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Power Hour Skills Series 2024
PUBLISHED 23 JANUARY, 2024
The 2024 Power Hour Skills Series
The hugely popular Power Hour Skills Series of free one-hour lunchtime webinars returns for 2024, featuring engaging, live online topic-focused sessions with Irish thought leaders.
As the world in which we live and work continues to change and evolve, we are becoming more and more aware of the skills we can develop to navigate our path and succeed. Developing in-demand skills relating to wellness, teamwork, communication and productivity continue to be critical. Our 'power skills' play an integral part in how we approach all areas of life and they help us to future-proofing our careers and the organisations in which we work.
Series speakers and dates
FEBRUARY 14th: The Power of Emotional Strength - Speaker, Colin Marks
Kicking off the 2024 Series, Colin Marks focusses on emotional wellbeing and explores the tools that guide us towards the attainment of sound emotional self-defence techniques. These techniques are applicable in all facets of our lives and help us to build emotional strength in the face of uncertainty and change. Key concepts, which are explored include: putting emotional wellbeing into context; exploring the relationship between the past, present and future and their effects on emotional wellbeing; the positive power of mindfulness; purposeful living and, garnering the emotional courage to confront adversity head-on. Colin draws on his lived experience to share insights that have enabled him to live a more meaningful life following trauma and the associated mental health challenges that accompany significant life events.
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MAY 2nd: The Power of Team Communication - Speaker, Neil Curran
We're all familiar with research that tells us that strong communication skills are the key skill teams require to be most effective with the strongest relationships. However, what does strong communication look like?
In this talk Neil will look in practical terms at what contributes to an effective team, and how we can engage in Conscious Communication to build strong bonds with our colleagues, be more assertive communicators and minimise the pitfalls associated with poor communication in team settings.
Neil is a member of the Irish Times Training faculty and, among other communication-related topics, he teaches improvisation skills (improv) to individuals, teams and organisations: from an academic perspective, Neil likes to think that Improv is his Pedagogy.
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Further sessions will be added to the schedule throughout the year, so check in and don't miss out on any of the inspiring and informative lunchtime learning sessions.