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Practical course aimed at teaching correct load handling techniques to staff

The workplace can be rich with opportunity. It's a place where we can learn and grow, develop and contribute, build our careers, earn our living and provide for our family. It can also be challenging, demanding and exhausting.

Everyone has to cope with the stresses and strains of work and everyday life. Challenges and change are a constant for all of us. Some of these involve taking some degree of risk, while some may be crises or emergencies that demand our immediate attention.

You will have developed coping mechanisms during your life that help you deal with familiar adverse situations and many unfamiliar ones. Some of your coping mechanisms however, aren't so effective and can even make situations worse.

What separates those who can hold their own and keep going in times of adversity is a cluster of habits that centre on resilience. This workshop will explore what resilience is and the habits that strengthen your resilience enabling you to:

• Deal with pressure and handle stress
• Maintain your motivation and engagement
• Develop and sustain self-esteem
• Bounce back from set-backs and disappointments
• Transform your work life

N.B. There is a Resilience & Wellbeing module on the Intranet featuring videos and downloadable resources.

This is an informal event primarily to help new managers build their know-how and confidence in the challenges of management.

Attendees will bring a question or an issue of concern which will be discussed by the peers in the group with the leader facilitating.

If you don't have a question or issue to bring, you are still welcome to attend to participate in the conversations.

This one-day course explores how managers can create the conditions for excellent performance, treating performance management as a routine activity, not just to be considered when something goes wrong. It explores the link between the business environment, effective management and service performance.

It is equally relevant to new managers and those who are already managing but want to refresh their skills.

Please note the session will not focus on the procedural elements of the formal performance management process. Our workshop People Management Policies covers this.

Practical course aimed at understanding and completing work-activity risk assessments using the corporate risk assessment forms and guidance document

This new course for all staff explores what it takes to make the most of our abilities so that we achieve what we want, whilst being true to our values. The course will be loosely structures around the first three habits of Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People:

1. Be proactive

2. Begin with the end in mind

3. Put first things first

The training will be highly interactive with opportunities for personal reflection and action planning.

 Connect 5: 5 Ways to Mental Health and Wellbeing

Connect 5 is an accredited mental health promotion training programme that is designed to increase the confidence and skills of front line staff. The training will support staff to have conversations with people that they work with about:

• Mental health and wellbeing
• Help people to manage mental health needs
• Increase their resilience and mental wellbeing through positive changes
• Provide signposting to local service

Connect 5 aims to support workers, volunteers and organisations in promoting better mental health and wellbeing for the people they work with.

Connect 5 courses are interactive and practical, drawing upon the latest evidence about supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing. The courses support participants to gain skills and confidence and information about practical interventions so as to be able to respond helpfully to people experiencing poor mental health and wellbeing.

Practical course aimed at teaching correct load handling techniques to staff

This is an informal event primarily to help new managers build their know-how and confidence in the challenges of management.

Attendees will bring a question or an issue of concern which will be discussed by the peers in the group with the leader facilitating.

If you don't have a question or issue to bring, you are still welcome to attend to participate in the conversations.

The workplace can be rich with opportunity. It's a place where we can learn and grow, develop and contribute, build our careers, earn our living and provide for our family. It can also be challenging, demanding and exhausting.

Everyone has to cope with the stresses and strains of work and everyday life. Challenges and change are a constant for all of us. Some of these involve taking some degree of risk, while some may be crises or emergencies that demand our immediate attention.

You will have developed coping mechanisms during your life that help you deal with familiar adverse situations and many unfamiliar ones. Some of your coping mechanisms however, aren't so effective and can even make situations worse.

What separates those who can hold their own and keep going in times of adversity is a cluster of habits that centre on resilience. This workshop will explore what resilience is and the habits that strengthen your resilience enabling you to:

• Deal with pressure and handle stress
• Maintain your motivation and engagement
• Develop and sustain self-esteem
• Bounce back from set-backs and disappointments
• Transform your work life

N.B. There is a Resilience & Wellbeing module on the Intranet featuring videos and downloadable resources.