Workshops
How to Engage People in Virtual Meetings
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Why attend?
To learn some simple yet powerful tools that will help engage even the most diehard email checkers! In this workshop you’ll learn tips to generate commitment early, maximise attention and maintain engagement. You’ll also learn several simple, powerful tools that will transform how you deliver virtual meetings!
Presenting with Impact
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Why attend?
To learn how to prepare, structure and deliver your presentation so that your audience hears your message clearly and succintly. The tools, tips and techniques you learn on this workshop can be applied to all presentions - face-to-face and virtual - and will build your confidence.
Fearless Focus
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Why attend?
If you regularly hear yourself saying that there aren’t enough hours in the day, often feel overwhelmed by the amount you have to do or simply have too many things on your `To Do’ list at the end of each day, then book yourself on Fearless Focus. This workshop will help you focus what’s really important, how to plan and organise better and learn what or who is stealing your time!
Developing Assertiveness
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Why attend?
In this workshop you will learn several powerful behavioural techniques that, when applied, will project confidence to others and make you feel in control of your emotions, rather than being responsive to those of others!
Building Rapport
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Why attend?
In this workshop you’ll learn exactly what to do to build stronger, more effective relationships. You’ll learn the importance of listening with your eyes and your ears, the truth about mirroring and matching and the power of perspective. If you’ve ever said “I just can’t connect with them” or “why can’t they just understand my position?” then this workshop is definitely for you!
The Line Manager’s Toolkit
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If you’re new to Line Management, or [more likely], you’ve been a Line Manager for a while but have never had any formal training, these workshops are ideal for equipping you with specific and useable tools. Select the one/s you need most, or book on the whole programme, the choice is yours.
The New Line Manager’s Responsibilities
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Why attend?
There are 3 things every Line Manager needs to know when they manage people: how to set objectives, how to equip people with the skills they need to achieve their objectives and how to give meaningful, constructive feedback to ensure team members stay on track towards achieving their objectives. This workshop will equip you with the knowledge to do all 3.
Managing Poor Performance
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Why attend?
Learn how to deliver performance related feedback, deal with minor incidents of poor performance and – possibly the most challenging – repeated poor behaviour (when the work may be good, but the behaviour of the team member is really affecting the rest of the team). The tools learnt in this workshop are essential for all people managers.
Developing Team Members
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Why attend?
If you’ve ever struggled with how to manage an enthusiastic employee keen for promotion but you know they’re not ready, someone with oodles of potential but no direction, or team members fed up with logging the same development on their annual review, then this workshop is for you. Learn how to help team members formulate realistic development plans and what you can do to manage expectations.
Engaging One-to-One Conversations
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Why attend?
This workshop will equip with several, simple techniques that will enable you to get the best out of every one-to-one conversation with a team member. Learn how to `open-up’ the quieter team members, focus the more vocal and generate genuine interest in the conversation.
Building Effective Teams
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Why attend?
In this workshop learn the importance of a strong team `Why?’ and how to generate commitment to the team’s vision. Individual team role preferences are discussed and tips are shared to help you maximise each team member’s contributions.
Building Effective Relationships
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Why attend?
If you work with someone who, no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to relate to, get on the same page as or still find frustrating because their approach doesn’t make any sense, then this workshop is for you. Learn the art of rapport building, the thinking that underpins it and the subtle skills that will help you engage even the most challenging of people. It’s also great for those of you who want to strengthen the bond in an existing relationship.
Interviewing Skills
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Why attend?
Finding the right candidate is hard, especially now when there are so many candidates for every role. Learn how to prepare for and lead interviews that get the best from every interviewee. Question preparation, delivery, active listening and probing for depth and clarity of information are all covered in this workshop.
Coaching
For personal growth, development and achievement one-to-one coaching is possibly one of the most powerful and impactful tools a person can invest in. The time spent in one-to-one coaching is focused entirely focused on you: your goals, your situation, your choices, your decisions. All sessions are totally confidential (even when paid for by your organisation) so you can feel confident to explore even the most challenging of topics.
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You may be considering coaching for a variety of reasons: maybe there’s a specific goal you want to achieve but you’re not sure how to get there; maybe you’re facing a challenging time at work or at home and you're so in the thick of it you can’t see a way forward; maybe you’re unclear of what you want to do next in your career or life and would love to have the clarity others seem to possess; maybe you're considering one-to-one coaching for a completely different reason. Whatever your reason, we’re here to help. And to make sure you feel totally comfortable before you decide, we offer, a free 30 minute `chemistry call’ so you'll know in advance you’ll be in safe and supportive hands.
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Coaching sessions can be booked as lone sessions or packages of 3 or 5 and can be held on Zoom, Teams or face-to-face.
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Leadership Development Programme
Wendy Forrester is co-facilitator on an interactive Leadership Development Programme led by The Leadership School. The programme, Leading with Credibility, aims to connect business professionals from a variety of organisations and creates opportunities for leaders to learn, share and grow in a confidential and safe space.
Why attend?
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Attending Leading with Credibility will help you:
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Identify what’s really important to you as a leader: your why, underpinning values and beliefs so you can lead with authenticity
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Increase your leadership impact and leadership capability through the implementation of practical, effective tools
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Engage team members, peers and clients alike in your vision, goals and plans
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Build trust-based relationships across your organisation
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Develop and grow both your business and people
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Lead change even in the most turbulent of times
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Build a high performing team
If you’re interested in learning more, click on the link:
https://www.theleadershipschool.co.uk/leading-with-credibility