Professional Development: What’s coming up in February, March and April

Amanda Dodds — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 01:52:05 +0000

Writing with Clarity
9 & 10 February 2022 (conducted over two days)

Learn to write complex information in a clear and sensible way without losing accuracy or rigour
Understand how to write effective emails at work
Understand how to create a professional and helpful tone and choose the right words

Having Development Career Conversations
10 February 2022

Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
Gain key tools for having effective development & career conversations along with a practical conversation framework
Learn to support your team members to navigate career pathways

Improve your Time Management
15 & 16 February 2022 (conducted over two days)

Define the core purpose of you and your team within the organisation
Explain the ‘above the line’ model and determine how you can adopt this concept to take more initiative with your day to day planning
Use a prioritisation matrix to order your weekly tasks
Identify your key professional goals
State how to politely and professionally say ‘no’ to an unreasonable request
Discuss techniques that allow you to proactively manage email
Identify what habits and techniques you could start, stop or continue to more effectively manage your time

Strengthening Staff and Personal Resilience: Managers
17 February 2022

Understand the psychological process that occurs in response to change and how it impacts wellbeing
Understand an evidence-based model for strengthening resilience and developing mental fitness in yourselves and your teams
Explore the link between wellbeing and performance and reflect on your supportive leadership style and practical strategies you can put into practice to enhance this
Develop a personal and team wellbeing action-plan

Giving Effective Feedback
22 & 24 February 2022 (conducted over two days)

Recognise the importance of giving constructive feedback, and the need to adopt the right mindset to help achieve desired outcomes
Familiarise participants with the key principles underpinning effective feedback based on the latest research
Share a simple feedback model to enable feedback to be given with ease
Help participants manage emotions
Provide participants with opportunities to apply the model during the workshop and receive feedback on their feedback skills. Actors are utilised to make the practical activities as ‘real’ as possible and maximise learning

A Situational Approach to Leadership
From 24 February 2022 (conducted over five weeks)

Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
The workshop series will explore Ken Blanchard’s SLII® model, which is based on 30 years of research
Gain a practical toolkit to help you, as a people-leader, to offer your team members the right balance of clarity and direction as well as guidance, support and autonomy

Crucial Conversations
From 9 March 2022 (conducted over five weeks)

Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
Explore how to encourage dialogue, maintain relationships, and stay in conversation when there is a difference of opinion.

Leading a productive and resilient team in uncertain times
3 & 24 March 2022 (Conducted over two days)

Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
Discuss the relationship between pressure, performance, stress and resilience
Explore 7 key evidence-based strategies to build a team’s performance in uncertain times
Self-assess your leadership of the 7 key strategies as well as review feedback from your team
Identify practical actions to lead your team performance and resilience in times of uncertainty and change

Managing Conflict
8 & 10 March 2022 (Conducted over two days)

Identify the common causes of conflict and apply strategies, such as effective communication skills, to turn conflict into positive change and development

Strengthening Personal Resilience
24 March 2022

Use practical and evidence-based methods to build and strengthen your resilience for all areas in your life

Communicating Effectively
24 & 31 March 2022 (Conducted over two days)

Managing the Tough Stuff
29 March & 5 April 2022 (Conducted over two days)

Gain knowledge and skills for effectively managing performance and conduct issues
Learn how to take appropriate action, make decisions and have challenging conversations

Writing to Persuade
26 & 27 April 2022 (Conducted over two days)

Learn how to present content in a balanced and concise manner including what content to leave out
learn two basic structures to present a case and develop skills to write efficiently

Having Coaching Conversations
29 April & 13 May 2022 (Conducted over two days)

Designed to engage managers in a highly relevant and interactive process to enable managers to refresh their skills and further develop their capability in conducting honest, quality coaching conversations
Learn how to positively engage and influence team members and other stakeholders
Provides practical methodology to apply knowledge and skills that can be applied to the managers role

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