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Great Teams Made Even Better

  • Easy, no-cost ways to build stronger, more supportive teams
  • Boost morale and cultivate positive attitudes
  • Help team members enjoy their work even more
  • Know what it takes to bring out the best in your people 
  • Retain and attract high-performing staff

How to Deal with Angry and Demanding People

  • Staying in control when your buttons are being pushed
  • Defusing the anger and strong emotions of others in 3 easy steps
  • How to say "No" to demanding people AND keep them on-side
  • Dealing well with screamers and other intimidating people
  • Safety precautions and other steps organisations can take
  • Speaking well to people whose behaviour you cannot ignore
  • Self-care for people on the front line

Well-being at Work

  • Cultivating positive attitudes to workplace challenges
  • Building positive and supportive team relationships
  • Doing more of the work you enjoy and less of the work you don't
  • Recharging your emotional batteries so you have something to give
  • Rediscovering your passion and purpose for your work

Work-life Balance: What Everyone Needs to Know

  • Appreciating what you need to be happier
  • Simple steps to get out and stay out of work-mode
  • Increasing your enjoyment of your work and personal life
  • Rediscovering passions that give you energy
  • 5 keys to making quality living a way of life

Engage and Motivate Difficult Clients

  • Transform a resistant client into someone who is keen and motivated to help themselves
  • Get clients who are reluctant to talk convincing you about the reasons why they need to change
  • Make use of the 4 key factors that are known to produce change
  • Identify client strengths and apply them successfully to the problem situation
  • Boost people's motivation and ability to move forward
  • Help clients learn from setbacks and recommit to their plan for change
  • Significantly improve outcomes with only minor adjustments to your approach

Managing the Challenging Behaviour of Children in Care

  • Addressing the factors underlying their misbehaviour
  • Proactive measures to encourage more of the behaviour you want to see
  • Effective ways to shape behaviour over time
  • Finding the balance between love and limits
  • Responding well to the button-pushing behaviour of adolescents
  • Eight ways to build a child's strengths and self-esteem

Become Solution-focused in Brief Therapy

  • Engage clients who are unmotivated or involuntary
  • Use language as a powerful force for change
  • Access client strengths in 8 different ways
  • Generate workable solutions to complex problems
  • Increase a client’s awareness of what works
  • Assist clients to break problem patterns of behaviour
  • Counsel more effectively with limited time

Managing Aggressive Behaviour

  • Helping clients see the need for change
  • Proactive measures to minimise the likelihood of aggression
  • Addressing the factors contributing to misbehaviour
  • Helping people identify their sensitivities, risk factors, and trigger points
  • Staying in control when your buttons are being pushed
  • Developing plans and back-up plans for likely challenges

Stop Bullying In Its Tracks

  • Work well with students who are resistant to change
  • Use strengths-based approaches in counselling students
  • Intervene effectively with groups of students
  • Help targeted students to build friendships, become more resilient, and respond well to provocative behaviour
  • Mediate between friends who have fallen out with each other
  • Find and use meaningful consequences
  • Enlist the support of parents and other students

Difficult Conversations with Co-workers Made Easy

  • Gaining the right mindset for difficult conversations
  • Giving feedback well to team members
  • Helping team members embrace change
  • Dealing well with workplace bullying
  • Backup plans for dealing with manipulation and aggression
  • How to have someone you dismiss or move on thank you in the end

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