Virtual College

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
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