The Competency Framework is a Workforce Development Tool designed to implement continuous improvement, prepare staff for promotional grades, reduce staff turnover, and meet HIQA requirements.
The Framework provides a Workforce Development Tool to deliver induct, support, monitor and provide effective and continuous training and practice development within organisations.
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Cerebral Palsy and Swallowing Difficulties
€39.99This training programme supports the development of competence in direct support workers to effectively support people with cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect an individual’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture. -
Human Resources Training: HR for the Non-HR Manager
€29.99This course will introduce you to basic human resource functions, including hiring, orientation, training, performance management, diversity, privacy, and disciplinary issues. -
Disability Awareness
€59.99When direct support workers have the right attitudes, values and understand the complex issues in having a disability, Disability Awareness, they can enrich and enhance the lives of the people they support and remove some of those barriers. -
Facilitation Skills
€29.99In this course, you will learn what facilitation is, skills that a facilitator should have, and the different skill levels of a facilitator. Then, you will learn some basic facilitation techniques, including ground rules, differentiating between content and process, bringing divergent and convergent thinking together, degrees of support, managing difficult participants, building sustainable agreements, and more. Supporting skills, such as communication, feedback, and team building, are also covered. -
Risk Management
€29.99In this course, you will learn about the seven Rs and four Ts that traditionally represent the key activities of risk management. This will give you a framework that you can customize for a single project, a department, or an entire company. -
Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure
€29.99This course will take you through preparing an effective presentation. Topics include planning your speech, identifying your audience, connecting with the listener, developing key themes and sentences, structuring your ideas, and managing nervousness and body language. Youll focus on short responses and learn ways to expand a basic presentation. -
Disability Awareness
€59.99The purpose of this award is to equip the learner with the knowledge, skill and competence in the models and types of disabilities and the legal and social structures and services in place to accommodate disabilities at national and community level and in the workplace. -
NLP Tools for Real Life
€29.99This course will teach you about anchoring, establishing congruency, developing rapport, creating outcomes, interpreting and presenting information efficiently, and self-hypnosis. -
The Role of Professionals
€39.99The role of the front line staff is to take responsibility for the day to day care and well being of service users and for ensuring that their actions are guided and informed by the services mission statement and key objectives. -
Effective Planning and Scheduling
€29.99This course will teach you how to use a variety of planning and scheduling tools, including the work breakdown structure, network diagrams, program evaluation and review technique (PERT), and Gantt charts. You will also learn how to properly estimate time, schedule resources, identify task dependencies, manage risks, communicate your schedule, and keep the schedule updated. -
Digital Citizenship: Conducting Yourself in a Digital World
€29.99You will be presented with the concept that, just as in the real world we have certain rights, responsibilities, and standards of behavior as citizens, this is true in the digital world as well. This will be supported by looking at the similarities between the two worlds. Your understanding of what digital citizenship entails will be increased by examining its three principles, each of which is comprised of three elements. You will be counselled on how to practice good citizenship using each of the elements. The course finishes up with giving you exercises designed to reinforce the principles. -
Honing and Delivering Your Message
€29.99Learn how to clarify your message and how to present it, successfully communicate your message, and ensure your listeners hear what you want to get across to them with the Honing and Delivering Your Message course.