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Professional Development Training Events

Our professional development training events are designed to help individuals and teams enhance their skills and achieve their goals.  We run these sessions regularly throughout the year, making it easy to find a time that suits you. For organisations looking for a tailored approach, we also offer bespoke training solutions where we customise the content to meet your specific needs and objectives and agree delivery dates and times to suit you.  Whether you are seeking to upskill your workforce or invest in personal growth, our flexible and practical courses provide the perfect opportunity to learn and develop.

Popular courses in this category are:

Action learning facilitator

This practical session is designed specifically for new and aspiring action learning facilitators who want to understand the theory and immediately apply it in a supportive environment.

In this 3 ½ hour remote workshop, you will explore the core principles and components of action learning. Through a blend of theory, demonstration, and small-group practice, you will learn how to guide action learning sets that focus on reflection, insight, and accountability.

 

Session content:

  • What is action learning? (Revans’ model, real problems, learning through action and reflection)
  • Core components: real problem, voluntary presenter, questioning insight, group reflection, facilitator
  • Explain 6 components (Marquardt): (problem, set, questioning, action commitment, learning reflection, facilitator)
  • Facilitator role: process guardian, not solution giver
  • Effective questioning: open, reflective, enabling action
  • Reflection techniques: what? so what? now what?
  • Managing challenges: dominant participants, silence, problem-focus drift

Session Outcomes

  1. Explain the core principles of action learning
  2. Facilitate an action learning set with clear structure and roles
  3. Apply questioning and reflection techniques effectively
  4. Identify and manage common facilitation challenges in action learning
    Courageous conversations

    Many of us are reluctant to initiate potentially difficult conversations with colleagues in the workplace. For example, this could be delivering an unsatisfactory performance review, resolving a difficult situation with a stakeholder, or perhaps an unpleasant scene between colleagues has been witnessed and needs to be reported. Whatever the conversation you need to have, this 2-hour event will provide you with the skills and strategies to have these frank and sometimes challenging conversations. This interactive session supports personal wellbeing and professional effectiveness by introducing the concepts of understanding emotional responses, mental health and how to effectively use listening skills to offer a degree of support to colleagues and others in an informal and supportive way.

    Introduction to neurodiversity

    A one-hour webinar, suitable for trainers, assessors, managers and peers to explore what is neurodiversity, terminology, facts, why neurodiversity is important and how having an awareness can help support learners and employees with a neurodiverse condition to reach their full potential.

    Level 2 Award in wellbeing and mental health

    This programme aims to provide learners with a foundational understanding of wellbeing and mental health, including key characteristics and influencing factors, the importance of supporting themselves and others, and developing personal resilience. The unit is designed to raise awareness and promote positive mental health practices in learners’ everyday lives and within their own organisations.

     Outcomes

    • Know the concept, characteristics, and influencing factors of wellbeing and mental health
    • Know how to support wellbeing and mental health
    • Know how to develop personal resilience as part of better wellbeing and mental health
    Psychological safety

    This 2-hour workshop is ideal for those wanting to foster a workplace environment where individuals can feel safe to express their ideas, take risks and collaborate openly. The session provides practical insights, including models and theories that can be applied in the workplace. This event considers:

    • What is psychological safety and what does it look like?
    • The stages and benefits of psychological safety
    • Fostering psychological safety – dos and don’ts
    • Understanding psychological safety in relation to remote teams, leadership and culture
    • Links between high performing teams and psychological safety
    • What does good look like, feel like and sound like
    • Giving and receiving feedback
    Supporting neurodivergence

    A one-day webinar (delivered over three 2-hour webinars), suitable for trainers, assessors, managers and peers to explore neurodiversity in the workplace, learning differences, establishing an inclusive workforce with positive attitudes, practical strategies and reasonable adjustments, disclosure and creating a supportive environment.

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