January 2008

Managing and Identifying Skills - 8th / 9th & 29th Jan - Undertaking a Skills Audit. Introdcuing Skills Audits at work with staff, students, volunteers and service users. How identifying skills supports motivation. Developing and managing the skills identified. Preventing skill loss and promoting and enabling individuals to nuture skills in self and others.

Volunteers Management - 15th / 16th & 17th Jan -  Developing a Volunteers Policy and Strategy. Ensuring volunteers feel able to do what they offer. Matching Volunteers skills with service delivery. Shadowing and supporting Volunteers. Volunteers and agency expectations. Understanding differences with volunteers, paid staff, students and partnership staff. Valuing volunteers promoting an ethic of regard and assertiveness prinicipals.

Partnership Projects - 22nd / 23rd & 30th Jan - Developing partnership projects. Prinicpals in developing effective and sustainable services delivered by one or more partners. Encouraging growth and expansion within budgets. Reporting and monitoring Partnership Projects. Advisory bodies and  expansion to meet core objectives. Reviewing and development of Lead Partner status.

February 2008

Motivating Others - 5th / 6th & 7th Feb  - Identifying and asessment of motivation in self and others. How motivation can be encouraged and developed. Raising staff morale and confidence. Understanding motivational Interviewing prinicpals. Developing a motivational interviewing supervisory relationship. 

Discipline & Grievances - 12th /13th & 14th Feb -  Support and practical ways of dealing with discipline and grievances. Employment Law and recommendations in effective management of dealing with discipline and grievances. How supporting staff to communicate concern can prevent discipline and grievances in the work place.

Conflict and Change - 19th / 20th & 21st Feb - Dealing with change in the workplace. Understanding how conflict occurs and it's process at work during change. Preventative measures that can be taken to limit conflict amongst staff , students, volunteerrs and service users during a change process. Steps in preparing for change and minimising conflict.

March 2008

Capacity Building - 4th / 5th & 6th March - Business planning and capacity building. Training and assessment of skills required to support growth of service. Funding availability and development of approaches towards long term sustainability. Building effective strategies to support growth. Monthly, quarterly and year end evaluations of services towards growth. Identifying when / if  capacity building ends

Expanding Services - 11th / 12th March - Building an Expansion System Tool to support current and expected growth. Where expansion can occur. Assessment of need and resources. Identifying options for expansion. Leasing buildings, owning, capital projects. Understanding requirements and blocks to expansion of services. Branding and marketing your expansion of services. 

Strategic Delivery - 13th /18th March - Developing your Strategic Delivery of services. Principals of effective and efficient approaches to ensuring delivery occurs. Marketing and communication of your efforts internally and externally. Limitations of information and expectations of others. Developing a Strategic Delivery Statement. Increasing staff, students, volunteers and service users in your Strategic Delivery. Funding potential and opportunities with a Strategic Delivery Statement and Plan