Management Training Courses

Leading Appraisals & Setting Objectives Successfully

How To Have Difficult Conversations Professionally & Positively
​The training day will take attendees through the purpose of appraisals, how best to prepare for them, how to help the person being appraised get the most out of the appraisal and for it to be a basis for individual development.  The objective setting considers both SMARTER and "well formed outcomes" to create an empowering set of dynamic objectives.  This course can be supplemented with individual coaching sessions.

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If conducted professionally with skill, difficult conversations improve individual and team performance. They also build morale and significantly increase your leadership satisfaction. This course will give you the skills and confidence to arrange and have these crucial and important conversations with team members, peers, your own manager or suppliers.

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Effective Meeting Skills

​Meetings are the life blood of organisational communication and team work. However, there is a skill behind ensuring all meetings are effective, and necessary. How often do meetings you attend, or lead, feel like a chore that you just need to get through?

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Introduction To Delegation

Delegation is a key skill that successful managers and supervisors use well.  It is not something that comes naturally to everyone. Especially if you are used to having to deliver tasks and projects yourself.

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How To Improve Staff Performance

​​Do you have a competent staff member who is failing to achieve anywhere near their expected performance? Are you keen to help them and avoid resorting to formal disciplinary procedures? This workshop outlines how poor staff performance can be improved, using practical examples and proven techniques.

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HR for Non-HR Managers

​The day will be engaging and fully participative with a mixture of managerial experience combined with the latest ACAS best practice. Underlying this agenda I will share hard won lessons on how best to work with an HR professionals.

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Managing Your Time Effectively

In the last few years the world of work, particularly in the third sector, has gone crazy.  Everyone wants more for less. Funding gets cut. Staff who leave aren’t replaced. But you are still expected to deliver the same quality of work, and often more of it.

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Strategic Planning

The benefits of thinking strategically are many. It can be successfully applied in your personal and working life. This engaging workshop will push you to think in new ways about your circumstances, clarify your future aspirations and begin to help you develop a route to achieve this.

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​Mindfulness is a hot topic at the moment. There is a lot of information available about it and how you can use it. This course distils the topic into a one day course, designed to give you a practical understanding of what it is, and how it can be applied.

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​This highly participative, targeted and person centred programme comprises two interlinked half day group sessions focusing on self management (effective goal setting, improving your personal productivity, successful communication skills and managing your boss) and leading your team (improving performance management, learning to delegate well and running better meetings) plus two indivdual mentoring sessions.
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