Personal & Leadership
Effectiveness through Training
A holistic approach to training
I’m a freelance trainer, delivering personal effectiveness and communication skills courses to front-line staff and managers in the voluntary and private sector (Police, NHS, Social Services, Housing Associations, Drug Services), the unemployed (Skills For Jobs) and further education to name but a few.
My present Course range includes:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (for managers and front line staff)
- Solution Focused Therapy Training (for managers and front line staff)
- Conflict and Stress in the Workplace
- People Management Skills (for managers and front line staff)
- Communication Skills (for managers and front line staff)
- Time and Workload Management (for managers and front line staff)
- Lone Working (for managers and front line staff)
- Dealing with Difficult People (Adults and Young People)
- Assertiveness
- Motivational Interviewing (front line staff)
- Recording Skills (front line staff)
- Mentoring
Interactive, engaging training
I deliver training that is lively, fun and gets participants to think. Each session is filled with opportunities to learn strategies, methods and approaches that can be used every day. I believe that involvement in learning translates into maximizing performance on the job.
Better Results
The major reasons for lack of motivation at work include lack of faith in one’s abilities, fear of failure, low self-esteem, habits such as procrastination and laziness, poor time management, monotony at work, poor rewards, and other factors. Training provides a solution to most of these factors.
Training equips your employees with skills to do the work more efficiently, work within health and safety guidelines, and apply themselves to perform jobs more intelligently. Training also help employees develop soft skills such as better time management, better critical thinking ability, better communication skills, and other skills, all of which are essential traits to succeed in any job. Training is one of the important ways that you can effect performance improvement. The ability of your staff to work better, increases their confidence, it removes the fear of failure, and improves self-esteem, all translating to better motivation.
Skill and competency enhancement through training also allows for job enlargement and job enrichment, therefore your staff acquire a broader range of roles and responsibilities and end monotony. All these usually come with better rewards and recognition, both are primary motivators.
I love to develop bespoke courses to meet your organisational needs.
All my training workshops are based on results-based Change Management models.