COURSES FOR PROFESSIONALS

These courses are aimed at those professionals working in organisations such as local authorities, charities or social enterprises. All our professional courses provide full course notes to each participant.

MAKING GROUPS WORK

This one-day course is aimed at any professional or volunteer tasked with delivering group work regularly in a community setting. It is specifically tailored for those running groups of service users who can be described as “hard to reach”.

The course is delivered in the following formats:

Small group discussion
Games and activities
Larger group feedback
Active participation

Course aims:

To facilitate participants’ understanding of group development and delivery.
To enable participants to explore the challenges of facilitating a group.
To offer a range of solutions and examples of successful group delivery.

Course objectives:

To introduce participants to group theory, and how it relates to their own work with service users.
To present and use practical strategies to encourage engagement, retention and involvement in groups provided in the community.
To explore troubleshooting and issues within groups and identify solutions to common problems.

Appropriate participants:

Professionals and/or volunteers leading or supporting group work. This could include homeless support workers, rehabilitation workers, youth workers, those working or volunteering in community organisations such as Home Start and local charities delivering outreach work in a group environment.

Next course dates:

Tuesday 6 January at Alexander Centre, 15-17 Preston Street, Faversham, Kent ME13 8MZ

To book a place on this course, go to the Book Online section or email enquiries@bemagnificent.uk or call 07986 951154

Making Groups Work brochure

MAKING TEAMS WORK: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

This one-day course allows participants to explore issues around team management and leadership. They will examine best practice around leading, motivating, supporting and developing a team in a variety of situations. The course is experiential as well as theory based. It is designed for participants to share their own experiences in this area as well as supporting the design and delivery of future work for themselves and their teams. Participants will engage in a range of activities and examine evidence-based theory to improve their understanding
and delivery of work in this area.

Course aims and objectives:

To increase participants confidence, knowledge and skills when leading and managing a team.
To examine practical strategies for supporting different kinds of teams including virtual teams, multi-agency teams, multi-sited teams and teams in place.
To use theory to underpin best practice when supporting team development.
To recognize the skills of the individuals within the team and how to support development.
To enable participants to identify and develop their own leadership style and recognise its impact upon their team.
To offer an opportunity deal with issues arising within teams and develop practical strategies and solutions.

Appropriate participants:

Those who are already leading, or preparing to lead any kind of team – which would include paid members of staff or teams of volunteers, or a mix of both.

Next course dates:
Wednesday 18 February at Better Leeds Communities, 42-46 Burley Lodge Road, Leeds LS6 1QF
To book a place on this course, please email enquiries@bemagnificent.uk or call 07986 951154

Making Teams Work brochure

LONE WORKING & MANAGING CHALLENGING SITUATIONS

This one-day course is designed to offer an opportunity for participants to increase their awareness of arrangements and procedures around lone working in a variety of settings. The course will deliver information in an accessible and usable format and give participants a chance to explore their own concerns and capabilities to ensure the safety of themselves and others in a lone working environment.

The course is delivered in these formats:

Partner and small group discussion
Games and activities
Larger group feedback
Active participation

Course aims and objectives:

To increase participants’ ability and confidence to respond actively and appropriately.
To support participants’ awareness of their own Lone Working Policy and how this applies practically to individuals and teams.
To explore best practice recommendations from lead agencies.
To use case studies to explore and underpin new learning.

Appropriate participants:

Any member of staff or volunteer who is or may be working in a lone environment, and their management support

Next course dates

Wednesday 4 February at Cotton Court Business Centre, Church Street, Preston PR1 3BY

Thursday 19 February at Burton Street Foundation, 57 Burton Street, Hillsborough, Sheffield S6 2HH
Monday 23 February at 11 Burford Road, Stratford, London E15 2ST
Tuesday 3 March at The Landmark, School Lane, Burnley BB11 1UF
To book this course, please email enquiries@bemagnificent.uk or call 07986 951154

Lone Working brochure

MAKING BOUNDARIES WORK

This one-day course is designed to support developing and delivering work either one-to-one or in groups with service users facing ongoing difficulties or challenges. It enables staff to develop a positive and personalised method of working with individuals while maintaining appropriate professional distance. We discuss how to keep conversations on track, manage difficult conversations along with recognizing when professional boundaries are at risk of being breached and how to avoid being overwhelmed by others’ issues.

The course is delivered in these formats:

Partner and small group discussion
Games and activities
Larger group feedback
Active participation

Course aims and objectives:

To identify and recognize the realities of working with service users in need of support.
To increase participants’ confidence, knowledge and skills in delivering ongoing support using resilience as a starting point to build.
To offer participants a range of practical ideas and strategies.
To recognize the value of professional distance both to the service user and the practitioner.
To set boundaries, keep them and recognize the signs of breach.
To understand the impact of loss of professional distance on successful outcomes.
To deliver consistent, practical and accessible support to service users.

Appropriate participants:

Anyone working one-to-one or delivering groups to service users who face difficulties or challenges. Workers may include those involved in drugs and alcohol rehabilitation, homelessness, sexual abuse, domestic abuse, or those in carer organisations, probation support, refugee support and so on.

Next course dates:

Tuesday 3 February at The Pentagon Centre, 36 Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ
Thursday 12 February at NBV Enterprise Centre, David Lane, Basford, Nottingham NG6 0JU

Tuesday 17 February at CECA, H25 The Avenues, 11th Avenue, Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead NE11 0NJ
Thursday 26 February at The Clarendon Centre, 47 New England Street, Brighton BN1 4GQ
Wednesday 4 March at Central Hall Manchester, Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JQ
To book this course, please email enquiries@bemagnificent.uk or call 07986 951154

Making Boundaries Work brochure