Stepping into Management                                               

Description
This course is designed as an introduction to management covering all of the main areas such as recruitment and selection, marketing, finance and planning. The aim is to provide delegates with a firm grounding to meet their current needs and provide a platform for further training.

Extra Information
Offered as either a 3.5 day course or over 7 half days with an optional additional half day for portfolio building. The course dates may be offered over a period of 5-6 weeks – not necessarily consecutively. This course is specifically for new managers, people who hope to move into management and management committee members.  The course will be accredited by Open College Network at level 3. Learners will do some formative work on the course, but will be expected to do additional work to produce a portfolio showing how they have implemented the ideas from the course.  Holistic Partnership Limited aim to deliver this course with two tutors, to offer students maximum support throughout the course.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course learners will be able to:
•    Discuss and evaluate the importance of good practice in recruitment, selection and training of staff
•    Understand how to create an effective team
•    Identify the importance of marketing and describe promotional and advertising strategies.
•    Recognise the need for different types of planning within their organisation.


Course Duration  3.5 days with optional 0.5 day workshop.




Writing a Funding Application                                        

Description
This is a single credit, level 2 course, and is intended to give people a sound understanding of how to write funding applications. It is targeted at those wishing to write applications for small funders rather than Big Lottery grants although it will provide the under pinning knowledge for writing larger applications.

Areas covered Include:
•    What do funders want?
•    What evidence do you have to support your application?
•    Calculating project costs
•    Monitoring and evaluation.

Extra information:
The course will be accredited by Open College Network at level 2. Learners will do some formative work on the course, but will be expected to do additional work to produce a portfolio showing how they have implemented the ideas from the course.  Holistic Partnership Limited aim to deliver this course with two tutors, to offer students maximum support throughout the course

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course you will be able
•    Understand how to prepare a funding application, to meet funding criteria.
•    Be able to describe a range of evidence that could be used to support an application.
•    Understand how to calculate project costs
•    Be able to monitor and evaluate a project for funders

Course Duration 2 half days