Effective Meetings
This one-day course will provide you with the skills to run successful meetings with highly proficient facilitation techniques. You will be able to transform ineffective meetings, which waste time and money, into engaging and results-driven sessions. This course will teach you what makes effective facilitation and how to plan a successful session. It will also help you to understand group dynamics and handle confrontation. By the end of the course, you will possess the tools needed to be an effective facilitator and have the confidence to deal with complex issues.
The course takes 2-5 hours to complete and is worth 5 CPD points.
This training is suitable for anyone who runs meetings and workshops or is responsible for problem-solving, those looking to inspire their team, engage project members and change processes and individuals looking to improve their confidence and creativity while also developing their presentation skills.
Learning Objectives
- Have practical experience in using important facilitation techniques
- Understand the dynamics of meetings and workshops
- Develop your own style of successful facilitation
- Know how to structure and run successful meetings, generating positive relationships and encouraging commitment from others
Communication Courses
Learning Objectives:
- Define active listening and its key components
- Understand the communication process
- Create a good communicative mindset using framing, positive intent and focus
- Identify common communication problems and solutions
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of body language on meetings and training
- Describe how a facilitator can create a comfortable environment
- Know how to read the body language of others to judge their thoughts and feelings
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify common communication problems that may be holding you back
- Develop skills to ask questions that give you the information you need
- Learn what your non-verbal messages are telling others
- Develop skills in listening actively and empathetically to others
- Enhance your ability to handle difficult situations
- Deal with situations assertively
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognise how your attitudes and actions affect others
- Find new and effective techniques for dealing with difficult people
- Learn some techniques for managing and dealing with anger
- Develop coping strategies for dealing with difficult people and difficult situations
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe what makes an effective meeting
- Explain the cost of a poor meeting
- Explain how to make your meetings more effective
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain why feedback is essential
- Apply a framework for providing formal or informal feedback
- Use descriptive language when delivering feedback
- Describe six characteristics of effective feedback
- Provide feedback in real situations
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Define what influencing is and why it is important
- Investigate what makes a great influencer
- Understand the typical ways people think about influencing
- Identify different influencing styles and review your style
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Appreciate the importance of preparing for a job interview
- Anticipate questions you may be asked during a job interview
- Adapt your interview technique to fit different interview circumstances
- Perform follow-up activities in a professional manner
- Use feedback to improve tour future performance in interviews
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how often we all negotiate and the benefits of good negotiation skills
- Recognise the importance of preparing for the negotiation process
- Identify the various negotiation style and their advantages and disadvantages
- Develop strategies for dealing with tough or unfair tactics
- Gain skills in developing alternatives and recognising options
- Understand basic negotiation principles including BATNA, WATNA, WAP and the ZOPA
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce yourself in a meaningful, memorable way
- Be goal focused on networking so that you make the most of the events you attend
- Apply the concept of giving first and being helpful as part of a system of reciprocity
- Use strategy and systems to network effectively
- Learn the benefits of online social networking, especially Twitter and Linked In
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what makes an effective presentation and know how to plan and deliver one
- Have a personal action plan to improve your own presentations
- Know how to overcome nerves
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply your knowledge of body language to improve communication
- Understand the impact of space in a conversation
- Use mirroring and matching techniques to build rapport
This course is delivered via eLearning. Delegates can complete the training in their own time. At checkout, please provide the delegate's full name.