Taking Notes and Writing Minutes at Meetings

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In a fast-paced world facing global challenges, resilience skills are no longer desirable – they’re crucial. This is a practical workshop and will provide you with awareness of ourselves and provide tools and techniques to help us be even more effective. Developing Wellbeing – being aware of our physical, spiritual, mental and emotional wellbeing and how we manage our energy to increase our wellbeing and achieve our goals.

This course aims to help people develop confidence in handling difficult and sensitive conversations. It aims to help you develop confidence in handling difficult and sensitive conversations. The tools and techniques we cover will empower you to confidently manage your emotions, set expectations, say “no” when necessary, and address challenging behaviour, even when delivering tricky messages. By carefully preparing yourself and developing the right skills, mindset, and behaviour to tackle tricky conversations in alignment with your organisation’s values.

From time to time we all have to deal with behaviour we find difficult in the workplace. This may be with students/customers, the general public or colleagues. This interactive workshop helps people understanding the possible causes of conflict and difficult behaviour and helps them to manage their own emotions in the face of challenge. Participants will also build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to confidently deal with such behaviour in the workplace.

This workshop focuses on showing commitment to own development. Supporting and encouraging others to develop their skills, knowledge and behaviours to enable them to reach to their full potential for the winder of the organisation.

Developing performance is designed to help participants to challenge and support their team members in performing in line with the organisation’s values and objectives. They will explore how to have effective performance conversations including giving feedback and dealing with reactions.

Developing performance is designed to help you to challenge and support your team members in performing in line with your values and objectives. This module is all about skills practice. Participants will work with a business actor/facilitator to practise a performance conversation that they find challenging.

This is a highly interactive course which focuses on how to communicate effectively in line with the organisation’s values. You will practise the core skills that underpin effective communication, powerful questioning, focused listening and confidently sharing your message. During the afternoon you will practise with experienced business actors, and you will leave with a personal action plan identifying how you can enhance your own communication going forward.

Emotional Intelligence is essential for workplace success. Emotionally intelligent leaders and employees can help build effective relationships for enhancing work productivity. Understanding and raising your Emotional Intelligence is vital to your success and leadership potential. Emotional Intelligence is a skill that can be learned and will improve how we interact with others. Often, we react without taking the time to recognise and respond to our circumstances in the most appropriate way. This can mean missing opportunities and misunderstanding or misinterpreting the actions.

Quality and creative ideas add value to your organisation and your colleagues. If you need the extra confidence and skills to articulate and package your ideas to make them heard and understood then this course is for you. This course will give you practical guidelines for achieving win-win outcomes and building successful relationships in any influencing or negotiation situation.

Change is here to stay and a regular feature of the workplace, especially in these uncertain times. Some people welcome change, others feel threatened by change. Some changes happen smoothly, others go very badly. In this workshop we consider what you can do to help make any change as effective as possible.

Recognising and managing conflict well is fundamental to the healthy functioning of work relationships,team and organisational performance. This 3-hour interactive workshop helps managers understanding conflict,its path and causes,and build the knowledge,skills,and confidence to resolve conflict situations in the workplace.

This is a highly practical and interactive workshop will help you feel more confident and motivated to manage your energy and time, including your work life balance. We will examine how effectively you are doing this at the moment, and help you create an action plan to maximise your energy and time. We will explore the barriers you face, including those driven by your own mindset and behaviour, identify what increases (and drains) your energy, and help you to generate positive strategies for managing this. The course is packed with practical tools, tips and techniques to help you adopt a more systematic approach to managing your time. In doing so you will get clarity on your goals and priorities, set boundaries, manage interruptions, and generate a positive personal action plan.

It has been shown numerous times that the more engaged an employee is, the better their performance will be and the more likely they will be to stay. However, cultivating effective and consistent employee engagement is something that many of us struggle to do. This workshop has been designed to provide practical tools and techniques for boosting motivation and engagement in your teams.

Change has become a constant including individual change, organisational change, or changes in our personal lives. Navigating through the disruption change causes can be challenging for all of us. We are often more comfortable when things stay the same. This workshop will offer you tools and techniques to help you navigate through these challenges by preparing yourself, including managing the psychological impact, and communicating effectively in times of change.

Planning for performance is designed to help participants to empower their team members to perform. They will explore how to set clear expectations, both in relation to performance (outcome-based objectives), and behaviours (in line with the PCS values). We will also provide tips and tools to help with delegation and development planning.

This 2-part Presentation Skills course will give you the tools and techniques you need to prepare, practice and deliver impactful presentations to any audience. You will start by delivering a 2-minute presentation about yourself, and you will then be asked to prepare and deliver a short individual presentation on a topic of your choice. After this the facilitator and your colleagues will give feedback on what you did well, and what you can improve on. This not only allows you to fine-tune your content and delivery, but also boosts your confidence.

Making good organisational decisions depends on having the right information at the right time. Only then does any decision-maker know if an organisation is moving in the right direction. Producing reports is a multi-disciplinary skill and an essential part of organisational operation, governance and leadership. Not only do writers have to gather, analyse and communicate their findings in clear language. They also have to manage their time and workload, their colleagues and superiors, and above all, themselves.

This is a fast-moving interactive workshop covering the basics of Project Management and providing a practical, widely applicable framework in easy common-sense steps. We look at cutting through the jargon and getting to the tips and tools that really add value. Delegates gain an overview of the whole process and focus in on some of the most useful and user- friendly techniques some of which can be put into immediate effect. The workshop will provide participants with the tools and techniques to effectively scope, plan, implement and review their projects.

A practical workshop taking recruiters through each stage of the recruitment process. You will learn how to conduct values-based interviews effectively and with confidence and prepare interview notes that are an accurate reflection of the interview process and decision. The course also teaches how to conduct interviews in accordance with statutory requirements and how to let interviewees leave feeling confident that they were given a fair interview.

Developing a strong and seamless team is an essential part of the management and leadership role. Effective teams usually produce first-rate results. High-performing teams exhibit accountability, purpose and collaboration and cohesiveness. How do you turn a dysfunctional group into a high performing productive team. Find out the answers during this Team Building Workshop.