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This learning is designed to help you work safely in a world living wth Covid-19. It takes a risk based approach to the your safety and outlines how you can protect yourself from the risks and take advantage of some of the opportunities in a world living wth Covid-19.

In the same way that doctors describe their cancer patients as “living with cancer” and do not speak of cures, so the world is living with Covid-19.

This programme is designed to you live and work with Covid-19 by identifying and mitigating risks and taking advantage of opportunities

• The law which protects your health and safety
• Risks to you when working from business premises
• Risks to you whilst working at home
• Communication and consultation

This learning is designed to help you managing the risks and opportunities in a world living wth Covid-19. It takes a risk based approach to the your safety of your staff and the sustainability of your business and is designed to help them work safely and help your business manage the risks and take advantage of some of the opportunities in  a world living with Covid-19.

In the same way that doctors describe their cancer patients as “living with cancer” and do not speak of cures, so the world is now living with Covid-19.

This programme is designed to help your business and staff live with Covid-19 by identifying and mitigating risks and taking advantage of opportunities.

The course covers:

• The foundations of safety and resilience
• The legal framework
• A risk-based approach
• Risks to people entering business premises
• Risks to staff working at home
• Communication and consultation
• Threats to the successful operation of the business in a world living with Covid

This course is designed to help you understand the need for, and the needs of a diverse workforce. A diverse workforce brings the benefits of  recruiting from the widest possible talent pool and minimises the risk of legal action for discrimination.

Encouraging equality and diversity, and preventing discrimination in the workplace makes for a satisfying happy and healthy place to work. It’s also a legal obligation for your employer. 

This course will cover:

1. Why you should care about equality and diversity
2. The nine protected characteristics
3. Types of discrimination
4. When does discrimination happen?

This course is designed as an introduction to coaching. The learning outcomes correspond to ILM Level 3 Unit 300    Understanding Good Practice in Coaching within an Organisational Context. This course covers:

• Effective Coaching
• The Coaching Contract
• Coaching in your own workplace
• Recording, reflection and supervision in coaching

After much panic and some planning, the  General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) were introduced across Europe and incorporated into the 2018 UK Data Protection Act in the UK, along with other data protection matters.

At the end of January 31 2020, the UK left the EU and entered a transition period during which time, our regulatory framework remains the same, but questions remain about what happens after that, especially in relation to international transfers Here’s our training programme for users of personal information. This programme is based around the themes and principles of the GDPR as applied within the 2018 UK Data Protection Act relevant to users of personal information

Please note we have a complementary programme for those with management responsibility.

After much panic and some planning, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) were introduced across Europe and incorporated into the 2018 UK Data Protection Act in the UK, along with other data protection matters.

At the end of January 31 2020, the UK left the EU and entered a transition period during which time, our regulatory framework remains the same, but questions remain about what happens after that, especially in relation to international transfers

Here’s our training programme for data protection leaders. Please note we have a complementary programme for other staff. This programme is based around the themes and principles of the GDPR as applied within the 2018 UK Data Protection Act

This programme of learning is designed to help you help your employing organisation to reduce their environmental impact, their carbon footprint and their energy bills. It is designed to show you that this should matter to you and how you can help to achieve these goals.

• Why going green is good for you as well as your employer (and the planet)
• Understanding your employing organisation and its environmental impact
• Helping your employing organisation implement their environmental and energy management policy
• 50 ways to reduce your environmental impact and carbon footprint

This course is designed to help you create, manage and develop a diverse workforce. This brings the benefits of  recruiting from the widest possible talent pool and minimises the risk of legal action for discrimination

Encouraging equality and diversity, and preventing discrimination in the workplace are a legal obligation. They are also ethically and commercially good practice for both large and small organisations. Business reasons for an organisation to encourage equality and diversity in its workforce are mounting:

• the make-up of the UK workforce is under-going considerable change. For example, more people are continuing to work instead of retiring, women now make up around half the workforce, around one in ten of the UK working age population are from an ethnic minority, while, looking to the future, one in four primary school children are from an ethnic minority
• help serve a diverse range of customers – economies including China, Brazil and India are among the world’s top ten, and offer a major market for British goods
• enhanced innovation – having staff at all levels from a wide range of backgrounds and skills can help to develop a working environment producing ideas and solutions that might not emanate from a smaller array of diverse groups
• improved problem solving – the more complex a task or problem in an organisation, then the greater the potential benefit of having a team made up of people from a wide range of backgrounds and skills. For example, staff of different genders or racial or religious backgrounds can bring distinctive perspectives to the table which may contribute to a commercial breakthrough.

This course will cover:

1. Why you should care about equality and diversity
2. The nine protected characteristics
3. Types of discrimination
4. When does discrimination happen?
5. How can you stop discrimination happening?
6. Monitoring and prevention
7. When can you (legally) discriminate?
8. What to do if you are accused of discrimination

Leadership is the key to almost every successful organisation. This course is designed to get you started thinking about what makes a good leader.

Effective leaders develop their own leadership style. That takes time and experience, but our online course will give you insights to think about and tips to start you on your journey to becoming a great leader.

This course will cover:

• What is Leadership?
• What makes a good leader?
• Leadership and management
• Versatile Leadership
• Leadership and the art of delegation
• Transformational Leadership
• Leadership in complex environments

These materials are designed to help you be a more effective public speaker. This course has been written in response to the generally poor quality of public speaking. It is a vital skill for anyone,  but is one which is too often neglected. Apparently, the fear of public speaking is greater than the fear of death!

This course will cover:

• The problem with public speaking
• Planning your talk
• Giving your talk
• How not to ruin your talk with PowerPoint
• The take home message

Time is one of our most precious resources. There is rarely enough to go around, but we can’t literally make more of it. So we have to make the best use of the time we have and ensure that we have enough time for the things that really matter

This course covers:

1. The problem with time
2.  Learning from a good time manager (or a bad one!)
3. Learning to prioritise
4. Don’t waste time on emails and messaging
5. Don’t waste time in meetings
6. Where does your time go?
7. So now how do you feel about managing your time?

This programme of learning is designed to help business to reduce their environmental impact, their carbon footprint and their energy bills. It is designed to show that this is not just compatible with increased profitability but essential for the sustainability of the business. It is aimed at business who may be too small to consider ISO14001 and ISO50001 certification, or who need a stepped approach to implementing the systems needed for certification. This course is aimed at managers with specific responsibility for environmental and energy management or senior management of smaller businesses

This course covers:

1. Why going green is good for your business (as well as the planet)
2. Understanding your business and its environmental impact
3. Planning to go green
4. Making your plans happen
5. Checking that your practice will achieve your goals

This online learning is designed to show you to what you need to know as an employee to maintain and improve your health and safety in the workplace

This course will cover:

1. The legal framework
2. Putting in place the foundations of health and safety
3. Providing a safe environment
4. Keeping people safe  
5. Managing risks
   Managing the specific risks associated with:

• Information technology
• Fire
• Manual handling
• Working at height
• Slips and trips
• Machinery and equipment
• Business specific hazards
• Mental health
• Physical health

This online learning is designed to show you to maintain and improve the health and safety of your staff and the environment in which they work

This course covers:

1. The legal framework
2. Putting in place the foundations of health and safety
3. Providing a safe environment
4. Keeping people safe  
5. Managing the specific risks associated with:

• Information technology
• Fire
• Manual handling
• Working at height
• Slips and trips
• Machinery and equipment
• Business specific hazards
• Mental health
• Physical health

This learning is designed for organisations seeking to comply with the Cyber Essentials scheme.

It is not designed for technical specialists, but for all staff on the grounds that  most cyber security attacks start with the staff not the technology

This course covers:

• Fundamentals of information security
• Protecting your business from external threats
• Using settings to protect your information
• Using permissions to protect your information
• Protecting your information from viruses
• Using patching and updates to protect your information

This course is designed as an introduction to mentoring. The learning outcomes correspond to ILM Level 3 Unit 301    Understanding Good Practice in Mentoring within an Organisational Context

• Effective mentoring
• The mentoring contract
• Mentoring in your own workplace
• Recording, reflection and supervision in mentoring