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October 2007

Mentoring Others - 2nd / 3rd Oct - Mentoring Principals and how this can support your staff students and volunteers. Mentoring and delegation effectiveness. How is mentoring different to Supervision. What does menroting bring to your organisation. Assessment of mentors and how to develop this skill and ability in staff.

Diversity and Equality 9th / 10th / 16th Oct - Diversity in your agency, service delivery and user groups. Monitoring accessibility for all and equality for individuals and groups. Empowering staff, students, volunteers and service users with your diversity and equality message. How to undertake a Diversity and Equality Audit

Creative Accessibility - 17th / 23rd / 24th Oct - Understanding blocks to equality and empowering staff students, volunteers and service users with your creative accessibility message. How to undertake an Accessibility Audit. How this differs from a Diversity and Equality Audit. Using creative systems to support both types of audits to be achieved. Enabling creative accessibility ehtics to support individuals.Transparency and developing skills to assess.

November 2007

Stress and Time Management- 5th / 6th Nov - How stress affects us at work, prevention of stress in the work environment. Managing stress and work life balance for self, staff, students or volunteers. Recommended and legal requirements of employers. Recognising and reducing stress factors. How management of time can reduce stress. Skills and strategies to support creative time management initiatives at work. Skills in time managment, setting boundaries, prioritising work and knowing when and how to say "no".

Performance and Delivery - 7th / 13th / 14th Nov - Performing and delivering services to those in need. How to monitor and evaluate for reporting on targets. Benchmarks and feeding back to funders, networks and service users. Developing a Performance & Delivery Charter. Ensuring your Performance & Delivery Charter is in line with your business plan. When performance works and how to resource and deliver services.

Funding Appraisals - 20th / 27th / 28th Nov - Researching and targeting funders that will fund your work. Devising a funding strategy, campaign and approach. Appraising current approaches and how to improve upon them. Evaluation of funding efforts, performance and delivery of service and ethos and assessing communication / relationships with funders. Match funding, In Kind support and Compacts.

December 2007

Group work Principals - 4th / 5th Dec - Understanding Groups. Prinicpals of good group work. Identifying roles and workings of a group. Your role and leadership Style.Group work styles and facilitation of groups. Working in closed groups. Activities in groups and the group process. When to develop groups and when, how and why we end them. Encouraging others to lead groups.

Self Assessment Skills- 11th / 12th Dec - Asssessment tools to identify skills and abilities, using feedback and evaluation to support your self assessment. How this is supportied in a supervisory relationship, expectation of self and of others. Understanding and knowing what you are good at. Identifying what you need to develop. Self Asessment Audit and how this feeds into an Appraisal. Developing and Encouraging self asessment skills in staff, students, volunteers and with servcie users.

Evaluation and Change - 13th / 14th Dec - Developing evalution tools for service delivery, projects and activities. How evaluation feeds into overall change of programme, project or service delivery. Where change may occur and how to identify this. Change and conflict issues. Staff, students, volunteers and service users evaluations. Changes designed within the organsation or externally. Coping with and managing change at work.

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October 2007
Mentoring Others - 2nd / 3rd Oct - Mentoring Principals and how this can support your staff students and volunteers. Mentoring and delegation effectiveness. How is mentoring different to Supervision. What does menroting bring to your organisation. Assessment of mentors and how to develop this skill and ability in staff. Diversity and Equality 9th / 10th / 16th Oct - Diversity in your agency, service delivery and user groups. Monitoring accessibility for all and equality for individuals and groups. Empowering staff, students, volunteers and service users with your diversity and equality message. How to undertake a Diversity and Equality Audit Creative Accessibility - 17th / 23rd / 24th Oct - Understanding blocks to equality and empowering staff students, volunteers and service users with your creative accessibility message. How to undertake an Accessibility Audit. How this differs from a Diversity and Equality Audit. Using creative systems to support both types of audits to be achieved. Enabling creative accessibility ehtics to support individuals.Transparency and developing skills to assess.
November 2007
Stress and Time Management- 5th / 6th Nov - How stress affects us at work, prevention of stress in the work environment. Managing stress and work life balance for self, staff, students or volunteers. Recommended and legal requirements of employers. Recognising and reducing stress factors. How management of time can reduce stress. Skills and strategies to support creative time management initiatives at work. Skills in time managment, setting boundaries, prioritising work and knowing when and how to say "no". Performance and Delivery - 7th / 13th / 14th Nov - Performing and delivering services to those in need. How to monitor and evaluate for reporting on targets. Benchmarks and feeding back to funders, networks and service users. Developing a Performance & Delivery Charter. Ensuring your Performance & Delivery Charter is in line with your business plan. When performance works and how to resource and deliver services. Funding Appraisals - 20th / 27th / 28th Nov - Researching and targeting funders that will fund your work. Devising a funding strategy, campaign and approach. Appraising current approaches and how to improve upon them. Evaluation of funding efforts, performance and delivery of service and ethos and assessing communication / relationships with funders. Match funding, In Kind support and Compacts.
December 2007
Group work Principals - 4th / 5th Dec - Understanding Groups. Prinicpals of good group work. Identifying roles and workings of a group. Your role and leadership Style.Group work styles and facilitation of groups. Working in closed groups. Activities in groups and the group process. When to develop groups and when, how and why we end them. Encouraging others to lead groups. Self Assessment Skills- 11th / 12th Dec - Asssessment tools to identify skills and abilities, using feedback and evaluation to support your self assessment. How this is supportied in a supervisory relationship, expectation of self and of others. Understanding and knowing what you are good at. Identifying what you need to develop. Self Asessment Audit and how this feeds into an Appraisal. Developing and Encouraging self asessment skills in staff, students, volunteers and with servcie users. Evaluation and Change - 13th / 14th Dec - Developing evalution tools for service delivery, projects and activities. How evaluation feeds into overall change of programme, project or service delivery. Where change may occur and how to identify this. Change and conflict issues. Staff, students, volunteers and service users evaluations. Changes designed within the organsation or externally. Coping with and managing change at work.