02 Jun 2015

Summer is a time for learning

Most businesses have a quieter period in the summer months. Why not use some of the time in July to enhance your skills and boost your productivity? Two courses on offer from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration will help you do just that.

21st Century Leadership on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 July at Taylor Vinters LLP (Merlin Place, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0DP) is an interactive, reflective and highly practical course, leading to concrete actions to achieve success through positive and engaging leadership behaviours.

Promotion makes us managers - often with no man management experience or training. We sink or swim and our people sink or swim with us. Some of us are good at 'getting it done' but what damage may we cause along the way? We have our natural leadership style but unless we are aware of it, we will be unable to flex when required and the morale and resilience of the team will be negatively affected.

This two day event is designed to highlight what is important, what you currently 'measure up to' and where you can change to ensure greater leadership success.

Find out more and sign up.

Time Management on Wednesday 15 July (a host venue is sought) acknowledges that time is one of the most important assets at work. Everyone has a responsibility to ensure it is well managed.  

This doesn’t always mean being ‘maxed’ out – it’s about getting balance into your life to ensure your priorities are taken care of.

This one day programme will help you develop a strategy for ‘event control’ and give you a range of tools and techniques to help you plan and organise yourself to be effective, taking into account your own work style and how this helps and hinders your time management.

You will learn how to:

  • establish and plan your own priorities
  • plan work around your most productive times
  • deal with interruptions so they cause minimal impact
  • avoid procrastination and ‘swallow the frog’!
  • set goals with time lines and milestones
  • decide if a task is urgent or important or both
  • make  your Outlook or diary work for you.

Find out more and sign up.

Did you know that Cambridge Network membership means you automatically have the right to book on to any of the Network's quality Learning Collaboration courses at any time? A wide spectrum of soft skills, technical and leadership development courses are on offer throughout the year, so sign up now to build your capabilities...

The Learning Collaboration works on behalf of Cambridge Network members to organise, purchase and share training and management development opportunities, delivered locally. That means all members benefit from economies of scale, gaining improved access to high quality professional training courses at value-for-money prices.