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Below are a number of our most frequently run programmes.

No two customers – or their challenges- are the same, so please consider the topics and learning objectives below as a ‘starter for 10’, to be adapted and evaluated, to fit with your individual context and business requirements.

Leadership and people management skills

Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Leaders
	Thinking through/resolving work challenges
	Aligning your life and work to your personal values
	Personal motivation
	Personal confidence and self belief
	Stakeholder management
	Personal effectiveness
	Personal impact/self awareness
	Effective communication
	Time management/ Productivity

Developing a Culture of Accountability
	Goal setting
	Planning and prioritising
	Career planning
	Planning for an important event
	First 100 days/new job
	Interview preparation
	Career/home balance

Stakeholder Management in Complex Environments
	Leading change
	Team motivation and morale
	Aligning ‘team’ and ‘task’
	Resolving conflict
	Interpersonal issues/managing differences
	Leadership skills
	Team communications
	Handling difficult conversations

Change Leadership Skills
	Leading Cultural Change
	Developing vision and values frameworks
	Organisational alignment to vision and values
	Resolving conflict
	Business skills (coaching and mentoring)
	Business strategy
	Branding
	Marketing
	Innovation

““I found the sessions with Amanda were extremely helpful in terms of pinning down the root of the problem and supporting me to find the solutions. It was also the wrap-up and review process which encouraged me to make changes or tackle issues. I would also say that for me, working with Amanda helped me find new insights that developed my thinking and enabled me to find real enthusiasm for the task ahead.”

-Associate Director, NHS Community Services

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Learning objectives: To familiarise you with what coaching is and its value to a leader or aspiring leader of today To create an opportunity for you to learn a raft of simple but effective core coaching skills and build your own coaching experience through practise and skills-honing, in a safe but stretching environment	Overall objective: To create a rationale and action-plan for supporting your team to move towards a culture of shared and individual accountability, supported by a clear framework, language and behaviours. Specific learning objectives Creating a shared framework to support a culture of accountability Working with a leadership style that supports the development of team and individual accountability Review a range of practical tools and techniques for increasing and sustaining accountability in individuals
Learning objectives: To understand the principles and practise techniques to manage multiple stakeholders across multiple organisations. Broken into five stages: Set your goals Analyse and understand the territory Plan your approaches Engage with your stakeholders Review and move forward	Learning objectives: Understand how change affects people and what that might mean within your team Support you teams through change Build mental toughness in yourself and others Deal and cope with the fallout from change Maintain focus and productivity in yourself and your team
Robust Decision Making How do you make good decisions when there’s little evidence to support you? Learning objectives: How change affects our understanding of and comfort with risk Understanding personality types and how this impacts on your decision-making. Understand and practise some tools and techniques that help you make more robust decisions with little data	Building Morale, Motivation and Commitment in Teams Learning objectives: Understand why people resist change and how this affects morale and motivation How to manage resistance to change Structures and techniques to develop conversations which build morale and motivation Leading to inspire and secure commitment
Essential Leadership Skills Learning objectives: Understand the differences between leadership and management Understand and work with ‘Emotional Intelligence’ and its role in great leadership Review a model of leadership styles and understand which styles are best used in which circumstances Identifying which of our own transferable skills and experiences fit into which styles of leadership Become familiar with the cornerstones to employee engagement and how you can draw upon these principles in your day-to-day work	Leading with Emotional Intelligence Learning objectives: Understand the context driving the need for greater Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Understand what Emotional Intelligence (EI) is defined as being Consider how EI skills are developed and enhanced in leaders and managers Identify relevant behaviours, practise them and consider how we can continue to embed them until they become a new habit.

Communications skills

Strategic Influencing: Advanced Tools and Techniques for Managing Without Direct Authority Strategic influencing is about employing carefully planned approaches to engage people and get their buy in. It applies when working with peers, managers, subordinates, clients and stakeholders. The programme is useful for those working in matrix structures who need to influence those over whom they have no direct authority, but whose support they need to deliver their remit. Learning objectives: Be able to adopt a more structured and planned approach to achieve effective influencing in a wide range of business situations. Develop a wider range of skills to successfully sell your ideas and proposals to your colleagues and external parties Learn a range of tools and techniques to help you become a more effective, persuasive and successful communicator	Communicating with Influence and Persuasion Learning objectives: You will learn to use 14 separate tools and techniques which are practical, actionable and immediately usable and useful to enable you to become a more powerful and successful influencer and persuader, in both positive situations and challenging situations. Includes ‘gems’ like Building rapport where there isn’t any to begin with Handling challenging questions Dealing with resistance Managing a briefing when the news isn’t too positive Using a number of entirely ethical and positive principles of influence that will enhance your skill levels tomorrow and forever.
Handling Tough Questions How do you remain ‘in control’ when you are challenged on your thoughts and ideas? Learning objectives: Consider why people ask tough/challenging/ “overly assertive” questions? Preparing yourself mentally and physically for the challenge Handling challenging questions Dealing with negative statements Handling multiple questions adeptly Handling questions on topics you’ve already fully answered Managing challenging behaviours during conversations	Powerful Presenting Learning objectives: Highly interactive, lots of practise! A chance to work on your own presentation, interspersed with 3 core learning sessions Developing your material Preparing yourself and using body language and para language to make you a more compelling speaker Working with and understanding the audience
Holding Effective Performance Development Conversations Learning objectives: To learn and practise techniques and use tools which will help you effectively Prepare to hold the conversation Set the context, Structure the conversation Give and receiving feedback Handle challenging behaviours during the process Secure agreement Deliver an effective ‘wrap up’	Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback Learning objectives: Review the principles behind the giving and receiving of feedback Adopt easy-to-work-with frameworks for the conversation Learn new tools and techniques for managing the conversation (give and receive) Handle challenging behaviours, should they arise Plus lots of opportunity to put these principles into practise in a safe, supportive environment
Powerful Communication Learning objectives: Work with a theory that enables you to understand how people learn and experience the world differently from each other Build a wider portfolio of communication styles, using a variety of techniques to enhance your impact and communicate more effectively

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“I had a moment to be able to look at the evaluations for your first Persuasion and Influence event. All of us were absolutely delighted to see the universal praise for the course.”
Learning & Development Manager, large City Council