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Career Coaching
Career Coaching

Personal Confidence when Transitioning Careers

  • Develop confidence skills in reaching out for new opportunities
  • Develop a step-by-step plan for a smooth career transition
  • Learn strategies to cope with change and maintain resilience during transitions
Career Coaching
Career Coaching

Goal Setting

  • Learn how to create a vision, set goals and establish your strategy
  • Ensure goals contribute to the bigger picture
  • Get buy-in to your goals from customers, team members and colleagues
  • Understand how setting and achieving goals leads to sustained success
  • Learn how to put yourself back in control of your job, and your life
Career Coaching
Career Coaching

Personal Brand

  • Explore what your image says about you and identify areas to improve as appropriate
  • Understand how you present yourself to others, what makes you identifiable, unique and makes you stand out from the crowd
  • Ensure you make an instant and positive impact
  • Understand your unique selling points
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Career Coaching

Telling your Professional Story

  • Understand the power of storytelling in professional settings
  • Develop and refine personal professional stories for various audiences
  • Practice storytelling techniques for interviews and networking opportunities
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Career Coaching

Artificial Intelligence

  • To understand your values and engagers
  • To understand your skills
  • To identify your development skills
  • Career pathways identified
  • Challenges and actions for the future
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Career Coaching

Manage Your Time, Power Your Career

  • Insights into what makes you a high performer
  • How to manage our energy
  • To identify what you can do differently to enable greater productivity
  • To provide some facts and tips to enable you to make informed choices about how you use your time and your energy
Career Coaching
Career Coaching

Kickstarting your Self-Employment Journey

  • Assess the viability of self-employment based on personal goals and circumstances
  • Understand the basics of business planning and marketing for start-ups
  • Identify strategies to overcome common challenges faced by new entrepreneurs
Career Coaching
Career Coaching

How to write a successful CV

  • CV checklist – what to leave in and out
  • CV formats and Sample CVs
  • Content of a CV
  • LinkedIn versus CV
  • Final tips for a successful CV
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Career Coaching

The 10 Habits of Successful Professionals

  • We will identify habits you can build to support your career success
  • We will review what career success is and how it can be measured
  • Develop our understanding of the top 10 habits
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Career Coaching

Respect and Dignity

  • Understand about resistance
  • Taking responsibility for your behaviour
  • Understand where the line between acceptable and unacceptable
  • Understanding microaggressions
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Career Coaching

LinkedIn – Online Networking

  • Understand why you should use LinkedIn and how it works
  • Know what goes into a LinkedIn profile
  • Understand LinkedIn groups and its other uses
  • Look at next steps – updating profile, connecting with people you want to keep in touch with and get back in touch with people
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Career Coaching

Interview Skills

  • The effectiveness of different selection techniques
  • Asking evidence-based questions
  • Using the STAR technique for questioning
  • Interviewing with respect
  • Structuring an interview
  • Panel interviewing
  • Awareness of halo and horns ‘affect’ and confirmation bias
  • What is high quality evidence
  • The importance of note taking
  • Evaluating the evidence against the criteria
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Career Coaching

Self-awareness

  • Understanding yourself
  • Introduction to values and why they are important
  • Personal values and career engagers
  • The benefits of understand me and how I communicate my personal brand.
  • Brand: what people say about me when I am not in room
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Career Coaching

Networking

  • Understand the benefits of networking
  • Provide guidance on how best to network
  • Identify sources for networking
  • Share networking experiences and best practices
  • Recognise and overcome any concerns
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Career Coaching

Impact, Presence and Visibility

  • Explore what your image says about you and identify areas to improve as appropriate
  • Understand how you present yourself to others, what makes you identifiable, unique and makes you stand out from the crowd
  • Ensure you make an instant and positive impact
  • Understand your unique selling points
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Career Coaching

Action planning

  • The importance of a career plan
  • Vision and Purpose
  • Objective setting
  • Smart objectives
  • Identifying the gaps and looking at actions to eliminate skill gaps
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Career Coaching

Increasing Personal Effectiveness

  • Link to the Circle of Control/Influence and Concern
  • Using energy for maximum impact
  • Starting with the end in mind: defining purpose
  • Defining priorities: Urgent versus important
  • Defining my stakeholder needs
  • Dealing with conflicting needs
  • Personal power analysis
  • Exploring the importance of brand
  • Building and communicating my brand
  • Pulling it all together: what will I do next?
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Career Coaching

Successful Interviewing

  • How to be a ‘smart’ candidate
  • The importance of preparation
  • Understand how to create a positive impact
  • Know the different types of interviews and selection processes
  • Understand how to demonstrate what will make you successful in the role
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Career Coaching

Managing your Career

  • Clarify your personal and career values
  • Identify your primary career motivators
  • Examine how you can meet your motivational needs and career values at work
  • Clarify your key skills and strengths
  • Identify your future career goals
  • Start to plan the steps to achieve your career goals: short, medium and longer term
  • Plan for a career conversation with a career supporter
  • Be confident and optimistic about your career path ahead
Career Coaching
Career Coaching

Pro-active Job Search Model

  • Assessing your current career strategy
  • Helping you prepare to design your career strategy
  • Pro-active job search techniques
  • Creating an elevator pitch
  • The do’s and don’t of career strategy

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Respect and Dignity in the workplace

  • Factors for Resistance
  • Where is the line between acceptable and unacceptable?
  • Respect and Dignity
  • Taking Responsibility
  • Understanding microaggressions
  • Scenarios
  • Strategies for calling it out
  • Managing comments
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Managing your Unconscious Biases in Recruitment (Interviews)

  • Understand how bias impacts on behaviours, attitudes, relationships and decisions
  • Learn about science and research behind the concept of unconscious bias
  • Use the concept of ‘E Factors’ and ‘Broken Window Theory’
  • Identify areas of personal biases and its implications on decision making processes with colleagues
  • Explore avenues in mitigating the risks of unconscious biases
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Unconscious (Implicit) Bias Training

  • What is meant by Unconscious Bias
  • Understanding where our biases come from
  • Understanding biases within the frame of Intersectionality and Coverings
  • How our brain processes information
  • Types of biases/examples of biases
  • Acknowledging and managing our biases
  • Using the E factor frame, understanding the individual’s biases/perspectives
  • Explore strategies in how biases can be managed
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Practice

  • Defining Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Considering proactive measures and its benefits
  • Consider areas where equality, diversity and
    inclusion is necessary and relevant
  •  Acknowledging consequences for not taking responsibility for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  •  Understanding the Equality Act 2010
  • Recognise the value of supporting employees – organisational, management, team and individual responsibility

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Imposter Syndrome

  • Identify what imposter syndrome is
  • Identify the causes of imposter syndrome and its effects on individuals and organisations
  • Employ methods to reduce or eliminate imposter syndrome
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Getting comfortable talking about menopause

  • Understand what menopause is and how it can affect work, home and social life
  • Learn about menopausal symptoms, triggers and misconceptions
  • menopause in the workplace, making reasonable adjustments
  • Identify hot tips to support colleagues, family and friends
  • Guidance on how to get the menopause conversations started
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Menopause Awareness for line managers

  • Why menopause in the workplace matters
  • How menopause contributes to workplace absenteeism, presenteeism and leaveism
  • What menopause is
  • The social impact and ramifications of menopause and how to support
  • The Equality Act 2010 and the importance of reasonable adjustment
  • Tools for managers to normalise conversations about the menopause
  • Creating a menopause friendly culture
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Managing Burn Out

  • To understand what burn out is
  • How to avoid burn out
  • How to manage burn out
  • Strategies for the future
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Being kind to yourself

  • Consider how you can achieve a more balanced approach to work
  • Understand how to adapt to a busy life and how to prioritise
  • Understand how the brain copes with stress
  • Focus on your energy
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Practising self-care with Mindfulness

  • Understand the importance of looking after yourself
  • Emotional Regulation – how to create positive changes in the neural pathways
  • Cultivating a compassionate mind
  • Mindfulness – how it can support you through difficult times
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Mindfulness

  • Learn how to motivate people by giving them more control
  • Feel the way they feel and adapt your style/behaviours accordingly
  • Understand why some people are motivated and others are not by the same opportunity!
  • Know what makes people tick, by building greater rapport and trust
  • Understand the impact of people’s personal lives on their motivation
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Resilience, Health and Well-being

  • Learn what resilience, health and wellbeing really is
  • Recognise the different states of resilience
  • Understand the key drivers of resilience, health and wellbeing
  • Work with some tools that you can use in everyday life to start to increase your resilience
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Well-being in the new way of working

  • Understand the importance of looking after yourself and your teams in turbulent times
  • Encourage productivity when working in the office and at home
  • Recognise the symptoms of stress and know how to support the mental well-being of team members
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Personal Resilience

  • Being aware of energy, health, well-being and resilience
  • Connecting to your personal resources
  • How to regain balance
  • Creating an action plan

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The 'And Beyond' Leader
Leadership

High Performing Teams

  • Knowing the role of a leader in creating high performing teams
  • Diagnosing barriers to high performing teams
  • Acquiring the skills to be able to recognise conflict
  • Having practical takeaways on how to model and reinforce company spirit
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Leadership Styles

  • Recognising leadership styles and their impact
  • Developing an understanding of what leadership does
  • Understanding the differences between leadership and management
  • Understanding why both matter
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Psychological Safety at work

  • Explaining the concept of Psychological Safety
  • Measuring how psychologically safe your workplace is
  • Identifying what might hinder psychological Safety in your team
  • Creating actions to help you build a psychologically safe workplace
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Situational Leadership

  • Why having different leadership styles matters
  • The situational leadership model
  • How to apply this model to your own situations
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Strategies for Success

  • Identifying what success looks like
  • Identifying behaviours to support yourself
  • Being clear about what you can and cannot control
  • Establishing your priorities for now and in the future
  • Building new habits to build optimism
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Political Intelligence

  • Understanding different types of behaviours
  • Knowing how to continue to build successful relationships
  • Tools and techniques for influencing and dealing with different types of people
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Creativity and Innovation

  • What is creativity and innovation
  • Tools, tips and techniques to aid new ways of thinking
  • Supporting a thinking environment
  • Different approaches for different people
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Managing and Influencing Stakeholders

  • Developing an influencing profile
  • Knowing how to influence senior managers
  • Creating techniques for navigating matrix management environments
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Leading teams in a hybrid environment

  • How to keep your team connected
  • Understanding the opportunities and challenges
  • The importance of communication
  • How to maximise collaboration
  • How to onboard new employees
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Leading and Managing in Uncertain Times

  • Exploring the challenges
  • Understanding the role of emotions during times of uncertainty
  • Developing the mindset to successfully navigate the unknown
  • Leading your team effectively
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Delivering strategy amidst ambiguity

  • The impact of uncertainty and ambiguity
  • Reviewing goals and establishing priorities
  • Adjusting the plan
  • New goals and priorities
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Leading in the Hybrid World

  • Understanding the evolving landscape of hybrid work
  • Exploring effective leadership strategies
  • Fostering a culture of inclusivity
  • Leveraging the benefits of remote and in person work
  • Enhancing communication and collaboration

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Connected Conversations

  • Identify values and align to organisation values
  • Identify key motivators – “what’s important to you”
  • How to develop within those values/motivators
  • Linking to current job role
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Delegation

  • Know the critical balance between delegation and abdication
  • Learn the art of effectively delegating tasks not responsibility
  • Understand when to interfere and when not to
  • Adapt your style according to the needs of the person you are delegating to, to ensure they see the task as an opportunity
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Mentoring

  • Understand what mentoring is and the difference between the responsibilities of a line manager and a mentor
  • Clarify why you’d have a mentor and how you mentor
  • Discuss mentoring styles: The Teaching-coaching continuum
  • Learn the mentoring skills
  • Create a development plan
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Influencing, Persuading, Negotiating

  • Why it’s easy to influence some people but impossible to influence others
  • Adapt your influencing style according to the style of the other person
  • Be coached through techniques and strategies for specific situations
  • Learn direct and indirect ways to achieve the same results!
  • Negotiation skills – achieving a win win outcome
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Handling Difficult People

  • Learn how to listen like a professional
  • Understand non-confrontational body language
  • Develop your own technique for staying ‘in role’ as a professional
  • Learn how to listen, summarise and reflect back the key issues
  • Understand the skills needed for building trust and rapport quickly
  • Discover the differences around the many different anger styles
  • Understand the need for negotiation when working towards win-win outcomes
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Manager as Coach

  • Gain an understanding of the difference between managing and coaching as a manager
  • Reflect on their personal default approach on the telling vs coaching continuum
  • Learn about the core skills required for coaching
  • Briefly practise using the GROW coaching model
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Managing Change

  • Communicate the vision and direction
  • Be aware of the responsibilities of a leader during times of change
  • Understand the role of emotions during change and how to work with them
  • Support the development of resilient behaviours in your team
  • Support and enable team members to stay engaged during the change
  • Use collaboration effectively to support the change process
  • Lead your team effectively through the transition process
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Mental health training for managers

  • Coping with stress and pressure
  • Work life balance and remote working
  • Building positive working relationships
  • Looking after physical health
  • Being more resilient
  • Recognising the signs and coaching/influencing skills
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Maintaining focus in times of uncertainty

  • Understand how to stay positive and remain focused under pressure
  • Understand the importance of resilience and self-awareness
  • Find meaning in what you are doing and connect with your purpose
  • Create a mindset of optimism and confidence
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Managing with compassion and empathy in ambiguous times

  • Knowledge about the impact of sustained ambiguity on people and how to help
  • Understanding effective behaviour strategies for communicating mindfully and frequently
  • Understanding what you need to consider when managing others
  • Learning how to respond with care versus reacting instantly
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Running effective meetings online

  • Effectively plan, prepare and set up a meeting online
  • Apply positive meeting behaviours to create an energised and focused meeting
  • Manage tensions and conflict appropriately
  • Develop and use an action-based agenda and meeting record
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Time Management

  • Learn to manage time effectively and prioritise critical activities
  • Avoid procrastinating and putting off important/urgent activities
  • Learn how to focus on priorities, even when you are frequently interrupted
  • Learn how to create some “me time”, and still achieve your priorities
  • Feel good about saying ‘NO’, without causing offence
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Facilitation Skills

  • The Set up – Prior to the session
  • Facilitate – Essential facilitation skills
  • The Change Curve – Understanding our reactions
  • Clear Communications – Deliver with impact
  • Create an inclusive environment; and managing group dynamics
  • Close the session – Actions and results
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Decision Making

  • Gather the necessary data to enable you to make timely decisions
  • Make decisions which are based on the essential data
  • Ensure that key activities are not waiting on something else to be completed
  • Create action plans of greater clarity enabling a noticeable difference in the quality and speed of decision making
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Communication Skills

  • Be able to get your message across and check understanding
  • Learn how to listen with and without your ears!
  • Utilise body language so that it can help your ability to communicate
  • Implement the critical aspects of Giving and Receiving Feedback
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Playing to Strengths

  • Identify your own strengths and develop and understanding of how you use them and how you can stretch them to maximise your potential
  • Recognise when strengths are overplayed or underplayed
  • Identify how to use strengths in current and future roles
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Emotional Intelligence

  • Understand the potential impact of using Emotional Intelligence in the workplace
  • Develop greater awareness about how you manage your emotions
  • Practice using empathy in a business situation
  • Explore the impact of trust and integrity in relationships
  • Influence others at an emotional level
  • Practise going beyond the factual to the feelings, thoughts and ideas of others, with Emotional Intelligence
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“GROW” Coaching Model

  • Using the ‘GROW’ approach
  • Practise reviewing success
  • Set a SMART objective
  • Built on and enhanced their listening, summarising and questioning skills with relation to performance
  • Using appreciative enquiry
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Listening Skills

  • Understand what is required to truly listen
  • Learn how to understand feelings through effective listening
  • Read body language to assist you to listen effectively
  • Understand how to demonstrate effective listening (and why it is important!)
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Building Your Influence Online: Social Media Basics

  • Select appropriate social media platforms for professional goals
  • Create engaging content that reflects professional interests and expertise
  • Employ effective networking strategies on social media platforms
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Recruitment Skills

  • Learning the costs of a poor hire
  • How to design role profiles and identify the selection criteria
  • When and how to discuss recruitment with recruitment team and agree the timescales for the key activities
  • Advertising: when and where
  • How to longlist and shortlist candidates using the criteria
  • How to pull together a recruitment panel that reflects inclusivity
  • How to complete a high-level design of the interview and other selection activities
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Project Management

  • Understand what coaching is at work
  • Understand how you involve people in projects
  • Motivate the project management team
  • Acquire practical tools and techniques to manage projects for a successful
    outcome
  • Learn what to do when things are not going well
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Successful Career Conversations Skills for Managers

  • Why career development allows the business to deliver the strategy
  • Use each person’s potential to the full to increase their output and motivation
  • Confidently hold successful and productive career conversations with your team
  • Be able to ensure that all employees are empowered to take responsibility for their own career
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Negotiation

  • Setting objectives and having a strategy for achieving these objectives
  • Establishing rapport and the importance of body posture, tonality and words
  • Learn how to gather information and the law of reciprocity
  • Understand how to probe and explore options by listening and questioning objections
  • Understand how to barter and state your final offer
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Giving and Receiving Feedback

  • Prepare, give and receive feedback effectively
  • Offer balanced and timely feedback
  • Use techniques to give feedback without causing offence
  • Non defensive capture of feedback to improve personal performance
  • Identify support network and processes to help them to achieve their plan
  • Increase confidence and likelihood of success and personal satisfaction
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Strategic Thinking for Managers

  • Develop your strategic thinking and ability to have strategic conversations
  • Increase your knowledge and understanding of strategic, financial and marketing concepts and tools and how to apply these to your environment
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Motivating Others

  • How to motivate people by giving them more control
  • Feel the way they feel and adapt your style/behaviours accordingly
  • Understand why some are motivated and others are not by the same opportunity!
  • Know what makes people tick, by building greater rapport and trust
  • Understand the impact of people’s personal lives on their motivation
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Collaboration

  • Working with others towards a common goal and to overcome conflict
  • Building and maintaining relationships
  • Skills of compromise
  • Communication
  • Team Strengths
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Managing Neurodiversity

  • Develop awareness and understand of neurodiversity.
  • Understand the benefit of a diverse workforce.
  • Attract and retain a talent pool of neurodiverse employees.
  • How to support neurodiversity in the workplace
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Positive Psychology

  • What can be done to turn the workplace into a source of satisfaction, meaning and engagement
  • Provide you with a scientifically informed perspective about what works and what
    makes life worth living
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NLP at Work

  • Explore what NLP means within a work context
  • Demonstrate the value of NLP principles
  • Explore limiting beliefs and how to address them for yourself and others
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Managing Difficult Conversations

  • What is considered a difficult conversation
  • Understanding where the difficulty lies
  • Techniques for staying “in role” as a professional
  • Clarity of the skills needed to maintain trust
  • How to listen, summarise, and reflect back
  • How to close the conversation with positive next steps
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Effective Meetings Management

  • Knowing when to hold a meeting
  • Effectively plan, prepare and set up a meeting
  • Apply positive meeting behaviours
  • Manage conflict
  • Creating an action based agenda and meeting record
  • Leading effective virtual meetings
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Coaching for High Performance

  • Qualities, skills, attributes of an effective coach
  • What is performance coaching?
  • Coaching models
  • Skills – Active Listening
  • Skills – Questioning skills
  • Situational coaching – when to coach

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