Was professional development one of your New Year’s resolutions? Check out what workshops are coming up and register via Workday. Workshops will be conducted online via Zoom.
Writing with Clarity
9 & 10 February 2022 (conducted over two days)
- Learn to write complex information in a clear and sensible way without losing accuracy or rigour
- Understand how to write effective emails at work
- Understand how to create a professional and helpful tone and choose the right words
Having Development Career Conversations
10 February 2022
- Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
- Gain key tools for having effective development & career conversations along with a practical conversation framework
- Learn to support your team members to navigate career pathways
Improve your Time Management
15 & 16 February 2022 (conducted over two days)
- Define the core purpose of you and your team within the organisation
- Explain the ‘above the line’ model and determine how you can adopt this concept to take more initiative with your day to day planning
- Use a prioritisation matrix to order your weekly tasks
- Identify your key professional goals
- State how to politely and professionally say ‘no’ to an unreasonable request
- Discuss techniques that allow you to proactively manage email
- Identify what habits and techniques you could start, stop or continue to more effectively manage your time
Strengthening Staff and Personal Resilience: Managers
17 February 2022
- Understand the psychological process that occurs in response to change and how it impacts wellbeing
- Understand an evidence-based model for strengthening resilience and developing mental fitness in yourselves and your teams
- Explore the link between wellbeing and performance and reflect on your supportive leadership style and practical strategies you can put into practice to enhance this
- Develop a personal and team wellbeing action-plan
Giving Effective Feedback
22 & 24 February 2022 (conducted over two days)
- Recognise the importance of giving constructive feedback, and the need to adopt the right mindset to help achieve desired outcomes
- Familiarise participants with the key principles underpinning effective feedback based on the latest research
- Share a simple feedback model to enable feedback to be given with ease
- Help participants manage emotions
- Provide participants with opportunities to apply the model during the workshop and receive feedback on their feedback skills. Actors are utilised to make the practical activities as ‘real’ as possible and maximise learning
A Situational Approach to Leadership
From 24 February 2022 (conducted over five weeks)
- Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
- The workshop series will explore Ken Blanchard’s SLII® model, which is based on 30 years of research
- Gain a practical toolkit to help you, as a people-leader, to offer your team members the right balance of clarity and direction as well as guidance, support and autonomy
Crucial Conversations
From 9 March 2022 (conducted over five weeks)
- Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
- Explore how to encourage dialogue, maintain relationships, and stay in conversation when there is a difference of opinion.
Leading a productive and resilient team in uncertain times
3 & 24 March 2022 (Conducted over two days)
- Suited for people in managerial, team-leader or supervisory roles
- Discuss the relationship between pressure, performance, stress and resilience
- Explore 7 key evidence-based strategies to build a team’s performance in uncertain times
- Self-assess your leadership of the 7 key strategies as well as review feedback from your team
- Identify practical actions to lead your team performance and resilience in times of uncertainty and change
Managing Conflict
8 & 10 March 2022 (Conducted over two days)
- Identify the common causes of conflict and apply strategies, such as effective communication skills, to turn conflict into positive change and development
Strengthening Personal Resilience
24 March 2022
- Use practical and evidence-based methods to build and strengthen your resilience for all areas in your life
Communicating Effectively
24 & 31 March 2022 (Conducted over two days)
- Improve your confidence and effectiveness when communicating with others
Managing the Tough Stuff
29 March & 5 April 2022 (Conducted over two days)
- Gain knowledge and skills for effectively managing performance and conduct issues
- Learn how to take appropriate action, make decisions and have challenging conversations
Writing to Persuade
26 & 27 April 2022 (Conducted over two days)
- Learn how to present content in a balanced and concise manner including what content to leave out
- learn two basic structures to present a case and develop skills to write efficiently
Having Coaching Conversations
29 April & 13 May 2022 (Conducted over two days)
- Designed to engage managers in a highly relevant and interactive process to enable managers to refresh their skills and further develop their capability in conducting honest, quality coaching conversations
- Learn how to positively engage and influence team members and other stakeholders
- Provides practical methodology to apply knowledge and skills that can be applied to the managers role
As always, they’re mostly for ‘managers’ — those who have value.
Thanks.