Training
Training workshops in crucial team and group skills
FutureSpark Coaching has developed a range of training workshops designed to enhance productivity, communication and create positive workplace and group cultures.
We offer a range of full-day and half-day training in the following areas (each detailed below):
- Talking Team Resilience
- Emotional Intelligence for Great Teamwork
- From Seat to Floor: Public Speaking Fundamentals
- Facilitating Great Meetings
Combining a vibrant mix of coaching techniques, leadership skills, and positive psychology, these workshops are designed to be positive and uplifting, focusing on strengthening team focus and relationships.
Customising training to your specific needs
We also craft a blend of life skills, workplace and communication topics in customised training days for teams, groups or events. To discuss further what you need to be customised, get in touch with Maire today.
Book a time to chat about training by clicking here, or get in touch with us using our website contact form.
Talking Team Resilience
Is your team having to cope with constantly changing goalposts and unrealistic deadlines? Are you frustrated at having to do more with less and getting very little recognition or thanks? Are team meetings more stressful, colleagues more disconnected and moods lower?
If your answer to any of the above is a resounding ‘yes’, then it is very likely that your team is suffering from depleted resilience. Help is at hand. This workshop will be a practical first step towards making your team members feel more in control and you more hopeful about what you can do to refuel your team’s tank and spark your spirits.
What your team will gain from this workshop
Resilience encompasses much more than individual self-care and wellbeing.
Time spent together on team resilience is time well spent, as it yields those lightbulb moments where small changes can make a significant difference for the team, its work, and overall performance.
This one-day workshop will equip your team to:
- Understand what makes teams resilient.
- Gain insights into how to manage work pressures better together.
- Feel more confident to cope with unexpected setbacks together.
- Think proactively of practical ways to anticipate and navigate future challenges together.
Workshop information
This workshop will focus on the three pillars of resilience: mastering stress, adapting to change, and being proactive, with a myth-busting approach to what resilience is and what it isn’t.
We delve into the seven core areas of team resilience through interactive activities, discussions, and story-sharing on all aspects of resilience.
We aim to keep the workshop content very relevant to the team we are delivering it to. There will be opportunities for participants, armed with learning, to identify practical steps they can take together to boost more resilient team approaches to their real-life challenges.
All team members will leave with a team resilience handbook and team resilience coaching cards to maintain focus on team resilience beyond the workshop.
Check out also our team resilience assessment and coaching here (link to page on this)
Take the next step here and speak with us today…
Book a time to chat about training by clicking here, or get in touch with us using our website contact form.
Emotional Intelligence for Great Teamwork
Poor team relationships and inappropriate workplace behaviours have a huge impact on productivity, well-being, and morale. Managing team toxicity also drains valuable leadership time, energy, and resources.
Colleagues with genuine emotional intelligence are easily identifiable. They thoughtfully tune into people and situations and skilfully manage relationships to achieve better results. The World Economic Forum places Emotional Intelligence as one of the most sought-after workplace skills.
What your team will gain from this workshop
This one-day workshop helps team members to increase their self-awareness and their awareness and understanding of others to:
- Strengthen team connectivity and collaboration.
- Build better relationships and motivating team environments.
- Manage emotions and reactions when faced with a challenge.
- Grow their personal influence, empathy, and leadership skills.
Workshop information
This workshop unpacks what Emotional Intelligence (EI) is, across its four key pillars: self-awareness and managing our own emotions, awareness of others and managing relationships.
We cover practical EI skills such as the art of feedback and how to regulate emotions in stressful situations. We utilise coaching techniques to enhance team empathy and foster stronger interpersonal relationships.
The workshop also explores different leadership styles and their usefulness in workplace situations through the EI lens.
The takeaway for participants is the tools to develop their emotional intelligence, leading to greater personal development and more positive and productive working relationships.
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From Seat to Floor: Public Speaking Fundamentals
Many of us can also feel fearful about speaking in front of people, which can hold us back in life and work. Many of us are haunted by a presentation or speech that went wrong and wince at the thought of speaking again. Many of us compare ourselves to others who we think communicate with ease in any situation, leading to a lack of self-belief in our ability to ‘speak well’.
Whether you aim to build your group members’ self-confidence through speaking skills, enhance your team’s communication skills/impact or amplify lived experience voices to shape policy or services, this workshop is your toolkit for public speaking fundamentals.
What your team/group will gain from this workshop
Your workshop facilitators, Maire and Stephen, will take you through an accessible, entertaining and anxiety-calming step-by-step journey on how to prepare and deliver a speech or presentation with confidence.
In our From Seat to Floor workshop, we will cover the core fundamentals of speaking:
- Preparing your speech, understanding your audience, and planning your talk.
- Structuring your speech content to flow for impact for any occasion.
- Enhancing your delivery with a range of invaluable speaking tips.
- Having strong and effective body language.
- Managing nerves and other public speaking ‘gremlins’.
- Motivating your mindset to want to speak with top coaching techniques.
Jam-packed with practical guidance, we guarantee you will end the morning eager to get up and speak for yourself, your team, or your community with focus, confidence, and, dare we say it, a little bit of excitement!
How we communicate can define us in many situations in our lives. Learning to speak in public is one of the most effective ways to build your group/team’s confidence, influence, and impact in the workplace, the communities you serve, and life.
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The Art of Facilitating Great Meetings
We’ve all been there, those meetings that make you mourn for the hours of your life you will never get back. Meetings you attend or lead can go wrong in many ways – from pointless agendas and ineffective structures to death by PowerPoint, workplace politicking, poor behaviours, and dominant voices that exclude most attendees.
It does not have to be that way. Acquiring fundamental facilitation and meeting communication skills can transform how teams and collaborating colleagues get things done and bring out the best in people attending.
For all of us, our ability to communicate and manage relationships effectively is central to our personal and professional development as teams and leaders, and nowhere are these skills (or their lack) more evident than when we participate in meetings.
What your team/group will gain from this workshop
This one-day workshop will arm you with a new level of awareness and a range of practical, professional facilitator ‘insider’ tips and techniques to:
- Be more self-aware and enhance your presence in meetings.
- Learn to ‘read the room’ in meetings.
- Craft purposeful meetings that colleagues or stakeholders will look forward to attending.
- Introduce new formats and structures to keep meetings fresh.
- Create welcoming and inclusive environments that encourage all contributions.
- Understand different communication styles and how to adapt yours to optimise the connection.
- Dare we say it, bring more of the human and fun to your meetings.
Great meetings do not happen by accident. They are an art. Help your team to master them.
Take the next step here and speak with us today…
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