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Essential Skills for Managers

Course overview

The intention of this 1½ day programme is to introduce and help you apply common but often taken-for-granted management skills.

Day 1 will cover key principles of communication (team and individual) and how to be more effective in organising and delegating.

Day 2 focuses on your role in supporting and managing change in the workplace including continuous improvement and problem solving.

Throughout the programme you will be encouraged to think about ways in which you can apply learning in your workplace. These include:

  • Key personal learning points
  • Any immediate impact of the programme (personally and/ or on the service)
  • Action planning (proposed impact)

Detailed outcomes for each element are identified within the course material.

An option to gain accreditation through an appropriate SVQ/ PDA may be available to you. For further information please contact the SVQ team .

Course Provider: Learning and Education Service

Who should attend

Any manager in NHSGGC who has responsibility for managing NHSGGC staff in their teams. This includes managers employed in integrated Health and Social Care Partnerships who are not directly employed by NHSGGC, but they manage NHSGGC staff in their teams.

This programme is also open to anyone who (as part of their PDP) is aiming to move into a management/supervisory role.

Pre-requisites

All potential candidates should explore the followings:

  • C1 – Communication
  • C2 – Personal and People Development
  • C5 – Quality
  • C6 – Equality and Diversity
  • G6 – People Management

Duration; This is a 1½ day programme. You must be available for both dates.

Please note that all dates up to July 2024 are full. More dates for 2024 will be available soon.

To book a place on the course

NHSGGC Staff

Please use the eESS Learner Self-Service Facility. From the Learner Home page, enter the course name in the box at the top of the page to see all available dates. You can also use keywords to search for courses.

Remember to have your eESS User ID and password available to access the system. If you have forgotten your log in details for eESS then please use the Login Assistance link in the sign in section.

If for any reason you find yourself unable to attend, you must cancel your booking as spaces for this course are limited and others will be offered your place. To cancel please use the eESS Learner Self-Service Facility.

Partnership Staff

Please use our self service enquiry portal and leave an enquiry with your full name, email address, where you work (Directorate and sector) and the course date (preference and back ups if possible) you would like booked on.

You can also register for an account on this link if you do not have one already.

You will receive detailed joining instructions on how to access the on-line session. Please be ready to log-in at least 5 minutes before the start time.

Please note; booking for each session will close 1 week before the course date to allow time for joining instructions to be sent to delegates.

Guidance on how to search for Learning and Development on eESS OLM can be found here.

Full access to all Standard Operating Procedures and e-learning videos is available via eESS Login (scot.nhs.uk)

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