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Further Enquiries

For all enquiries please contact the Human Resources Service Centre
Phone: +61 8 831 31111
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 4353
Email

Human Resources
Level 13, 115 Grenfell Street
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

 

Workplace Issues

Workplace Issues 

Coaching for Performance in Challenging Situations*
Effectiveness*
Resilience*
Dealing with Aggression*
Assisting Students in Distress*
Stress Management *

* Please note any course fees are to be paid by School/Branch.

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Coaching for Performance in Challenging Situations


Course Aim: Coaching is a learning technique used to facilitate workplace improvement by providing focused and timely feedback.

Key Objectives: Understand the context of performance coaching; how and when it is used.
Apply coaching skills across differing individual perspectives such as underperformance and change through:
• insightful questioning
• layers of listening
• feedback
Recognise and understand why and when the conversation gets tough.
Apply tools and techniques to building confidence and competence in challenging situations.
Manage the responses to challenging conversations.

Book here for this course: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/hr/development/programs/#coaching/

Suitable for: Heads of School/Institutes/Branch and Directors

Duration: 1 day


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Effectiveness


Course Aim: Increasing your Professional and Personal Effectiveness.

Course Content:
Learn how to:
• what does “being effective” really mean?
• being clear on purpose: personally and professionally
• what is important? what is essential?
• the 3 M’s of Effectiveness: time management, self-management, and energy management
• the “Art of Flexibility”
•  limiting beliefs and limiting behaviours – inability/reluctance to say “no” and want to control everything/inability reluctance to delegate
• approval seeking behaviour, perfectionism, procrastination and self doubt

Booking contact: Professional and Continuing Education

Suitable for: All staff.

Duration: 1 day 



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Resilience

 Course Aim: The Resilience Factor

Course Content:
• defining resilience and why it is important to be more resilient
• strategies for developing resilience at work and in your personal life, such as: 
     o developing useful PETs (Performance Enhancing Thoughts) to replace unhelpful ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
     o learning how to use the Field of Acceptable and Respectful Behaviours
     o identifying effective communication behaviours
•  how to develop a ‘Personal Resilience Development Action Plan’ 

Booking contact: Professional and Continuing Education

Suitable for: All staff.

Duration: 4 Hours

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management
Stress Management

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Dealing with Aggression


Dealing with Difficult, Angry or Aggressive Customers

Booking contact:
Professional & Continuing Education 

CARM Workplace Violence Training 
Courses Available
1. De-escalating Aggressive Behaviours
2. Influencing Difficult Customer Behaviour
3. Influencing Negotiations
4. Short course in Robbery Safety

Course Aim: Learn to maximise the potential of others.

Course Content:
• The program is designed to provide practical advice and tools to tackle challenging situations

Suitable for: Frontline staff

Duration: Contact  PCE or External provider.

Other recommended courses: Hazard management,
Stress Management

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Assisting students in distress


Counselling and Disability Services

Topics Covered:
• How to talk with a distressed student
• How to quickly access support for a distressed student
• What to do if a student is at risk of suicide or threatening to harm others
• Practical resources for students on campus (eg Accommodation, Health Service)

Booking contact: Counselling and Disability Services

Duration: 1 hour

Other recommended courses: Safety and Security for teaching staff.

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Stress Management 

Course aim: Managing stress in the workplace

Course content:
• the nature of stress
• what happens inside when you are stressed
• thinking habits that produce or reduce stress
• how to develop your awareness of stress, to use its helpful aspect, to prevent or reduce its harmful aspect
• the overactive mind
• physical health and stress
• assertiveness
• effective use of the breath, relaxation and visualisation
• your personal action plan

Booking contact: Professional and Continuing Education

Suitable for: Frontline staff

Duration: 1 day 

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