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421 Courses in Sheffield

Cost reduction (In-House)

By The In House Training Company

Businesses that don't control their costs don't stay in business. How well are you doing? Is everyone in your organisation sufficiently aware of costs, managing them effectively and maximising opportunities to reduce them? If there is scope for improvement, this course will help get you back on track. It will demonstrate that cost reduction is so much more than cost control and cost cutting. True cost management is about being aware of costs, seeking to reduce them through good design and efficient operating practices whilst taking continuing action on overspending. This course will develop the participants' skills in: Being aware of costs at all times Seeking cost reduction from the start (including life-cycle costing) Appraising projects / production to identify and take out risk Understanding real budgeting Using techniques such as ZBB and ABC where appropriate Ensuring cost reports lead to action Managing a cost reduction process that delivers Benefits to the organisation will include: Identification of cost reduction and business improvement opportunities Better reporting and ownership of costs Greater awareness and control of everyday costs 1 Introduction - the cost management process The risks of poor cost control Capital and revenue costs The importance of cost awareness The importance of cost reduction Cost management - the key aspects How to build a cost management and control process checklist for your areas of responsibility 2 Cost removal - taking out costs Cost awareness Costs of poor design / poor processes Value engineering Removing redundant costs 3 The need for commercial, technical and financial appraisals Understand the problems before cash is committed and costs incurred Making the effort to identify commercial and technical risk The time value of money - DCF techniques for long term projects Cost models for production processes and projects Costing models - project appraisals The use of spreadsheets to identify sensitivity and risk How to focus on risk management 4 Budgeting - proper budgeting challenges costs The philosophy of the business - are costs an issue? The importance of having the right culture The need for detailed business objectives Budgetary control measures Designing budget reports - for action 5 Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) - the principles Much more than starting with a clean sheet of paper What ZBB can achieve The concept of decision packages - to challenge business methods and costs Only necessary costs should be incurred A review of an operating budget - demonstrating what ZBB challenges and the costs it may lead to being taken out 6 Awareness of overheads and other costs Definitions of cost - direct and indirect Dealing with overheads - what is meant by allocation, absorption or apportionment? The apparent and real problems with overheads Different ways of dealing with overheads Review of overhead allocation methods and accounting and reporting issues 7 Overheads and product costing Activity-based costing (ABC) - the principles Where and how the ABC approach may be helpful Know the 'true' cost of a product or a project Should you be in business? Will you stay in business? Identifying weaknesses in a traditional overhead allocation How ABC will help improve product or service costing Identifying which products and activities should be developed and which abandoned 8 Cost reduction culture The need for cost reports What measures can be used to identify over-spends as early as possible Cost control performance measures and ratios 9 Design of cost control reports Reports should lead to action and deliver Selecting cost control measures which can be acted upon Practice in designing action reports 10 Course summary - developing your own cost action plan Group and individual action plans will be prepared with a view to participants identifying their cost risks areas and the techniques which can be immediately applied to improve costing and reduce costs

Cost reduction (In-House)
Delivered in Harpenden or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
Price on Enquiry

PACE: A trauma-informed approach to supporting children and young people

By National Gender Training

PACE was developed by Dr Dan Hughes (a clinical psychologist specialising in childhood trauma) more than 20 years ago as a central part of attachment-focused family therapy. It was created with the aim of supporting adults to build safe, trusting and meaningful relationships with children and young people who have experienced trauma. The approach focuses on building trusting relationships, emotional connections, containment of emotions and a sense of security.  PACE is a way of thinking, feeling, communicating and behaving that aims to make the child feel safe. Its four principles of communication – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy – facilitate the building of healthy, secure attachments between caregiver and child. PACE parenting is especially effective for supporting children that lack secure emotional bases. It is ideal for anyone working or living with children, especially those children in the care system Who is this course for? Anyone working with or living with children and young people. Like foster carers, adopting parents, residential carers, social workers but would also benefit parents experiencing difficulties. What will it cost? This is being developed as a video course – please contact us for prices. Face2face courses are £750.00 plus vat per session, plus travel. How will I benefit from this course? You will benefit by building safe, trusting and meaningful relationships with children and young people. What is the course content? Learn about the four principles of the model… communication- Play, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy with the add on of Like to make PLACE model and how to implement it…. The therapeutic needs of the children you care for… The fight flight freeze & fawn response Attachment Trauma & effects on the brain Transference/counter transference… Dysfunctional thoughts, beliefs and alternative ways of thinking… Self-help & support How are the courses delivered? Although this is being converted to a video course, it is available face2face for groups of around 15 people Is this course recognised? Yes, it is fully CPD accredited

PACE: A trauma-informed approach to supporting children and young people
Delivered in Northampton or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
£900

All you need to know about telephone etiquettes, communication and behaviours

By Beyond Satisfaction - Customer service Training

If you want your employees to improve their customer service skills and deliver an amazing experience to your customers, feel free to check out my Training course focusing on telephone etiquettes, communication and behaviours.

All you need to know about telephone etiquettes, communication and behaviours
Delivered In-PersonFlexible Dates
Price on Enquiry

Delivering the best customer care when dealing with clients

By Beyond Satisfaction - Customer service Training

If you want your employees to improve their customer service skills and deliver an amazing experience to your customers, feel free to check out my Training course focusing on delivering the best customer care.

Delivering the best customer care when dealing with clients
Delivered in person or OnlineFlexible Dates
Price on Enquiry

10 Secrets to Writing a Business Administration Thesis That Stands Out

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By The Academic Papers UK

There are multiple steps and proven strategies that will help you write your Business Administration thesis impressively.

10 Secrets to Writing a Business Administration Thesis That Stands Out
Delivered In-PersonFlexible Dates
FREE

M.D.D CRISIS LIFE COACH PACKAGE (SELF IMPROVEMENT)

4.9(27)

By Miss Date Doctor Dating Coach London, Couples Therapy

Introducing Crisis Life Coach Package: Navigating Challenges and Rediscovering Your Strength Are you currently facing a crisis or challenging situation that is causing distress and uncertainty in your life? Miss Date Doctor’s Crisis Life Coach Package offers you targeted support and guidance from a trained life coach to help you navigate through crises, regain stability, and transform challenges into opportunities for growth. Life can present unexpected hurdles that leave us feeling overwhelmed and lost. Our experienced crisis life coaches are dedicated to helping you harness your inner resilience, develop coping strategies, and create a path forward amidst difficult circumstances. Here’s how the Crisis Life Coach Package can support you: Personalized Assessment: Our crisis life coach will conduct an initial assessment to understand your situation, concerns, and immediate needs. Stabilization Strategies: We’ll work on strategies to help you manage immediate crisis-related stress and anxiety. Crisis Transformation: Our life coach will guide you in reframing challenges as opportunities for personal growth and positive change. Coping Techniques: We’ll equip you with practical coping techniques to manage emotions and navigate stressors. Goal Setting: Together with your life coach, you’ll set realistic short-term and long-term goals to work towards during and after the crisis. Resilience Building: Crisis life coaching focuses on building emotional and mental resilience to handle adversity with strength. Actionable Steps: Our coach will provide you with actionable steps and strategies to implement in your daily life. Supportive Partnership: The Crisis Life Coach Package offers you a supportive partnership to guide you through challenging times. The Crisis Life Coach Package at Miss Date Doctor is designed to provide you with targeted support during moments of crisis. Our experienced life coaches are committed to helping you find clarity, develop coping skills, and navigate the path towards renewal and transformation. Invest in your well-being and take the first step towards resilience with the Crisis Life Coach Package. Embrace the opportunity to transform challenges into opportunities for growth, navigate through crises, and emerge from them stronger than before. Let our skilled life coach guide you towards a brighter and more empowered future. 3 X 1 HOUR and daily calls https://relationshipsmdd.com/product/crisis-life-coach-package/

M.D.D CRISIS LIFE COACH PACKAGE (SELF IMPROVEMENT)
Delivered in London or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
£700

Build confidence & capability and engage in meaningful dialogue about race.

Let's Talk About Race (EDI)
Delivered in Loughborough or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
£670

Project Leadership Skills: In-House Training

By IIL Europe Ltd

Project Leadership Skills: In-House Training To be effective within an organization, project managers need to have a wide variety of skills and abilities. Included among these are: creating and executing on a vision; motivating others; influencing without authority; networking; communicating up, down and laterally; negotiating; managing stakeholders; and managing conflict. This highly interactive workshop focuses on building the soft skills that are critical to leading a team and creating sustainable business change. Participants will gain insight into the social science as well as the brain science behind motivating and empowering others. They will learn and experiment with a variety of influencing strategies and tactics. Working in pairs as well as small groups, they will collaborate with others to brainstorm, share experiences, and apply concepts to everyday challenges. Participants will also discover their personal communication preferences, strengths, and blind spots and will gain insight into how best to communicate with others they find 'difficult.' They will gain insight into managing the people side of change, learning strategies for dealing with each step in the process. Hands-on negotiation and conflict management activities enhance the theoretical learning, grounding it in real life and making it actionable. Interweaving role play with experiential learning and group activities, this course will help participants refine a skill set that is invaluable to their organization, and one that transfers easily across their professional and personal lives. What You Will Learn At the end of this course, you will be able to: Explain the importance of vision in driving motivation and engagement Apply science-based research to better motivate those around you Strategically leverage both personal and positional power to achieve positive project results Determine influencing and networking strategies needed for personal growth Identify ways to problem solve communication challenges when others have different personality styles Connect stakeholder expectations to project success criteria Assess key stakeholders across various dimensions of complexity Apply the four rules of principled negotiation to a real-life conflict situation Recognize key aspects of a physiological response to conflict Utilize selected tools and techniques to 'defuse' an emotional situation Leverage various strategies and tactics to successfully deal with ambiguity at work Getting Started / Foundation Concepts Introductions Course structure, goals, and objectives Beginning a personal action plan Managing Vision and Purpose / Motivating Others Communicating and aligning around vision Tying the present to the future The importance of purpose The art and science of motivation Networking and Influencing Positive politics and project success Types of power within organizations Power and influence Networking best practices Communication The medium and the message Personality and communication styles Communication challenges Stakeholder Management and Negotiation Identifying stakeholders Analyzing stakeholders Negotiation basics Principled negotiation Conflict Management Dynamics of conflict The anatomy of conflict Conflict management approaches and tools Dealing with ambiguity Summary and Next Steps Key concepts review Creating your personal action plan

Project Leadership Skills: In-House Training
Delivered in London or UK Wide or OnlineFlexible Dates
£850

Paediatric Hypnotherapy 2-day CPD Accredited course (Barnsley)

By Evalynne Charmer

Hypnotherapy with Children Accredited CPD course; Paediatric Hypnotherapy

Paediatric Hypnotherapy 2-day CPD Accredited course (Barnsley)
Delivered In-PersonJoin Waitlist
£380.50 to £573

Managing for Growth

By High Force Training Ltd

Managing for Growth is designed for anyone who has management and leadership responsibilities within an organisation. Suitable for newly promoted managers, team leaders and supervisors through to senior managers; the objective of the programme is to develop a culture that will translate strategy into measurable outcomes by engaging these leaders to facilitate change and innovation. The programme is extremely effective at giving managers the tools and skills to deliver sustainable change and business growth. It's also been proven to reduce costs and increase profit – even before the programme has ended.   Managing for Growth is built upon three aspects common to every job:   Managing Resources. Ensuring that the resources available are appropriate for the tasks for which they are required and are being used effectively. Learning how to control and coordinate a mix of available resources for maximum efficiency. Managing Relationships. Positively influencing people’s behaviour in order to motivate them and promote effective working. Focusing on listening skills, we share ways to improve communication and teamwork to get the best from both internal and external relationships. Controlling Routines. Investigating the processes/systems/routines/series of actions that are linked together to achieve a desired outcome. Recognising the importance of controlling, developing, simplifying and following routines.   Managing for Growth shows your team leaders, supervisors and managers how to cultivate a culture of teamwork and continuous improvement within your organisation.   Focus for Action Throughout the programme the participants take part in work-based activities that will cause them to evaluate every aspect of their job and identify areas for improvement. By the end of the programme, the participants act on these action lists and implement improvement projects that will deliver measurable results.   Continuous Improvement Managing for Growth sets the framework for continuous improvement by transferring skills and knowledge enabling your team leaders to translate organisational strategies into real, measurable outcomes.   Format Designed for groups of up to 6 people, the programme is spread over 4 months with the first 7 sessions being held every 2 weeks and the final session a month later. Each session lasts approximately 2 hours.

Managing for Growth
Delivered In-Person in Richmond or UK WideFlexible Dates
FREE