Past Events

This introductory 1-hour session will help you gain an understanding of dyslexia and look at workplace barriers for those with dyslexia.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

This training course will be delivered in over two days, face to face at Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Centre in Leeds. It is designed to meet the requirements of the Employment Rights Act (ERA) re-accreditation for further training of steward and workplace reps.

Branch Charge: £60 per delegate

In attending this session you will recognise different types of Interviews you may encounter. Delivered by National Careers Service.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

Identify sources of stress and hindrances to your wellbeing. Plus consider a range of strategies for keeping stress at bay together with exploring how to make time and space to implement solutions.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

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 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 December 2024.

This course is 30 hours learning in total.

Branch Charge: £150 per delegate

In attending this session you will recognise different types of Interviews you may encounter. Delivered by National Careers Service.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

This course will help you to understand how as an individual to effectively deal with difficult situations, review the impact of conflict on yourself and others together with being able to recognise different kinds of behaviour and how to manage this within the conflict process.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

To register your interest for this course please contact your branch. You will need approval from your branch to attend. 

This Supporting reps wellbeing virtual workshop is open to all branch officers and reps.

This is an interactive workshop which explores issues affecting reps using the stress container model.

This is a virtual workshop which will be run via Zoom.

There is a branch charge of £15 per delegate for this training.

This is a fun and interactive course intended as an introduction to sign. The course will not only help you to develop your sign vocabulary but will also assist in learning more about deaf culture and some of the barriers that deaf people face in everyday society. This will be a unique learning experience where you will develop a vast range of knowledge to further assist you in your next steps for learning British Sign Language. This course will be taught over 3 weeks in 2 hour sessions so you must be able to attend all three sessions.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk

Microsoft Excel is the most popular and widely used spreadsheet software in the workplace and this course is aimed at those with little or no knowledge of the software. The session covers creating a new workbook, adding and editing data, working with formulas and charting. On completion of the session you will be able to create and use spreadsheets effectively for straightforward calculation and simple data manipulation.

To register your interest for this course, please email Rose on r.bent@unison.co.uk