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Being an effective leader requires the ability to capitalise on a wide range of personalities, skills and abilities.

To approach competency based interviews with confidence and to be able to write an effective supporting/personal statement.

Induction for ESCC Managers provides an opportunity to meet Chief Officers and pick up on any queries relating to your new role as a Manager at ESCC. At the event you will meet with managers from other departments in the Council making some useful contacts and establishing networks to help support you through the early months of your management career.

This course is to enhance managers skills around raising the performance of staff who report to them. Managers are asked to come to the event having agreed their learning objectives with their line manager.

Time pressures impact our work and personal lives as we aim to achieve higher levels of performance with less resource (time) to achieve it. The ability to manage time is an essential skill for effective people. Time management is not about cramming more work into your day, it is about doing better work, with less stress and knowing you have achieved what you set out to do.

This course is for you if you want to be able to create electronic notebooks to store and organise notes you collect from the web or other documents in your filing system. You can use a Notebook to plan a project, assemble research resources for a report you are writing, or just to store ideas and information you would normally jot down on paper. Notebooks can be shared with others, allowing you to easily collaborate on projects.

This course is for you if you are familiar with creating and producing simple documents in Word, but now need to work on longer documents. This course will make it easier for you to format your documents using styles and easier for your readers to find their way around, using tables of contents and cross references. The course also discusses what you need to consider when creating a document for online viewing.

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.

The main focus of this training is on providing participants with the skills to enable them to address workplace conflict and performance issues proactively.

This course is for you if you are familiar with entering formulas and analysing data in Excel and want to write code to automate Excel tasks, such as formatting a report and performing operations which can not be done using conventional Excel commands.