Business Skills & Personal Development Training

Our comprehensive two day Assertiveness Skills training course provides practical guidance for anyone who needs to develop their assertiveness skills for a range of workplace situations. During our assertiveness and confidence building course you will gain the tools and techniques to boost your confidence and build your self-esteem.

This is a practical Time Management course that introduces proven techniques for mastering time. The approach will involve presentations and discussion to introduce the concepts of time mastery and practical exercises and syndicate work to develop personal skills.

Facilitation is fast becoming a key skill for anyone who is in a team, leading a project team, heading up a working group or managing a department. Facilitation is the skill, and art of guiding others to solve their own problems and achieve their objectives without simply giving advice or offering solutions. A facilitator provides the structure and process – enabling groups to function effectively and make high-quality decisions.

Focus groups are a vital tool for quality & process improvement and staff development strategies. This two day Facilitating Focus Groups course will take delegates step by step through preparing and facilitating effective focus groups.

This Presentation Skills training course is designed to give you confidence when delivering presentations. Learn how to overcome, and use problems to your advantage in order to give maximum impact with your presentation.

Powerful communication techniques are vital for anyone who needs to influence other people to achieve results. During this course you will learn to enhance your natural communication skills and improve your ability to convince and motivate others.

To listen, really listen is a difficult thing to do. Frequently, we hear what someone is saying without giving it our full attention and without fully understanding what has been said. This Active Listening Skills training course will give participants a range of techniques which they can use to improve their ability to listen.

This Stress Management training course is for anyone encountering pressure in the working environment and who would like to feel better equipped to handle it. It teaches you how to stand up to stress and how to see it as an opportunity for personal growth and development and not a threat.

Presenting information in a written form is a problem that is increasingly faced by all managers. While financial data is frequently a key part of such reports, it is usually the narrative element which causes trouble for the writer and, sadly, confusion for the reader. Since written reports are often the starting points for action, such trouble and confusion can only cause unwarranted delay.

The primary value of a business plan is to create a written outline that evaluates all aspects of the economic viability of your business venture including a description and analysis of your business prospects. This 1-day Writing Business Plans training course can be tailored to meet your specific requirements.

This Minute Taking training course is designed to help participants develop their skills for taking notes at meetings and learn and practice techniques for writing clear and accurate minutes and agendas.

This is an intensive one-day Bookkeeping training course aimed at giving those with no or little previous knowledge an understanding of double entry bookkeeping. Delegates will be able to produce accounts to trial balance, as well as produce a simple Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.

This Budgeting & Cost Control course takes a practical approach to financial planning for the organisation and considers: the compilation of budgets; how to identify potential problems arising and suggests actions which can be taken. It also looks at ways of improving financial control using budgets, so as to avoid reduced profits and/or financial problems.

Business is a constantly changing environment. What used to work often no longer does. Without change and growth businesses come under ever increasing threats from competition that gets ever smarter. The problem is how do you motivate the key players in your organisation to be more Innovative, to find new ways of doing business, to find better ways of solving problems, and to stop problems before they even occur.

The aim of this Consulting Skills training course is to develop the consulting skills of professional staff to promote and improve a client centered approach. Having completed this consulting skills training course participants will be able to: Build an effective working relationship with their clients, Carry out an initial diagnosis of client needs, Contract with clients to provide a framework within which they will work, Provide feedback to a client, Review and evaluate solutions implemented, Develop ongoing relationships with their clients.

Personal effectiveness is a result of not just one thing, but of a combination of factors which all impact upon each other. This Personal Effectiveness training course is designed for those who seek to further develop the key skills and techniques needed to build personal impact, influence and effectiveness in dealings with others.