When people feel unsafe, stressed and burnt out, there is a detrimental impact on their physical and mental health. It impacts how confident and productive they feel, and their capacity to take positive risks and make positive decisions. It can be difficult to know what to look for, especially in the hybrid/remote workplace.

How this course will help you:

The course will teach you how to spot the early warning signs and the difference between being safe and feeling safe. You will take part in an interactive workshop that enables you to recognise and respond to someone who may be feeling unsafe, stressed and or burnt out.

What the course will give you/covers:

The course will introduce you to the principles and practices of the protective behaviours process which promotes everyone’s right to feel safe. These simple strategies will enable you to communicate and support someone within the workplace that you may be concerned about.

Who is it for:

Managers, Business Leaders, Safe-Guarding Professionals, HR Professionals, Mental Health Champions, Team Leaders and Supervisors, Education and professional practitioners.

This is one of the most complex and vital parts of developing and sustaining a Social Enterprise. However, with the right design and tools for measuring social impact can streamline into your everyday business practice with ease.

How this course will help you:

This course will take you through the range of steps and techniques to measuring social impact and explain how they work and when to use them effectively. Exploring the who, how and what positive change your organisation makes to enable business growth and sustainability.

What the course will give you/covers:

The course will teach you about the different types of data collection, encouraging you to ask what matters most to your organisation with regards to sharing your impact journey for the purpose of company stakeholders.

Who is it for:

People in the strategic leadership role of a Social Enterprise, or developing funding bids and proposals. For anyone wanting to know more about how to record, present and share their social impact story.

Too many throw away lines, ill judged words, lack of respect and or understanding with poor communication, dramatically increases the risk of alienation and feeling unsafe in the workplace and intensifies a negative culture. We wish to connect with people we work with in a way that feels safe and positive.

How this course will help you:

Insight into the simple shift in language that will make an enormous difference to people’s sense of trust, wellbeing, and confidence as well as improving your ability to connect others.

What the course will give you/covers:

An opportunity to explore with others how to implement the protective behaviours language of safety. Including how someone’s everyday language could be discounting to others, and reflecting on how we connect with others impacts ones confidence and self-esteem. Looking at techniques to encourage a workplace where people feel safe to speak up and be heard and proactively solve problems.

Who is it for:

Managers, Business Leaders, safeguarding leads, HR Professionals, Mental Health Champions, Team Leaders and Supervisors, Professional and educational practitioners.

Empathy can be difficult to define and even harder to achieve. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. However, simply listening is not good enough. If you want to be a leader of the future, being an empathetic leader goes beyond listening and means inviting conversations, providing helpful responses, and finding common ground. People who lead in this way will understand their people more clearly, connect with them, and problem solve with greater effectiveness.

How this course will help you:

It will teach you how to explore ways in which you feel safe to empathise with others. To reflect on your listening skills, to lead in a more mindful way about other people's perceptions and experiences. We will explore how you can show your own vulnerability without losing control, keeping in mind everyones right to feel safe.

What the course will give you/covers:

This course will introduce you to strategies based on the Protective Behaviours process to improve your leadership skills. It will explore the relationship between our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, enabling a safe way to problem solve and achieve greater empathy with your teams and colleagues.

Who is it for:

Managers, Team leaders, Supervisors and Business Leaders, Professional Practitioners, Future Leaders or anyone wishing to communicate effectively within the workplace.

It is easy to assume that running a Social Enterprise is like running any other business or charity for that matter, however in reality that is not the case. How do you maintain your passion, energy, and ideas, particularly in the opportunity rich but uncertain times we live in?

How this course will help you:

Delivered directly by Stacey Mason, Stacey deeply understands what it takes to thrive as a Social Entrepreneur and has distilled her experience and personal journey into powerful insights and advice.

What the course will give you:

This course will unlock the key behaviour and skills of effective social entrepreneurship in a practical way that you can translate to your circumstances along with the chance to ask questions and get feedback and support.

Who is it for:

Social Entrepreneurs looking to sustain, grow or transform their business, seeking inspiration or needing to develop their own skill set. An opportunity for people to reflect on the demands of social entrepreneurship and to gain new skills.

Some social enterprises flourish and others do not. Is it down to the legal structure of the organisation, leadership, timing, planning or finance? What does make a successful social enterprise?

How this course will help you:

This course provides a real-life, opportunity to gain experience directly from Social Entrepreneur Stacey Mason and network with other like-minded people.

What the course will give you:

It will cover what works and what may not. Providing you experience backed insights on the common ingredients for success and sustainability.

Who is it for:

People starting a Social Enterprise from scratch, or as part of an existing non-profit who want to develop an unrestricted income from their not for profit and create a sustainable impact.