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Price:  £299.00+vat per delegate Location: Birmingham City Centre Date: 13 July 2017 A one-day workshop that explores good practice and effective policies for the use of social media at work. Full Course Overview The ever increasing number of tribunal cases revolving round staff’s use or abuse of social media at work means that all organisations and businesses need to ensure they have robust policies and procedures in place and that managers are properly trained in the staff rights and responsibilities when using social media at or in connection with work. Having a blanket ban on use is not a viable solution. Social media is a highly effective business marketing tool and placing a blanket ban on its use at work is never going to work. Managers and staff need to understand who, how, when, where and why they can use social media at work and what the guidelines policies and procedures they need to adhere to when doing so. This is especially important in the grey areas betw

Concrew Training's short run of open event courses are now open for booking. Provincial events cost £299+vat/person.  London Events £349+vat/person. Understanding Data Protection and The GDPR Using Social Media at Work - Rights and Responsibilities Alternative Sources of Funding for Education, Schools & Young People Projects Using Stretch and Challenge to Embed Deeper Learning #opencourses #training #openevents #dataprotection #socialmedia #funding #schools #colleges #eduaction #edchat #stretchchallenge #concrewtraining #gdpr #hr  

Concrew Training plan to offer a short series of one-day open event courses for June July 2017 designed to showcase our quality and value. We hope to have the events, dates, locations and prices finalised before the end of April 2017. Initial topics are likely to include: Data Protection and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) Using Social Media at Work - Rights and Responsibilities Sources of Alternative Funding for Education Using Stretch and Challenge to Embed Deeper Learning

Concrew Training have now updated our workshop on  Managing Challenging Behaviour within Teaching  to include some of the latest advice on  tackling bad behaviour in the classroom #teaching #education #schools #furthereducation #concrewtraining #badbehaviour

TES believes that that the Further Education Sector needs to embrace cloud based technology (link) .  Cloud based systems can help save money, reduce emissions and above all help provider engage with their learners in a more effective manner. Concrew Training's workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning (link)  explores whats on offer, provides ideas and support to improve implementation and use. Faced with current budget pressures spending money on training and technology is a tough choice but the benefits on offer are significant #fe #schools #furthereducation #education #learning #wbl #apprenticeships Image:   A personal timeline of technology usage by Sandra  Schön  used under CC BY 2.0

Understanding budgets and how the company finances work is essential knowledge for all managers.  ” Finance for non financial manager” training courses aim to provide the underpinning financial knowledge information managers need, but with needs differing across roles and sectors and a one size fits all training solution seldom works! Concrew Training offer a range of one-day, or longer, workshops that explore different aspects and issues.  More Information via the links below: Better Budgeting   Credit Control Finance for Business Finance for Directors Financial Statements Financial Planning and Control I                         Image:   balance sheet ok  by  Philippe Put  used under  CC BY-ND n                           #financefornonfinancialmanagers #financetraining #concrewtraining #budget #business #finance #training

Interesting Government sponsored report on how to manage challenging behaviour in the classroom more information and links to the report at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-report-with-practical-advice-for-teachers-on-pupil-behaviour on site support and training from Concrew Training here

I made some enquiries about Barista Training in Lincoln last week. The first company I approached was at the top of the google search page and promote themselves as being available to speak to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week including bank holidays.  I called at about 09:30 on Friday morning but the person who answered the phone could give me any information about their training courses or open evenings and said some one would phone me back.  Having heard nothing more by lunch time I phoned again and got an answer machine so I left a message, its now Monday evening and guess what - they still haven't called me back. The second company promised a reply within 24 hours, I sent a message through their on line enquiry form at about 21:00 on the Friday evening, to be honest I wasnt expecting a reply over the weekend but guess what ............. No your wrong -  I didn't get a call back and I still haven't had one. All I can say is Concrew Training values your custom and we

The changes to flat rate VAT, that were announced last year, are due to come into effect on 01 April 2017.  Thousands of small businesses are facing large rises in the amount of tax they pay Under the current system small businesses charge 20% vat on their sales and pay a percentage of their total sales, including vat, to the Government but are unable to reclaim their input vat, the vat they pay on their purchases.  The percentage they pay is between 4% and 14.5% dependent on the sector they operate in.  Sectors that are likely to buy more goods for resale pay less, service sector industries pay more. From April 2017 small businesses that spend less than 2% of their total turnover or £1000/year on physical goods will be classed as limited cost businesses and if registered for flat rate VAT will pay the new rate of 16.5%. An illustration of how this will affect small business is to look at a membership organisation, under the current system they charge 20% VAT ON their membership

New report from the Institute for Government concludes that "in three critical policy areas (Further education, Regional government and Industrial strategy) and indeed in others not directly covered here – change happens far too often and too casually. New legislation replaces old; organisations are founded and abolished; policies are launched and relaunched; programmes are created and abandoned – all at an alarming rate" read the full report here #fe #furtheredication #government #industrialstrategy #college #education #skills #apprenticeships