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0113 218 2627
18 March 2025 9:30am–12:00pm
Virtual Training via MS Teams
How wisely do you currently manage your time? This session will look at the key skills of managing time effectively including how to prioritise and organise your workload, recognise productive and unproductive work behaviour, identify your own personal style when managing difficult interruptions and the benefits of effective time management.
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
18 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
This one-day course explores race and sex discrimination law by examining case
studies. It introduces: concepts of direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and victimisation, discrimination time limits and the Public Sector Equality Duty.
The law is only one option of a range of steps activists may take to challenge race and sex discrimination in the workplace. The purpose of this course is not to explore awareness or policy issues as such, but to provide an introduction to how the law works in this area.
Branch Charge: £30 per delegate
17 March 2025 12:30pm–1:30pm
Virtual Training via MS Teams
Join in a Spanish class to learn the basics of going on holiday in Spain. Including how to order things and sound Spanish enough so that you (maybe) don’t get charged tourist prices! It will be done in a fun and relaxed environment with the teacher Spanish Dan. ¡Olé!
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
15 March 2025 10:00am–4:45pm
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Canal Wharf, Leeds, LS11 5PS
This course helps women members to explore the possibilities of getting more involved in the union. It gives an outline of the way the union works and invites women to explore their own skills and gain confidence in their ability to use these skills in the union.
To book on this course please contact your branch as you will need approval to attend.
10 – 14 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch.
This face to face training looks at what the roles of the steward are and gives you the skills, knowledge and understanding to carry out these roles, for example recruiting members and involving them in the union and how to work with members to tackle problems at work.
This course will run on 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 March 2025.
This course is 30 hours learning in total.
Branch Charge: £150 per delegate
12 March 2025 10:00am–4:00pm
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Canal Wharf, Leeds, LS11 5PS
Aimed at Black members, the Empowered Leadership is designed for the individual to identify the links between empowerment and successful leadership. It will demonstrate the power of language and communication in affecting positive changes, within the workplace and the home environment. It will also explore what it means to take responsibility and how your thinking can create your reality.
To book your place you will need to contact your branch for approval to attend.
11 – 12 March 2025
UNISON Regional Centre, Quayside House, Leeds
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
This 2 day course is designed to follow on from the 5 day Organising Stewards course or equivalent and is aimed at existing UNISON stewards. The course reinforces some approaches and procedures introduced in the 5 day course and explores in more detail:
• Process for identifying needs and exploring what is and isn’t a case
• Recap on sources of information especially the ACAS code
• Preparing for a grievance and a capability case
• Planning and building a case including interviewing witnesses
• Possible outcomes from cases.
Branch Charge: £60 per delegate
11 March 2025 10:00am–1:30pm
Virtual Training via MS Teams
You will be guided through the skills you need to produce highly efficient and productive workbooks including how to: create a VLOOKUP table, create a Pivot Table and Pivot Chart, sorting and filtering, use the IF function and more.
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
7 March 2025 10:00am–11:30am
Virtual Training via MS Teams
This session with the RNIB will improve your understanding of different types of visual impairment and how they impact people’s lives. Using visual aids, myth busting, videos and more, it will give you key takeaways around facts and figures as well as practical skills, such as how to guide a blind person.
To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk
3 – 7 March 2025
Brunswick House, Strand Close, Beverley Road, Hull, HU2 9DB
To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend.
Local Learning Hubs – This is a new initiative where we are working to bring regional training opportunities closer to you.
This face to face course looks at what the roles of the steward are and gives you the skills, knowledge and understanding to carry out these roles, for example recruiting members and involving them in the union and how to work with members to tackle problems at work.
This course will run on 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 March 2025.
This course is 30 hours learning in total.
Branch Charge: £150 per delegate
