LaytonLearning provides a range of development opportunities, including an extensive menu of training days and bespoke developmental programmes to support staff to learn new skills and expertise. Our programmes are suitable for a wide range of staff and have been enjoyed by, amongst others, consultant medical staff, senior nurses, allied health professional, executive directors and patients.
Training and Development Programmes
A menu of learning events that can be carried out onsite:
Training days
can be arranged in the form of an ‘al a carte’ menu, enabling
staff to select courses most suitable to their personal needs. The sessions
are always practically focused and build on the trainers’ unique
combination of skills and breadth of experience within the public and
private sector.
- Your Management Style and How to Apply it more Effectively using MBTI
- Core skills in Project Management
- A two day Intensive on Essential Skills in Redesign / Improvement
- Getting started with Demand and Capacity
- Manager or Performance Coach? – Realising the potential of your team through a coaching style of management
- Learning to facilitate
- Managing change and dealing with ‘Polarities'- unsolvable problems
- Mastering the Art of Influencing
- Holding Positive Conversations in Difficult and Conflicting Circumstances
- Working and Managing in Teams
- Time Management Skills
Please download this pdf file
for
a copy of our learning events list
We have experience of working with teams to develop specialist ‘one-off’ events and programmes designed to meet specific needs. Examples of our work in this area include.
- Supporting a learning network on service improvement across a London SHA.
- Team building to create effective team working within local departments and across networks.
- Facilitating the redesign of the reception process in Holloway Prisons to streamline and enhance the process. Over fifty people attended this full day workshop included the prison Governor and fifteen prisoners.
- Leading a multidisciplinary workshop on developing Integrated Care Pathways for a London PCT and its neighbouring Trusts.
We would be very pleased to discuss your requirements and prepare a possible training and development solution for your organisation. For more details, please contact Amanda Layton
Some examples of recent feedback:
Amanda Layton has provided training and developmental support during
the last 5 years to over 8,000 health and social care staff from across
London. Her programmes are consistently well evaluated, and include
the following headlines:
* 98% would recommend to others
* 97% would be able to apply the skills learnt
‘I learned an awful lot from these courses. I gained people skills and learned how to take a new and different approach to change’ - Consultant Urologist
‘One of its strengths is that it has got so many people of a very high calibre involved, with experience of running NHS organisations. The delegate to delegate learning is almost as valuable as the direct learning from the teacher on these courses’ – Programme Director for Mental Health.