Learning Academy Box Sets

Take the opportunity to gain accreditation in a specific subject. Our Box Sets are groups of related modules that help you focus your learning. The full box set cost includes your accreditation. To complete accreditation, you need to watch all five modules and send an email to accreditation@theforum.social to describe what you have taken from the modules and how you have applied these in your role.
Each Box Set costs £325 +VAT. (Free to anyone on an Assisted Learning Pathway). Click on the descriptions below to book your place now.

Student takeaways

One of our members from Lifeplus completed the Capacity Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting box set these are the headline takeaways:
 - A small impact in your field can have a good effect higher up in the ranks at board level i.e. matching up with a higher strategic objective
 - Planning teams need to collaborate with other areas/organisations, engage stakeholders
 - Increase Operational effectiveness - As a team, we have vastly increased our communication channels 
 - Improve and manage the flow of your data cycle and version control
 - Long Term: Financial and Budget Planning – Operational: Drives capacity, scenario planning, and risk
 - In the middle of a transformation/plan, the challenges are still there, and targets not being met --> this must lead to evolving the approach to capacity and demand
 - Improve the quality of the data, focussing on what/why/how, determine what happened to the customer base
 - Demonstrating Value and ROI – benefits achieved, costs avoided, risks avoided

The Power of One

The Power of One

Teamwork and understanding the plan are critical to achieve strategic objectives.  However, too often this is left to chance and not an embedded behaviour. So easy to get wrong, fortunately easy to improve. This module will help you to:  

 - Understand the “power-of-one” and the impact of small changes.
 - Improve your on-the-day decision making and see the result for your customers and colleagues.
 - Learn the classic mistakes and how to overcome these

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Categories: Impactful Professional Recording, Operational Effectiveness Recording, Operational Team Leader Modules

Introduction to Shrinkage

Hosted by Phil Anderson

Introduction to Shrinkage

Shrinkage understanding & Management is crucial for Effective people planning. Often misunderstood and mismanaged, shrinkage can end up being viewed as a negative cost. This module will help you to:

 - Learn the critical factors of shrinkage management and the pitfalls to avoid
 - Improve your on-the-day decision making and see the result for your customers and colleagues
 - See the value of managing shrinkage and the return in investment that it can bring to your business

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Categories: Operational Team Leader Modules

Influencing Skills

Hosted by Phil Anderson

Influencing Skills

Being able to influence the decision of others is a key skill for all professionals. In this module, learn the basic approaches which will allow your audience to process information in their own way, using their beliefs and memories to deliver great outcomes. This module will help you to:

 - Learn the difference between Tell, Ask ad Influence
 - Understand the importance of stakeholder mapping
 - Use different communication styles to influence and inform

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Categories: Operational Team Leader Modules

How to Learn

Hosted by Phil Anderson

How to Learn

Learning how to learns equally as important as unlearning bad habits and behaviours. Understanding different ways of learning can help you to become a confident learner. This module will help you to:

 - Understand what we mean by learning
 - Understand how to create the right mindset for developing
 - Give you top tips to becoming a better learner and making new knowledge stick

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Categories: Operational Team Leader Modules

Introduction to The Forum

Hosted by Phil Anderson

Introduction to The Forum

Your introduction to The Forum and what we can do to help you

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Categories: Operational Team Leader Modules