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Choosing Change currently offers 4 types of training: in-house courses for community groups; in-house courses for staff and managers, open courses at Trafford Hall and open courses for InSTEP. Details are shown below. Please click on course titles for more information about individual courses.

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In house courses for community groups

The following are established courses. Please note that we are happy to adapt these or tailor-make new courses to meet the particular needs of your organisation.

One Day Courses

• Communication skills

• Running successful meetings

• Chairing skills

• Writing skills for committee secretaries

• Presentation skills and public speaking

• Equality and diversity

• How to involve more people

• Running projects in the community

• Representing your community

• You can do it! – building confidence

• Working as a team

• Negotiating and influencing skills

• Assertiveness skills

• Stress management

• Understanding social housing

• Neighbourhood management

• Resident involvement in contracts

• Community enterprise – an introduction

• A vision for your community

• How to be happy

• Residents on board!

Two Day Courses

• Empowering People, Empowering Communities

• Community leadership

• Training for trainers

• Connecting parents with communities

• Healthy communities

• Personal effectiveness programme

Our current fees for established courses for community groups are as follows:

• 3-day courses: £1,800
  2-day courses: £1,250
  1-day courses: £670
  Half-day or evening:  £450
  Taster sessions: £350

Please contact us to book courses or for more information.

 

In house courses for staff and managers

The following are established courses. Please note that we are happy to adapt these or tailor-make new courses to meet the particular needs of your organisation.

• Communicating with customers

• Assertiveness

• Dealing with conflict and aggression

• Meetings skills

• Chairing and managing meetings

• Communication skills for managers

• Empowering staff

• Holding supervisions and appraisals

• Giving presentations

• Happiness at work

• Team working

• Coaching skills for managers

• Participatory learning and action

• Training skills for managers

Please contact us to book courses or for more information.

 

Open courses at Trafford Hall

Trafford Hall, the National Communities Resource Centre in Chester, offers many courses for social housing tenants and community volunteers. Many applicants are eligible for bursary places; those eligible need only pay a £10 per person administration fee. Please note that bookings and further information about these courses should be made directly with Trafford Hall – email h.evans@traffordhall.com - phone 01244 300246. Details of the full training programme are available from www.traffordhall.com.

Further Choosing Change courses at Trafford Hall will be announced shortly.

Please note that all the courses run at Trafford Hall can also be run in-house for organisations. Please contact us if you would like to explore this option.

Open courses for InSTEP

The InSTEP programme consists of a range of open courses run at various venues around the country. The programme is funded by the government’s Tenant Empowerment Programme. Choosing Change will be running the following courses over the next few months:

Reaching Out to Your Community: Encouraging, Engaging and Involving People
8 July 2009 – Bradford

The Essential Guide to Being a Tenant Chair
23 June 2009 – Ipswich

Bookings and further information about these and other courses should be made directly with InSTEP on Freephone 0500 844 111 or visit their website.

 

Choosing Change currently offers 4 types of training:

In-house courses for community groups are courses that can be booked by your organisation, and we will come to you and run the course locally.

In-house courses for staff and managers are courses about communication and empowerment, designed to help staff give of their best and get the best from their organisations. Again, we come to you.

Open courses at Trafford Hall are courses we run at the National Communities Resource Centre in Chester.

Open courses for InSTEP
are courses we run at various venues around the country