course includes:
Understanding your true strengths as a manager and leader
Developing those strengths in line with your natural attributes as a woman
Identifying your own style and having a clear plan for your future at work
Realising the importance of being brave in the workplace and not just being perfect
Building your self-belief; confidence and courage
Build a powerful personal brand
Course includes:
Establishing what constitutes your personal ‘brand’ or reputation
Identifying your attributes and the image you want to portray
Deciding how you want to market or project yourself to others
Being yourself – not trying or pretending to be something you’re not
Strengthening your image and being comfortable ‘in your own skin’
Develop the role of professional women in the workplace
Course includes:
The importance of role models to inspire and guide
Identifying and encouraging the women who will make a difference
Looking at world and key women leaders to identify their success facts
Tackling limiting beliefs and building strength and positive behaviours
Looking at short, medium and long term development
Promote equality, diversity and inclusion
Course includes:
- Understanding what EDI really means for individuals and the organisation
- Building a diverse workforce and being an important part of that
- Clarifying harassment, bullying, discrimination and victimisation at work
- Knowing what unconscious bias is and how it affects (and impacts) us all
- Developing an understanding of your own behaviour change needs
Think strategically and developing your career
Course includes:
- Identifying where you are right now (“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” Alice Through The Looking Glass)
- Looking at your strengths, likes and attributes to formulate your snapshot
- Understanding your limiting beliefs and why they are there
- Focusing on the ‘act as if’ – coaching techniques you can use yourself
- Putting together your life plan using our ‘back-to-the-future’ tool
Our most popular courses for 2022
Build confidence and be courageous
COURSE CODE: WOML
Provide constructive feedback
COURSE CODE: FDBK
Be a successful manager and get results
COURSE CODE: LEAD1
Implement and Manage Change
COURSE CODE: MCHG
Organise and run productive meetings
COURSE CODE: MTGS
Plan and prioritise your workload
COURSE CODE: PLAN
Be resilient and cope with change
COURSE CODE: CHNG
Plan and hold difficult conversations
COURSE CODE: CONV
Manage yourself and support others
COURSE CODE: MYSO
1-Day Management Skills programmes
3 x 90 minute workshops per programme
Developing key people management skills
Programme includes:
- How to successfully manage your team through motivation and communication
- Get great results by understanding how to build trust in your team
- How to develop your people through 1-2-1 coaching
Managing staff performance
Programme includes:
- How to facilitate successful 1-2-1 performance reviews
- Having difficult conversations
- Providing constructive feedback
Productivity in the workplace
Programme includes:
- Setting realistic objectives for your team
- Planning & prioritising yours, and your teams, workload
- Organise and facilitate effective meetings
Creating a coaching culture in your organisation
Programme includes:
- How to coach 1-2-1 for excellent results
- Putting 1-2-1 coaching into action
- Group coaching – the role of an effective facilitator
Any of these programmes can also be run across a series of 6 x half-days (2 x 90 minute workshops) to suit your business.
Our Prices
3-For-2 Offer on any 3 workshops on the same day.
TRAINING COURSES
All of our courses are delivered by our expert trainers and are suitable for small or large groups up to 20. They can be delivered virtually using either Zoom, Microsoft Teams or a platform of your choice, or in-house. We use a blend of trainer input; discussions; breakout rooms; chat; activities and polls (where available) to ensure every session is interactive and engaging.