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Maintaining Professional Relationships

If you are facing enquiries or complaints about awareness and responsibility around establishing and maintaining professional relationships, this 3-day course is designed to provide an educational and reflective space for participants to examine the roots of their problematic behaviour and to have assistance in making personal and professional changes.

Who Is The Course For?

The course is for professionals in roles working with people, including medicine, nursing, social work, ministry, education, therapy, criminal justice, corporate and political settings.

When The Course Is Helpful

The course is for professionals who have a need to look at their awareness and responsibility around establishing and maintaining professional relationships. It may be helpful when there are concerns about rudeness, aggressive or brusque behaviour; poor anger management; impulsiveness; disruptive or obstructive behaviours; perception of arrogance or aloofness; negative attitude; poor communication skills; acting in an unprofessional manner towards colleagues.

It is helpful where there are concerns, allegations or findings – it is important to understand that the course has been helpful to people who face allegations, including where allegations are contested.

Learning Methods Include

Pre-course reading
Conversations with the trainer
Evidence from research
Group discussion
Working in pairs

Acted Scenarios
Presentations
Playing The Professionalism Game^®
Playing Lumination^®
Creating a Personal Development Plan

Content Includes

Dynamics of relationship
Risk factors and vulnerabilities
Psychological concepts
Cognitive distortions
Empathy/Impact

Listening
Self-disclosure
Dual relationships
Power differentials
New ways of communicating

Goals & Intended Outcomes

To increase responsibility and awareness around professional relationships
To increase awareness and understanding of vulnerabilities and risk factors
To identify contextual factors
To put in place a personal plan

Improve understanding of personal and professional contexts
Consider needs for further professional assistance and personal development
Understand the effect of behaviour on others
Learn techniques for establishing and maintaining effective relationships

Booking Process & Fee

There are five places on each course.

Each participant is required to have a telephone call with the course leader so that the context, substance of the issue and personal perspective is explored. This call will include a check to ensure that the most appropriate course is being booked.

The price for the course is £1,250 +VAT (£1,500) and a place is secured when payment is made.

All bookings are made in agreement with our Terms and Conditions

Payment is by bank transfer and places can be held for 24 hours to enable payments to be made.

Where it is not possible to meet the cost of the course time-limited payment plans are sometimes available on request

What Our Clients Say...

I am more present, more attentive, more listening [in my consultations].

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon | Maintaining Professional Relationships

Our Maintaining Professional Relationships 2019 course programme is currently being finalised.
If you would like know the dates of the next courses, please register your interest by contacting us.