Public sector teams are increasingly diverse – not just in culture, but in neurology. Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety, and sensory sensitivity bring unique strengths and challenges. This session moves beyond compliance to designing environments and leadership behaviours that work for all brains.
Compassion is a leadership strength but unmanaged, it can lead to fatigue, cynicism, or moral injury. This session reframes care as both an ethical responsibility and a strategic capability. Participants learn to create systems of care that sustain themselves and their teams.
Why your people are “over it” — and how to re-energise them. While change is normal, continuous change erodes psychological safety and engagement. This session helps leaders understand the psychology behind fatigue and equips them to reignite energy, clarity, and hope in teams that feel drained.
Learn to understand different personality traits and behaviours as well as individual emotional reactions to challenging behaviours. You will be given the skills to deal with challenging employee behaviours that meet legal, ethical and professional obligations. You will also explore best-practice performance management and the Dark Triad of personality tendencies (psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism).
This course is part of the 21st Century Manager series. Register for the full series and save up to 10%.
More informationThe 21st Century Manager series is comprised of 6 half-day units that address core management competencies:
“Just a great course - I felt empowered when I left and that I can tackle those difficult work situations.”
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“Sam is an engaging and very knowledgeable speaker. Her real life scenarios are samples have resonated with me and provided me with an avenue to "approach difficult situations" with somewhat confidence.”
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“I now have the courage to have those difficult conversations with staff.”
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Develop the skills to speak up confidently and professionally when there’s no time to prepare. Learn how to structure your thoughts, manage pressure, and respond clearly in meetings, briefings, stakeholder conversations and public speaking situations.
In this practical workshop, you’ll learn how to communicate clearly and confidently when put on the spot, strengthening your overall confidence and communication skills. You’ll acquire strategies to help you be in control no matter what questions are thrown at you. You’ll appear professional and confident and, best of all, others will hear what you have to say, demonstrating strong confident communication in high-pressure environments.
Learn the facets of excellent communication skills and techniques (verbal and non-verbal) required by good leaders, including presentation skills, running effective meetings, the barriers to communication (individually, within teams and organisationally), gender differences in communication, assertiveness skills, and self-knowledge tools to understand the impact of personality on communication style.
This course is part of the 21st Century Manager series. Register for the full series and save up to 10%.
More informationThe 21st Century Manager series is comprised of 6 half-day units that address core management competencies:
“Applying what I have learnt will take some practice, but I now feel like I have the tools to start practicing.”
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Develop the skills to simplify technical information, tailor your message for different audiences, and present your ideas in a clear, engaging and easy to understand way, building your confidence and strengthening your communication and public speaking skills in the process.
Explore a new lens on leadership psychology and examine the 5 key principles of the PERMA model of Positive Psychology, which is an area of psychological theory that focuses on strengths and resilience. You will look at how managers can implement the Positive Psychology approach and its principles personally, across your team and your wider organisation. You will also cover the concept of resilience and develop practical strategies for building team resilience, change readiness and increasing peformance.
This course is part of the 21st Century Manager series (Online). Register for the full series and save up to 10%.
More informationThe 21st Century Manager series is comprised of 6 half-day units that address core management competencies:
“[The most positive aspect of the course was] How engaging the presenter, topical and fresh she kept the workshops.”
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“[The most positive aspect of the course was] The tools, knowledge and how to apply this.”
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