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Consultation Courses and Workshops
A guide to the type of training programmes available, which can be customised
to meet your needs, and delivered within your organisation or community.
Six-Month Participatory Appraisal Consultation
Consultation and training on an accredited course through The Open College Network. This course provides fifteen training and support days delivered over a six-month period. Suitable for a team of up to twenty-five people, who learn the P.A. method and apply it simultaneously to a consultation process in their area. The teams are usually made up of local agency and authority workers and members of the community. The programme is delivered locally and comprises of; six days over three weeks then two day per month for four months and one day preparing the report. The programme is fun, informal and innovative and includes; the P.A. Philosophy, Communication Skills, Project Management techniques and tools, Data Analysis, Creative Design, Team Working, Facilitation and Consultation Skills, Personal Development, Organisational Skills and how to conduct a full Community Consultation using Participatory Appraisal Methods.
Four-day P.A. Workshop
Four active and fun packed days covering the background and philosophy of Participatory Appraisal. Development of P.A. and project management tools. Team Building , Health and Safety, Developing a Key to monitor those consulted, Facilitating groups and planning a consultation programme. It also examines dealing with the public, recording and analysing data and some practice mapping. Delivered in your area to a group of up to twenty-five people. This would provide enough information to enable a group to complete a level one and two consultation and analyse and report on the data using P.A. tools.
Three-day P.A. Workshop:
Packed three-day programme which give a good overview of P.A. methods, including how to create level one and two P.A. tools, data collection and analysis, project management tools, team building, facilitating groups etc. Enough information to run a small, localised consultation. Minimum number of participants ideally 8 – 10, maximum of 25.
One-day Introduction to P.A
Information and overview on how P.A. works, details on the principles and methods, data collection and analysis, evaluation of consultation methods, creating non-leading tools…fun and innovative learning by using P.A. tools. Great way to understand how to use P.A. within the community…enough to get the flavour but additional days required to conduct own consultation process.
One-day P.A. Evaluation Tools Workshop
For organisations that need to assess their effectiveness with groups and users. Creating alternative methods to establish what people think by learning the design and development of P.A. evaluation tools and a Key to monitor feedback. Great fun and very useful.
Service development courses
Quality Management Eight-Day Programme Eight-day programme delivered locally as two days per month for four months. Particularly useful for organisations wanting to undertake a Quality Management process such as Charter Mark. This programme works best with a team of up to twenty-five, made up of people from all levels of an organisation, representing the different aspects of the service and ideally should include some service users. Using P.A. tools the team work together to review delivery and design new systems. The course is delivered over four months to allow time to implement and feedback on some of the changes and review their practicality. Ideal for a company or department undertaking a review, or wanting to fully engage their staff in development of their service.
Quality Management – Two-Day workshop
Using P.A. tools, learn how to engage your staff and users in improving your service. Develop innovative and creative ways of finding out what is wrong and how to put it right, by inclusive and non-leading methods using Participatory Appraisal techniques.
Personal skills development workshops
Specialist One-Day Courses
Using P.A. methods and a variety of engaging approaches, Take Part Training (P.A.) Ltd. can provide specialist one-day customised courses for companies and organisations for their staff or clients on the following subjects:
- Employability Skills
- Interview Skills and Techniques
- Confidence Building
- Team Building
- Communication Skills
Something Else?
If you would like to request a customised programme, please provide details of your project or objectives and a P.A. programme will be ‘tailored' to meet your needs.
Trainers fees and expense details are available on request, please contact us through this website. Thank you.
Delivery of these and other programmes will take place at a venue of
your choice at your place of work or in the community. The multi-day courses
are designed to be delivered in a format, which allows work to be done
between the training and support days – so that there is a continuation
of building and learning. For more information…contact
us.
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