What do the Training Materials cover?
There are self-study workbooks that can be printed and for trainers, a selection of session plans.
The first modules concentrate on developing personal skills. They start with:
- Who Me ? - Confidence Building
Just to assure you that you already have valuable gifts
- How Do I Find the Time ? - Time management
- Deciding how to fit it into your day
- You're An Original - Open minds and Creative Thinking.
Fresh ways of looking at things
- Will I Find my Way Around? - Feeling at Home in the Statutory Sector
- Getting your bearings around public bodies
- Moving On - Being Comfortable with Personal Change. Keeping your head in a changing world
- Is Everybody Equal? - Embracing the Strength of Diversity
Hearing everybody's voice; respecting everybody's needs
They then move on to develop more specific skills:
- Don't Get Angry Get Progress - Being Assertive without being Aggressive
Learning that it's better to speak up than to sound off
- Sitting Round a Table - Meeting skills
Getting the most out of meetings
- Speaking Not Just for Myself - Representation, Communication and Involvement
Considering being a group spokesperson
- Showing and Telling - Presentation Skills
Presenting your views, in your own way
- Reporting Back - Writing, or Making, Reports
Passing on the story, in your own way
- Give and Take - Getting Progress Through Negotiation
The benefits of being able to steer through troubled waters
- Getting it Together - Working in Partnership
What are partnerships, and how do they work best?
And then taking, on even more advanced roles:
- Tracking the Progress - Helping to Evaluate Services
Being part of the evaluation process
- Feeling the Quality - Contributing to Student Assessments Being part of assessing training and trainees
- Spotting the Right Stuff - Recruitment of Staff and Students Being part of the recruitment process
- Nothing Stands Still - Managing Organisational Change Keeping positive through structural changes
- One-to-One Working - The value of Mentoring
The two-way benefits of special working relationships
- Taking the Chair - A guide to Chairing Meetings
Getting the most out of being at the helm
- Seeing the Bigger Picture - Strategic Thinking and Planning Being part of the wider planning process.
And the final module will help you to ask:
- Where Next? - Preparing for Further Options in Work or Training
As you can see, your pick-and-mix of training modules can be used as a vehicle for self-development and self-fulfilment. Or, it can be a springboard into further training, into more advanced voluntary work, eventually into paid work within the health and social care sectors, or into any other area of employment that your newly polished skills and experience may lend themselves to.
