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This course covers general report writing and letter writing skills. You will learn about the structure and layout of reports and letters as well as understand the development steps you will use to write a report or letter. The course also covers how to use the correct tone in report and letter writing as well as identifying common grammar, spelling and punctuation errors and finally takes a look at how to proofread your writing effectively.

Effective communication techniques are vital for anyone who needs to manage or influence other people to achieve desired results. During this course the participant will gain a greater understanding of communication, message management and will also learn how to enhance their natural communication skills.

In order to aid your learning, please complete the pre-course work and ensure you bring it with you on the day of the training session.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) in the Workplace is a two day accredited training course which teaches people how to identify, understand and help their ESCC colleagues who may be experiencing a mental health issue.

You’ll learn to recognise warning signs of mental ill health, and develop the skills and confidence to approach and support someone whilst keeping yourself safe.

What managers are agreeing to when approving their staff member’s attendance on this course:

• To releasing your staff member for the two day training course and any post support sessions (approx. 2 sessions lasting a maximum of 3 hours each).
• To releasing your staff member for related meetings (approximately 1 or 2 per year).
• Allowing time to support colleagues when needed (often at short notice).

What you are committing to:

• Undertaking the accredited training and any additional training (where required) to acquire and maintain your MHFA certificate.
• Becoming part of the pool of accredited MHFAers and providing mental health first aid within your workplace as needed, at your level of competence and training.
• Being able to be called away from your normal duties at short notice if required.
• Acting as a Mental Health Champion and partaking in ad-hoc wellbeing events (when required and dependent on needs of the service).
• Partaking in post training support as required/directed.

Are you curious about how the menopause can affect you?

Would you like to understand this part of your life, know how to manage it and be confident with your choices?

SharePoint is a half day of training for East Sussex County Council users to familiarise themselves with the SharePoint platform.
This course is for anyone joining an ESCC team that uses Sharepoint libraries to store team information and who has not used Sharepoint before. The course will also cover managing your own Onedrive site used for storing personal documentation.

Sound financial management is ever more crucial as we face the growing challenge of delivering services with reduced funding.

To help meet the challenges, we are offering 2 classroom based courses that will help you to understand the financial environment we work in and equip you with the knowledge and skills to make sound financial decisions.

We all have a responsibility to make the most of every pound and the decisions we make every day impact on value for money for our residents.

SharePoint is a half day of training for East Sussex County Council users to familiarise themselves with the SharePoint platform.
This course is for anyone joining an ESCC team that uses Sharepoint libraries to store team information and who has not used Sharepoint before. The course will also cover managing your own Onedrive site used for storing personal documentation.

Delegates' email addresses as registered on the portal will be provided to the trainer for the purpose of conducting this training only. Delegates should ensure that their work (not personal) email addresses are recorded - check and update as necessary through 'My Profile and Bookings/Change Contact Details'.

The training is expected to be delivered through Microsoft Teams.

Is this course for you?
You have recently been upgraded to Office 365 and want to use some of the new facilities and keyboard shortcuts to work more effectively.
Pre-requisites;
The course assumes that delegates are familiar with: basic Windows operations, including using a mouse, opening and saving files and working with Word, Excel and Outlook
To take part in this course, delegates will need an internet-connected device with camera and microphone, and an internet connection which can stream video in reasonable quality.

Delegates' email addresses as registered on the portal will be provided to the trainer for the purpose of conducting this training only. Delegates should ensure that their work (not personal) email addresses are recorded - check and update as necessary through 'My Profile and Bookings/Change Contact Details'.

The training is expected to be delivered through Microsoft Teams.

Is this course for you?

You are familiar with basic Excel techniques, including entering and editing data, saving and printing workbooks. You wish to start using and editing formulas to perform calculations in your workbook.
This course includes topics from the Excel Performing Calculations course

Delegates' email addresses as registered on the portal will be provided to the trainer for the purpose of conducting this training only. Delegates should ensure that their work (not personal) email addresses are recorded - check and update as necessary through 'My Profile and Bookings/Change Contact Details'.

The training is expected to be delivered through Microsoft Teams.

Is this course for you?

You can enter simple formulas in a workbook, and wish to extend your skills using functions to perform tasks such as: finding the average of a set of data; counting data entries which match specified conditions; looking up data entries in a table.
This course includes topics from the Excel Performing Calculations and the Excel Advanced Calculations courses