Category: Webinars

Members can view recordings of our previous webinars here.

WEBINAR – Building Confidence – 11am, 26 May

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Learn from the comfort of your desktop of mobile device!

11am – 12.15pm, 26 May 2017

In this webinar, we will share tips and techniques to help you gain and maintain confidence through the vicissitudes of your freelance career.

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Content

Even the most positive, go-getting people sometimes experience a dip in confidence – especially when they’ve had a set back or are facing a particularly daunting challenge. In this webinar, we’ll help you develop confidence and get back on track if your confidence has taken a knock. Topics covered include:

  • Defining characteristics of confident people
  • Planning to be more confident
  • Exploring strategies for developing confidence
  • Confidence booster tips

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. Nobody will know if you’re eating toast! 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

Creative freelances who wish to explore the subject of confidence and learn how to develop and sustain confidence whatever the circumstance.

Expected learning outcomes

  • An increased understanding of what confidence is
  • Strategies to achieve more confidence
  • Tips and tools for building confidence.

Tutors: France Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Further enquiries
e: [email protected]
t: 07914 397243

WEBINAR – Creative Productivity 11am, 20 April

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

11am – 12.15ish, 20 April 2017

In this webinar we will share tips and strategies to improve your time management, remove distractions and help you zoom through the chores of being a freelance. Turn your To Do list into something you enjoy – and do – instead of just dread.

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Content

This workshop 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. Nobody will know if you have bird’s nest hair! 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 20mins 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: 07914 397243

WEBINAR – Strategies for Success 11am, 24 Jan

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

11am – 12.15ish, 24 January 2017

This webinar examines some popular strategies and tips that successful people use to achieve what they want in life with the aim of helping you to think about how you can learn from these to support your career progress and gain greater satisfaction from what you do.

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Content

In this webinar, we’ll discuss key strategies that successful people use to turn aspirations into reality and examine how you can apply this in practice to achieve your creative goals including:

  • Exploring the definition of success
  • Long-term development strategy
  • Actions that count
  • Creating helpful habits

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. Nobody will know if you have bird’s nest hair! 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 20mins 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

  • A clearer idea of what success means to you
  • Increased awareness of how people achieve their goals
  • A clearer understanding of how you can use your own experience and the experience of others to become more successful

Tutors: Frances Dredge and Muriel McClymont

Further enquiries
e: [email protected]
t: 07914 397243

WEBINAR – Goal Setting – 12 noon, 30 Nov

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Easy to enrol - learn from the comfort of your own computer!

12 noon - 1pm, Wed 30 November 2016

Get fired up for 2017 by joining us for this one-hour session in which you will learn some key techniques that will help you set clear goals and stay motivated to achieve them.

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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. Nobody will know if you’re still in your PJs! 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 20mins 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
  • Better able to stay motivated until you achieve what you want.

WEBINAR – Effective Negotiation – 11am, 31 Oct

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Easy to enrol - learn from the comfort of your own computer!

11am to 12 noon, Monday 31 October 2016

Join us for a one-hour online session in which you can learn the essential steps that will help you become a more confident negotiator who achieves better terms and conditions for your freelance work.

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Content

Whether you are negotiating day rates or defined packages of work, as a freelance, it’s vital that that you learn to represent yourself clearly and effectively with the aim of agreeing terms that you and your client are happy with. The session will include:

  • Discovering what you need to consider to negotiate effectively
  • How to prepare to negotiate
  • Examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ negotiations
  • Getting into the right frame of mind
  • Being professional.

The format

The format for this session is around 45 minutes of presentation-style teaching. To ensure that you get the specific advice you need, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout and in a final Q & A.

While you will be able to see and hear the tutors, you will not be visible or audible to them or each other.

Who should enrol

Freelances who wish to learn how to negotiate or improve their negotiation skills.

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session you will:

  • Understand why it is important to negotiate
  • Understand what elements you need to consider to negotiate effectively
  • Be more able to identify and work out variables and think creatively to attain the best results
  • Feel more confident to negotiate better terms for your valuable work!