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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - SHORT COURSES AND STUDY DAYS GUIDE
BM0410 Major Incident Management © This 4 day short course is designed to take you through the phases of major incident management from pre-planning to incident management and post incident recovery. The course is designed to explore a multi-agency approach and encourages participants from the emergency services, healthcare, military, rescue services, voluntary agencies, local authority, community groups and those engaged in the management or prevention of major incidents. The course design enables new experiential learning techniques that simulate varying aspects of incident management. Case studies presented by those engaged in actual incidents bring the course real focus. The course integrates a multi-incident response to a simulated incident and enables decision making to be tested and explored in a safe environment. Topics included: Contingency & inter-agency planning Risk assessment & management Business Continuity Legal & professional issues Communications Critical Incident Management Advanced Trauma Care principles Triage & prioritization Management & leadership in major incidents, mass casualty & disasters Psycho-social requirements Media management Resource management Military engagement Major incident & Disaster case studies & special considerations Health Protection The course is also useful for those who have taken on a health protection role or who have a responsibility for risk management and/or business continuity either from a clinical or non-clinical perspective. Dates: 14,15,16,17th June 2010 27,28,29,30th July, 2010 4,5,6,7th October, 2010 7,8,9,10th February, 2011 23,24,25,26th May 2011 Times: 10.00-1630 Price: Band B
BM0411 Getting the Most Out of your Education Commission This study day explores an overview of the techniques that enable practitioners and commissioners to enhance their education commission. The day explores planning for your strategy and priorities, training needs analysis, education commissioning policy, value for money, deciding on providers, return on investment, monitoring expectations & planning an impact. The short course is also suitable for those new to education commissioning in higher education. Dates: 18th May, 2010 Times: 10.00 – 16.30 Price: Band B
BM0412 Major Incident Management Taster This half day taster provides an overview of major incident phases, priorities and a brief exercise. This can be followed up by the 4 day short course. Suitable for all and is good if you have teams that need to have a major incident update. You can also use it as a team building exercise and purchase the “taster” for a group or groups of individuals. The taster can also be purchased for an organization as a rolling programme for all staff. Dates: 20th May, 2010 13th July, 2010 Times: varied 10.00-13.00 13.30-16.30 Price: Band A
BM0413 Business and Enterprise Skills for Clinical Managers© This 4 day course is suitable for Band 7 & 8 practitioners. The course specifically examines the business skills required to work in the modern healthcare environment and enables an assessment of individual skill requirements. The core content enables the development and presentation of business cases and strategies to increase success for the participants service. Simulation techniques in leadership and management scenarios engage new opportunities and ideas for creativity and clinical enterprise. The course provides guidance and exploration for gaining funds for new innovation including gaining positive contribution from clinical teams. The course also identifies how to protect ideas and potential opportunities for bringing ideas to market or raising the profile of individuals or services. Presenting your ideas and innovation and creating them successfully within a business frame is a key outcome. Dates: 24, 25, 26, 27th May 2010 8, 9, 10,11th November 2010 4, 5, 6, 7th April, 2011 Times: 10.00 – 1630 each day Price: Band C
BM0414 Fundamentals of Commissioning A study day that opens up the world of commissioning for health. Suitable for all practitioners the day provides an overview of commissioning policy and practice and uses a case study approach to exploring new techniques with an aim of enhancing health outcomes and making a difference within communities and patient pathways. The day draws on the principles of world class commissioning and enables you to have a greater insight to use in your every day activity. Dates: 9th June, 2010. 18th January, 2011. 19th April, 2011. Time: 10.00- 1630 Price: Band B
BM0415 Motivational Change Management Techniques A study day that promotes positivity and appreciative enquiry techniques in managing and planning change. The day enables those thinking of or managing change to enable motivating team techniques that get the most out of people and practice. Change can be a positive experience and can be enabling for individuals, teams and organisations. Dates: 19th May, 2010 Time: 10.00 – 1630 Price: Band A
BM0416 Fire Safety Awareness A half day session to remind yourself and your teams of the importance of fire safety. Suitable for all. Dates: 3rd August, 2010. 14th April, 2011. Time: 13.00 - 1600 Price: Band A
BM0417 Personal Development Planning The aim of this study day is to highlight personal development planning techniques. Working with individuals and groups the day enables you to explore your personal aspirations and to create real goals and successful opportunities. The day enables a holistic approach that combines personal and professional endeavour to explore how we get the most out of life! Suitable for all. This can also be followed up with further specific career planning and individual coaching (see BM0428) Dates: 12th August, 2010. 28th April, 2011 Time: 10.00 – 1630 Price: Band B
BM0418 The Motivating Manager The study day enables you to examine techniques that really motivate individuals and teams and how they can be role modeled to impact workforce change. This positive approach enables you to rethink your level of motivation as well as how you influence others through your communication and activity. Suitable for all. Dates: 17th August, 2010. 4th May, 2011. Time: 10.00- 1630 Price: Band A
BM0419 Strategic Management Skills This study day enables the operational and tactical manager or performer to engage in more strategic and visionary techniques. The day focuses on enabling individuals to think and plan more strategically and to put these ideas into a formulated set of strategic aims. The day also explores harnessing team creativity and engaging teams in the implementation of future scoping, scenario planning and achieving a shared strategy. Suitable for operational and tactical managers wanting to enhance their strategic skills. Dates: 19th August, 2010. 12th October, 2010. 5th May, 2011. Time: 10.00 - 1630 Price: Band B
BM0420 Innovation & Enterprise Techniques Are you an ideas person, does creativity come naturally? Are you in a role that requires ideas to be brought to the fore or do you usually wait for a solution to appear? There are techniques and opportunities that create an environment that enhances innovation development and can promote commercialisation of your plans and ideas. This study day adds to your skills and your knowledge in providing new opportunities to re-think how you continue to be an “ideas” person how you create innovation in teams and how you develop innovation and new thinking when ideas may have gone stale. Innovation and enterprise can be used to promote positive change, enhance evidence based activity, promote new research, find new sources of funding and new ways of working. The day will enable participants to explore new techniques and ideas and how to use them with their peers, teams and organizations. Dates: 26th August, 2010. 23rd June, 2011. Time: 10.00- 16.30 Price: Band B
BM0421 Negotiation Skills for Managers Do you find yourself negotiating for resources: human, technical or financial? Do you have to negotiate to get you or your team on the map? Do you have to negotiate contracts or services? This study day provides an insight into negotiation techniques and then enables you to explore your own strengths within the negotiation process. The day provides an opportunity to explore building positive contractual relationships, gaining mutual agreement, understanding and positive implementation. The course is run by staff who have experience of working and negotiating within health, the NHS and commercial environment. They understand your constraints and can guide you with some new skills and ideas that will make a positive difference. Suitable for all that engage in the negotiation process such as commissioners, ward and service managers, specialist practitioners, practitioners. Date: 14th September, 2010 28th June, 2011 Time: 10.00-16.30 Price: Band B
BM0422 Developing Research Capacity This study day is particularly suitable for managers within nursing, midwifery, therapies and professional services where research is an important developing entity. The day will explore innovative and practical strategies to enhance research opportunity, funding and sustainability. Promoting academic and clinical career opportunities, exploring getting your team, division or discipline on the research map, engaging in outputs that can be managed within existing skill mix, impact on patient pathways and how to promote change and opportunity through a managed process are all topics throughout the day. Participants will come away with a planned approach to either developing their own research capacity or that of their team or organization. This can be followed up through on-site bespoke activity and /or BM0428 Coaching for Career Development. Date: 15th September, 2010. 2nd November, 2010. Time: 10.00-1630 Price: Band B
BM0423 Presentation Skills Ever wondered how good you actually are at that presentation for the important job, interview or “pitching” your idea to the Board? This study day gives you an opportunity to hone and perfect those skills using your innate individual personality and talents. You will gain insights into successful techniques and glean expertise from those who regularly recruit staff or listen to “pitches” for new developments or activities. Use the day to try out your techniques and to gain feedback in a completely supportive environment. Focused techniques will bring out the positive elements of your characteristics. All participants will receive a personal DVD of their presentation performance for continual review. Date: 16th September, 2010. 30th June, 2011. Time: 10.00- 16.30 Price: Band A
BM0424 Business Planning This study day gives you an opportunity to develop a business plan. This may be the first time you have had to do this or you are maybe moving to more complex business plans. The day will enable you to consider the difference between strategy and business planning, business planning in context, scenario planning, how to develop, write & present a business plan. Suitable for all and can be tailored to the group or individual needs. Dates: 23rd September, 2010. 7th July, 2011. Time: 10.00- 16.30 Price: Band B
BM0425 Board Room Skills This study day uses simulation techniques to enhance confidence and competence within the “board room” setting. You may need to present a paper, discuss principles or evaluate and critique papers generally. What skills do you need, how can you sharpen your analytical skills and enhance your influence? If you are preparing for this, are new to this arena or would just like to enhance your skills then this study day will be helpful for you. You will also learn from your co-participants and have an opportunity to build networks. Dates: 28th September, 2010. 21st July, 2011 Time: 10.00- 16.30 Price: Band B
BM0426 How to Write an Executive Paper This study day helps you to write concise papers that deliver the appropriate message within a focused agenda. The skill of writing, highlighting risks & challenges, promoting thought-through solutions and including targeted factual data that also informs and engages the board is a key component of this day. Formats, ideas and examples are used throughout the day to enhance and focus on your skill development as a participant. The concept of “getting to yes” is explored within a frame of professional and managerial ethics Dates: 30th September, 2010. 28th July, 2011. Time: 10.00 – 16.30 Price: Band A
BM0427 Finance for the “Non-Finance” Manager This study day provides an invaluable overview of financial management for the non-finance trained manager, academic or practitioner. The day goes through the principles and requirements of budgeting, profit and loss accounts, cash flow, forecasting, turnover and balance sheets. Financial planning and risk is explored within the context of the public sector. Good practice guidelines are identified and the day enables you to ask the finance questions you always wanted to but never had the opportunity to. The aim of the day is to enable you to feel more confident with the terms and processes used so that you can participate more fully and engage with new developments or the management of your work based budget. Dates: 13th October, 2010. 10th May, 2011 Time: 10.00-16.30 Price: Band B
BM0428 Coaching for Career Development This study day will kick-start coaching to enable you to examine your own needs or for you to explore the motivational requirements of your team. The career coaching study day is accompanied by optional individual or group coaching to work on specific career or life coaching requirements. Suitable for all. Dates: 26th October, 2010. 17th March, 2011. 19th May, 2011 Time: 10.00 - 16.30 Price: Band B
BM0430 Effective Communication with your Manager Communicating and managing upwards is a key element of today’s competent manager. The ability to provide your manager with the right information, at the right time and in the right form is vital to ensure that they can manage and lead in a way that is also positive for you and your workforce. This 2 day course teaches you techniques that enable you to examine how you currently manage information flows and how you can create an atmosphere of pro-active, managed competence. How to focus information that enables risk and challenge to be highlighted alongside appropriate actions, options and solutions is identified. Simulation sessions enable you to test-out differing managerial styles and communication techniques as a team and individual to promote positive interaction and participation. Dates: 17th & 18th November, 2010 1st & 2nd June, 2011. Time: 10.00-16.30 Price: Band C
BM0431 How to Develop Simulation Training A half day session for those who would like to use more simulation methods and techniques within their practice development, teaching and learning activities or who are interested in simulation training design. The session can be tailored to the practitioners’ own areas of practice and objectives to enhance applicability. Dates: 25th November, 2010 Time: 13.00-16.30 Price: Band B
BM0432 Management Solutions for Complex Problems This is a “think-tank” opportunity for managers with complex portfolios or resistant managerial problems. The study day provides an opportunity to explore techniques for understanding complex problems and for finding solutions. The day enables delivery models to be explored. Participants can bring their own complex professional problem to the day so that they can use this as a basis for analysis and the design of new management solutions. Creative opportunities and case studies are used to think through new opportunities for success. A good way to start the year! Dates: 20th January, 2011 Times: 10.00-16.30 Price: Band B
BM0433 Patient Transport Service Management This 2 day short course gives an understanding of Patient transport Service Delivery, contract management, monitoring and developing a responsive service to meet the changing needs of NHS Trusts. Interagency working, site management and discharge team practices to ensure patient flow and enhanced bed availability are examined. This study day is suitable for those working in patient transport, discharge planning or site management or those wishing to gain an enhanced insight in patient transport service management. The day aims to promote networking opportunity and to focus on the patient at the centre of the quality service delivery. Dates: 7th & 8th March, 2011 Times: 10.00-16.30 Price: Band B
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