Category: Webinars

Learn from the comfort of your computer or mobile device

11am – 12pm,  28 Feb 2020

In this webinar, we will share tips and strategies on how to improve your time management, remove distractions and focus on your priorities so that you are more efficient and productive in your work and your ‘To Do’ list becomes something you enjoy and complete rather than something to dread.

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Content

This webinar will help you understand how you work and what you can do to make better use of your limited time to become more productive and feel in control.

With practical advice and time saving tips, the workshop covers:

• Multitasking – how it can be bad for creatives and what you can do about it
• Priorities – the difference between urgent and important
• To Do lists – turning them from something you hate and avoid into something useful
• How preparation can make you more efficient
• Computers – time-saving tools that will make your life easier.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The format for this session is approximately 1hr of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the session with a Q & A session. Depending on how many questions are asked, the session may run longer than 1hr so please set aside 1hr 15mins if you want to stay to participate in the Q & A at the end.

Who should enrol

Those who are not getting enough done in their working week and are feeling that their work is controlling them rather than vice versa.

Expected learning outcomes

• A better understanding of how to manage your time to become more productive
• A better understanding of how to balance your creative and business work
• Knowledge of how to quickly dispense with chores so more of your time is spent on your talent
• Specific computer knowledge about what tools will help you and how to use them.

Tutors: William Gallagher and Muriel McClymont

Further enquiries
e: [email protected]
t: 07710 240 585

Easy to enrol – learn from the comfort of your own computer or mobile!

Becoming more assertive through clearly expressing your opinions, needs and feelings will help ensure that you build better working relationships. This webinar will share insights and strategies to help you identify and develop assertive behaviour.

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Content

We all have situations in our lives where we need to have what we feel are difficult, complicated or challenging conversations with people - where the outcome will have a significant impact on us. For example:

• When we need to ask for more money and other resources
• When we need to ensure that others understand our point of view
• When we are under pressure to say yes, but need to say no.

Learning how to achieve optimum solutions so that all concerned are satisfied with the outcome is a valuable skill and being assertive will help.

This webinar includes tips and strategies to help you get what you want, while maintaining productive relationships with the other people involved.

We explain what behaviours constitute assertiveness and how to identify negative aggressive and passive behaviour (in others and in yourself).

Who should attend?

Anyone who would like to find out more about developing assertive behaviour.

Expected learning outcomes

• A clearer understanding of assertiveness and assertive behaviours
• More ideas on how to deal effectively with non-assertive behaviours
• Tips and advice on how to be more assertive.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The format for this session is approximately 45 minutes of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the with a Q & A session. Depending on how many questions are asked, the session will run for around hour including questions.

Tutors: Frances Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Easy to enrol - learn from the comfort of your own desktop or mobile

11am, 17 December

Get focused and start the New Year with a clear idea of what you want to achieve in the short and longer term and how to stay motivated until you attain your goals.

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Content

Having goals in our lives allows us to set direction and helps us make decisions on where to focus our efforts. This webinar aims to help you process your aims, now and in the future, so you can create clear, achievable, compelling goals that you are more likely to realise. The session will include:

• Defining goals that are meaningful to you that you really want to achieve
• Getting started and working towards your goals
• Developing awareness on what factors will help and hinder your efforts
• Staying motivated until you’ve got what you want.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The format for this session is approximately 1hr of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the session with a Q & A session. Depending on how many questions are asked, the session may run longer than 1hr so please set aside 1hr 15mins if you want to stay to participate in the Q & A at the end. 

Who should enrol

Those who wish to improve their goal setting and goal achievement capabilities and those who wish to get motivated/re-motivated to achieve their goals. Come on – let’s get creative!

Expected learning outcomes

By the end of this session you will be:

• more able to define, prioritise and set your goals
• understand more about how to go about achieving your goals
• more able to stay motivated until you achieve your aims.

Tutors: Frances Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Easy to enrol – learn from the comfort of your own computer or mobile!

In this webinar, we will share tips and strategies to help you manage the downsides of uncertainty while remaining optimistic and open to its opportunities.

Please indicate your interest in this Webinar before 26 Nov by clicking ENROL below.

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Content

The one thing we can be certain of as freelance creatives is that nothing is set in stone. Change is not only part of the job but is often what attracted many of us to it. The variety, excitement and challenge that come with the territory are what we thrive upon.

The downside can be an irregular income, difficulty making plans very far ahead or, in some cases, not knowing for sure what we will be doing in a month or two’s time. So, it can be a double-edged sword, exciting and invigorating and unsettling and worrying.

Also, when things are not going well, the lack of certainty can create anxiety and stress in our lives, causing us to focus more on those aspects than is helpful for us, which can lead to a downward spiral.

In this webinar, we will share tips and strategies to help you manage the downsides of uncertainty while remaining optimistic and open to its opportunities including:

• How to make peace with uncertainty
• How to stay resourceful in the down times
• How to keep trying in the face of adversity
• How to deal with rejection
• Assessing what you can and can’t control.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The format for this session is approximately 1hr of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the with a Q & A session.

Depending on how many questions are asked, the session may run longer than 1hr so please set aside 1hr 15mins if you want to stay to participate in the Q & A at the end.

Who should enrol

Anyone who wants to improve the way that they handle uncertainty and avoid the stress that it can sometimes bring.

Expected learning outcomes

• Alternative outlooks on the subject of uncertainty
• Strategies for dealing with the tougher times
• A clearer understanding of what you can and can’t control
• Strategies for managing common uncertainties

Tutors: Frances Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Easy to enrol – learn from the comfort of your own computer or mobile!

In this webinar we’ll look at how to recognise ‘imposter syndrome’, i.e., the inability to believe that your success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved through your own efforts and skills, why it happens and what you can do to ensure that it doesn’t hold you back from achieving and enjoying your creative goals.

Please indicate your interest in this Webinar before 29 Oct by clicking ENROL below.

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Content

Studies show that many of us have had times when we have found ourselves doubting whether we deserve our successes and experienced fear that someone is going to burst in and expose us as frauds, which can have a seriously prohibitive affect on our career progress.

In this webinar we’ll share approaches and strategies to help you deal with internal doubts so you can spend more time appreciating and building on your successes including:

• The cycle of imposter syndrome
• How you skew the evidence to reinforce it
• How it impacts your progress
• How it impacts others around you
• What you can do about it.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The format for this session is approximately 1hr of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the with a Q & A session.

Depending on how many questions are asked, the session may run longer than 1hr so please set aside 1hr 15mins if you want to stay to participate in the Q & A at the end.

Who should attend

Anyone who recognises that they sometimes experience imposter syndrome - including self-doubt, disbelief in their hard-earned success, dismissal of achievements as ‘anyone could do that’, fear of being ‘found out’ and subsequently failing - and would like ideas as to what to do about this to ensure their on-going success and pleasure they take in their work

Expected learning outcomes

• A better understanding of imposter syndrome and how it can impede progress
• Strategies to overcome or reduce feelings of being a fraud
• Strategies to overcome the syndrome to help you overcome your own self doubt and more easily move forward to achieve your career objectives.

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member!” Groucho Marx

Tutors: Frances Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Easy to enrol – learn from the comfort of your own computer or mobile!

This webinar looks at the key factors necessary to ensure that your clients are satisfied, preferably delighted, with what you do so that they hire you on an on-going basis and recommend you to others - resulting in an easier and more profitable working life.

Please indicate your interest in this Webinar before 23 Sept by clicking ENROL below.

Content

It is essential that you make the effort to build excellent working relationships throughout your career so that you can create new work opportunities from established clients and ensure that your reputation helps convince new clients to commission your work.

This workshop looks at a number of key aspects that will help you build more fruitful working relationships in the long-term including:

• What everyone wants from the people they work with
• Assessing individual needs
• Delivering on promises
• Problem solving
• Handling complaints.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The session will last approximately 1hr of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the with a Q & A session.

Depending on how many questions are asked, the session may run longer than 1hr so please set aside 1hr 15mins if you want to stay to participate in the Q & A at the end.

Expected learning outcomes

• A better understanding of what it takes to create long-term profitable relationships on a general and individual basis.
• A better understanding of how to enhance your reputation.

Tutors: Frances Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Easy to enrol – learn from the comfort of your own computer or mobile!

This webinar will help you avoid the potential pitfalls of collaborative work to ensure that you get the rewards that you’re aiming for with minimum aggravation.

Please indicate your interest in this Webinar before 6th August by clicking ENROL below.

Content

Collaborating with others can be an effective and inspiring way of achieving results that you can’t achieve on your own. Conversely, it can be a hellish experience, which leaves you ruing the day that you ever got involved in such an arrangement!

This webinar will help you develop more productive and smooth running collaborative relationships that are mutually beneficial to those involved. It includes:

• What to consider before you make the decision to collaborate
• Planning and agreeing your collaborative work
• Building a productive and enjoyable working relationship.

The format

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other. However, you will be able to ask questions, see the questions that others ask and make comments.

The session will last approximately 1hr of presentation-style teaching interspersed with questions and answers from participants. We will round up the with a Q & A session.

Depending on how many questions are asked, the session may run longer than 1hr so please set aside 1hr 15mins if you want to stay to participate in the Q & A at the end.

Expected learning outcomes

• A better understanding of what aspects to take into account and agree upon when collaborating.
• A better understanding of how to plan and deliver collaborative work to get the best results.

Tutors: Frances Dredge