Effective Teams Courses

Overview: Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive. Assertive individuals are able to get their point across without upsetting others, or becoming upset themselves. This course focuses on understanding the difference between aggressive, passive and assertive behaviours to improve personal communication effectiveness.

Overview: Effective teamwork is fundamental to the success of any organisation. Whether the focus is on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or other similar goals, teams are the central methodology of most organisations in the private, non-profit, and government sectors. With teams at the core of corporate strategy, your success as an organisation can often depend on how well you and other team members operate together. In most teams, the energies of individual members work at cross-purposes. Individuals may work extraordinarily hard, but their efforts do not translate into team effort, and this results in wasted energy. By contrast, when a team becomes more aligned, a commonality of direction emerges, and individual energies harmonise. You have a shared vision and an understanding of how to complement each others’ efforts. This one-day workshop is a basic course for team leaders and team members, designed to focus on the characteristics of an effective team player and the elements of an effective team. You will leave the workshop with plans for your personal development as a team player and ideas for developing your team.

Overview: Coaching and mentoring is a highly effective way of raising awareness and driving performance at all levels of an organisation. However, good coaches and mentors need training. To embed coaching capability across your organisation, you must first equip managers with the abilities and training they need to coach effectively.

Overview: Conflicts can be resolved peacefully and effectively. Peacefully discussing differences of opinion is a healthy way to bring important issues to light and strengthen your relationships with co-workers, managers and suppliers, as well as friends and significant others. This course helps delegates learn how to effectively handle conflict in a way that minimises stress and relieves tension.

Overview: This interactive course enhances interview skills by providing an opportunity to learn the different phases of interviewing: preparation and planning, conducting an interview, and following up. This includes a high level of delegate participation.

Overview: This course is designed for supervisors and first line managers who are new to their roles. This course aims to introduce supervisors and first line managers to their new roles, developing particular awareness and skills in the areas of leadership style, motivation and delegation.

Overview: This modular programme is designed to further develop the skills of managers and potential managers. Building leadership capabilities across this level should not only strengthen individual skills but also facilitate the transfer of best practice across the organisation. Between each workshop delegates will be given work assignments to reinforce and embed the skills learned at each workshop. Recognising the busy nature of the delegates role, the design of these assignments will be thought provoking and practical rather than time consuming. Each module comes with its own set of support notes for delegates to put into a ring-binder, which then builds up into a comprehensive management reference book. This highly interactive and practical programme will give delegates an opportunity to learn more about themselves and the different working styles of others to increase individual and team effectiveness. They will be working as individuals, in pairs or small groups, engaging with each other to explore the different approaches. Building a team successfully requires awareness and understanding of the needs for a balanced team. This programme has been designed to give delegates both insight and time to explore their personal preferences, highlighting the benefits of getting the correct balance between both managing the task and leading the team. CLARITY 4D PROFILES As an optional extra, each delegate will receive either an 11 page Clarity4D Personal Profile or a 20 page Team Profile (recommended). The Profile provides delegates with information on their personality type as an aid to understand more about self and others, which can then be used to identify strategies for enhancing interpersonal relationships and improving communications within the team. The Profile includes sections on: Personal style and interacting with others Personal strengths and areas of hidden potential Value to the Team Effective Communication The Profile will be used as a working document throughout the programme as a basis for self-analysis and group discussions. Delegates may then go on to use it as a personal development coaching tool.

Overview: Please contact us for full information on this course.

Overview: Work-related stress (WRS) accounts for 37% of all ill health cases and 45% of all working days lost due to ill health. The total number of working days lost in 2015/16 was 11.7 million. The overall economic cost to Great Britain was estimated to be over £5 billion. (HSE) As an employer/ manager/supervisor, you have a key role in minimising the risk of stress in the workplace. Understanding how stress can affect the health of staff, reduce their productivity and lead to performance issues for both individuals, teams and your organisation, undoubtedly stands you in good stead to prevent harm and create a positive working environment. Because stress can be caused by external and internal factors, managers need to be able to help staff by controlling the pressure from the organisation. In addition to be able to offer support to any individual who either approaches you or who you identify as showing signs of stress.

Overview: Motivated employees who are satisfied, sufficiently challenged and contributing to organisational goals are vital to organisational success. More than monetary compensation is required for employees to be truly motivated. This course shows managers how to maintain a high level of employee motivation.

Overview: Managing others can be one of the toughest challenges we face at work, covering a huge range of responsibilities and tasks. This course gives a complete overview of what a manager needs to know, covering both technical and relationship skills. Delegates will leave with a thorough understanding of what good management looks like, and how to use it to get the best from others.

Overview: All of us, no matter how successful in our fields, will face adversity at some point in our careers. When the pressure is on, the difference between thriving or not is resilience. This practical course will give you the tools and knowledge to live and work with less stress by developing your skills in dealing with frustration, anxiety and pressure in positive ways.

Overview: The purpose of this highly interactive, practical and fun team development event is for team members to learn more about themselves and the different working styles of others. Personal effectiveness and communication skills influence both style and behaviour, which has important implications for the development and performance of teams. Further development in these skills will have an impact on many areas of day-to-day work e.g. meetings, problem solving; time-management; decision-making and all aspects of communication. Delegates will have an opportunity to focus on their own personal effectiveness and style and through this, further develop their interpersonal skills. Each delegate will receive a personal profile, which provides them with information on their personality type, as an aid to understand more about self and others. This will then be used to identify strategies for enhancing working relationships to maximise team performance. The Profile will be used as a working document throughout the programme as a basis for self-analysis and group discussions.