Workshops, coaching and services
All activities can be adapted to the needs of individuals and organisations.
Available as bookable courses, for example for infrastructure organisations as well as for in-house delivery as day courses, workshops or awayday sessions, individual or small group coaching sessions.
Individual and organisational effectiveness
How to be productive
Identify your goals, understand yourself, develop good habits, stop procrastination and get the important things done. This course combines evidence and insights from management and leadership, organisational development, psychology and neuroscience. You will develop your own tailored action plan you can implement immediately to be more effective.
Facilitation tools and techniques for better meetings
Gather everyone's views, identify priorities easily, make better collective decisions, and avoid conflict through some simple facilitation tools and techniques.
Supporting for change
Using insights from motivational interviewing, psychology, coaching and management, how to form strong relationships with clients and support them with changes they want to make.
Management essentials
A practical management course for those who would like to refresh their knowledge and skills, are new to management, or people thinking about moving into management.
Myers Briggs, deconstructed
Using the Myers Briggs framework, identify different work preferences across your team and how this might influence the way that you work together.
Team effectiveness
Delivered within an organisation, project, partnership or team, helping you to work better together. Can include a pre-session questionnaire.
Focus, understanding procrastination, and working effectively
A one-hour webinar to provide an overview of the psychology and organisation of working from home
Impact, evaluation, learning and reflection
Developing an outcomes and impact framework
Understanding stakeholders' needs and the outcomes that they want from your organisation is crucial to providing good services, being able to measure progress, and writing good funding applications. This workshop will take you through the process from beginning to end of developing an outcomes and impact assessment framework for a project, service or activity.
Learning and reflections workshop
Delivered in-house to focus on one area of work, this workshop could involve staff, volunteers, board members, service users and other stakeholders as required to review a project, service, process or system.
Developing a Theory of Change
A Theory of Change helps with understanding needs, service design, impact assessment and evaluation, and is required by some funders. This workshop will enable you to understand what a Theory of Change is and to construct one for yourself.
Volunteering strategy and management
Good practice in managing volunteers
Using Investing in Volunteers this workshop will help you to identify areas of good practice in managing volunteers effectively, highlight areas for development, and give you ideas to implement in your own organisation
Involving volunteers in delivering your strategy
Aimed at anyone involved in organisational or project planning, identify how volunteers can be involved in shaping, delivering and reviewing your strategy to improve your understanding of needs and effectiveness of service delivery
Media and communications
Making social media work for you
This workshop for anyone who uses social media for their organisation or wants to do more social media helps you create a social media strategy and think about how that links to your website, other marketing and promotions activity, and your work.
Making phone videos for social media
Making your own videos to put on social media or your website is really quick easy once you know how - and for many people once you get over the fear of making them. It is for anyone with a smart phone who wants to make videos.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
In-house prices include all materials for training, liaison before and after the session and travel expenses up to 30 miles. They do not include room hire or participants’ refreshments or travel expenses over 30 miles.