Do you often wonder what you have achieved? Do you find yourself juggling between tasks? Do you view time as your enemy? This workshop is for anyone who wishes to make the maximum use of their time. The principles and practices of effective time management are covered and helps participants evaluate and improve their own personal effectiveness.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
identifying working styles
activity logs/to do lists
urgent vs important
managing your diary
managing daily tasks
time stealers
setting goals and objectives
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
This 2 day course is aimed at owners, managers, QA and the HACCP Team in any food manufacturing environment, and also allied trades; laundry, packaging, etc..
The course consists of pre-course work, two taught “classroom” days followed by an assessment (60 question multiple choice examination).
In essence the course aims are to: *Enable you to develop your own CODEX based Food Safety Management System
*Comply with the Law; Regulation (EC) 852/2004 Article 5 (HACCP) and Annex II Chapter XII – team members need to be trained in the principles of HACCP
*Satisfy your SALSA/BRC Auditor
*To engage employees, get them involved in the Management processes and all the motivational/ productivity benefits this brings
The syllabus runs through: 1. Introductory concepts; costs/benefits, legal basis, the various models; Regulation (EC) 852, Codex, Campden BRI, etc.
2. The role/ importance and of the prerequisites
3. The 7 preliminary steps of a HACCP study, according to Campden BRI/Codex
4. The 7 legal HACCP steps; identifying hazards, critical control points, critical limits, etc.
Entry: A Level 2 Award in Food Safety as a minimum, a Level 3 Award in Food Safety is beneficial; an understanding of food manufacturing settings; basic literacy, numeracy and computing skills
Duration: Two day programme ( 09:00 start-16:30 finish ) Approximately 4 hour pre-course work to be completed before attending the classroom session
Cost: £395.00 + VAT Includes assessment fees, course handbook, lunch and refreshments
Course Tutors: Sarah Daniels and Richard Mills are both Chartered Environmental Health Practitioners, having spent over 25 years each in the profession. The RedCat Partnership has been providing food safety training and consultancy in Norfolk, East Anglia and nationally for over 19 years.
This workshop is for those who want to learn how to stand up and speak in public, but feel anxious and apprehensive. It is also for people who want to improve their current public speaking and presenting skills.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
controlling and manage fear and anxiety
overcoming nervousness
delivering a professional speech with real impact
improving your self-esteem and build your confidence
presenting to any size of audience and command their attention
using visual aids where necessary and keeping the audience’s attention
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
The course is designed for users new to Excel. It will provide trainees with the confidence, knowledge and practical experience to use Excel, to create and manipulate spreadsheets and produce printed reports.
Delegates should have sufficient Windows experience beforehand.
Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available. .
Lunch provided: Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
Course Content
The Excel Screen
Ribbons, Quick Access Toolbar, Formula Bar, and Status Bar
Workbooks and Sheet Tabs
Data Entry
Types of Data
Data Entry Techniques
In Cell Editing
Selecting
Cut/Copy/Paste
Drag & Drop
Using AutoFill to fill Adjacent Cells and Extend Series, Custom Lists
Formulae and Functions
Simple formulas & Functions
Relative and Absolute References
Named Ranges
AutoSum
AutoFill
Paste Function
Average, Max, Min & Count Functions
Multiple Panes
Freeze and Unfreeze
Formatting a Worksheet
Using Borders and Shading to improve presentation
Font & Number Formatting, Alignment
Printing
Print Preview & Setup
Headers & Footers
Print Row/Column headings
File Management
Saving, Closing and opening files
New Workbooks
Good Working Practice
Creating a Chart
Creating Charts
An explanation of different versions
Course costs range from £77 – £99 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
This course develops many of the features of Microsoft Excel. We will look at the most useful elements, including formulas and functions, using Excel as a database and sharing text and data with other applications.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
arithmetic formulas
advanced autoSum
autoFill
building functions
basic functions
absolutes
formulas and functions between sheets and workbooks
advanced functions
named ranges
excel as a database
copy and paste
the drawing tools
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
The course is designed for users new to Excel. It will provide trainees with the confidence, knowledge and practical experience to use Excel, to create and manipulate spreadsheets and produce printed reports.
Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available. .
Lunch provided: Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
Course Content
The Excel Screen
Ribbons, Quick Access Toolbar, Formula Bar, and Status Bar
Workbooks and Sheet Tabs
Data Entry
Types of Data
Data Entry Techniques
In Cell Editing
Selecting
Cut/Copy/Paste
Drag & Drop
Using AutoFill to fill Adjacent Cells and Extend Series, Custom Lists
Formulae and Functions
Simple formulas & Functions
Relative and Absolute References
Named Ranges
AutoSum
AutoFill
Paste Function
Average, Max, Min & Count Functions
Multiple Panes
Freeze and Unfreeze
Formatting a Worksheet
Using Borders and Shading to improve presentation
Font & Number Formatting, Alignment
Printing
Print Preview & Setup
Headers & Footers
Print Row/Column headings
File Management
Saving, Closing and opening files
New Workbooks
Good Working Practice
Creating a Chart
Creating Charts
An explanation of different versions
Course costs range from £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
With 1 billion plus users, Facebook is the most successful social media platform. Discover how to drive traffic to your website using Facebook and Facebook advertising.
Knowing that your business should be on Facebook and knowing what your business should be doing on Facebook are completely different. If you are one of the many businesses that are on Facebook but are unsure of how to generate leads, customers or money from it then this full day workshop is for you.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: A sandwich lunch with crisps, cakes and fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
the do’s and donʼts about creating your business brand on Facebook
how it works – the basics and the advanced
understanding what can be see and what can’t be seen
creating a community of potential customers, converting them into customers and retaining them
creating content that will engage people on Facebook
driving customers to your website using Facebook
generating leads via Facebook
Facebook and where you stand legally
researching your competitors on Facebook
achieving your goals using Facebook
measuring your efforts
overview of Facebook advertising and its benefits
what you will take away from this workshop?
you will see clearly how Facebook can be used for your business
you will be able to create a marketing strategy for Facebook
you will know what to do to achieve maximum visibility
you will gain knowledge and some practical experience of how to use Facebook for your business
you’ll come away with plenty of ideas for content that will increase your customer base
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
We spend a lifetime learning, but when was the last time we stopped to think about how we learn? You might be surprised about how much of our natural learning ability is unwittingly damaged or suppressed by the very educational system that was designed to ‘teach’ us. In this fascinating introductory workshop run by Carl Hammond of TIPS for Good Management, we will reveal how to deliver “Brain Friendly” Training that sticks! Including; memory techniques, training games and those things that influence our sensory perceptions. This highly interactive session will feature many tips and techniques TIPS have developed over the years and use in our every day to day training and development and which also helped us to win a UK National Training Award, two years on the bounce! Believe it or not, all of these fun and engaging methods do serve a purpose as they hold the key to really unlocking the hidden learning potential of you and your people. As a result, you and your learners will absorb more and retain information far longer when you use these ideas. We will show you different ways to engage the human brain to create a more natural way to learn but most importantly have fun at the same time! 3 top tips you’ll walk away with:
Learn new and exciting training and development techniques that actually stick!
Discover how the brain works and how it can help and hinder learning.
Learn to speak Japanese in 5 minutes!!
About Carl:
Carl has nearly 15 years’ of experience in learning and development, within the commercial sector, working for TIPS for Good Management. He holds a Certificate in Training Practice and is passionate about the companies unique ‘Brain Friendly Training’ initiative. He is well practiced in accelerated learning techniques and adopts this Brain Friendly approach to every single design and delivery opportunity. He is passionate and enthusiastic about working with other people to impart these knowledge and skills and help spread the word about BFT! It is from this experience that he lives by the following philosophy to training and development. Firstly, it should be fun! It should be beneficial to the learner and to the organization. And it should be a ‘learning by doing’ approach. In other words, if your training has that ‘sizzle and substance’ factor, then it has all the key ingredients to be a powerful and engaging learning experience!
This course has been designed to ensure that supervisors, owners, team leaders and managers are aware of their health and safety responsibilities in improving health and safety culture or that of their organisations. It provides an opportunity to look more deeply into general health and safety from a supervisory perspective.
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the main concepts of health and safety, show awareness of the benefits of a positive health and safety culture, explain the roles and responsibilities of individuals, supervisors and management in health and safety and demonstrate an understanding of health and safety control and improvement strategies available to supervisors.
Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the course.
Course Content
legislation (UK only)
concept of health and safety
accidents in the workplace
ill health in the workplace
health and safety organisation and management
supervising health and safety
There will be a gap between days two and three of the course for delegates to revise from the book given during the course. Subject to passing a multiple choice exam paper delegates will be awarded the Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Course costs range from £299 – £335 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
This course develops many of the features of Microsoft Excel. We will look at the most useful elements, including formulas and functions, using Excel as a database and sharing text and data with other applications.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
arithmetic formulas
advanced autoSum
autoFill
building functions
basic functions
absolutes
formulas and functions between sheets and workbooks
advanced functions
named ranges
excel as a database
copy and paste
the drawing tools
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
If you’re struggling with LinkedIn and wondering whether you should spend time on another networking platform, this training course will be suitable for you.
LinkedIn is a business tool which helps you to do even more business. Half of the users on LinkedIn are the main decision makers and tapping properly into LinkedIn will enable you to drive valuable customers to your website.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available. Please bring your login details with you. Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: On a half-day course, light refreshments will be available throughout.
Course Content:
how to achieve maximum exposure and connect with main decision makers
the power of groups and company pages
how LinkedIn works with or without a budget
how LinkedIn is the perfect marketing tool and discover the ways to use it in your business
Course costs £54 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.
What is the difference between supervising and managing a team? The role of the supervisor is changing and what this role is (or what people think it is) can be unclear at times.
This workshop is for anyone who already supervises a team or a team leader who wants to freshen up their skills.
Aimed at supervisors and team leaders, this module aims to set you up for success and encourage you to take the actions you need to get better results.
Equipment: Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Course Content:
Starting as you mean to go on – first steps on the success ladder
•Heroes and villains – making a good supervisor ‘great’
•The shape of your role and the focus of your attention
•Developing teams – what to look out for
•Achieving a balance between nurturing vs. challenging
•Delegation as a means of developing staff
•When I insist – you resist – communication which works!
•The four supervisory styles – which one to use and when
•Mastering the art of delegation
•Forwarding the action – personal action planning.
Course costs £109 per person. For more details please contact us at [email protected] or on 01603 788950.