Soft Skills and Business Agility Taster Workshops

Overview Following the launch of the Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) and the LSIF, we have developed a suite of workshops to support the ‘Soft Skills’ requirements which employers highlighted were a skills improvement need within their workforce. Please find a range of taster workshops listed below, watch out for full training days later this year.

Profile of attendance

  • 176 people attended from a mixture of age groups, sizes and profile of organisation – from small companies and individuals to large scale employers the NHS.

Courses

  • Leadership Foundations Workshop
  • Teamwork Foundations Workshop
  • Time Management Foundations Workshop
  • Communication Foundations Workshop
  • Problem-Solving Foundations Workshop
  • Advanced Leadership Workshop
  • Advanced Teamwork Workshop
  • Advanced Time Management Workshop
  • Advanced Communication Workshop
  • Advanced Problem-Solving Workshop

S snapshot of some of the comments from attendees.

•96% found the workshops Extremely Worthwhile or Worthwhile

•Active listening and being assertive

•Understanding people’s communication style, difference between assertive and aggressive, and considerations when presenting..

•All of it

•Discussions and the trainer

•Lots of knowledge checks

•Quite a few notes of interest. There are ideas I will use moving forward.

•Different methods to allocate time/jobs

•The grouping of individuals and how the different categories work best together

•The leadership styles

•I liked the framework and models that the lecturer went through

•Management vs Leadership. Different personality traits

•Finding out what sort of leadership style I have