Skild training courses and events

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Assertiveness skills for development workers

This course will help you to discover what assertiveness is and what it is not, how to use empowering language and help you to consider your assertive rights and responsibilities.

Being a development worker

If you are brand new to development work and supporting groups or are coming back to development work after time away and need a refresher this course is ideal for you.

Communication using social media

Do you want to find new ways to communicate with the groups and organisations you work with? If so this is the course for you.

Diversity - making it real

Diversity affects you in all aspects of your everyday and working life. Working with organisations made up of individuals and communities from diverse backgrounds and experiences you will face challenges, not just in communicating and identifying needs, but in finding the right way to empower and enable people to improve their lives.

Equality impact assessments

Are you or your organisations looking to develop or deliver new projects? Do you support groups to develop new projects? If so this course is ideal for you.

Every business matters

Free training and information day designed to help you develop your business skills to use with groups and organisations working with children, young people and families.

Facilitating mergers: toolkit and training for development workers

This course is for experienced development workers who want to gain knowledge, tools and confidence in guiding local organisations through a merger journey.

Facilitation skills

Facilitation skills for development workers is aimed at those of you who are new to facilitation or may be just starting to facilitate workshops, conferences and consultation events and meetings. The course will be full of useful tips to help you maximise your facilitation performance and give you the opportunity to develop your own style to be used in a formal or informal setting.

From development worker to manager

If you are in the early stages of managing others or considering becoming a manager, this one-day course is for you.

Human rights

As a development worker you will probably work with one or more of the groups described above but may never have considered how human rights and equalities affect your work.

Negotiation skills for development workers

As a development worker you may find that you have to negotiate with people to find solutions, create plans of action and work towards compromise. This could be with the groups you support, your colleagues and a variety of stakeholders.

New perspectives for experienced development workers

This facilitated day will be shaped by those attending and will give you a chance to reflect on your roles, experience and expectations for your continuing professional development.

Project management

This course is ideal for development workers who are new to managing projects or for development workers who are giving advice to community groups and voluntary organisations about project management and the tools to use.

The changing role of funding advisers

This course will be ideal for you if your remit includes advising voluntary and community groups on funding issues. In today's economic climate groups must be able to take advantage of a wider range of funding contracts and trading opportunities.

Tools for engaging with community groups and voluntary organisations

This course is for people who've been supporting and engaging with groups for a while, and want some fresh ideas and techniques.

 

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