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- 1. glue together workshops “ If you want to empower your employees “ and improve their performance, gluetogether doesn’t disappoint. your pioneering change agents
- 2. Personal Development Influencing Skills people we interact with to get our job done. Do you cause things to happen? Or are you happy to Sometimes these are long term and other times just do what ‘they’ want me to do? Are you too easily for a single result or project.Whatever the reason the persuaded without questioning and probing the better the relationship the more effective we are and possible outcomes? Find out how you can influence the more we enjoy our role.This workshop will help others more effectively. Explore how your behaviour you to improve your relationships with others and get influences both individuals and larger groups and better results and is just as relevant for you and your identify what you can do to really influence others social relationships too. behaviours. Managing Conflict Communicating Difficult Messages Conflict is a necessary and every day occurrence. We’re all human and the majority of us find ‘difficult’ After all it would be a very static place if we all agreed messages more difficult to say. Of course we can avoid with everything and everyone. So why is it that many it, blurt it out, make it humourous, make it everyone’s of us find it daunting – to disagree. Are we worried problem or we can learn some simple and successful about how it will affect the relationship, the ways to raise the issues. If you want to be someone atmosphere, other people or is it just that it’s not in who ‘nips things in the bud’, deals with poor our nature to ‘rock the boat’. If you fall under any of performance, mitigates misunderstandings this these descriptions then join in this workshop to find workshop will help you to develop the right words, out how to get to grips with positive conflict and feel deliver the message in a clear, concise and non good about it. threatening way. Communication Skills - Key Assertiveness principles Are there times when you feel confident to challenge Effective communication is a two way process so how and push back? Congratulations, these are your come it often feels like it’s one way! Effective moments of being assertive. In certain areas of your communication means we listen, so how is it that we work and life you are comfortable with the situation often don’t hear or feel heard. Poor or lack of and/or the person or people around you. BUT what communication is probably the greatest cause of about the other times when you feel unable to say misunderstanding, poorly implemented tasks, feelings “No”.You may feel almost ‘bullied’ into doing things or of resentment and many more. Communication is a you may find you have a stubborn streak and become fundamental skill, do it well and it will make agitated and even angry.These are not the times when improvements in numerous aspects of you role and you are behaving assertively. This workshop enables life. you to build on your assertiveness, giving you a greater level of self awareness and useful tools to Negotiation Skills support your assertive behaviours. Negotiation is not only required for sales people or procurement teams, although it is a vital skill for you, Creative Problem Solving the best deal, the right price etc. It’s also just as We are faced with many different tasks to complete relevant when selling in an idea, challenging a every day, at work and at home. Some are like putting difference of opinion, making a request, the things we on a pair of old slippers whilst others look worse than do everyday. If some simple steps would help you to the most cryptic of crosswords.That’s when you need reach win/win more often this workshop will do just some creative tools to tackle the situation. It’s a lot to that. cover in a short session so you will need to be creative in what you take away. Team Working It’s fun, it’s inspiring, it’s a bit competitive, if feels good, Building and Maintaining Business safe and a place I want to be – that’s team working. Relationships Yes and the sum of the parts are greater than the It has always been important and advantageous to whole, but only when all the parts are contributing. have great relationships with the people we work The workshop looks at some essential behaviours and with, both within our place of work and the external characteristics of a team to enable all members of the
- 3. team to work together successfully. If you feel you people, identify ways to manage your workload and are working in a team that is not working as a team, find more effective ways to cope. or if you feel out of your depth, disenfranchised or not part of the team this session will help you in your Effective Meetings current situation and in the future when you find Are you lonely, don’t like working on your own, hate yourself part of a new team. making decisions? Then call a meeting, the practical alternative to work! Well isn’t that sometimes how Time Management they feel? This workshop helps you to identify when a Working late, skipping lunch? Doing everyone else’s meeting is the right forum, how to maintain control, job as well as, or instead of your own? Feel as if you keep it short, sharp and to the point and most are being pulled in all directions? Unable or unwilling important, achieve it’s purpose. Whether you are to say NO? Know how you are supposed to get on chairing the meeting or participating you will leave top of things but just don’t seem to manage to? Say this session with some practical tools for effective yes to any or all of these questions and its time you meetings. attended this workshop. This workshop will help you to understand how you currently manage your time, how you can take more control over situations and Management & Leadership Development Leadership 1 - Definition and Style Leadership 3 - Developing We can all recognise effective leaders and will also performance through coaching have experienced how it is easier to lead some people Effective coaching is a key skill for all managers, so than others. Is this because they can’t be led or why do we see so little good coaching happening in something about the style and skill of the leader? This the workplace? You only need to look at the top workshop will help you to define the characteristics sports people to know the value of having a great and skills of effective leadership, identify your coach. Learn the skills of good coaching and you can preferred style and show you ways to develop and apply them to so many aspects of your life, your team, adapt to meet the needs of your team and the people your colleagues, your spouse, your children, your you lead. friends. This is a very practical workshop and amongst other skills will teach the basics of the simple Leadership 2 - Getting the best from GROW model as developed by leading coaches Sir the team - Motivation Graham Alexander and Sir John Whitmore of racing People, who are happy at work, work harder. How the car fame. leader inspires others, models good behaviour and gets the best from others is critical to everyone’s Diversity success. On the flipside a de-motivated workforce Imagine a world where harmony exists and everyone does less, makes more mistakes, takes time off and is values the contribution and differences of others.You generally a ‘problem’ for the leader. If you have any may not be able to influence the world, you can ‘problems’ this workshop will provide you with an however significantly influence your team and your understanding of positive motivation at work and business. If respect is high on your list of values make equip you with some practical guidance and tools on sure this is how it feels for the people in you team. how to apply them to yourself, your team and others Understand what it means for others and the moral within your organisation. and legal implications surrounding diversity. Continued...
- 4. Management & Leadership Development continued... Engagement Business Skills - Basic Finance Picture your workplace with everyone as excited, Many managers, while experts in your own field, are committed and dedicated to their jobs as they are to less comfortable understanding and managing the their personal passions and pursuits, outside of work? financial aspects of the business. If this is the way you What are the simple things that you can do to make feel, then this workshop is for you. It is a gentle but people feel more engaged at work? Learn the impact practical introduction to some financial concepts, of your leadership on your team and borrow some terminology and techniques. It will also help you to tips from the experts. understand the reasons behind some of the business decisions and controls, so that you can support and Managing Change appreciate them. Change is the new constant. Whether chosen or enforced, big or small, planned or unexpected change The Performance Review takes us all out of our comfort zones in one way or Conversation another. This workshop will help you understand It seems like a chore and yet we know how important change and the potential impact on you and others. It it is.This is the time to review performance, set goals will give you practical ideas on how to implement and objectives, an opportunity to look at ways to change with the least amount of resistance. produce even greater achievements and yet…? This workshop provides some key ways that will help you Delegation to improve your approach and your delivery and the Is it quicker to do it yourself? Is it done accurately, outcome will be improved performance. efficiently and to your standards only when done by you? What stops you from delegating? Who could or The Recruitment Interview should you be delegating to? This workshop will help This is one of the most important tasks you will do in you to understand the fundamentals of effective your business.You are choosing who you want to help delegation, gain the many benefits and ensure you you to build your company, get it right and they will delegate the right job to the right person at the right be one of your greatest assets, get it wrong and at the time. very least it will cause you frustration, loss of productivity and time. At the worst it will cost you Objective Setting hours, money, loss of reputation and even customers. It’s a fact that those with clear goals and SMART objectives achieve more. Next time you are thinking about buying a car, notice how many you suddenly see Other subjects on request on the roads.That’s not an accident that’s because you have a goal. It doesn’t need to be a tedious task find out the practical and fun ways to set and achieve goals and objectives that bring the results you want. For further information contact us at: gluetogether ltd 2 St Michael’s Street Malton North Yorkshire YO17 7LJ E: change@gluetogether.com www.gluetogether.com