Virtual College
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This online Misogyny Awareness course provides you with the knowledge you need to identify and tackle misogynistic behaviour that might be experienced in the workplace. Sexism and misogyny have damaging effects on women. It’s not just the mental burden of experiencing derogatory comments in-the-moment, but also the long-term impact it can have on their wellbeing, behaviours and life choices. -
Misogynistic behaviour is sadly on the rise with research saying 64% of teachers in mixed-sex secondary schools hear sexist language in school on at least a weekly basis. A quarter (27%) of secondary school teachers say they would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident if they experienced or witnessed it in school. -
This short course has been designed to help you learn the three basic principles of collaborating so you can hit the ground running and feel confident you're approaching collaboration in the right way. During this course, you will learn how to find a shared purpose between you and the people you are working with, find out what effective communication looks like during a collaborative project and be able to identify the difference between teamwork and collaboration. -
Our bite-sized online course explores this very topic and looks at the neuroscience of learning. Suitable for anyone who is curious to discover the link between neuroscience and learning, our course provides fascinating insights into how the brain functions and the impact that has on how we learn, as well as techniques and resources to help plan your learning using your newfound neuroscience knowledge. -
Our Leading Remote Teams course is suitable for a wide range of roles including business owners, HR professionals, senior managers, middle managers, line managers and team leaders. Our short course is ideal for anyone who manages a remote team and is looking to discover effective ways of keeping their team motivated. -
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses to adapt their way of working, and as a result working remotely has fast become the new norm. We recognise that this affects the way a manager manages and leads their team. One way which is important, especially given the turbulent times we find ourselves in, is how to keep the team motivated. Our course has been created specifically to support here. It will provide you with useful tips and insights into topics such as understanding what motivates your team; giving feedback, recognition and praise, and motivating your team during the Coronavirus pandemic. -
The Coronavirus has had a profound impact on how we work, especially when it comes to managing teams. With many managers now having to manage remote teams, we recognise that it can be daunting to know the best and most effective ways of doing this. Our bite-size course focuses on how to performance manage a remote team and provides you with all the essential information you need to be able to do this effectively and with confidence. You will cover topics such as setting objectives for remote workers, measuring performance, giving feedback and more. -
Our short, bite-sized course is designed for any business owner, manager or HR professional who wants to ensure their communication skills, or those of their staff, are suited to a remote working environment. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, remote working is fast becoming the norm. This has required businesses to adapt in many ways, and one of those ways is how teams are managed. Our Communicating With Remote Teams course is suitable for a wide range of roles including business owners, HR professionals, senior managers, middle managers, line managers and team leaders. -
Filled with lots of guidance and practical tips, our short course has been designed to help managers support the health and wellbeing of their remote team. The Coronavirus pandemic has seen a massive change in working, with businesses across the world having to quickly adapt to remote working, so now more than ever we must look after our employee’s health and wellbeing. Remote working presents some challenges to people’s health and wellbeing and managers can feel uncertain of the best ways of supporting and helping. -
Our short course is aimed at anyone who manages a remote team and would like to learn how to maintain a team culture and effectively promote team engagement and communication. With remote working fast becoming the norm, it is important to adapt your managerial skills so that they are appropriate to managing a remote team. As distance is a significant factor in remote teams, it is easy for team members to feel isolated or disconnected from their colleagues. Our short course focuses on how you can maintain a healthy team culture and promote effective team engagement and communication. -
This short course has been designed to help you learn the three basic principles of collaborating so you can hit the ground running and feel confident you're approaching collaboration in the right way. During this course, you will learn how to find a shared purpose between you and the people you are working with, find out what effective communication looks like during a collaborative project and be able to identify the difference between teamwork and collaboration. -
This short online course is ideal for anyone who wishes to develop or improve their confidence. It explores what confidence is and its associated behaviours, and provides useful techniques and resources for you to use. Confidence is something that many of us feel we lack, and an improvement in our confidence can have a positive impact on our lives – both in our personal life, as well as our professional one. This is why we have designed this short confidence building training course to help you develop your confidence. -
This power skill e-learning course will give you the tools and techniques to effectively present your ideas. Our online How to Construct and Deliver an Effective Presentation training course is broken down into the following sections and can be completed at your own pace. Working through this course will help you to identify what's urgent, what's not, and the big idea you should go for in your next presentation. You will explore what your audience wants and how to help them to care, identify four techniques to learn more about who your audience is and get to grips with 'stacking' your presentation. -
This online course provides helpful and reassuring insights and advice about stress and ways to deal with stressful situations. Stress can have a major impact on our lives, and can leave us feeling unable to cope, depressed, or lonely, as discovered by a recent study from the Mental Health Foundation. Putting practices into place can help us cope when faced with stressful situations. -
This short course has been designed to help you deliver criticism in the most effective way possible. In it, you'll learn the difference between destructive and constructive criticism, why positive intentions are key to effective criticism and why tone of voice and choice of words matter when giving criticism. These power skills are extremely beneficial in the workplace and can help further your personal and professional development. -
This short course has been designed to help you feel confident and comfortable when public speaking. We give you hints and tips to ensure you make the most of a public speaking opportunity and explore the different types of communication that will help you get there. These skills are extremely beneficial in growing your personal and professional development. Effective Public Speaking. Identify factors that affect public speaking, including comfort habits. Learn techniques to overcome nerves and improve your presentation. -
This short course has been designed to help you to construct a robust opinion in the most effective way possible. It will take you through three steps to help you form an opinion that's thoughtful and nuanced, starting with researching your topic, then assessing the information, and finally inferring what it all means. -
By completing this course, you'll learn valuable skills to use in the workplace. This topic is known as a power skill, and when you complete it, you'll be able to identify different types of feedback and the appropriate ways to respond to them, learn the importance of both positive and negative feedback, reflect on how you respond to feedback, and the impact this has on your career development and progression. -
In this course, you'll find out how to deal with difficult situations so that in the future, you'll be able to resolve them swiftly and effectively. Workplace conflict can be a useful tool for growth and change, but only if it's managed well. By taking part in this course, you'll learn how to analyse your emotions and practise describing them with words. -
This topic is known as a power skill, and when you complete it, you'll learn how to develop a growth mindset to set a strong foundation for building on your problem-solving skills. You'll be able to identify four ways to develop and activate a stronger sense of initiative, including awareness, curiosity, bravery and communication and explore the connections between imagination and lateral and logical thinking, and find out how they support each other to improve your problem-solving skills. -
This short online course will help you understand how to effectively develop and use your influencing, negotiating and networking skills – three skills that can have a positive impact on your professional life. In our professional lives, we are constantly communicating. We can communicate for many different reasons, but often we are sharing our ideas, discussing work priorities or meeting new people – and the success of these conversations will depend on how we communicate. This is where our influencing, negotiating and network skills come into play. -
Learn to understand why saying no can feel so hard, and how to make it easier. Why take this Learning to Say No - The Right Way course? This short course has been designed to give you an insight into those wide-ranging, complex factors, helping you to understand why saying no can feel so hard and giving you tips and ideas on how to make it a little easier. -
Our short online course will help you maximise learning opportunities at work, ensuring that you can develop and learn the skills you need to further your professional career. The work climate is constantly developing, and it feels like there are new skills, ideas and concepts being introduced all the time. Many businesses are encouraging their employees to train and develop their skills, but how can we make the time? Our short online course addresses this very topic. -
This online course explores the necessity of personal development, how to go about it, and the important role that self-awareness plays. With so many new self awareness skills, ideas, theories and concepts being introduced in our hectic, ever-changing work life, many of us are looking to develop our skills and knowledge in order to keep up. But how do you go about it? Where do you start? Our online self awareness training course explores why personal development is necessary and how you go about starting.