Management courses

ACORN CHILDCARE TRAINING

- Effective management skills: five-day course exploring management skills and techniques and how to apply them. These include planning, objective-setting, questioning skills, communication, reviewing performance, influencing skills, managing stress, monitoring and control, effective meetings, leadership and time management.

- The effective deputy manager: three-day course for inexperienced deputies. For all supervisors or newly promoted assistant and deputy managers. Topics include the supervisor role, presentation skills, effective communication styles, identifying staff development needs, developing thinking skills and strengthening assertiveness.

- The effective room leader: one-day course for those new to this role. Topics include introducing a new child to your room, working with students and dealing with parents.

- Marketing support for small childcare businesses: half-day course that provides those running small childcare businesses with new skills and strategies for marketing and promoting their business.

- Sales support for small childcare businesses: three-hour course that provides those running small childcare businesses with new skills and strategies for selling and promoting their business.

- Business support for childcarers: this course, spread over five 2.5-hour sessions, allows managers (both experienced and those new to management) and business owners (including childminders) to explore ways to expand and sustain their business.

- Creating an accessible environment: half-day course introducing issues relating to inclusion and accessibility.

- Employment law for childcarers: one-day course designed to give line managers an appreciation of how employment legislation affects their day-to-day activities.

- Performance management for those working with children: three-hour overview of the different techniques for managing performance.

- Personnel management for childcarers: one-day course for everyone with a management role in childcare, but little or no formal training in personnel management.

- Leadership and management for those working in childcare: an overview of the key skills for effective leadership and management.

THE CENTRE

In-house and open courses designed for people planning and managing in the early years and childcare sector:

- Strategic planning

- Project management

- Management training: moving into management - taking on your first management role

- Management training: moving up in management - extending your management skills

- Managing people and teams: supervision skills

- Team-building

- Time management for administrators: managing time and workload

COMMON THREADS TRAINING

- All You Need to Know about Management - in a day!: this course provides a whistle-stop tour of the most important roles of a manager in a child-centred setting - vision, setting and using aims and objectives, promoting and developing practice, time management, assertiveness and creativity.

- Creative thinking for managers: course looking at how to approach difficult situations creatively.

- Effective teamworking: three-day course.

- Good recruitment practice: two-day course.

- Improving practice through evaluation: two-day course, endorsed by SkillsActive.

- Policy development: two-day course.

- Supervision and appraisal skills: three-day course.

- Leadership skills: a two-day course.

CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY

- Self-evaluating in the early years: one-day course for all owners, managers and deputies who are on Ofsted's Early Years Register to gain greater understanding of how self-evaluation can be a catalyst for reflection and critical thinking.

CReCHENDO TRAINING

- Management of early years practice: 60-hour course equipping qualified or experienced practitioners with an understanding of effective verbal and non-verbal communication, group dynamics, effective teamwork, team-building and conflict resolution.

- Management of early years settings: covers all aspects of professional business management, offering tuition on policies and procedures relating to the inspection and regulation of daycare settings under the Children Act 1989 (includes all updated legislation).

EARLY EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESOURCE CENTRE

- Encouraging and supporting other practitioners to develop their practice: a one-day course for teachers who are advising other early years practitioners. The course will include areas such as building collaborative relationships and planning.

EARLY EXCELLENCE

- Leadership and development of children's centres: this two-day course is designed to develop the management skills of leading integrated centres. It explores the personal and professional demands of leading integration and the key issues faced by those leading multi-agency work. It will also consider how to prioritise the change process and develop an action plan for change.

EARLY YEARS ORGANISATION

- Management training: specifically designed to meet the needs of team leaders and managers.

ELIZABETH JARMAN

- Communication Friendly Spaces, 8 july 2009: delegates will be offered new insights into the importance of the spaces in which we communicate across the age ranges, viewing programmes and projects that use CFS in a wide range of contexts.

EXPERIENTIAL PLAY

- Motivation day: this day is for all who are passionate about their jobs and who want to get together with like-minded professionals. Today is about our skills. There will be challenges, both physical and mental.

4CHILDREN

4Children offers a range of business support services including:

- payroll services

- budget services

- monthly accounting services

- end-of-year accounts services

KIDSCAPE

- Personal development: includes programme development, circle time, friendship skills, self-esteem, assertiveness, handling conflict, pupil support, and guidance and welfare.

- Staff development: includes stress management, developing teamwork, counselling skills, assertiveness training and working with parents.

MUDIAD YSGOLION MEITHRIN

- Management and organisation: will help volunteers in Welsh-medium settings to be effective members of management committees. Topics include appointing and supporting staff, financial matters, caring for the buildings and resources, constitutions and policies, marketing and publicity.

NATIONAL DAY NURSERIES ASSOCIATION (NDNA)

- ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management - Developing Business: six-day course aimed at Level 3 practitioners and focusing on understanding customers' needs, developing problem-solving skills and continuous improvement.

- ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management - Developing People: six- day course designed to meet the needs of people who are responsible for, or have an interest in, the development of other people.

- ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management - Developing Policies and Procedures: six-day course that aims to give managers a greater understanding of the policies and procedures required in an organisation.

- ILM Level 3 Award In First Line Management - Developing Self: six-day course designed for those people who are seeking to develop their personal effectiveness skills.

- ILM Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management: 20 days over a 52-week period for senior practitioners, this course aims to develop the skills and confidence needed by those holding a management or team leadership position.

- ILM Level 5 Award in Management: including the essential skills required to support the role of the Early Years Professional.

ILM-endorsed Awards include:

- Effective Staff Induction

- Recruitment, Selection and Retention

- Foundation Award in Learning Mentorship: two-day course.

- Managing change: one-day course looking at quality assurance.

- Cost vs quality: one-day, interactive, practical and case study-based course.

- Finance for the non-financial: one-day course examining financial procedures needed to operate a setting.

NOEL QUINN

- Good leader, best team - an introduction to management and leadership skills: topics include staff motivation and delegation, working with others, developing the team and managing time and quality. It is ideal for first-time managers.

- Recruitment and Selection: Participants will develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to manage their own effective recruitment process and be able to ensure that they operate within the law and principles of good practice techniques.

- Employment Law: looks at key legislation, and examines how the law and good practice should be observed in the workplace.

- Finders keepers - strategies to help you retain good staff: looks at the costs to a business of losing staff and strategies to retain staff.

NORTHERN IRELAND CHILDMINDING ASSOCIATION

NICMA provides courses for developing a childminding business including:

- business development

- development policies and procedures

- good business practice

OSIRIS EDUCATIONAL

- Outstanding Leadership in Early Years: this course will look at the realities of leading and managing in times of rapid policy change, consider what constitutes oustanding provision and provide hands-on approaches to preparing for Ofsted inspections.

PLAYGROUP NETWORK

Contact regional associations direct for details of training on:

- operational planning

- administration

- managing staff

- committee work

PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE (PLA)

- Behind the scenes: series of three-hour workshops for all staff, volunteers, committee members and parents who want to develop new skills and cover aspects of managing pre-schools and parent and toddler groups. Topics include money matters, roles and responsibilities, the importance of written policies, appointing staff, health and safety, behaviour policy, insurance and the operation plan.

- Ready for action - creative, manageable and practical action plans for your pre-school: six-hour workshops for all staff and committee members looking at the benefits of action plans and how to develop, implement and monitor them. Topics include how action plans can help to make the changes required after an inspection or as part of a cycle of continuous improvement, and how to write an effective plan.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT (PSD)

- Management: two-day course covering the role of a manager, including the skills needed, planning ahead and theory.

- Time management: one-day course on how to manage time, prioritise workload and negotiate time.

- Budgeting: one-day course covering budgeting skills.

RED SPACE COMPANY

- Workforce health check: two-day professional development coaching programme and toolkit, for staff managing and supporting teams in early years and children's centres. Supports Early Years Professional Status, graduate leader and quality improvement programmes.

- Management/Good Practice: one- and two-day informative and motivational coaching workshops tailored for both new and experienced strategic staff and practitioners. Focus on modelling high standards in professional practice at all levels within the sector.

- Children's Play and Learning: one day motivational and informative coaching workshops linked to EYFS principles and national early years strategy.

STEPPING STONES TRAINING

- If I've told you once ...: the basics of behaviour management - covering how to manage children's behaviour more effectively and exploring key strategies through case studies

TRAINING PACKAGES

Training courses for early years management teams to ensure effective leadership and management. Suitable for use at home and in group settings. Available from the website.