Dealing with Difficult People

Dealing with difficult people and situations is hard enough at the best of times. But sometimes we cannot just simply react to or walk away from a situation. This workshop is designed to assist you to identify the main challenges and how to understand and manage difficult behaviours and situations. This workshop looks at aggression and how to manage it, skills in dealing with difficult people, conflict resolution and the win/win approach.

Learning to say "No": Becoming more Assertive

Ever found yourself in a situation where it's too hard to say no, even though you would have liked to! Come and learn some tips about how to be more assertive in life, and some confidence booster to help get you there! Content includes establishing boundaries, response styles, adapting behaviour and the Bill of assertive rights.

Think You're at the Circus? Mastering the Balancing Act

With the ever increasing pressures of life, you may sometimes feel that your juggling skills could do with some fine tuning. In this workshop, we'll explore the many roles and responsibilities that occupy your time, and how to use time effective techniques to make sure you get the study/work/personal balance right!

Positive Communication for Healthy Relationships

This workshop is designed to assist you to identify potential causes of relationship difficulties by examining personal communication styles and behaviour. We'll explore listening skills, communicating feelings, negotiating skills, problem solving, coping with anger and conflict resolution.

Removing the stigma of Mental Illness

This workshop seeks to provide you with a better understanding of mental illness and the prevalence of mental illness in our community. We will also explore the different categories of mental illness, how to deal with emotions appropriately and how to respond effectively.

Preventing Burnout

Burnout occurs when highly committed people lose interest and motivation. It typically occurs in hard working, driven people, who become emotionally, psychologically or physically exhausted. This workshop will help you understand the background, symptoms, and consequences of burnout, and most importantly develop strategies to prevent burnout.

How Good a Team Member Are You?

This workshop discusses team processes and dynamic. We'll also look at managing team communication, including avoiding confrontations, dealing with conflict and difficult behaviours, identify personal communication styles and effective strategies for when issues arise.

Volunteering: Get involved in your community!

Do you want to meet others, help out in the community, gain confidence and develop your career networks? Then become a VOLUNTEER! Come and find out how volunteering can open new and exciting doors of opportunities for you and how to contact various volunteer organisations.

Stress, Humour and Health

Feel like you're putting too much into life and not getting enough back? Want to feel less pressured and be more effective in your response to stress? This workshop presents strategies to help you handle stress so that it doesn't end up controlling you. We'll discuss identifying uncomfortable levels of stress, the fight or flight scenario, elements for success and stress busters when preparing for potentially stressful situations such as an exam, job interview and public speaking.

Guest Speakers include a panel of Queensland Health Representatives

Come and hear from a panel of Queensland Health representatives on what they expect from employees within the organization, as well what the application process comprises of, including writing selection criteria and interviews. Studio Interviews can also be arranged following this workshop for those that want to practice interview skills and techniques.

MoneyMinded

This workshop gives you tips on how to keep track of your money, cutting costs, concessions and discounts, shopping guide, budgeting and avoiding financial trouble. Come and receive a free calculator!

How To Write a Resume and Cover Letter

You want to be noticed by employers when you send in a resume and cover letter but you haven't updated your CV since high school, if ever... sound like you? Come along to this session and find out How to Write a Resume and Cover Letter.
 
Job Search Strategies: Networking, Marketing and Promoting YOU!
Job searching these days is no longer just based around Saturdays Careers section. There are a number of ways for you to search and find the job that is right for you. Come and learn how to network your way into work, find an internship to promote your skills and market yourself to an employer.
 
Interview Excellence - The Steps To Interview Success

This workshop will help you prepare for job interviews. You will learn: What to expect at interviews; what kinds of questions may be asked; and some of the reasons why employers ask these questions.
 
Dealing with Performance Anxiety

Performance anxiety affects many people, not just performing artists or doctors. This workshop is aimed at helping you work out if you have performance anxiety, and what you can do to help you cope and perform at your best!

Building Confidence: Breaking Barriers

This two part workshop is aimed at removing barriers that prevents your self-esteem and self confidence from growing. The workshops are aimed at challenging your ideas about yourself, the world, and others.

Leadership and Motivation

Guest Speakers: Australian Defence Force  

The presentation is delivered by Officers in the Australian Army and is based on their personal experience in command both in Australia and overseas. The aim of the presentation is not to provide information about jobs within Defence or the recruitment process but rather focussing on essential elements of leadership, methods of motivating yourself and colleagues, and how to deal with adversity. We acknowledge the vast majority of attendees will not have any intent to join the Australian Defence Force. However, positive feedback has indicated that the real-life lessons in leadership and motivation can value-add in any management and academic context. The examples used are of a military focus, however the lessons learnt and methods used correlate with all aspects of professional development, leadership and performance and ways to deal with the strains of being a leader and manager within your chosen career paths.

Mindfulness in everyday life

Are you constantly thinking about things that have happened in the past? (If only I had studied harder). Or do you often find yourself worried about things in the future? (If I don't get 7's in all my subjects I will never get a job). Well, the past is gone and the future is unknown, so what we have left to think about is the present moment. Mindfulness teaches us to live in the present moment, to be aware and attentive to the here and now. In this workshop, you will be able to learn some skills to make the present moment the best place to be.

Career Planning

Discover the basics of Career Planning through this interactive workshop. Participants will be involved in several activities looking at their past, present and future career directions . This workshop won't give you the golden answer but it will give you the keys to unlock the door.

Following this workshop, participants will have the tools to being to:

• Understand what Career Planning is
• Recognise their key strengths
• Reflect on their values and interests
• Understand how to apply this information to make productive job choices in the future