Psychology can Help Make Your Project Successful
See Sharon’s book ‘Project Psychology: Using Psychological Models and Techniques to Create a Successful Project. http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566089428. The book will be published by ‘Gower’ in December of this year.
New Guide on Managing Presenteeism
Sharon and her colleagues at the ‘Centre for Mental Health’ worked jointly with ‘Business in the Community’ to produce a guide to managing presenteeism in the workplace. You can see it under our ‘Guides’ page.
Sharon Talks to ‘The Guardian’ About Mental Health in the Workplace
Sharon was interviewd by ‘The Guardian’ recently regarding an article that they were writing about mental health at work. The article was published last Friday, see it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/01/mental-health-problems-at-work.
Positive Psychology: The Science of Health, Wealth and Happiness
This is the content of a lecture that I gave at the Manchester Business School: Positive Psychology The Science of Health Wealth and Happiness
See Research into ROI on Investment in Wellbeing
This is a summary of a piece of research that was carried out earlier this year looking at the return on investment in mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. wellbeing and ROI
Sharon is presenting at the ‘Inside Government, Health and Wellbeing Forum
Sharon is speaking at next week’s ‘Inside Government, Health and Wellbeing Forum’ in London. Please see the attached link, if you would like to attend the conference www.insidegovernment.co.uk/health/health-and-wellbeing.
Sharon is now supporting the ‘Centre for Mental Health’
Sharon is now spending some of her time acting as ‘Program Manager’ for a national charity i.e the ‘Centre for Mental Health’. Some of you may recognise it under it’s previous title as the ‘Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health’. The Centre was established in 1985 and it works with policy and research to help improve the mental health of employees nationally. The Centre for mental health offers training to raise employee’s awareness of common mental health in the workplace. The centre also offers training for Managers to spot the early warning signs of common mental health problems and then intervene to support employees in the workplace. Further information will be added to this site in the near future. In the interim, please see www.impactondepression.co.uk
Training
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP : RAISING YOUR GAME
This highly participative programme uses participants own learning goals and organisational scenarios to explore various aspects of leadership The Emphasis is on helping leaders to understand the impact that their own personal drivers and personality have on their leadership style. The course uses a mixture of group sessions and one-to-one coaching to ensure that each candidate achieves the maximum learning from the event. The event is only delivered to a small group of participants in order to ensure that individual learning goals are met.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
Managers, Professionals and Executives who want to achieve more by learning how to build winning relationships and how to get the most out of others. It is for those leaders who are keen to maximise their effectiveness and become excellent leaders. Participants will:
Achieve a greater understanding of themselves and the impact this has on their leadership style
Be better able to motivate, develop and gain buy-in from other people
Be able to utilise a wider range of leadership and influencing styles
Have a more positive impact on the performance, motivation, job satisfaction and self-esteem of their staff
CONTENT
3 Days face to face training
4 one-to-one coaching sessions
Psychometric Leadership profile
DAY ONE
Flexing Your Leadership Style. This day includes: discussion and exercises around the different leadership styles. Looks at the impact that individual personality has on preferred style. Provides practice in using the skill of ‘Reflection’ and explores the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. Concludes with an action planning session to practice different leadership styles and a follow up coaching session two weeks later to review progress and findings.
DAY TWO
Creating Winning Relationships. This day starts with a review of the previous module and the opportunity to share learning experiences of practicing leadership styles. This module goes on to look at : building excellent relationships and managing conflict, coaching skills, creating rapport through language and gesture and active listening skills. This day concludes with an action planning session and a coaching session two weeks later to review progress and refine learning goals.
DAY THREE
Managing Your Organisational Impact. This module commences with a review of the previous module and the opportunity to share learning experiences. It then goes on to look at: engaging and motivating staff, creating a vision of success, decision making and the extent to which personality impacts on the extent to which we take risks. This day concludes with an action planning session and a coaching session two weeks later to review progress against goals and action plan for the future.
DATES FOR 2010
(Given that these courses are only delivered to small groups of participants at any one time, it is sometimes possible to be flexible about the actual dates that are offered)
| Early to mid Jan | Psychometric profiling |
| Mid to end of Jan | Face to face coaching session |
| 17th February | First training day |
| 17th March | Second training day |
| 28th April | Third training day |
*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.
| Early to mid March | Psychometric profiling |
| Mid to end of March | Face to face coaching session |
| 21st April | First training day |
| 20th May | Second training day |
| 15th June | Third training day |
*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.
| Early to Mid may | Psychometric profiling |
| Mid to end of May | Face to face coaching session |
| 10th June | First training day |
| 8th July | Second training day |
| 4th August | Third training day |
*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.
| Early to mid September | Psychometric profiling |
| Mid to end of September | Face to face coaching session |
| 7th October | First training day |
| 3rd November | Second training day |
| 8th December | Third training day |
*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.
Venues
This course is currently delivered at two venues in Tameside, the Broadoak Hotel and Katherine Cavendish House. Both venues are close to the motorway and have free parking. Alternatively, the course could be delivered on your premises which potentially saves you both money and time.
Costs
We appreciate that these are difficult economic times for everyone so we will not charge you any VAT on courses within this financial year.
The total cost of each course is £1,500 per person (no overnight accommodation provided). 66% business link funding may be available for North West companies who have between 5 and 999 employees.
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