Open Leadership and Management Courses from Grenfell Housing and Training

Grenfell Housing and Training is running a series of open Leadership and Management Training courses through  April, June and July.

These courses are eligible for funding under the ESF Leadership and Management Fund (L&M Fund). Grenfell has itself accessed funding through the say funding stream and is offering assistance to eligible organisations to do the same.

See the documents below for a booking form and a copy of the terms and conditions. For further information or help regarding bookings please contact Chris Irwin on 020 8545 2597 or chris@grenfell-housing.co.uk

Clean and Crafty Meetings
Date: 06/04/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost: £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

Everyone attends meetings! Formal and informal, pleasant or painful, fun or fearsome – at work and at home - with clients or colleagues, with our children, our partners, students, managers, supervisees, patients, doctors, strangers or friends. This training offers a practical and experiential introduction to models, theories, techniques, processes, structures and practical suggestions for making meetings more meaningful.

Delivered by Michael Mallows - http://www.craftylistening.co.uk/

Funding Strategies and Bid Writing
Date: 13&14/04/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 2 days
Cost: £600 per person (including Lunch and refreshments on both days)

A two-day accredited training course in Funding Strategies and Bid Writing arms participants with the necessary tools to create an applicable funding strategy for their organisation. The programme trains and supports individuals to understand how bids are marked and how to answer questions accordingly. The programme is accredited by the NOCN and is one unit towards a Level 3 qualification in Managing Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations.

Delivered by Greater London Enterprise (GLE) - http://www.gle.co.uk/

Performance Management
Date: 21/04/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

Does you organisation always perform to its potential? No? Of course not! But how far away are you? And why? This performance management course will take learners through the processes required to successfully manage performance. Whether your organisation has 5 or 200 staff this course will provide a benchmarking tool which will enable you to successfully manage the performance of your staff team and organisation against its aims and objectives.

Delivered by Interchange - http://www.interchange.org.uk/content/

Managing Conflict in the Workplace
Date: 04&05/05/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 ½ days (04/05/10 full day, 05/05/10 morning session only)
Cost: £225 per person (including Lunch and refreshments on the first day, refreshments only on the second)

This course is designed for anyone wishing to analyse the types of conflict which arise in the course of your work as a line manager, to examine different methods of managing conflict, and their effectiveness to practise skills and techniques for resolving conflict in the workplace. It will use group work, exercises and role plays based on the situations you face in your day to day work to explore conflict and methods of dealing with it, and to practise skills and techniques.
Delivered by Merton and Sutton Mediation Services - http://www.merton.gov.uk

Winning New Business
Date: 12/05/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost: £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

We all need to win new business, whether it is an immediate requirement or a long term goal. It doesn’t matter which sector you work in Public, Private or Voluntary there will always be the need to win new business. This course will look at what is required to be competitive in and ever changing market place. Guiding learners through the processes and procedures that should be followed to gain the best advantage whatever your market place.

Delivered by Indigo Developments - http://www.indigodevelopments.org.uk/

Leadership
Date: 19/05/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost: £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

What is the difference between Leadership and Management? Do you manage people? Do you lead? Why do organisations need leadership? These questions and many more will be answered in this course guiding learners through what is and what isn’t leadership and why it is such an important facet within organisations.

Delivered by Interchange - http://www.interchange.org.uk/content/

Funding Strategies and Bid Writing
Date: 25&26/05/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 2 days
Cost: £600 per person (including Lunch and refreshments on both days)

A two-day accredited training course in Funding Strategies and Bid Writing arms participants with the necessary tools to create an applicable funding strategy for their organisation. The programme trains and supports individuals to understand how bids are marked and how to answer questions accordingly. The programme is accredited by the NOCN and is one unit towards a Level 3 qualification in Managing Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations.

Delivered by Greater London Enterprise (GLE) - http://www.gle.co.uk/

Crafty Leadership
Date: 02/06/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost: £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

Workshops and training for managers, team-leaders, organisers, coaches, and any one else whose post, purpose and position requires them to motivate, encourage, inspire or otherwise influence in a positive way, the people they manage or lead.

Delivered by Michael Mallows - http://www.craftylistening.co.uk/

Optimising Business Growth
Date: 09/06/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost: £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

Where do you look for business growth? Organisations can grow in a number of ways but how do you go about optimising that growth. Capacity building? Selling? Bidding for funding? Do you even have an identifiable process or is it more of a ‘scatter gun approach’. The ability to identify opportunities and capitalise on them is vital to business growth, but getting the very maximum everytime…

Delivered by Indigo Developments - http://www.indigodevelopments.org.uk/

Understanding Mediation
Date: 16/06/10
Venue: Grenfell Housing and Training, South Wimbledon
Course Length: 1 day
Cost: £150 per person (including Lunch and refreshments)

Mediation plays an important role in everyday life, having an understanding of what mediation is and how it works in practice will better equip you for both work and general life. Those who attend will learn to appreciate how mediation is used in conflict resolution right the way through to minor disagreements.
Delivered by Merton and Sutton Mediation Services - http://www.merton.gov.uk