On-site or off-site, we can provide the skills to help make your team more productive and your business more efficient.
Lark Training’s approach to team training in the north west is a dynamic and contemporary one, underpinned by sound principles and delivered in an exciting, inspiring way by experienced trainers.
Whether your aim is to develop an existing team, or to help new arrivals hit the ground running at your company with in-depth team training, Lark Training’s suite of training courses allows for extensive staff development.
This is just a selection of the training courses we offer; however, we can create bespoke courses specifically for your needs. Please get in touch for full details. All prices quoted are per delegate, per day, for an offsite course - again, please contact us for more information.
Presentation Skills
The ability to present ideas and concepts is an increasingly valuable skill. The ability to influence groups of people and create a momentum for action is rewarding, both for the individual and the organisation. For many, the challenge is to develop the confidence to present. This training course is designed to develop such confidence by providing a structured approach combined with practice.
Effective Meetings
This course will enable individuals to ensure meetings are focused on the business. Make meetings more productive, introduce behaviours and ground rules to ensure meeting participants get the most out of meetings, make people look forward to meetings and see them as opportunities instead of threats and benefit from the skills of handling discussions.
Listening Skills
There are many reasons why people struggle to listen effectively. These include: Believing that the only way to put their point across is to talk more and increase the volume! Or lacking the ability to concentrate, an inability to let go of a specific point and spending most of their time thinking about what they want to say rather than listen to the speaker. This training course addresses all of these and provides you with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to become a skilled listener.
Introduction to Data
Data in many forms is a vital part of any business or organisation, identifying and understanding data is a skill within itself. This course is designed to introduce delegates to the different types of data, how it can be used and to familiarise delegates with the terminology associated with data and to take away some of the fear often associated with data.
Time Management
This course will introduce and explain the latest concepts, techniques and processes that will enable delegates to 'work smarter' and improve their personal competence and effectiveness in addition, it will provide an understanding of how to handle priorities and organise work at an individual level.
Using & Applying Data Effectively
This course is designed for those who are already familiar with data within their organisation and wish to know how to use and apply this data more effectively. Drawing more upon statistical techniques the course aims to give delegates tools and techniques to utilise data to satisfy business needs.
Statistics for Beginners
Statistics is an important and useful tool for making decisions in most areas of activity. Unfortunately, statistics is regarded as a difficult and complex subject, and many shy away from it. Statistics for Beginners transforms the daunting world of statistics into a usable and useful tool. This course is designed as basic statistics course, presented in a simple and clear format that makes statistics and its related theories easy to understand.
Workplace Numeracy
Workplace Numeracy refers to the ability of the individual to manage a situation or solve a problem in a real-life context, such as everyday life, the workplace and in public situations using mathematics. The learning areas include: Use basic and fundamental mathematics skills to identify, locate, act upon, interpret or communicate a problem, provide information about mathematical ideas including quantity and number, and represent information.
Introduction to Coaching
On this one-day workshop you will learn the latest essential skills and techniques required to work as an inspirational coach. In today's rapidly changing business climate, coaching is an essential management skill. Managers need to use a variety of coaching skills and approaches to work effectively with individuals and teams to deliver business results.
Effective Mentoring
In times of empowerment and active people development, mentoring is a critical skill that, practised well, will not fail to bring out the best learning and successful individual development. This course will practically show how, mentoring can be used and applied so that this happens.
Coaching & Mentoring
This course aims to give participants a clear insight and understanding into the dynamics that happen between people when they work one-to-one. The temptation when coaching or mentoring someone is to provide the solution to their problem or difficulty. The course helps to find ways to hand the issues back to the person and encourage them find the solutions for themselves.
Trainer Training
This course will show you how to harness the full potential of training by facilitating discussion and participation. You will learn how to adapt training to suit different learning processes and practice ways to keep attention by delivering stimulating sessions
