Managing the Virtual Workplace

Audience:Virtual workers and virtual teams are an essential part of today’s workforce. More than ever, people are using technology to work anywhere, anytime. There are big benefits to today’s virtual workplace, but there can be big challenges, too. This one-day course will teach managers and supervisors how to prepare employees for the virtual workplace, create telework programs, build virtual teams, leverage technology and overcome cultural barriers. 

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Managing the Virtual Workplace Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • Create a virtual workplace strategy
          • Develop, implement and maintain telecommuting programs
          • Build a virtual team and lead them to success
          • Plan and lead virtual meetings
          • Use technology to support a virtual workplace
          • Overcome cultural barriers when leading virtual teams
          • Develop their virtual leadership skills
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Managing the Virtual Workplace

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The ABC of Supervising Others

Audience: This workshop is for people who are new supervisors or who are interested in a supervisory position, as well as those who are team leads or part-time supervisors without a great deal of authority. This two-day course is designed to help participants overcome many of the supervisory problems that they will encounter as a workplace leader. Dealing with the problems that a new supervisor encounters isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to lead to discouragement.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: The ABC of Supervising Others Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Adjust to the supervisor’s role with confidence
            • Develop their skills in listening, asking questions, resolving conflict, and giving feedback to employees
            • Identify key attitudes that they can develop to enhance their supervisory skills
            • Use time management and planning techniques to maximize their success
            • Develop a technique for giving instructions that are clear and understood
            • Understand the importance of developing good relationships with employees and peers, so they are seen as fair and consistent
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The ABC of Supervising Others

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The Art of Delegating Effectively

Audience: Effective delegation is one of the most valuable skills you can master. It reduces your workload and develops employee skills. Delegating prepares employees who work for you to be able to handle your responsibilities and simultaneously allows you to advance to other career opportunities within your organization. Delegation is often one of the hardest skills for a manager to master. However, the skill can be learned. This one day workshop will explore many of the facets of delegation, including when to delegate and whom to delegate to. We will also go through the delegation process step by step and learn about techniques to overcome problems.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: The Art of Delegating Effectively Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Clearly identify how delegation fits into their job and how it can make them more successful
            • Identify different ways of delegating tasks
            • Use an eight-step process for effective delegation
            • Give better instructions for better delegation results
            • Recognize common delegation pitfalls and how to avoid them
            • Monitor delegation results
            • Give effective feedback
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The Art of Delegating Effectively

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The Professional Supervisor

Audience: With a host of new challenges and responsibilities to tackle, new supervisors need training that helps them adjust to their new role. Learning how to supervise your new employees on a trial and error basis can lead to discouragement. This two-day workshop can help you overcome many of the problems a new supervisor may encounter, and to set the groundwork for a successful change in your working life!

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: The Professional Supervisor Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Clarify the scope and nature of a supervisory position
            • Learn some ways to deal with the challenges of the role
            • Recognize the responsibilities you have as a supervisor, to yourself, your team, and your organization
            • Learn key techniques to help you plan and prioritize effectively
            • Acquire a basic understanding of leadership, team building, communication, and motivation, and what part they play in effective supervision
            • Develop strategies for motivating your team, giving feedback, and resolving conflict
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The Professional Supervisor

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Appreciative Inquiry

Audience: Do you love those moments of exception, when everything seems to have come together and things are working beautifully? Would you like to create an environment where those rare extraordinary moments become the norm? Then you may just be ready to learn the value of Appreciative Inquiry, also known as AI. AI is a method for implementing change that is rooted in being positive, sharing stories of things that work well, and leveraging people's strengths and the power of co-creation to initiate lasting, powerful changes that can make an organisation the best it has ever been, because of people who care and are committed.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Appreciative Inquiry Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Recognise and work with the fundamentals of Appreciative Inquiry
            • Describe the 4-D's of Appreciative Inquiry: discovery, dreaming, design and destiny
            • Work through a simple Appreciative Inquiry process
            • Create thoughtful, meaningful questions for their own Appreciative Inquiry initiative
            • Help organisations review what's important, what they can become and how they can get there
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Appreciative Inquiry

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Conducting Effective Performance Reviews

Audience: Performance reviews are an essential component of employee development. The performance review meeting is an important aspect of career planning and the outcomes of the meeting should be known to the employee and supervisor before the meeting actually takes place. Setting goals and objectives to aim for will give both supervisors and employees a focus, and is one of the key aspects to meeting overall company objectives. Supervisors must also learn how to give feedback, both positive and negative, on a regular and timely basis so that employees can grow and develop. Performance appraisals involve all these activities.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Conducting Effective Performance Reviews Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • To recognise the importance of having a performance review process for employees
            • How to work with employees to set performance standards and goals
            • Skills in observing, giving feedback, listening and asking questions
            • An effective interview process and the opportunity to practice the process in a supportive atmosphere
            • How to make the performance review legally defensible
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Conducting Effective Performance Reviews

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Creating a Top Notch Talent Management Programme

Audience:  Organisations recognise that they do better business when their people are engaged, motivated, and yes, talented. Having the right people in place at the right time is a key aspect to continued growth, success, or even just stability. This course will provide you with just what it takes to have the right people ready. It will help you create a program to measure the talents of your people and how to help them grow in preparation for the future. It will also help you support and grow your organisation by teaching you how to apply the most current research and adapt your organisation to the ever-changing marketplace.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Creating a Top Notch Talent Management Programme Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Apply the multifaceted aspects of talent management in their own organisation
            • Describe the skills required to manage high potential candidates
            • Recognise and foster talent within an organisation
            • Explain the principles of competency-based management
            • Use the language for talent management
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Creating a Top Notch Talent Management Programme

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Hiring for Success: Behavioural Interviewing Techniques

Audience:  Interviewing sounds easy enough: you arrange for a conversation between you and potential candidates and then select the best person for a particular position. But what if you could refine the process in such a way that you were confident that you are selecting the right person? How do you separate the good from the great, when they have similar work experience and strengths to offer? This workshop will give you the skills and tools to hire successful candidates.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Hiring for Success: Behavioural Interviewing Techniques Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Recognise the costs incurred by an organisation when a wrong hiring decision is made
            • Develop a fair and consistent interviewing process for selecting employees
            • Prepare better job advertisements and use a variety of markets
            • Be able to develop a job analysis and position profile
            • Use traditional, behavioral, achievement oriented, holistic and situational (critical incident) interview questions
            • Enhance communication skills that are essential for a skilled recruiter
            • Effectively interview difficult applicants
            • Check references more effectively
            • Understand the basic employment and human rights laws that can affect the hiring process
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Hiring for Success: Behavioural Interviewing Techniques

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Managing Employee Performance

Audience:  Inspiring someone to be their best is no easy task. Just how do you manage for optimum performance? How do you create a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best? This one-day workshop will help you teach participants some ways of achieving those tasks.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Managing Employee Performance Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Tools to help employees set and achieve goals
            • A three-phase model that will help participants prepare employees for peak performance, activate their inner motivation, and evaluate their skills
            • Motivational tools and techniques
            • Coaching methods and skills
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Managing Employee Performance

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Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start

Audience:  Inspiring someone to be their best is no easy task. Just how do you manage for optimum performance? How do you create a motivating environment that encourages people to go beyond their best? This one-day workshop will help you teach participants some ways of achieving those tasks.

Course Duration: 1 day 

Course Types: Group Bookings, 1-2-1 Sessions, Bespoke Tailored Courses.

Course Costs:
     
Group Rate: £ 975 + VAT

Tailored course content can be customised to meet your specific requirements, with scheduled dates to suit you.

Course Location: Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start Course is delivered at our training centres in London Venues; training can also be delivered at your offices. 

At Course Completion:

• • • • • • • Tools to help employees set and achieve goals
            • A three-phase model that will help participants prepare employees for peak performance, activate their inner motivation, and evaluate their skills
            • Motivational tools and techniques
            • Coaching methods and skills
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Orientation Handbook: Getting Employees Off to a Good Start

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