Training

All training workshops and courses can be run face to face at your workplace,
or virtually over Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Please contact us to discuss your needs.

At Soar we pride ourselves in a wealth of experience in (and positive feedback from) a range of training courses including women’s development, management development and professional development. Before undertaking any training course a free diagnostic is undertaken to ensure the design of the course will meet the needs of the participants. See below for details of popular courses or contact us to discuss your needs.

Women’s Development Courses

We specialise in working with women to help them achieve their goals and to develop in confidence.

Our women’s development courses can range from a one-day course, or series of half day virtual courses, to a full programme such as our ‘Aspiring Women into Leadership’ programme (details below), which has been run a number of times to overwhelmingly positive feedback. We tailor our offer to fit your needs, though an initial consultation.

Aspiring Women Into Leadership

This development course is designed for any woman who wishes to move into a leadership role within the workplace. It includes a range of workshops on areas such as confidence, assertiveness, leadership skills and career planning. It can also include additional optional elements such as an Emotional Intelligence assessment and action plan, Clarity 4D assessment, and individual coaching.

Course aims and objectives:

Develop confidence and self-beliefs, identify strategies to be effectively assertive

Identify their strengths and how to use them in their current role and to move to future roles

Identify their career goals and how to work towards them

Understand what constitutes a good leader and what skills make leaders more successful

Identify how to manage stressful situations

Have a sound understanding of their own levels of Emotional Intelligence and how to improve this to become a better leader

Understand how to effectively promote their own skills on an application form and at interview

Parental Support Training

This workshop, run virtually or in-person, shows managers and colleagues how to support the expectant and returning parents in their workplace, creating an inclusive family-friendly culture. This includes:

How the parental transition can affect those going through it
What workplaces can do to support parents before, during and after parental leave
How to help parental carers successfully blend their professional responsibilities with their professional lives

Wellbeing and Resilience

At Soar Development we are passionate about Positive Psychology, and the benefits that can come from focusing on your mindset. We have a vast amount of experience in running training sessions on Positive Psychology and the links to wellbeing and resilience. These include aspects such as:

How to focus on what you can control – your reaction to a situation

Development of a Positive mindset, and research evidence on why it is important

The benefits of a strengths-based approach, how to identify and use your strengths effectively

How to reframe how we view situations, including times of change

Links between happiness and success, and how to consciously focus on development of happiness

Exploration of mindfulness, self-belief and development of wellbeing

How these together than help to develop our resilience

We regularly take part in CPD in this area to keep our knowledge up to date.

Coaching skills for managers

As a leader and manager, having a toolkit of key skills to have effective conversations with your staff is vital. We run coaching skills courses for managers to cover the essentials of coaching, such as effective listening, great questions to empower others, and how to structure a coaching style development conversation. You will come away with tools and techniques to work with your team members more effectively through using a coaching approach.