Do you have difficulty getting good people to work for your organisation?  Do you find that you have fewer people to choose from and end up employing people who do not fully meet your needs? Attracting new employees in a tight labour market is challenging but we all know that having the right people working in your business is critical to its success. This workshop will help you to challenge your beliefs about how and where to source new employees. You will learn from other organisations and successful local businesses, and take away contacts and points of reference to assist with increasing your applicant pool.  A separate workshop, Selecting the Right People, will help you to make effective selection decisions.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers, office managers

09/09/08

Do you dread carrying out interviews? Does the whole selection process seem to depend largely on luck?  Have you made costly recruitment mistakes in the past?  Getting the right person for the job is essential if your organisation is to be successful. The right people don’t need to be tightly managed or controlled.  They will not cost the company in terms of money, disruption and management time. This workshop builds on the workshop, Attracting the Right People, and will give you practical techniques to help you to select the right people for your business, and practical tools to help you manage the process.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers, office managers

Do you wonder why you can’t hold on to people or why the people in your organisation don’t seem to care about doing a good job? This workshop will help you to establish a culture where people do not need to be micro managed in order to do a good job.  You will develop an awareness of how to harness the differing strengths of individuals in your team and of techniques to motivate and reward your people.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers

Is there confusion in your organisation about who is responsible for which tasks?  Is there a lack of accountability? Do people sometimes fail to take ownership and responsibility? This one day workshop provides you with a practical toolkit to help you develop the right structure for your business, one that will allow you to plan ahead for growth in your people and your organisation.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers

02/10/08

Are the managers and supervisors in your organisation equipped to manage other people effectively?  Do they enable others to perform to their best?  Great organisations have great managers, and this workshop is designed to show participants what that involves – as well as allowing them to convert concepts into their real life situation.  With strong challenges, and a 2-week break between sessions to allow for implementation, this workshop is for people striving to be better managers.

Target attendees:
First line managers, team leaders, supervisors

23/09/08

16/10/08

30/10/08

29/10/08

14/10/08

04/11/08

27/11/08

26/11/08

Park Plaza Hotel

Glenavon House Hotel, Cookstown

Are the people working in your company committed to its success?  Are they doing the right things in the right way to make your business successful?  Can you trust them to deliver, even when you are not around?  Enduring business success requires an effective team – and an effective team requires effective leadership.  This workshop will provide you with an insight into the role of the leader within the business, enabling you to link your leadership style to the overall achievement of business, team and individual objectives.

The workshop will explore key tools and techniques used by a leader to effectively grow and develop a business and its key asset - People.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers

11/09/08

18/11/08

Park Plaza Hotel

Lodge Hotel, Coleraine

Do you believe that you have sound structures and procedures in place but want to further develop your organisation?  Are you facing major changes?  This workshop will help you to understand the connection between effective leadership and continued business growth; it will help you evaluate where you are now, determine where you want to be and plan how to get there.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers and senior managers seeking to innovate and fully develop their leadership skills

Are the people in your organisation performing to the best of their ability?  Are they contributing fully to the company goals?  The really successful organisations are the ones who know how to get the best from their people.  This workshop addresses how to do that – by explaining effective processes for managing performance, as well as helping you plan and prepare for setting objectives, giving feedbackand identifying development needs effectively in order to ensure that people are directing their efforts at work towards the right things.  This workshop is all about improving your performance in improving the performance of others.  It is closely linked with the workshop enabling your people to perform - which addresses actual learning and development.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers

Do people in your organisation have the skills they need to do their jobs effectively?  Improving the way people do their jobs is difficult – you need to work with people so that not only do they want to change, but they also learn new knowledge and behaviours that improve their performance.  This workshop focuses on the learning and development aspect of management. It builds on the workshop Getting the Best from your People and gives you practical direction about training and developing people in a cost effective manner, to deliver business results.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers of small businesses, senior managers,

Running any Business can be challenging. Running a family business has its own particular challenges. These include issues of succession planning, reporting structures, management skills.  This interactive workshop will offer a helpful insight into the techniques and strategies which will help families balance the ambitions and needs of the business with those of the family, leading to the application of best practice in family firms.

Target attendees:
Owner/managers and family members of family businesses