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A picture from one of our INSET days

"I wrote to say 'thank you' for an interesting, informative, very useful and FUN day. I've never know us come away from a Course, feeling sorry for the people who hadn't attended! It was the topic of conversation both, yesterday and today."

Moe Kelly, St Helen's College

Please note: we have limited availability for INSET so if you are considering whole staff training in your school please get in touch as soon as possible. We offer a free consultation at your convenience and will tailor training to your specific requirements. Follow-up support in the form of 1:1 coaching and telephone/email mentoring is also available. To enquire about training courses and INSET in the Needs-Focused Approach TM  at your school please leave a message on our Help Desk.

Whenever time and finances allow we encourage our prospective clients to move on from 1-day training days. They are great for a 'taster' but without follow-up the effects are soon forgotten. To create powerful new habits and long-term, sustainable improvements further input and guidance is required. To this end we now offer a range of packages and 'bolt-on' support services...

The 'twilight series' is becoming more popular. Participants are accountable for their own progress which is checked through weekly follow-up/feedback and guidance. 6 x 2 hr twilights cover all 12 modules of the Needs-Focused program creating a comprehensive training in a flexible, client-friendly format.

'Projects' involve a full consultancy service including 'before and after' audits and surveys, a minimum of two full training days and an optional range of personal support packages for staff members such as distance learning, e-mentoring, telephone support and 1:1 intensive coaching.

Previous INSET sessions have included:

  • Preventing behaviour problems in your school
  • Effective responses to bad behaviour in the school setting
  • Dealing with extreme behaviour in school
  • Developing a consistent, whole-school approach to behaviour management
  • Developing a positive school community to ensure all pupils feel connected
  • Inclusive classrooms and inclusive schools

 

Recent Comments

Rob has delivered his Needs Focused Behaviour Management course on our Secondary PGCE at the University of Hull for three years now and each year my trainees have no only found him to be inspirational, but they have learnt much about managing the learning environment and young people effectively.  Rob's course is based on the both the value of building relationships, but trainees can  emulate Rob since he models to the highest degree how to behave as a teacher.  The course is fun, well constructed and as the title suggests, very focused on positive strategies.  This year Rob led the course with the Yorkshire Teach First trainees at their summer Institute in Sheffield.  Their overwhelmingly positive response led to an immediate booking for 2010.  Rob is a personal inspiration, but experienced, effective teachers will recognise the veracity of his approach. 

Dr Anne Bore
Programme Director, Secondary ITE, University of Hull

 

I was at your lecture in UUJ on Tuesday and I thought your session was brilliant. It would have been good to have done it over the full day. Thanks.

Aileen O'Callaghan
Community Leadership Programme Co-ordinator

 

I recently attended your 1-day workshop on behaviour management in Sheffield for Teach First participants and would like to thank you for an amazing session (the best I attended at the institute - including the workshops offered at the national institute in Canterbury) and I have suggested to the organisers that you run a session at the national institute next year.
Michael Walker (Dearne High, Sheffield)

 

Firstly, I would like to say thank you for the course I attended in Wolverhampton yesterday. There was much food for thought during the day and I felt I took away some useful ideas for myself and to  work with my colleagues.  I was glad to be able to hear you. I had come across some of your work on the web and was  grateful for the opportunity to hear you at greater length. Thank you.
Regards, Simon 

 
I must say what an excellent presentation in Belfast today. we were all geared up for a long presentation with Power points and a dull presenter who would talk for ages and really bore us, but to my disbelief it was brilliant, the practical tasks you set made the time fly. Very interesting.
Diarmuid Frazer

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