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This short course explores the importance and benefits of leading a meaningful life and the impact that can have on your resilience levels. You will examine what brings meaning to your life, and how you might go about discovering your purpose. The course explores the importance of goals and how you can set goals that you are both more likely to achieve, and which are more likely to bring you happiness and life satisfaction. You will also identify your strengths using a well-respected assessment tool and understand the role that they play in both building your levels of resilience and life satisfaction.

Managing people is a huge challenge for many us. Amongst many of the skills and qualities required to effectively manage people are trust, courage and strong communication skills. Managing people remotely brings with it a host of additional challenges. How can you build trust with your team when you cannot even meet face-to-face? How do you ensure that your delegate effectively and that work is on track? How can you keep individuals motivated and have those difficult conversations when you need to?

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.” Dave Barry

Okay so maybe that’s a slight exaggeration but meetings can be incredibly frustrating at the best of times. When we add in the difficulties of conducting meetings in a virtual environment, these problems are often exacerbated. 
 

Time management is a challenge for many of us to master in the easiest of times, but when we are working from home, it can be even more of a challenge. Without the boss looking over our shoulder, with distractions from family, chores and devices and more of a need to structure our own day the challenges of prioritisation and focus become greater. 

A comprehensive introduction to the subject of resilience and how to develop it. This bite-sized course provides an overview of the key practices of resilient people and introduces you to a range of tools and techniques that you can start using straightaway; from the benefits and practise of gratitude through to taking a different attitude towards failure. You will assess your current resilience levels and reflect on your previous experiences in overcoming adversity.

Long before the shops were packed with colouring books for adults, psychologists were aware of the benefits to our wellbeing of being mindful. It’s no coincidence that so many business leaders have practised meditation for years. 

This practical short course will introduce you to the concepts, practices and benefits of mindfulness and how they can help you become more resilient. It also examines how you can identify and reframe unhelpful thinking patterns and develop a more optimistic approach to life.

Excel has long been a popular choice for creating spreadsheets, analysing data and creating graphical representations of information. Excel has more bells and whistles than any version before it, and can be daunting for a novice user.

There are few things in life more impressive than a properly formatted and presented spreadsheet, so if you want to dazzle colleagues with your workbook wizardry or automate a process you repeat every day then this is the course for you.

Excel has long been a popular choice for creating spreadsheets, analysing data and creating graphical representations of information. Excel has more bells and whistles than any version before it, and can be daunting for a novice user.

There are few things in life more impressive than a properly formatted and presented spreadsheet, so if you want to dazzle colleagues with your workbook wizardry or automate a process you repeat every day then this is the course for you.
 

Excel has long been a popular choice for creating spreadsheets, analysing data and creating graphical representations of information. Excel has more bells and whistles than any version before it, and can be daunting for a novice user.

There are few things in life more impressive than a properly formatted and presented spreadsheet, so if you want to dazzle colleagues with your workbook wizardry or automate a process you repeat every day then this is the course for you.