Theme: CUDAR Learning and Professional Development

The Effective Meetings course is ideal for anyone who participates and/or leads meetings on a regular basis. The course covers:

• Understanding different types of meetings i.e. purpose and implication
• Understanding things that can typically go wrong in meetings
• Techniques for managing meetings and ways to apply chairing skills
• Tips on how to keep a meeting on track
• The four F's (focus, friendship, facilitation and feedback) and applying them
• Harnessing different personality styles to best achieve outcomes
• Managing upwards in meetings
• Individual action plan to apply the learning

The Facilitation Skills workshop is ideal for anyone leading work to deliver significant change to current working practices and/or with a need to harness business decisions from a diverse working group. The full day workshop includes:

• Understanding the role of the facilitator and when to use facilitation
• Understanding the different approaches to facilitation
• Awareness of key attitudes and behaviours needed to facilitate effectively
• Reviewing and practising the basic skills needed to facilitate effectively
• Understanding the importance of team dynamics in facilitation
• Becoming familiar with the key tools and techniques that can be used in facilitation

• To explain the relationship between resilience, stress and pressure
• To help spot stress symptoms in yourself and your direct reports
• To identify barriers to resilience and causes of stress (work & home)
• To support you in addressing barriers to resilience in your staff and providing them with appropriate support, at the same time, enhancing their performance and that of your team
• To explore how your management style may impact on the resilience of your team
• To prepare an action plan to enhance the resilience of your team

• To highlight the resources available to boost your own resilience to equip you for a range of challenging situations
• To measure and explore own resilience levels and coping styles using the outputs of the i-resilience tool
• To expand upon and practice a range of coping skills covering the areas of Mind, Body and Spirit
• To prepare a personal action plan to increase your own resilience

This Workshop is designed to prepare and equip staff with the skills to boost resilience, enhancing the ability to cope and respond positively to a variety of challenging situations presented at work and at home.

• To explain the relationship between resilience, stress and pressure
• To help spot stress symptoms in yourself and your colleagues
• To identify barriers to resilience and causes of stress (work & home)
• To highlight the resources available to boost your own resilience to equip you for a range of challenging situations
• To measure and explore own resilience levels and coping styles using the outputs of the i-resilience tool
• To expand upon and practice a range of coping skills covering the areas of Mind, Body and Spirit
• To prepare a personal action plan to increase your own resilience