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OUR COURSES
A structured modular programme which provides future leaders with the skills they need to progress within their organisation. Ideal for companies with structured career progression, such as lawyers, accountants and estate agents. Runs over several months.
The Sandstone Developing Leader programme has been designed to equip employees eligible for promotion with the skills they need to become effective leaders. It enables them to deal with the complex communication and motivational issues that leadership rôles bring with them.
The programme is particularly valuable for organisations such as lawyers, accountants, or estate agents which have structures through which the majority of employees are expected to progress over time.The courses are, however, valuable for employers in any other organisation who wish to identify and train employees in leadership skills .
The topics covered on these courses are:
This course is delivered in 10 days over an agreed period. The gateway module is delivered first, then the other modules can be delivered in any order. Delegates must complete all the modules. Some of our clients specify successful completion as a prerequisite for promotion to director, partner etc..
Delegates will acquire a toolkit of practical leadership skills which can be applied immediately.
This is Sandstone’s flagship course, delivered successfully and to acclaim to many different clients.
This session helps leaders to understand what motivates people to want to follow others. It looks at leadership styles, bases of power and how they can be utilised to lead more effectively.
This session helps leaders to understand what motivates people to want to follow others.
It looks at leadership styles, bases of power and how they can be utilised to lead more effectively.
It explores the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and the importance of making sure teams know why they are doing something.
This session looks at leading in a changing or VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment.
This session looks at leading in a changing or VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment.
The content includes:
This session covers the skills and processes that newly appointed managers are expected to possess but have never been taugh.
This session covers the skills and processes that newly appointed managers are expected to possess but have never been taught, comprising:
There are a significant number of skills required in order to negotiate successfully. They are taught extensively by the police and intelligence services but rarely exercised in a commercial environment.
There are a significant number of skills required in order to negotiate successfully. They are taught extensively by the police and intelligence services but rarely exercised in a commercial environment.
This session teaches the skills critical to successful negotiation, which are:
Professionals such a lawyers and accountants are expected to become more successful at business development the more senior they are, but they have never been taught how to do it!
Trying to make small talk with people you are unlikely to ever meet again, in the hope that maybe one day they will realize they need to use our professional services, is totally ineffective.
This session teaches participants to understand what their target client base really looks like and how to reach potential clients quickly and efficiently. Key skills taught are:
Avoiding a difficult conversation with an employee, a customer or a supplier does not solve the problem!
Avoiding a difficult conversation with an employee, a customer or a supplier does not solve the problem!
This session helps delegates navigate these highly inflammatory situations, learning clearly defined skills with which to better engage in difficult conversations.
An entirely practical course that will equip participants with presentation tips and tricks taught by one of our sales experts or keynote speakers.
An entirely practical course that will equip participants with presentation tips and tricks taught by one of our sales experts or keynote speakers. During this course delegates will be put through their paces, and will finish the day better and more confident presenters than when they started!
Climbing Everest is often used as a euphemism for facing the biggest challenge or obstacle faced by an individual, either personally or professionally.
Climbing Everest is often used as a euphemism for facing the biggest challenge or obstacle faced by an individual, either personally or professionally.
As well as an insight to the trials and tribulations of climbing the world’s highest mountain, delegates on this session will receive a tool-kit of practical skills which they will be able to use in order to overcome their own Everest, building resilience and positive mental health strategies.
Become part of your own solution! This course provides delegates with a tool-kit that will enable them to develop personal resilience and enable it in others.
The session draws lessons from the worlds of mountaineering, endurance sport, military operations and business.
Take a master class in building resilience both in yourself and in others!
The content of our training courses is always tailored to a client’s realities – a large manufacturing organisation and a small outward bound or rough shooting organisation require quite different training.
The content of our training courses is always tailored to a client’s realities – a large manufacturing organisation and a small outward bound or rough shooting organisation require quite different training, kit and SOPs!
All of our training is delivered practically with a hands-on skills-based approach. Participants start by learning the required skills, and by the end of the course they will be utilising those skills in scenario-based training that will simulate situations they may face at work.
There are three formats for our First Aid training courses. You may choose to send some employees on the 3 day course, and some on our one day course. We also run 1/2 day and 2 to 3 hour ‘basics awareness courses’ popular with companies wishing to add valuable First Aid training to an offsite or other meeting.
FTACC - 3 day First Aid at work This first aid programme exceeds the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) first aid standards. This course is aimed at those whose job requires comprehensive first aid at work training, e.g. assigned first aiders in significant commercial environments. It adopts an innovative approach which ensures retention of knowledge and skills as well as outlining a clear course of action that ensures better patient outcomes. The course is available for a maximum number of 12 students. The courses last 3 days. Successful Candidates will receive a First Aid at Work qualification FAW - (FTACC).
FTACC – E 1 Day Emergency First aid at work This is a dynamic, engaging effective first aid programme, which exceeds the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) emergency first aid standards. FTACC-E is the first level advanced course which progresses learners from first aid through to critical care interventions. This course is aimed at to those whose job requires a basic + level of emergency first aid; it is specifically designed for emergency first aiders at work. It adopts an innovative approach which ensures retention of knowledge and skills as well as outlining a clear course of action that ensures better patient outcomes. The course is available for a maximum number of 12 students. The course last for 1 day (8 hours) and is validated for 3 years. Successful Candidates will receive a Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work EFAW (FTACC-E)
Both courses are accredited by the highly respected ATACC group and use the BURPS algorithm, developed by leading pre-hospital doctors and clinicians.
B.U.R.P.S is a simple and intuitive methodology which allows for immediate assessment, with a simple and quick means to identify serious problems - it also avoids missing injuries or signs key to empowering first aiders to save lives. It has already been adopted widely by the emergency services and in industry.
In addition we also run the unaccredited: TAC - Trauma Awareness Short Course These courses focus on life saving emergency actions and equipment. They already exist for pursuits including, but not limited to:
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive imposes standards for First Aid provision on companies. In fact, the need for First Aid provision equally exists for all bodies, clubs and leisure activities wherever people gather, relax or exercise together.
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive imposes standards for First Aid provision on companies. In fact, the need for First Aid provision equally exists for all bodies, clubs and leisure activities wherever people gather, relax or exercise together. The HSE requires that sufficient first-aid equipment, facilities and trained personnel must be available at all times and in all places, depending on the hazards and risks there present. However, in addition to training and First Aid kits, in order to be compliant with HSE guidance every business must have a current, documented first aid risk assessment. Proper First Aid provision therefore has 4 parts:
The initial assessment must establish the hazards faced by an organisation and its staff, and identify the specific first training, equipment and SOPs required in order to provide appropriate first aid in case of need. The responsibility to carry out such assessment rests squarely on the shoulders of each company, club etc.. First Aid Risk and Needs Assessments are complex. Consider that for each location in which a company has operations it is necessary to map out : • the size of the organisation • the distribution of the workforce • the nature of each workplace • the nature of the work in each workplace and the resultant hazards and risks • work patterns • the remoteness of any site from emergency medical services • annual leave and other absences of first aiders and appointed persons • the needs of travelling, remote and lone workers • employees working on shared or multi-occupied sites • first-aid provision for non-employees • the organisation’s accident history. Sandstone has experienced operatives who are available to work with your H&S representative to assist them in carrying out your risk assessment exercise, to prepare your written plan and then to put in place your personnel, processes, kit and the ongoing training required. If you are a large organisation which already has a professional First Aid Risk and Needs Assessment we will work with you to develop the training, specify the kit and draft standard operating procedures (SOPs) required. Otherwise we will work with you to carry out the risk assessment first.
A First Aid Risk and Needs Assessment needs to be carried out and updated annually or when there are major changes in activity.
Purchasing ‘off the shelf’ first aid kits without a risk and needs assessment not only means that you are not compliant with the HSE requirements, it also means that in case of a serious accidents you are most likely not appropriately prepared.
Purchasing ‘off the shelf’ first aid kits without a risk and needs assessment not only means that you are not compliant with the HSE requirements, it also means that in case of a serious accidents you are most likely not appropriately prepared.
As an example: if your risk assessment identifies that there exists a risk of major injury such as bad cuts or trauma (machinery, vehicles, warehousing) your first aid kit should always contain basic trauma equipment such as a tourniquet or cellox (a barrier against ongoing hemorrhage), and designated first aiders should be trained to use the kit and know how to act as first responders.
We will work with you to develop the various First Aid kits that each organisation or location requires and will advise and assist in procurement. Your SOPs must ensure that these kits are located so as to be immediately available in case of an accident.
In order to achieve a successful outcome in an emergency situation there are a number of factors that need to be considered in addition to the first aid training and equipment.
Pre-designed routines and actions ensures the best chance of success. Your SOPs need to address, for example:
We are available to assist you to develop your SOPs to give your organisation the best chance of success in an emergency situation.
We are also available to organise and carry out periodic exercises of your SOPs at each of your locations to ensure that all involved are well versed to react when the worst happens.
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