Develop new skills for the future
Thursday 19 May is national Learning at Work Day – a perfect opportunity to reflect on the skills you need to achieve career dreams and improve your quality of life. This awareness campaign, co-ordinated by the Campaign for Learning, highlights the importance of workplace learning opportunities for individual careers and lives. You'll find lots of activities below to support your learning and gain new skills.
Special Learning at Work Day Offers
Free Training Session with Datrix Training. Enter a prize draw to win an Microsoft Office training day, any subject, any level, for up to 5 members of staff at any of our locations. Simply register your details to lstephenson@datrixtraining.com
Datrix Training are also offering Train 2 for the price of 1 on ITIL Training. Are you looking to spend your training budget wisely? If you’re looking for Project Management or IT Training visit www.datrixtraining.com or call 01772 507823 or email quoting ref: LAWfor special offers. With training Centres throughout the UK or you could even train on your own site.
ontrackTV.co.uk is offering free access to their innovative online training library with over 1000 short video tutorials to choose from. Email info@ontracktv.co.uk to register for free access or call Lorraine Lee on 020 7788 7662.
Get FREE access to our SpeedTraining’s Time Management resources during LAW week! Email info@speedtraining.co.uk Special offer! 50% off SpeedTraining Time Management workshops booked by 30th June 2011. Contact SpeedTraining for full details. Conditions apply. http://www.speedtraining.co.uk/
Pansophix is offering 4 of their Useful Guides free of charge and 50% discount on any of their other Useful Guides. To download one of the four free Useful Guides visit www.pansophix.com/lawd-2011.html To access your 50% discount enter the code LAWD2011 at http://www.pansophix.com/. The offer expires at midnight on 31 May.
Eden Tree by GoodPractice are delighted to provide a small selection of materials to support this years learning to work day. To access the materials please register via the following link: http://member.goodpractice.net/et-law/SelfRegistration.gp
To find out more about Eden Tree please visit http://www.edentree.co.uk/
Improve note taking, think more creatively, improve memory and raise your effectiveness - all on one page with the award winning Introduction to Mind Mapping E-learning Course at - www.illumine.co.uk/law-day
SuperMemo World is offering a free 1-month Spanish course online (one of three levels). Access code: spanishatworkday (valid till 31st May). Sign in now!
Unionlearn has set up a special website to make it easy for union members and Union Learning Representatives to support people to develop IT skills. You just need to click here and click on the register now button to get your colleagues, friends and family started .
Register now to access your free taster modules in Recruitment and Selection, Managing Volunteers, Time Management and Managing Conflict . GLOBE e-learning courses are easy to use and available 24/7. Simply register and in five minutes you can be increasing your knowledge! Like the free tasters? Buy the full course and quote LAW2011 at the checkout for 20% off*. Happy Learning at Work Day from the GLOBE team! * Offer available until 27/05/11.
Join Paul Monaghan - Head of Social Goals and Sustainability at The Co-operative - for a 30-minute live interactive training session on 'Why social responsibility makes good business sense - five lessons from the Co-operative'. The session - run in collaboration with LiveTime Learning - is for business leaders/managers and the L&D community and is taking place on Thursday 19 May from 2.30 - 3.00pm.
Find out more and register.
QA will be supporting Learning at Work Day by running a series of FREE one hour "Authentic Leadership" webinars on 19th May. To participate register online or contact 0845 757 3888. We are also offering 50% discount on any QA Authored* Professional Development course booked and delivered in May 2011 to support your Learning at Work Day activities.
With funding from the Parenting Fund, the Campaign for Learning is giving fathers the opportunity to support the children's learning and development using innovative learning materials. Access free resources throughhttp://www.dadoodle.net/ - all you have to do is register, click on the 'Best Coach Dads at Work' course and type in the enrolment key 'coach'.
For 'LAW day' Educating Matters are offering complimentary taster sessions (lasting 1 hour) for the week beginning 16th May. Taster sessions are open to organisations based in London with at least 500 employees. We particularly welcome organisations that are looking to run seminars for parents in the near future. Educating Matters delivers seminars on supporting children with reading, writing, numeracy, homework and exams. Educating Matters have experienced teachers delivering seminars in the workplaces across the UK. For more information contact Rachel Vecht on 020 7604 4922 or rvecht@educatingmatters.co.uk
Competitions and Awards
The Campaign for Learning has once again linked up with The Reading Agency, an independent charity working to inspire more people to read more, to offer a prize draw for organisations that run both Learning at Work Day and The Reading Agency's Six Book Challenge incentive scheme in workplaces in 2011. More details soon on how your organisation can take part.
Win a £2500 Kaplan Business Challenge! One lucky person will win the chance for their company to take part in one of Kaplan Hawskmere's flagship products valued at £2500. The Kaplan Business Challenge is a 2-day business event played out by employees within an organisation who compete against each other to survive as a fictional business and is run as an interactive board game. To enter simply go to the Kaplan Hawksmere website and find out how many learning events are being run in June AND July in total. Then email Kaplan Hawksmere on info@hawksmere.co.uk with your name, company name, work email contact and the correct total of events running and you will be entered into a prize draw to win a Kaplan Business Challenge event for your business.
To celebrate Learning at Work Day anyone who registers for LEARNING LIVE before 31 May will receive an additional 10% off delegate places. Simply quote ‘Campaign for Learning’ when booking. Telephone: +44 (0)845 006 8858 or visit http://www.learning-live.com/ to find out more.
Free access to world leading leadership and management resources for Learning at Work day. Email a request for a corporate pass as soon as possible to Melanie Wenban, Customer Care Co-ordinator.
Keyboard Pro is an award-winning e-learning training course, used by many organisations,that reduces stress, physical discomfort and the risk of keyboardinginjuries, whilst dramatically improving user productivity, efficiency, confidence and morale. Email matt@keyboardpro.com or call 0161 374 0135 to book a FREE Keyboard Pro session for your employees on Thursday 19th May.
FreeTrainingDirect.com provides free training for employees, managers and business owners, not just on Learning at Work Day but everyday. Simply visit http://www.freetrainingdirect.com/ and register online then you can access the training anywhere, anytime, all for free
Gain new skills
Learning - what's driving you? A short survey to find out if you are performance orientated or learning orientated and how this may affect the way you learn.
Job fit questionnaire- A questionnaire which asks you to look at your role within your organisation and in relation to your colleagues.
Crucial Conversations questionnaire - This is a useful tool for line managers and supervisors. It gives you a chance to look at the best approach to difficult conversations in the work place.
Getting your point across - A tool to help you become a better communicator.
Yoga at your desk - Why not relax with a bit of yoga during your lunch break?
Skills for Life - Brush up on your skills for life.
Becoming a Better Learner - Download our new guide that looks at a range of activities that can help you maintain motivation and develop strategies and tactics for successful learning.
Stress Management - Find ways to combat stress in the workplace.
Learn a Language on your lunch break - Have a go at learning a language.
