Oatmeal Training Courses
Oatmeal has a breadth of experience in delivering Management training for aspirational and inspirational managers. Courses can be run from 1-8hrs, alone or as part of a management development programme. Course sizes vary from 1-1 coaching through to several hundred, you advise us on what suits you best.
The following represent our core training capability, the list is not exhaustive and we thrive on the development of new courses to our clients needs.
NEW Autumn Management Development Programme - contact us for details
Performance through people
Recruiting high performance teams
Programme aimed at Managers who want to see a consistent standard of interview. This relates to how decisions are made, how personal bias is managed and minimized through self-awareness and how feedback is given to candidates.
Managing for the first time
An engaging and practical programme tailored for your new managers or managers with little formal development. Covers the role of the manager, motivation and delegation, managing teams, resource management, handling difficult people and developing staff.
Team building through coaching
Coaching, which involves the process of “understanding what a person is doing and needs to do to perform effectively” and then provides the support to help them get to where they want to be, is a key competence for managers at all levels. These organisation specific programmes consistently achieve superb results.
Forward Thinking Feedback
A 2 hour focused workshop. Set others up for success by letting them know how they are performing.
Making meetings work
Hugely popular and practical programme employing a ½ day workshop for those who want to improve team communication, hold more productive meetings, generate new ideas and solve problems faster.
Sales, laying solid foundations
½ day workshop for all employee levels. A great concise introduction to the process of sales and key skills to get results.
Thinking and Delivering Big
Making Creativity Work - Identifying creativity, creativity blocks and models for creativity – Creativity doesn’t stop at having ideas. This programme focuses on powerful thought processes and models for creating ideas and turning them into reality.
Personal and People Development
Presentation skills - Introduction
Full day introductory programme for those who have little or no experience of public speaking. We look at motivational needs of the audience, structure and what exactly makes a memorable presentation.
Presentation skills - Advanced
Aimed at those who have a basic understanding of public speaking, this advanced course looks at how to deal with difficult audiences on topics like writing an effective speech, raising finance, shareholders meetings and how to deal with the media.
Career planning
Full day workshop to guide you through your career and those of your employees including skills appraisal, management development and how to align skills with long term planning.
Developing people
Full day hands on workshop which lays the foundation if coaching and mentoring, and getting the best from your team
Leadership
Full day, high impact programme looking at styles of leadership and when best to use bureaucratic versus autocratic leadership to get things done to the best effect.
This full day training course defines and understand the elements of confidence and how we can use this understanding to demonstrate assertive behaviour in our personal and professional life.
Full day course to examine the effects of stress in the workplace and home, and effective management strategies to minimise the effect of stress. – This programme is designed for all levels of staff and is highly practical to deliver high levels of performance using clear fundamental models.
Time management
Full day programme to learn how to effectively prioritise, delegate and assert yourself to manage your time effectively.
Social and business networkingHalf day workshop to examine how to create a memorable elevator pitch, and how exactly do you farm contacts effectively to get those meetings.
Full day workshop to look at coping models to help you manage change at work and in your personal life.
Giving practical tips about how to design, deliver and evaluate an interactive training session – This 1 day intensive workshop is founded on proven and powerful ways to engage others in the learning process and support their progress.
Customer Relationship Development
State of the art training programme tailored to your needs. Focused on improving confidence and competence when dealing with customers inside as well as outside of the organisation resulting in real value for your team and customers.
Programme designed to look at phone etiquette, how people are perceived and how to make difficult or routine calls for maximing effect.
Through case study and role play, this module examines how to be assertive without causing conflict, and how to manage difficult situations before they become aggressive.
We are beginning to take good service as standard, but exceptional service is an area that few organisations have yet to master. This module looks at the psychology of exception, what makes us over deliver and what we can do to better our service provision.
Managing the business
Diversity in the 21st century
Many people now suffer from diversity saturation, yet understanding and creating a culture of diversity is good business practice. This module examines how you can develop a culture of change in your organisation.
Maximise your customer relationships
Aside from chasing payment and sending Christmas cards, few companies have any interaction with their existing clients, yet spend a fortune trying to attract new ones. This module looks at when and why you should interact with your clients, and why sometimes its good practice to fire your worse clients.
Marketing your way to success
All successful companies spend time on marketing and market analysis, yet market planning is often seen as a confusing and difficult task. This module examines the role of the marketing plan, and how we can effectively market across multiple channels without breaking the bank.
Empower people through change
Few people like change, yet to progress in an ever changing environment is key to success. This module looks at how individuals and teams can be created to embrace change without micro managing.
Recruitment and retention strategies
This module looks at the lifecycle of an employee, and how through good recruitment, goal setting and regular appraisal, we can create an environment that allows our employees to develop and succeed.
Creating a culture for business innovation
Creating and maintaining an innovative environment is a challenge to many companies resulting is a stifled environment that lack real product or business innovation. Our business innovation course looks at the drivers for innovation and gives delegates tools and tips to create an open culture of innovation
Next steps: all our courses are delivered around the needs of your business. Decide what format, how much time you'd like the course to run for, and what learning outcome you need, then contact us by clicking on the following link or call us on 0845 899 1248 to discuss your requirements.
Click on our Public open courses schedule to see courses in your area, if it's not listed call us on 0845 899 1248.
