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• Learning Styles
• Being Systematic
• Continuing Professional Development
• Time Management
• Workshop Organisation
• Staff Induction
• Trainers and Workshops
• Community Economic Development
• Effective Meetings
• Advocacy and Lobbying (Influencing Skills)
• The types of people in groups and teams
• Group Work and Team Dynamics
• Helping to make changes
• Talking it through

Learning Styles

• Checklist of learning styles (g971204f.wpd)
• Learning styles and training mismatches (g981015a.doc)

Being systematic

• Systematic thinking – using checklists (g970923a.wpd)
• Record Keeping Guidance (ESF)
• ACCESS-BPL Activity Log (log.doc)

Continuing Professional Development

• Continuing Professional Development (g970124a.wpd)
• Perceived need for administrative growth (g961003b.wpd)
• The seven habits of highly effective people (g980116b.wpd + graphic)
• Personal development plans (from www.learndirect.co.uk )
• When giants learn to dance (010211.rtf)

Reflection:

CED in Practice (010209.rtf)

CPD by Calibrated Retrospection (CPD by calibrated retrospection.rtf)

BPL-Access – Learning Codes (learning.rtf)

BPL-Access – Activity Codes (activities2.rtf)

Time Management

• What counts (g970521a.wpd)
• The time management matrix (g980616c.doc)
• Time and administritis (g971210a.wpd)
• Time capsules 010215a.rtf)
• Four generations of time management tools g980616b.doc)

Reflection:

The role of paid staff in CED organisations

The future of PDL

Workshop Organisation

Reflection:

CED – a greater benevolence

• Leisure and recreation – possibilities through partnership (recreation.doc)
• Leisure and recreation – the opportunities (LR-ops.rtf)

Staff Induction

• Staff training session – induction (010226b.rtf)
• A staff development programme (g960108c.doc)
• Organisation structure (g970513b.doc)
• Lightly and tightly structured organisations (g970515b.doc)
• Human resource management – two models (g950515d.doc)
• Obtaining and evaluating information (g951110c.doc)
• Recording and storing information (g951110d.doc)
• Collecting useful information (941114b.rtf)

Trainers and Workshops

• Trainers and workshops (Trainers and workshops.rtf)
• The effective trainer – making dreams come true (g981005e.rtf)
• How to be a good trainer – some options (g981007b.doc)
• Workshop organisation – contextualisation (g981023e.doc)
• Workshop preparation – the professional aspects (g981023a.doc)
• Workshop preparation – the logistical aspects (g981023c.doc)
• Preparing for a workshop and drawing the agenda (g981023b.doc)
• Management style and workshop approaches (g970721b.doc)

Community Economic Development

Reflection:

Community Economic Development (010512.rtf)

Effective Meetings

• What is the purpose of this meeting? (g010504.doc)
• Effective meetings – matching purpose to type (010510.doc)
• The people at meetings (g970520b.doc)
• Personality types in meetings (g970520e.doc)
• Helping to make meetings more effective (g970520f.doc)
• Going to meetings – a creative involvement (g971126b.doc)
• Video Arts Production – more bloody meetings (g970520d.doc)
• The good chairperson’s checklist (g970520c.doc)
• Effective meetings – a chairperson’s self test (010510b.doc)
• Effective meetings – a participant’s self test (010510c.doc)
• Outputs

Advocacy and Lobbying (Influencing Skills)

• Advocacy - the basics
• Advocacy - two approaches
• Advocacy - effective influencing
• Advocacy - systematic planning
• Advocacy - monitoring indicators

The types of people in groups and teams

• Task and Maintenance roles in groups
• Teams - the essential features (doers, thinkers and carers)
• Team types - know them by their slogans (Belbin's 9 types)
• Belbin's team role theory
• Common roles in a work group
• Ready for Change

Group Work and Team Dynamics

• Group Work - three I's and two A's
• 1-5 Rating scale for participation on discussion
• Rating group effectiveness
• Group interaction analysis
• Team Functions
• How teams are formed - three models
• Stages in development of groups
• Solo leaders and Team leaders
• Enhancing Group Dynamics

Helping to make changes

• Involving the Community in devising community indicators

• Types of tutor/ facilitator/ adviser authority

• The project agent

• External agents in PTD

• Facilitator roles for intervention

• Facilitating Change – keys to advisory success of failure

• Advisers as external agents of change

• The 7Ds of a successful adviser

• The role of the external mentor

• Stimulation of self-reliant initiatives

• For commitment to survive

• Sensitization of those who would intervene

• Coping with oralcy – being the scribe

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Talking it through

• Coaching/Counselling – the GROW Model

• Peer Conferences – the six steps

• SPUR – an action plan

• Interviewing – a five stage process?

• Interpersonal communication – the non-verbals

• Conversation control

• Influencing skills

• The motivating power of change agents

• Confronting avoidance

• Levels of influence

• Possible availability of power and resources

• Empowerment and Depowerment

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