Virtual College

  • 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.
  • As our world becomes increasingly more digital and more and more jobs require us to be digitally literate and have digital literacy skills, many of us can feel at a loss as how to navigate and understand these new digital ways. Our online course aims to shine a light on digital literacy and what is required to participate in and benefit from this digital world.
  • Emotional intelligence (or EI) is becoming a popular concept and businesses are striving to make sure it is understood in the workplace. Our short online emotional intelligence training course aims to shine a light on emotional intelligence and the impact it can have in the workplace.
  • Feedback is important in all work roles – no matter the place of work. Yet, it is something many of us struggle with. It is equally hard to give constructive feedback as it is to receive it. Our short online course explores the topic of feedback in detail – explaining what it is, what barriers there may be, as well as offering many useful insights in tips about how to give effective feedback, how to receive it, and understand what to do with it.
  • There is much discussion at the moment about fixed mindset and growth mindset – two contrasting ways of thinking. Growth mindset is the desirable one of the two and can have a profound impact on the way you learn and work. Businesses are recognising its value and are working hard to include this way of thinking and learning within their business culture.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Personal branding is something we all have – whether we realise it or not. It’s a combination of our skills, experience and personality, which make us who we are. But that does not mean it’s something that is out of our control, which begs the question: what can we do to influence and develop our personal brand? Our short online course tackles this topic, explaining what a personal brand is and how it is linked to your values, as well as offering many tips and advice about how to develop your own.
  • 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.
  • Presenting is often a source of anxiety for people, and it can bring about feelings of nerves and dread. But it doesn’t have to be that way – there are skills you can learn which will help build your confidence when presenting. Our short online explores this topic and aims to give you the knowledge you need to present with confidence.
  • Reflective practice is beneficial in all areas of our lives, but its benefit to our working lives is rapidly becoming more and more apparent. But why is it so beneficial? What can we gain from it? Our short online course explores the topic in depth. It explains what it is, the different theories around reflective practice, and the important role is plays in learning. It also offers advice, hints and tips regarding developing your own reflective practice.
  • Resilience is an important life skill that anyone can benefit from, and is especially useful when navigating challenging times or situations. But what it is? How do you develop it? Our online course answers these very questions.
  • In our busy, fast-moving world, good time management skills can be a game changer and can benefit both our personal and professional lives. But what is good time management, and what techniques are involved? Our short online course answers these questions.
  • Our course has been designed to ensure you grow expert managers in your organisation. It is not only cost effective and high quality but our human-centred design puts the learner right at the heart of the course. Our range of media – videos, challenges and downloadable resources – ensures the course is engaging and a meaningful learner experience.
  • 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.
  • Our lone working training addresses the unique challenges to your personal safety when working independently, helping you take practical steps to minimise risks and work with greater confidence. Thousands of people work in isolation daily without colleagues nearby for protection, advice or assistance. This lone working course recognises whether you're serving customers, interacting with the public, or working entirely alone, the absence of support creates distinct vulnerabilities.
  • Imagine a workplace where people have negative attitudes and unreasonable behaviours. Would you enjoy working there? How productive do you think you would be? Positive attitudes and behaviours are important in the workplace because they lead to productive thinking, productive relationships and productive working. Positivity makes a person approachable, which makes it easier to build relationships and to integrate into a team. It builds morale in teams and is related to being effective at work.
  • Understanding and implementing Positive behaviour support has a variety of benefits in including reducing behavioural challenges, improving long term support for those in your care, and an increase in the quality of life of individuals. Learn about positive behaviour support (PBS) including specifically what it is and who it’s for as well as understanding the PBS framework 2015. This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge to promote positive behaviour in health and social care.
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    Power Skills Training Course Package

    Original price was: £120.00.Current price is: £50.00.
    Our Power Skills Training Package is a comprehensive set of resources and training designed to enhance personal and professional development and career success. Discover how these skills can boost your professional and personal growth and open doors to new opportunities. By completing these courses, you'll learn valuable skills to use in the workplace.
  • In the UK certain products have age based sales restriction mandated in law. Enforcement is active: Police and Trading Standards officers are permitted to send children into retailers to attempt to buy restricted products. The potential penalties are large, both for the individual and the retailer. If caught selling an age restricted product, the retailer will be required to demonstrate due diligence, this includes evidence of effective staff training and that the staff have understood the training. This course aims to help protect organisations and employees from: Prosecution, Bad PR, Fines and Loss of business.
  • This course is aimed at team leaders, professionals and financial officers. It reviews the fundamentals of financial management including documentation and reporting. The course concludes with a review of management reporting: profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, cash flow statements, key performance indicators and how management accounts pull all these together to provide the organisation with an overview of the financial health of the company.
  • This course describes the definition of a project plan and reviews the different types of plan, according to the size and type of organisation or project. It then goes on to describe the common elements contained in each plan and outlines the seven stages required to define every project and ultimately to produce the project plan. It explains what should be included in a project plan, and explores each part of the plan with descriptions and examples.
  • Safeguarding anyone against radicalisation and extremism is an extremely important responsibility. It’s crucial that anyone working with vulnerable children, young people or adults are able to recognise the signs and symptoms of potential radicalisation. This training course will help learners to understand various forms of radicalisation and extremism and how it can be recognised and countered. This course also looks into further steps and organisations to contact if they suspect someone is being radicalised. This is a wide-ranging course covering radicalisation and extremism.
  • Within a social care setting there can be a lot of documents and information used daily to provide support to individuals. Not handling these documents and information correctly could lead to an array of consequences ranging from personal risks to the individuals, to consequences for the organisation which could result in a fine. As such there is a great level of importance to understand correct procedures in handling data. Explore the need for secure handling of information, best practises such as the seven principles of processing personal data responsibility whilst also discovering how to access support for handling information with this short course. This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge of Recording and Reporting.
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