Training - Personal Development
As well as offering training courses, we deliver personal development workshops for professionals within Care, Education, Childcare and Health.
This includes Nurses, Midwives, Nurseries, Nursing Homes, Schools, Colleges and Universities.
These courses include information on coaching, a valuable tool, which helps staff to develop and learn within their role and improve their performance at work.
For example, you may want to explore ideas to improve your setting. Or you may wish to explore issues like dealing with conflict, how to be more assertive or promoting team work.
At Training Designs, our personal development sessions include:
- Tools and techniques to improve your performance at work
- Help! I need to do a presentation!
- Using goals to get what you want
- How to build your confidence
- Dealing with conflict
- Building a successful team
- Effective communication with staff and with parents
- Being an Effective and Confident Leader
- How to manage your stress effectively
- In a team? What does that mean? Team Building for all!
1. Tools and techniques to improve your performance at work
Aim: To equip delegates with basic coaching skills and techniques to assist in their everyday work
What you will learn:
- What coaching is
- The coaching model
- How to use coaching in the workplace to manage difficult situations
- Practical exercises / group work
- The value of using goal setting for you and your staff
Length of course: 6 hours
2. Help! I need to do a presentation!
Got a presentation to make?
Don't know where to start?
- This course will help you to plan / prepare and give you structured advice on how to present your material
- The course will give delegates the opportunity to plan and present a brief presentation
Length of course: 6 hours
3. Using goals to get what you want
Aim: To explore how goal setting can help within the setting
What you will learn:
The definition of a goal and how goal setting can be used to:
- Improve your everyday work
- Work more effectively with staff and parents
- Help with time management
- Help you to achieve your personal targets
Length of course: 6 hours
4. How to build your confidence
Aim: To explore confidence and strategies on how to improve your confidence levels
What you will learn:
- Where does confidence come from?
- Why do we lack confidence?
- How can we improve our confidence?
Length of course: 3 hours
5. Dealing with conflict
Aim: To give you strategies on how to deal with conflict
What you will learn:
- What causes conflict?
- Theory behind conflict
- Strategies to deal with conflict
Length of course: 3 hours
6. Building a successful team
Aim: To understand the value of successful team work
What you will learn
- The definition of a TEAM
- Team dynamics
- The ideal team
- Roles within a team
- Effective communication Skills
Length of Course: 6 hours
7. Effective communication with staff and with parents
Aim: To enable delegates to communicate more effectively within the team / with parents
What you will learn:
- What is meant by communication?
- Using our senses to communicate
- Matching and Mirroring
- Building rapport effectively
- Verbal and non verbal communication
- Giving effective feedback
- Practical exercises / group work
Length of course: 6 hours
8. Being an Effective and Confident Leader
Aim: To enable delegates to build on and develop their leadership skills
What you will learn:
- The definition of a leader
- Types of leadership
- The qualities of an effective leader
- Managing your time as a leader
- Leading your team effectively
- Effective communication skills
- Developing your skills of delegation
Length of course: 6 hours
9. How to manage your stress effectively
Aim: To enable delegates to learn skills of stress management
What you will learn:
- The physiology of stress
- Identifying internal and external causes of stress
- Being able to say 'No'
- Solutions to stress
- Managing your time effectively
- Action planning to reduce stress
Length of course: 6 hours
10. In a team? What does that mean? Team Building for all!
Aim: To provide delegates with the knowledge to build an effective team
What you will learn:
- What is a team?
- Team formation
- Qualities of a good team
- The development of the team
- Communication skills
- Creating a culture of teamwork
- Practical activities - team building exercises
Length of course: 6 hours