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\n We offer an executive portfolio of vocational, practical and in-depth courses in personal development, people management and leadership.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n
These courses provide\u00a0workplace\u00a0professionals and university and college students the opportunity to enhance,\u00a0refresh\u00a0or kick-start their chosen careers. You will gain an appreciation of the body of knowledge that drives your career paths as well as the practical application of that knowledge. Our short courses are designed for forward thinking and proactive learners who are keen to advance themselves by being more employable in a short period.<\/p>\n
Our training courses are designed to fulfil the learning and development requirements of organisations and individuals across the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad.<\/p>\n
We also design and deliver tailor made and in-house, closed\u00a0training courses for\u00a0private\u00a0companies that can be delivered at your company’s preferred location.\u00a0These courses are designed to meet your organisation’s specific needs and to solve organisational problems. We will design your courses to ensure that your organisation’s mission, vision and values are embedded into the solutions and delivery of courses.<\/p>\n
Our short course portfolio\u00a0is designed to bring high quality education to busy professionals or college and university graduates who do not have the time to engage in a long-term degree course or who do not have the time or money to go to university.<\/p>\n
Our courses are taught by a cadre of highly experienced and well sought after industry professionals and highly qualified learning and teaching experts. Our skilled lecturers have experience of the commercial, academic and community sectors, which will benefit you and your organisation. The courses are designed to ensure that all types of learners can benefit from the opportunities presented.<\/p>\n
Our courses are designed to ensure that you can work independently and hit the ground running in your chosen field.<\/p>\n
The practical exercises and workshops we run ensure that you know exactly what to do to kick start your career. You will stay supported, focused and motivated in an environment where you can interact and collaborate with industry practitioners and other students, engage in discussions, and stay up to date with all the latest industry knowledge, which is not possible through an online course. For overseas clients you can combine your learning with a vacation and cultural experience.<\/p>\n
Duration:<\/strong> 2 days (not consecutive)<\/p>\n Who is this course for?<\/strong><\/p>\n Practical course for line managers who are looking to formalise their experience or HR practitioners who wish to update their knowledge and skills. Individuals considering HR as a career.<\/p>\n Day 1: <\/strong><\/p>\n We will start the day explaining what HR practices are and the different activities that happen within each one. This will lead into a discussion about who is responsible for HR practices, especially if there is no internal HR expertise, and also the role of line managers in the day-to-day execution of HR activities.<\/p>\n The first HR practice to be explored will be the critical area of activity known as Resourcing. This will consider what is workforce planning and how it informs decision-making about resourcing, and then delve into Employer Branding and Recruitment and Selection good practice. It will also make links with key legislation and how the external labour market impact the choices about recruitment and selection methods, as well as the importance of job role descriptions. This will then lead into discussion about induction and the onboarding process and probationary period.<\/p>\n The second HR practice will be performance management and explains what good practice looks like, what the intended outcomes should be, who should do it and why and how it can have positive impact on employees and help to retain talent.<\/p>\n Day 2: <\/strong><\/p>\n Reward and Employee Development<\/p>\n An important area of HR activity which includes both financial and non-financial pay, compensation and benefits. The focus will be on designing a reward system that is relevant to the culture and purpose of the organisation and which takes into consideration factors including the size and the nature of the workforce and the financial position of the organisation. Any reward practice should also be designed with intended outcomes in view which will vary depending on what the organisation wants it to do, for example, attract high talent, encourage team working, retain talent or drive employee engagement and innovation.<\/p>\n The final session will look at the practice of Employee development, how it can happen and why it is important, and the important links with other HR practices covered earlier in the course.<\/p>\n To wrap up the session, there will be some handy tips and ideas on how to measure the impact of the HR practices from a business and employee perspective and useful sources of HR expertise and advice.<\/p>\n For further information on this course contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact<\/strong>: Paula.Jenkins@chi.ac.uk<\/a> OR Business-School@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Certificate of attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n Course venue:<\/strong> 老司机视频 campus or company premises<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLeading and Managing Teams<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Duration:<\/strong> 2\/3 days (not consecutive)<\/p>\n Who is this course for?<\/strong><\/p>\n This practical course is for anyone new to people management at a supervisory or junior level. Individuals who aspire to manage people in the future and need to know what it involves.<\/p>\n Day 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n We will start by thinking about the difference between a leader and a manager, and when you in your context might lead and manage. You will have the opportunity to think about popular models such as situational leadership and influential contemporary leadership theories to help you choose the right approach for your business context, workforce and culture.<\/p>\n We will then explore the roles and responsibilities of a manager and managing effective teams and understanding team dynamics. We will help you to understand different management styles and approaches to the management of people, and to explore your own style and how you might develop it. This will include thinking about what shapes your view of the world to increase self-awareness and the concepts of emotional intelligence and resilience.<\/p>\n We will end with a discussion on the psychology of people management to think about the idea of a psychological contract between the organisation and employee, motivation and performance and some of the lessons from neuroscience and behavioural science that help to make evidence-based choices about ways of managing people.<\/p>\n Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n This day is about Managing the Team. What makes a great team, new ways of working as we come out of the pandemic, the multi-generational workforce and diversity and inclusivity. We’ll progress to thinking about you can enhance the customer and employee experience to aid employee retention of talent and attain superior levels of performance. We will also ensure that you are aware of some of the key employment legislation that impacts on the management of people, in particular the Equality Act, the working time directive and GDPR.<\/p>\n We will then focus on the skills, tools and techniques for the day to day management of people including giving direction and setting goals, instruction giving, delegating, influencing and persuasion, communication and feedback, decision-making and handling conflict.<\/p>\n The final session will look at managing individual performance and ways to encourage high performance through coaching skills and having constructive conversations and dealing with performance issues.<\/p>\n You will leave with some actions to take forward in your workplace and ideas how you will further develop your own leadership and management practice.<\/p>\n N.B.<\/strong> This course can be tailored to include team profiles using Belbin or Everything DiSC for intact teams<\/p>\n For further information on this course contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact:<\/strong> Paula.Jenkins@chi.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0 OR Business-School@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Certificate of attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n Course venue:<\/strong> 老司机视频 campus or company premises<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLeading More Effectively<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Duration: <\/strong>3 days (not consecutive)<\/p>\n Who is this course for?<\/strong><\/p>\n Suitable for people in a mid-career people-leading role, leading projects, teams or organisations.<\/p>\n Day 1: <\/strong><\/p>\n We will start by exploring what is meant by a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic, Ambiguous) environment and consider the new ways of working that are emerging from the pandemic and workforce employment trends. This will be followed by a discussion about leading versus managing and some of the influential 21st<\/sup> century leadership styles before focussing on your own leadership style and the importance of leading yourself before you lead others.<\/p>\n Next we will look at a useful framework for the 7 dimensions of strategic leadership and consider each dimension in detail in relation to your workplace context and how you can make use of these specific concepts in your leadership in your organisation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Day 2 and 3: <\/strong><\/p>\n Managing Change: the VUCA environment requires organisations to be agile and proactive to seize new opportunities and to enable flexibility in their workforce. We will introduce you to various change models and tools to try out and highlight some of the common issues and challenges in driving strategic change.<\/p>\n There will then be a session focussing in on organisational effectiveness through design, development and behaviours drawing close links with the earlier ideas around organisational agility, resilience and flexibility. The role of the leader in this will be central to the conversation including ideas about strategic decision making, sustainability and managing through others to create organisational superior performance.<\/p>\n The final session will look at measuring impact using a balanced scorecard approach and how this can help focus in on what is important for the business to be successful and as a method for including all areas of the business in working to achieve the organisational vision and strategy and measuring their particular contribution.<\/p>\n There will also be an opportunity to plan next steps to take back to the workplace to drive organisational and personal growth and development.<\/p>\n For further information on this course, contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact for further information<\/strong>: Paula.Jenkins@chi.ac.uk<\/a> or Business-School@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Certificate of attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n Course venue<\/strong>: on 老司机视频 campus or at company premises<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tStrategic HR<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Duration: <\/strong>2 days (not consecutive)<\/p>\n Who is this course for?<\/strong><\/p>\n This practical course is for line managers looking to formalise their experience or HR practitioners looking to progress their HR career and move into more strategic roles or extend\/update their knowledge and skills.<\/p>\n Day 1: <\/strong><\/p>\n We will start by exploring the question of What\u00a0is a strategic approach to HRM?<\/em> and how it can create value through people by aligning Business strategy with culture and structure through its people practices and processes. It will then move into some approaches and tools for creating an organisational HR strategy and provide some latest ideas about the impact taking a strategic approach to HR can have on organisational performance and the creation of higher value through people. Consideration will be given to ideas about organisational culture, values and structure and the notion of alignment. This session will run as a workshop with opportunities for participants to work on creating an HR strategy for their own organisation or for another business within the class.<\/p>\n The next session will look at adopting a strategic approach to key HR practices including Resourcing and Talent Management, Performance Management, Reward and Employee Development and Employee Relations and look at each one in turn and provide insights into good practice, important considerations and issues in designing and implementing new practices. This session will be split into 5 mini sessions running into Day 2 to give participants a chance to work on developing their own specific HR strategies for one or more of the key practices.<\/p>\n Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n The second day will finish will ideas about latest thinking in Strategic HRM about the importance of Employee Well Being and Diversity and Inclusivity as well as the value of HR information systems for the digitisation of some activities and the opportunity to use metrics and data analytics to evidence the impact of HR practices on organisational performance and the workforce. Participants will take away useful tools, sources and ideas for developing their HR practice to be a more strategic partner within their business.<\/p>\n For further information on this course, contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact:<\/strong> Paula.Jenkins@chi.ac.uk<\/a> OR Business-School@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Certificate of attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n Course venue:<\/strong> 老司机视频 campus or company premises<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPsychometric Profiling Development Workshops<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Timing of course: Very flexible according to demand<\/strong><\/p>\n Who is this course for?<\/strong><\/p>\n This highly practical and interactive course focuses on teams and individuals in organisations of any size and sector. It is to help them understand their behaviour and their impact on others. This will enable individuals to create their own personal development plans for action in the workplace.<\/p>\n These workshops using Everything DiSC<\/em> can be run as a Team session, as part of a tailored programme or as 1:1 personalised development. This suite of psychometric tools are widely used in large and small UK businesses and in Europe, the USA and Australia. They can be used to build greater understanding and effectiveness in teams, develop management and leadership capability and help organisations create and embed their culture. Our tutors and facilitators are all certified and licensed users for these tools.<\/p>\n Different psychometric tools include:<\/strong><\/p>\n This uses DiSC workplace, which enables workplace teams to explore their personal styles and their impact on others. Each team member receives a personal report and there are opportunities for 1;1 coaching conversations, small group and whole team activities.<\/p>\n Using the Everything DiSC management tool, each participant will receive a personalised report with and a 1:1 coaching conversation to explore ideas on how they can direct, delegate and develop people and successfully influence upwards.<\/p>\n Additional Everything DiSC tools for management development include profiles for Emotional Intelligence, Productive Conflict and Agility<\/p>\n We can also offer 360 degree feedback reports for individual managers or selected groups using GFB 360 Feedback tool<\/p>\n This uses the Everything DiSC work of leaders profile and each participant receives an individual report and 1:1 coaching conversation.<\/p>\n This 360 can be part of a leadership development programme or offered on an individual basis. GFB 360 Feedback is the psychometric tool we use for this report.<\/p>\n For further information on this course, contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact:<\/strong> Paula.Jenkins@chi.ac.uk<\/a> OR Business-School@chi.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Course venue:<\/strong> 老司机视频 campus, company premises or online<\/p>\n老司机视频 this course:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\n\t\tTerms and Conditions\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\tShort Course Terms and Conditions<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\tTerms and Conditions<\/strong>
\n1.1 Courses are open to anyone aged eighteen (18) and over
\n1.2 To book a place please see our Online Store.<\/a>
\n1.3 You will receive an email with joining instructions 3 weeks before the start date.\nOur Rights and Obligations<\/strong>
\n2.1\u00a0 We will make every effort to run courses as advertised. However, we reserve the right to make changes to any course in order to ensure that they are up to date and in accordance with current best practice.
\n2.2\u00a0 We reserve the right to cancel or suspend any course. If this is the case, you will be informed by email and given a full refund.\nYour Rights and Obligations<\/strong>
\n3.1 Please bring your joining instructions with you at the start of the course.
\n3.2 You must notify us of\u00a0 any changes in your registration details including your name, address, telephone number and\/ or email address
\n3.3 You agree to act with courtesy, consideration and integrity towards the 老司机视频 staff\u00a0 and other students. We reserve the right to terminate the contract with you and remove you from the course in circumstances where your conduct is deemed to be unfit or unsuitable or damaging to the 老司机视频 or its reputation. If you are removed from the course in accordance with this clause,\u00a0 we will not refund any sums paid by you towards the course.
\n3.4\u00a0 We will endeavour to cater for special diets due to medical reasons. You must provide details on your booking form if you have any dietary requirements or require any special assistance.
\n3.5 Recordings (audio or video) are not permitted during training sessions – however copies of presentations and additional resources will be provided electronically following your course (shared via drop box.)
\n3.6 We take the health and safety of our course participants seriously and delegates must follow any health and safety procedures as advised by the 老司机视频, their facilitators, transport officials or venues visited. Failure to do so, may result in the delegate’s removal from the course.\n