Training Workshops to enhance productivity and effectiveness of your personnel

Effective Team Communication

Are communication problems preventing your team from achieving excellence in performance? This half-day course is designed to equip team members with the skills to identify the communication styles of their colleagues, and adapt their own styles to meet the needs of each person.

On completion of the course participants will take away a copy of their own communication profile, and a representation of the communication styles of each of their team members.

Designed for 6-10 participants. Additional participants may be accommodated at an additional cost per person.

Stress Management Skills

Stress can be the result of many different circumstances; heavy workload, time pressure, relationship stress, internal or external expectations of performance, and environmental discomfort are a few examples. If stress factors affect individuals in unique ways, it is reasonable to expect that there is not a ‘one-size-fits-all' solution to stress.

Participants will work with an experienced psychologist to learn and practice a range of techniques in order to assist them to understand and cope with stress.

Using Time Productively

Time wasting is an often under-calculated consideration of the payroll. Research in 2005 by Salary.com suggested that the average American employee wastes over 2 hours per day. This equates to around 25% of salary and conditions being paid for employees to surf the web, chat on instant messaging, and conduct superfluous ‘meetings' at the coffee shop on the corner. And Australian research shows that our figures are not much better.

Despite the potential costs of time-wasting activities, evidence is emerging those staff members whose employers allow some indulgence in social chat and personal use of the internet during work hours can be more productive overall than those who are not permitted any dalliances.

This half-day workshop is designed to examine a variety of strategies to promote the most effective use of time in the workplace, and would be very valuable to supervisors and managers.

Reinforcing Productive Workplace Behaviour

The aim of an effective workplace reward scheme is to create repeated, productive behaviour, a sense that these contributions are recognised and valued by the organisation, and a belief that the individuals themselves are valued. Achieving these outcomes may not be as simple as it seems, and some commonly used approaches may even result in employee dissatisfaction and disengagement.

Participants in this three-hour workshop will learn theories of workplace motivation, and the advantages and pitfalls of a variety of strategies to reinforce productive workplace behaviour. Participants will work together to develop a workplace reward scheme that is tailored to the needs of their organisation and the behaviours they wish to reinforce.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

This course is essential for any organisation with a high risk of suicide in the workplace or client population. The Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) has been developed and refined for over 40 years by Canadian training developers LivingWorks ^TM. The result is an outstanding two-day course that teaches the practical skills required to provide suicide intervention.

Participants receive a certificate of participation, and valuable resources including a suicide intervention handbook, and a wallet-sized guide to assist them to deal with future interventions.

The course is delivered by two registered psychologists, and is designed to accommodate 12-20 participants.