Virtual College

  • Just as it is important to keep our bodies healthy, ensuring we keep our minds healthy is just as vital throughout all stages of life. By not taking time to understand our own mental health, our behaviours and emotions can be negatively affected. Mental Health and Wellbeing Resource Pack improves your awareness of mental health, how to support others with their mental health and gain general information surrounding mental health.
  • 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.
  • Professionalism in the workplace is essential, regardless of your job. This means representing your company well both in person and online, including via your personal social media profile. Of course, you don't have to reference your job on your personal channels, but colleagues, clients and prospective employers are now easily able to search for you online and see how you spend your time outside of work. If you're self-employed, it's arguably even more important to know how to manage your professional digital profile to ensure the lines between your private and professional lives remain clear. What's more, General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) mean businesses need to ensure staff are not sharing sensitive information on their personal social media profiles, and know exactly how far their digital footprint stretches.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • As a manager you will be responsible for implementing equality, diversity and inclusion policies within your organisation. You also may be involved in recruitment or handling grievance and disciplinary matters so it’s important to understand these key subjects and how to how to live and breathe an ED&I strategy within your business. Our 60-minute online equality, diversity and inclusion for managers course explores these three related, but different areas, imparting valuable insights which will increase any manager’s confidence in the topics.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Do you truly know what equality, diversity and inclusion are, the differences between them and how they impact on your working environment? Discover how to embrace equality, diversity and inclusion into your normal way of working and promote best practice within your organisation. Our 60-minute equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace online course explores these three related, but different areas, imparting valuable insights which will increase any employee’s confidence in the topics.
  • 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.
  • This course is aimed at those involved in the handling of people’s information as part of their day to day role. This Course will provide a Data Protection (GDPR) overview for those looking to gain more information on how to uphold the 6 principles. With this course learners will understand the key principles and process under the regulation and what their roles and responsibilities include. In its early days, data protection compliance quickly became a key priority for businesses, as the risk of large financial penalties for failing to introduce a culture of greater data transparency were introduced.
  • 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.
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