Being seen as credible at work can be a key indicator of your professional success. Wherever you sit in your organisation’s hierarchy, this one-day workshop will give you time out to reflect on your current working behaviours and how they impact and influence those around you.
Due to positive feedback from clients we have now expanded this course to offer a two day version, which offers an in-depth examination of How to Have Conversations that Matter. The techniques gained from this training equips you with the skills to talk with almost anyone about almost anything. Particularly helpful when organisations are going through change and establishing new ways of working, staff gain confidence to tackle those challenging people and situations, and to work effectively with clients in a more solution-focused way. The programme is coaching based, thus equipping you with immediately usable coaching skills.
We have all been there. We have attended conferences with one ‘death-by-PowerPoint’ presentation after another and wondered if there was another way. The good news is that there is. There are techniques to use the strength of PowerPoint (visual reinforcement) without making it a bland reading of bullet points. This course does not teach PowerPoint features, but instead how to use your slides in a more engaging way so that your presentation is memorable and effective.
This two-hour time management workshop explores how to manage your goals and long-term plans alongside responding to day-to-day demands. It will help you to decide what activities will give you the biggest returns at work and in life, and when is the best times of the day for you to do these. You will also gain valuable tips for focusing when working from home, managing procrastination and managing your email inbox.
In this one-day course you will learn what identity, intersectionality and cross-cultural communication are, reflect on how they apply to you and ways to leverage this knowledge in your day-to-day life. This course is a first step to enable you to communicate, relate and collaborate with those different from you with clarity & connection.
This one-day Coaching Fundamentals programme will enable you to distinguish coaching from mentoring and other leader behaviours. We will build a clear ethos of coaching and help you discover its benefits. You will leave with a simple coaching model that you can start to use straight away and the confidence to use coaching skills in the moment to nurture an individual’s ability to uncover the deeper issues impacting their situation and solve their own problems. During the day, you will not only practice doing that but also get to experience it as a coachee and observer.
This one-day programme is aimed at leaders and managers that have already completed our Coaching Fundamentals Programme and are ready to discover more creative ways of coaching their people. You will explore a variety of approaches to help people express and process their emotions and challenge their thinking.
This course will examine the preparations needed before a meeting; clarify the purpose of minutes; explore the role during meetings; and planning after the meeting. It will look at ways to save time when note-taking and how to reduce the stress which people experience when taking minutes.
Writing is a key part of life in the modern world. Whether you are sending emails to a client or writing a Facebook post, the written word is an important part of how we present ourselves. Making simple spelling and grammar mistakes can have a huge impact on your credibility, and change people's impression of you. In this blog, brush up your grammar skills and start writing better emails, reports and social media updates.
“How many of you feel you need to be managed?” asked Alison Sturgess-Durden at the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference. Nobody raised their hand. Alison, a Director at the software company Mayden, asked why we assume that people need to be “managed” at work. A small, but growing, number of organisations are taking a different approach.
When people attend the Chairing Remote Meetings workshop, they often come looking for insight into the best online tools: Jamboard, Miro, Sli.do, Mentimeter, etc. We discuss them, and then we talk about the most important tool that a remote chair can use: the tennis racket.
Most people are so busy going from meeting to meeting, with one meeting spilling over into the next. No time to plan meetings, no time to reflect on what might work better — just getting through the day. But there is one thing that brilliant leaders do all the time. In this blog, Dr Carrie Goucher shares this one ridiculously simple thing you can do that will improve all of your meetings.
AI is big news at the moment, and it is going to change the way we use software forever. Microsoft is adding Copilot to Microsoft 365, and we’re seeing the first hints of what it can do. Copilot will offer AI driven help to all parts of Microsoft 365, from helping you manage your email inbox, to refining a report and polishing a PowerPoint presentation and, yes, even write Excel formulas for you! This type of AI-driven help has been turning up in Microsoft products for some time, especially in Excel. But how does it work? Darren explains more in this blog.
If your team’s productivity is getting hammered by meetings, shortening them all to 30 minutes or insisting on an agenda won’t be enough. You need to create your own collaboration system: how you make keep each other updated, spot problems, make decisions, hit milestones and learn together. In this workshop, you’ll learn a simple system for streamlining your meetings and collaborating efficiently.
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