Free Webinars
Tune-up your skills and grab a space on one of our free bite-sized webinars.
We are running a series of free webinars that anyone can attend. These webinars are focused on one topic and last around 60 minutes.
The details of the sessions we are running are below. Keep checking our social media pages for details of new webinar subjects and dates.
Spaces are limited, so if you would like to attend any or all of the webinars below, grab a space now. All webinars are recorded, so even if you can’t make the live event, you can still access the recording but you will need to be signed up to access the recording.
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Upcoming Webinars
There are currently no webinars scheduled.
Previous Webinars
How to Instil a COVID Secure Culture
Learn how to support behavioural change to create a COVID Secure working environment..
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn about how to support behavioural change in relation to working safely under new conditions and procedures being implemented in response to government guidance for operating in a COVID Secure working environment.
Safe working is about more than removing hazards, introducing new procedures and training people in the changes. Unless initial training can affect the attitudes, mindset and thoughts of your people and support that ongoing, you will have missed the critical factor in creating a sustainable culture of safety.
Managers with skills to create behavioural change in individuals and teams will be more successful in meeting the demands of the changing world of work.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Understand the meaning of safety culture at work.
- Appreciate the movement in responsibility that improves workplace safety
- Know the basic components of a safety management system
- Understand the importance of positive reinforcement in behavioural change
- Know how the coaching process empowers individuals to take responsibility and action
Webinar Content
- Company culture and management culture
- DuPont’s Bradley Curve
- Safety Management Systems
- Behavioural change
- Coaching as a management tool
Webinar Benefits
This webinar will provide key insights to help you to enhance your plans for adapting to the ‘new normal’. You will gain a clear understanding of the importance of the human factor in change and how to effectively address it through key skills and systems.
Coaching in Challenging Times
Get the essential skills needed to coach individuals through challenging problems and situations.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn the essential skills needed to coach individuals through challenging problems and situations such that they are empowered to take responsibility and develop a more proactive and creative approach. Attendees will learn how to raise awareness and confidence in individuals and how to turn that into motivated action.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Understand how coaching works to raise awareness and confidence
- Know how to use coaching skills to gain powerful buy-in to ideas and solutions
- Be able to follow an effective coaching process to problem solve
- Understand how to use coaching to encourage creativity and initiative
- Know how the coaching process empowers individuals to take responsibility and action
- Be able to adapt their style based on the person being coached
Webinar Content
- The essence of coaching that underpins all coaching approaches to make them effective
- Questioning techniques that encourage reflection, initiative, and action
- Developing rapport, listening and empathy to build confidence
- A four-step coaching process for flexible problem solving
- Adapting to values that empower motivation and proactivity
Webinar Benefits
Being able to coach individuals effectively is one of the most valuable skills in business today. It supports personal growth and builds organisations that are resilient and adaptable because its people are proactive and creative. This webinar will provide the key techniques to enable you to coach people through challenging situations and difficult problems, build confidence and empower creative action.
Business Writing in the Digital Age
Get hints and tips on how to write business emails and other digital communication documents.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn the essential skills needed to produce clear and concise written content. Attendees will learn 12 tools they can apply when writing emails, web content and business reports that provide clarity and engage the reader so that written communication can be easily understood and acted upon.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Be able to reduce wordcount while improving clarity
- Be able to change words and phrases to more efficient and effective ones
- Be able to build confidence in the mind of their reader through word and phrase choice
- Be able to quickly check and edit their work
- Understand the difference between active and passive language and choose the most appropriate approach
- Be able to give a positive impression to customers and colleagues through choice of language
- Be able to use an engaging style of writing to influence an audience
Webinar Content
- Methods to improve paragraphs and sentences
- Options to improve phrase and word choice
- Tools for proof-reading and editing work
- Tools to engage and influence your reader
- How to use active and passive voice structures appropriately
- How to build confidence and positivity into written communication
Webinar Benefits
Being able to create clarity in written communication builds credibility, ensures that information is understood and perceived correctly and increases the chances that desired action is taken. This webinar will provide a range of techniques that will enable you to produce clear, concise and positive written content for any digital format.
Resilience and Emotional Intelligence
Learn how to build resilience and improve your overall wellbeing through increased emotional intelligence.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn the essential skills needed to build resilience through increased emotional intelligence. Attendees can improve their overall wellbeing by building these key skills and learn to face an increasingly uncertain future with a more stable mental and emotional base.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Understand the structured steps that build emotional intelligence
- Be able to practice approaches and techniques to moderate emotional responses.
- Increase their ability to recognise and acknowledge reactive patterns
- Understand how conscious and unconscious thought processes fuel emotions and learn to interrupt the process and become alert and more perceptive
- Know how to engage in thought exercises to change perspective and address challenging situations
- Know where to seek assistance if circumstances become too difficult to manage
Webinar Content
- Methods to observe and label emotions
- Practices to understand negative reactions and how to change them
- Techniques to manage breathe and monitor physiology
- Perspective taking exercises
- Signposting for extra support
Webinar Benefits
Being able to understand and use emotional intelligence to build resilience and improve wellbeing is an end in itself. The webinar will also help attendees to approach challenges more positively and proactively, build confidence and self-worth and develop a greater sense of perspective and calm in dealing with challenging events and situations.
Prioritising a Demanding Workload
Get hints and tips on how to take control of your time by effectively prioritising your workload.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn the essential skills needed to prioritise a demanding workload. It aims to give individuals confidence and expertise in taking control of their time and tasks to ensure that they and others are working on the right things at the right time.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Be able to take stock of numerous tasks and demands and gain a sense of control over addressing them.
- Be able to assess priorities in line with organisational and personal goals.
- Make ongoing assessments of priority in challenging and rapidly changing circumstances.
- Be able to make confident judgements about importance and ordering of tasks.
- Understand how to utilise a range of planning and organising tools to ensure that priorities are captured and managed effectively.
- Know how to manage other’s expectations and delegate effectively.
Webinar Content
- Identifying which tasks you should be working on
- Using techniques to prioritise tasks
- Range of tools and technology to capture, plan and organise multiple tasks
- Setting and managing the expectations of teams, customers and line managers
- Effective delegation process
Webinar Benefits
Being able to prioritise your tasks effectively reduces stress, builds confidence and allows more time spent on the things that are most important to effective productivity. This webinar will provide a range of techniques that when applied, will enable you to take charge of a demanding workload in challenging times.
50 Ways to Motivate Your Teams
Get some quick-fire ways to motivate and engage your team members for higher performance.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn what people want to motivate them and how you as a leader or line manager can provide it. Attendees will pick up 50 different tips and techniques for motivating their teams that align to the desires each of us carries. You will also learn how to identify different individual’s stronger motivators so you can tailor your approach.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Be able to distinguish the 8 Desires of Motivation and what each means in the context of work.
- Become more aware of their own motivations and understand how individuals are motivated differently for a variety of reasons.
- Learn how to identify team member’s motivators.
- Increase their ability to motivate individuals and teams through a wide variety of communication techniques and practical ideas.
Webinar Content
- Understanding motivation as deep-rooted desires.
- The 8 Desires of Motivation
- Bringing the 8 Desires in line with the latest in motivational research
- Identifying what motivates the people in your team
- 50 tips and techniques to motivate your team members
Webinar Benefits
The leaders and people who can motivate those around them will be best placed to be able to increase happiness, productivity and in turn the success of an organisation. Those who have a tangible impact on the productivity of their teams will stand out as exceptionally talented and will open up career development options.
17 Laws for Managing Remotely
Discover how the ‘17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork’ apply to managers of remote teams.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will discover how the ‘17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork’ apply to managers of remote teams. Managers of remote or dispersed teams, and especially those new to it, need to understand the different dynamics of remote teams and how they can act to address these dynamics and unleash the performance potential of remote team members and maximise the positive benefits of working this way.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Be aware of the ’17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork’ and their implications for remote or dispersed teams.
- Understand the key challenges in managing remote teams and how to overcome them.
- Be able to apply a wide range of tools and techniques to manage, motivate and build the morale of a remote team.
Webinar Content
- Understanding the dynamics of remote teams
- The ’17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork’
- Leadership – the differentiating factor in remote team success
- How to manage, motivate and build the morale of a remote team.
Webinar Benefits
Managers of remote teams are likely to face additional as well as different challenges to their localised counterparts. Developing skills and knowledge in remote management will benefit individuals’ careers and leadership potential in an employment market that is increasingly shaped by flexible working arrangements and diverse team dynamics.
Coping With Change in Challenging Times
Learn the essential skills needed to cope with and support other through change in challenging times.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn the essential skills needed to cope with change in challenging times. Attendees will learn about how people react to change in different ways at different times and tools and techniques to help themselves and others through change and crisis.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Understand why people react the way they do in times of change and crisis
- Increase their ability to recognise and acknowledge reactive emotional reactions to change and crisis
- Understand the stages of the Change Curve
- How to lead others through change in time of crisis
- Know a range of tools to manage themselves and others through Change in a crisis
Webinar Content
- Why change in crisis is different from planned change
- The Change Curve
- Emotional reactions to change and why
- How to lead other people through change in a crisis
- Techniques to cope with change and crisis situations
Webinar Benefits
Being able to understand why we react to change in a crisis situation and how we can minimise the stress for ourselves and others. The webinar will also help attendees to approach challenges linked with change and crisis more positively and proactively, build confidence and develop a greater sense of perspective and calm in dealing with Change in crisis situations.
Influencing & Negotiating With Your Team
Get some ideas on how to Influence and Negotiate with your team in difficult situations.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn the essential skills needed to Influence and Negotiate with your team in these times of crisis. To help you navigate through challenging problems, minimising conflict and positional situations where agreement appears to be impossible
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Understand the difference between Influence and Negotiation
- Know how to use influence to change a person’s perspective of a crisis situation
- Know the skills required to influence and negotiate in a crisis situation
- Know how to use Negotiation to produce win-win situations
- Be able to adapt their style based on the situation
Webinar Content
- What is Negotiation and Influence
- When do we need to influence and when to Negotiate
- Why do we need to Influence and Negotiate
- 5 Negotiation Strategies
- How to produce Win-Win Situations
Webinar Benefits
Being able to influence and negotiate individuals and teams effectively are two of the most valuable skills in business today. These skills help us to maximise the positive values in situations and helps us avoid conflict, resistance and resentment with our team members, colleagues and employees This webinar will provide the key techniques to enable you to influence and Negotiate with people through challenging situations and difficult problems, build confidence and empower creative action.
Webinar Aims
In this 1-hour webinar you will learn about how to support behavioural change in relation to working safely under new conditions and procedures being implemented in response to government guidance for operating in a COVID Secure working environment.
Safe working is about more than removing hazards, introducing new procedures and training people in the changes. Unless initial training can affect the attitudes, mindset and thoughts of your people and support that ongoing, you will have missed the critical factor in creating a sustainable culture of safety.
Managers with skills to create behavioural change in individuals and teams will be more successful in meeting the demands of the changing world of work.
By the end of the session, attendees will:
- Understand the meaning of safety culture at work.
- Appreciate the movement in responsibility that improves workplace safety
- Know the basic components of a safety management system
- Understand the importance of positive reinforcement in behavioural change
- Know how the coaching process empowers individuals to take responsibility and action
Webinar Content
- Company culture and management culture
- DuPont’s Bradley Curve
- Safety Management Systems
- Behavioural change
- Coaching as a management tool
Webinar Benefits
This webinar will provide key insights to help you to enhance your plans for adapting to the ‘new normal’. You will gain a clear understanding of the importance of the human factor in change and how to effectively address it through key skills and systems.
