Course Directory

Management

Appraisal Skills

The Appraisal Skills Course will show you how to plan, deliver and maintain an effective performance review or appraisal process. We will give you lots of practical tips and you will have the opportunity to talk through scenarios with our highly experienced trainer.

Effective Communication

Assertiveness, Self Confidence & Communication

On the Assertiveness, Self Confidence and Communication Course you will discover the methods and techniques to create a powerful, positive impression on people and overcome the most common barriers to communication

Leadership

Being a Leader

Great leaders do not become great by continuing to do the same things that made them successful earlier in their career. Our work enables leaders – or those stepping up to a role - to carefully evaluate the skills, time and values that are required for leadership.

Effective Communication

Building Effective Customer Relationships

Building Effective Customer Relationships

Management

Coaching & Mentoring Skills for Managers

Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Managers. An increasing number of organisations now have a coaching culture. Develop the skills to conduct meaningful performance conversations through enhanced listening and questioning.

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

Communicating with Confidence for Women

On the Communicating with Confidence for Women Course you will learn how to achieve better results by communicating skilfully and with assertiveness in a fun and relaxed environment

Sales & Marketing

Conversational Selling

Support positive engagement with your customers through building relationships naturally. Listen and focus on the customer, their interests, needs and objectives

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

Dealing with Difficult People & Negativity

On the Dealing with Difficult People & Negativity Course you will complete your own personal profile and learn how to use your own personality style effectively with difficult/challenging people

Management

Dealing with Grievance Matters

This half day session will focus on exploring the overall policy framework for managing grievance issues at work. The session will also look at how to investigate grievance issues, including exploring potential resolutions and outcomes.

Management

Developing and Leading Teams

Our Developing and Leading Teams workshop for junior and middle managers is a three day course providing the skills to manage yourself and others. It can be taken as a standalone course, or as part of the ILM Level 5 in Leadership & Management

Management

Disciplinary Investigations and Hearings

This half day session will focus on exploring the Disciplinary framework for managing misconduct issues at work. The session will also look at how and when to define the level of offence: minor, serious or gross misconduct, and making decisions on the appropriate sanction level to apply in the circumstance.

Effective Communication

Effective Meetings and Minute Taking

Running productive meetings and understanding the importance of minute taking is essential to any professional organisation. This practical course will teach you the fundamental skills necessary to prepare for a meeting, to take an effective meeting, to understand the importance of good minute taking and understand the meeting follow up procedure.

Management

Embracing Change

An introduction to Leading self and others through change. discover and challenge your assumptions about change; how building up resilience will enable you to embrace and flourish during a change programme. This will then enable you to manage and communicate the change within an organisational context.

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

Emotionally Intelligent Communication - how to build Trust and Rapport

If you want to create a positive impression with new team members, build relationships with suppliers and / or customers, motivate people, to get support for your ideas and proposals, then this one day introduction to building trust, empathy and rapport is for you.

Leadership

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. Successful and effective people build rapport, trust and empathy with apparent ease. This one day introduction to emotional intelligence enables you to explore these behaviours and beliefs.

Sales & Marketing

Emotionally Intelligent Selling

The Emotionally Intelligent Selling Workshop is for you if you want to learn how to sell through building trust and rapport.

Effective Communication

Essential Art of Persuasion and Influence

The Essential Art of Persuasion and Influence course is perfect for anyone who wishes to improve their effectiveness with customers, suppliers and/or colleagues.

Management

Essential HR for Managers

The Essential HR for Manager Workshop is for you if you want to get the best out of your team whilst working within the requirements of the law.

Finance & IT

Excel Advanced

The Excel Advanced Course is designed for the experienced Excel user who wishes to examine the more advanced features of this sophisticated software.

Finance & IT

Excel Intermediate

The Excel Intermediate Course is for the reasonably experienced Excel user wishing to develop more complex spreadsheet skills.

Finance & IT

Excel Introduction Plus

The Excel Introduction Plus Workshop is designed for those new to the Excel environment or who are finding that producing a working, sensible spreadsheet is taking too long!

Finance & IT

Finance for Non-Finance Managers

The Finance for Non-Finance Managers workshop is for you if you need to understand how a company is managed from a financial point of view. You will learn elementary accounting principles, how the balance sheet, profit and loss account and cash flow statements interact.

Management

How to run effective employee forums

Informing and consulting with your employees brings many benefits, especially in the areas of performance, motivation and engagement.

ILM Accredited

ILM Level 3 Award in Coaching

For leaders, managers, HR professionals and individuals seeking to develop the tools and confidence to coach others as part of their working role, we offer the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 3 Award in Coaching.

ILM Accredited

ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management

All our Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) programmes are designed to give practising or aspiring supervisors and managers a solid foundation in their formal development. We combine online and face-to-face learning workshops with the support of a dedicated tutor, to create a bespoke package of learning that is right for the candidates and provides a visible return on investment.

ILM Accredited

ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management

All our Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) programmes are designed to give practising or aspiring supervisors and managers a solid foundation in their formal development. We combine online and face-to-face learning workshops with the support of a dedicated tutor, to create a bespoke package of learning that is right for the candidates and provides a visible return on investment.

Management

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

Have you met someone who seems to have an innate ability for connecting with people? They are much more attuned to the feelings of others and as such can create a sense of trust and understanding in a matter of minutes. Successful and effective people often display a range of behaviours and beliefs that are at first hard to categorise. They are great ‘people’ people, good listeners, first class communicators, visionaries who have a handle on the detail.

Management

Introduction to People Management

Our Introduction to People Management course is ideal for first time people managers who've not had any formal training. This course focuses on the use of collaboration and motivation to manage people.

Management

Introduction to Process Improvement

How do your business processes impact on the customer experience and how could they be improved?

Management

Introduction to Project Management

Our Project Management course provides a step by step approach to ensuring that each project is as successful as possible.

Leadership

Leader as Coach

This one-day session takes the behaviours and skills of coaching and places them firmly in the leadership context. It will help leaders to support individuals in achieving their goals, overcome challenges and move forward in their role within the organisation.

Management

Leading Your Team & Raising the Bar

Leading your Team & Raising the Bar is essential for team leaders and managers who want to improve the performance of their team.

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

Managing Customers' Expectations and Handling Dissatisfaction

The Managing Customers' Expectations and Handling Dissatisfaction is for anyone involved in a customer service role whether face-to-face, over the telephone or via email. This course will build on your present skills whilst introducing new ones.

Management

Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness

Intended for junior and middle managers, this three day course provides the skills to manage yourself and others. It can be taken as a standalone course, or as part of the ILM Level 5 in Leadership & Management.

Management

Mastering People Management

Mastering People Management is a two day programme designed for people who have experience of managing people and who want to learn how to get the best out of their team.

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

Positive Psychology, Strengths & Resilience

It's all in the mind. Learn how postive psychology, appreciative inquiry and working with strengths can build resilience and well being

Effective Communication

Presentation Skills

Our Presentation Skills course will help you overcome fears and barriers and develop outstanding presentation skills. Perfect for anyone with a message to deliver.

Management

Recruiting and Interviewing Excellence

This course introduces some best practice techniques to maximise your chances of recruiting the right people for your organisation’s culture, values and ambitions.

Management

Supervision Skills

The Supervision Skills Workshop is ideal for anyone that has supervisory responsibility for individuals, small and large teams. Introduces a range of communication and management techniques.

Management

The Art of Delegation, Motivation & Empowerment

The Art of Delegation, Motivation & Empowerment will show you how to be an outstanding manager. Its is a must for all heads of department and team leaders.

Management

Time Management

The Time Management Course aimed at giving you the tools to use time more effectively, set goals, get organised and remove worry. Delegates range from senior professionals to new recruits.

Management

Train the Trainer

The Train the Trainer Workshop is for you if you want to learn the methods of facilitation, the art of demonstration and the latest training theories in this highly interactive and involving workshop. Suitable for anyone who is required to deliver content.

Sales & Marketing

Writing for Business & Marketing

Understand the basic rules of writing clear, concise and compelling copy. Whether you write sales copy or marketing content, our copywriting course will give you an overview into creating highly readable and effective copy