Learning and Organisation Development Programmes

Time Management and Prioritisation
With Derek Fox, DF Leap

This workshop is designed to help individuals who want to explore ways to effectively manage their workload in this overly demanding environment were everything seems important and urgent. This workshop includes a set of tools and techniques that will be provided in a companion workbook. 

In this workshop, we will cover the following elements:

• Structuring your daily tasks in a productive way
• Prioritising your workload in line with importance
• Identify your time wasters and energy drainers
• Identifying personal barriers and enablers for effectiveness
• Achieving a state of ‘Flow’ to increase focus
• How to navigate the 4-Quaderent time matrix
• How to communicate what you can do effectively
• How to deal with urgent interruptions
• Build routines that enable higher productivity
• Communicate successfully around priorities
• Deal with unrealistic expectations in a product manner
• Achieve a better work life balance

All Staff

Preparing for Media Interviews
with Catherine O Mahoney and Tom Molloy, Media Relations, Trinity Communications

Are you afraid of talking to journalists? Do you need tips on how to get your message across? This workshop, run by two seasoned journalists from the Communications team, will cover:

• Why talking to media matters
• When to talk and when to stay silent
• How to prepare for an interview
• How to stay on topic

All Staff

Introduction to Social Media
with Sharon Campbell, Deputy Head of Communications 

Social media has become an inevitable part of life, with its ability to facilitate communication and provide opportunities to share and discuss work globally, to network with peers and to engage the public on a broader scale.

This session will provide insight into the leading social media platforms including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram. It will also give you an understanding of best practice, benefits, risks and support you in deciding which channels are best for you in your professional role. 

All Staff

Writing for the Web
with Sarah Marriot, Director, Plain English Ireland

This workshop is for anyone who writes or edits web content. It's a useful refresher for experienced writers and will provide a solid foundation for anyone who is new to writing web content.

Writing for the web is very different from other types of writing, mainly because online readers access information differently. During this highly practical workshop, an experienced writer will show you how to apply international research to create web content that is clear, concise, well-structured and user-friendly. You'll learn how to use language, layout and links to deliver information successfully to your target audiences.

Recognising and Responding to Distressed People

Delivered by Student Counselling

This workshop aims to equip people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support others experiencing distress. The workshop covers active listening, boundaries and referral skills, active participation is encouraged and facilitated.

All Staff

Management Skills for the Current Environment

More information on the programme

The role of the Manager has taken on a new level of urgency and challenge as we continue to find effective ways to work in remote and hybrid environments.

The aim of this highly practical programme is to provide Managers with the skills for a remote world of work, in a time of uncertainty. You can apply these skills and techniques to support you in your own work and in managing and leading others. Participants must attend all modules in the series to complete the programme.

Notes:

• A pre - paid fee of €65 to cover the administration cost for your DISC Workplace profile will be charged upfront when you register for this modular programme
• Essential Pre-work: This session includes a pre-course online psychometric. Participants will receive a detailed and tailored 20-page profile report that supports their ongoing development and application of DISC post the Workshop session.

Module 1: Working and Managing in Remote and Hybrid Environments

Explore how to develop productive rhythms and routines that help you focus and manage the workload. Discover a tool kit for managers to help plan, organise and manage work and staff with realistic expectations.

Recommended Pre-work: LinkedIn Learning:   What's Next: Reinventing Work in the New Normal
Leading at a Distance

Module 2:  Effective communication through the language of DISC

Understand the impact of behaviours and preferences in a remote world of work. Learn how to understand other people and adapt for success.  Psychometric included in module.

Recommended Pre-work:  LinkedIn Learning:  Interpersonal Communication

Module 3:  Flexible Management Style

Work with proven methodologies that help managers to develop staff.

Essential Pre-work:  Flexible Management Style Evaluator
Recommended Pre-work:  LinkedIn Learning:  Coaching and Developing Employees

Module 4:  Motivation and Engagement

Learn practical ways to motivate and connect with your team.

Essential Pre-work: Motivation to Work questionnaire
Recommended Pre-work:  LinkedIn Learning:  Motivating and Engaging Employees

Module 5: Managing Conflict

Skills Lab for Managers
By Invitation Only
Delivered by Annie Scaife, HR Learning and Organisational Development  
At these 90-minute, bi-weekly Skills Labs for Managers you will practice the approaches and tools offered at each module of the series. Take this opportunity to revisit and refresh your skills, collaborate and benefit from ongoing peer support.

TBC

Working through Covid

This highly practical workshop will allow participants to experience and practice a range of techniques designed to formulate new routines to assist in focus and engagement. This session will explore how to 'chunk down' daily objectives into practical tasks to align with the most effective work routines. Managing yourself and your day is a critical skill when working remotely and this session will provide a range of 'best practice' techniques to help participants to set themselves up for success.

Pre-course LinkedIn Learning: What's Next: Reinventing Work in the New Normal

Recognising Stress to Manage Anxiety and Burn out (Minding Ourselves and Others During Covid) with Joanna Harney, Student Counselling

This highly participative workshop aims to provide practical strategies and experimental opportunities to help us manager our mental wellbeing at work.  In this session will discuss the following areas:

• Managing anxiety and stress through uncertainty
• Building and maintaining resilience
• Managing difficult emotions
• Monitoring self-care and understanding the signs and signals of burnout
• Dealing with self-criticism
• Responding to others to help meet and overcome challenges

LinkedIn Learning Recommendation: Building Resilience

25th November
cancelled

Recognising and Responding to Distressed People

Delivered by Student Counselling

This workshop aims to equip people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support others experiencing distress. The workshop covers active listening, boundaries and referral skills, active participation is encouraged and facilitated.

All Staff

Writing for the Web

Understand the issues involved in making online writing accessible to all readers, and adapting hard copy for web. Learn how users 'read' websites to achieve a reader-focused style and structure. 

Pre-Course Work: Learn to write for the Web (1hr 24mins). Please complete our online questionnaire – by 17 November (if possible).

Recognising and Responding to Distressed People

Delivered by Student Counselling

This workshop aims to equip people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support others experiencing distress. The workshop covers active listening, boundaries and referral skills, active participation is encouraged and facilitated.

Introduction to Social Media, with Sharon Campbell, Deputy Head of Communications 

Social media has become an inevitable part of life, with its ability to facilitate communication and provide opportunities to share and discuss work globally, to network with peers and to engage the public on a broader scale.

This session will provide insight into the leading social media platforms including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram. It will also give you an understanding of best practice, benefits, risks and support you in deciding which channels are best for you in your professional role. 

All Staff

9th December 2020
complete

Recognise Stress to Manage Anxiety and Burnout (Minding Ourselves and Others During Covid)
with Mark Robinson, Student Counselling 

Are you noticing how much people are talking about anxiety and burnout as a result of the pandemic? This highly participative workshop aims to provide the participant with a practical guide to mind ourselves and others at work during Covid. Practical strategies are delivered through experimental opportunities to help us know how to look for the signals to manage our mental wellbeing at work. 

14 December 2020
complete

Recognising and Responding to Distressed People

Delivered by Student Counselling

This workshop aims to equip people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support others experiencing distress. The workshop covers active listening, boundaries and referral skills, active participation is encouraged and facilitated.

Creative Collaboration in Remote Settings
with Jonathan Bannister, Tangent Trinity's Ideas Workspace

At this workshop, we will draw upon diversity in ideas, backgrounds and expertise to yield creative and innovative outcomes. Participants will be offered the opportunity to reflect on how our working environment has changed and what skills, attitudes and behaviours are now necessary to collaborate effectively in a remote setting.

At this workshop, participants will:

• Explore how teams develop meaningful professional collaborations remotely
• Identify various tools and methodologies to improve team collaboration and reflect on areas for development
• Practice collaborating remotely and explore how technology impacts communication and team dynamics

21 January 2021
complete

Wellness & Resilience - Motivation '21
With Jerry Kelly, First HRD

This lunchtime wellbeing talk is to help people connect with each other in the university, and to give some practical tools and techniques to help stay motivated in times of uncertainty.

Recognising and Responding to Distressed People

Delivered by Student Counselling

This workshop aims to equip people with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support others experiencing distress. The workshop covers active listening, boundaries and referral skills, active participation is encouraged and facilitated.

Wellness & Resilience – Why you’re Confused about Food and What to do About it!
with Martina Mullin, Healthy Trinity - Lunchtime wellness talk:

The age old question, “What should I eat?” continues to cause confusion.   This workshop will answer that question from a health promotion perspective.  It will give an overview of the diet industry and what it has to gain from muddying the waters about food. It will clarify how you might change what you eat if your focus is on food from a scientific, artistic, ethical and/or social perspective.  It challenges the ambivalence about what is “good food” and highlights eating as an opportunity for nutrition, pleasure and social interaction. 

Introduction to Social Media, with Sharon Campbell, Deputy Head of Communications 

Social media has become an inevitable part of life, with its ability to facilitate communication and provide opportunities to share and discuss work globally, to network with peers and to engage the public on a broader scale.

This session will provide insight into the leading social media platforms including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram. It will also give you an understanding of best practice, benefits, risks and support you in deciding which channels are best for you in your professional role. 

All Staff

Wellness & Resilience - Caring for the Carers

All Staff

Bouncebackability
with Jerry Kelly, First HRD

All Staff

Nutrition and the Menopause
Delivered by Inspire Wellbeing, Employee Assistance Programme

All Staff

Creative Collaboration in Remote Settings
with Jonathan Bannister, Tangent

At this workshop, we will draw upon diversity in ideas, backgrounds and expertise to yield creative and innovative outcomes. Participants will be offered the opportunity to reflect on how our working environment has changed and what skills, attitudes and behaviours are now necessary to collaborate effectively in a remote setting.

At this workshop, participants will:

• Explore how teams develop meaningful professional collaborations remotely
• Identify various tools and methodologies to improve team collaboration and reflect on areas for development
• Practice collaborating remotely and explore how technology impacts communication and team dynamics

Professional Skills Programme  - Storytelling for Impact
with Steve Rawling, New Thinking Tools

Creating a compelling narrative using action and emotion to get attention and reach your audience. Told well, stories can influence and engage audiences; present content, structure, and can be used to provide insight, garner support, and frame evidence in a way that other formats miss.

Creating and Living your Best Life
Delivered by Inspire Wellbeing, Employee Assistance Programme

All Staff

Professional Skills Programme - Pitch to Win
With Steve Rawling, New Thinking Tools

Health & Sport Week - Grow your Way to Greatness (gardening!)

All Staff, Students and College community

Health & Sport Week - Pop-Up Choir
with the Trinitones

All Staff, Students and College community

Wellness & Resilience - Getting a Good Nights' Sleep

Management Skills for the Current Environment

More information on the programme

Module 1: Working in Remote and Hybrid Environments

23 February 2021
complete

Module 2:  Managing in Remote and Hybrid Environments

2 March 2021
complete

Module 3:  Flexible Management Style

9 March 2021
complete

Module 4:  Motivation and Engagement

23 March 2021
complete

Module 5:  Effective communication through the language of DISC

30 March 2021
10:00 – 11:45
Online

Wellness & Resilience - Promoting Wellbeing through the pandemic

Delivered by Inspire Wellbeing, Employee Assistance Programme

Creative Collaboration in Remote Settings
with Jonathan Bannister, Tangent

At this workshop, we will draw upon diversity in ideas, backgrounds and expertise to yield creative and innovative outcomes. Participants will be offered the opportunity to reflect on how our working environment has changed and what skills, attitudes and behaviours are now necessary to collaborate effectively in a remote setting.

At this workshop, participants will:

• Explore how teams develop meaningful professional collaborations remotely
• Identify various tools and methodologies to improve team collaboration and reflect on areas for development
• Practice collaborating remotely and explore how technology impacts communication and team dynamics

Wellness & Resilience - Living with Worry and Anxiety
Delivered by Inspire Wellbeing, Employee Assistance Programme

All staff

Time Management and Prioritisation
With Derek Fox, DF Leap

This workshop is designed to help individuals who want to explore ways to effectively manage their workload in this overly demanding environment were everything seems important and urgent. This workshop includes a set of tools and techniques that will be provided in a companion workbook. 

In this workshop, we will cover the following elements:

• Structuring your daily tasks in a productive way
• Prioritising your workload in line with importance
• Identify your time wasters and energy drainers
• Identifying personal barriers and enablers for effectiveness
• Achieving a state of ‘Flow’ to increase focus
• How to navigate the 4-Quaderent time matrix
• How to communicate what you can do effectively
• How to deal with urgent interruptions
• Build routines that enable higher productivity
• Communicate successfully around priorities
• Deal with unrealistic expectations in a product manner
• Achieve a better work life balance

All Staff

Wellness & Resilience - Supporting Suicide Awareness & Prevention
Delivered by Inspire Wellbeing, Employee Assistance Programme

All staff

Preparing for Media Interviews
With Catherine O Mahoney and Tom Molloy, Media Relations, Trinity Communications

Are you afraid of talking to journalists? Do you need tips on how to get your message across? This workshop, run by two seasoned journalists from the Communications team, will cover:

• Why talking to media matters
• When to talk and when to stay silent
• How to prepare for an interview
• How to stay on topic

All Staff

Introduction to Social Media
with Sharon Campbell, Deputy Head of Communications 

Social media has become an inevitable part of life, with its ability to facilitate communication and provide opportunities to share and discuss work globally, to network with peers and to engage the public on a broader scale.

This session will provide insight into the leading social media platforms including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram. It will also give you an understanding of best practice, benefits, risks and support you in deciding which channels are best for you in your professional role. 

All Staff

Wellness & Resilience - Recognise & Support Colleagues & Family: Mental Health Awareness
Delivered by Inspire Wellbeing, Employee Assistance Programme

All staff