First Thought Training

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First Thought Training

First Thought Training

First Thought Training has a wealth of experience working with NHS Trusts and other healthcare organisations. We offer dedicated support in the development and delivery of focused and measurable training and a diverse range of professional training courses to the health and social care sector.

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CPD Courses & Workshops

Social Care

Unconscious Language Skills

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Understanding the nature of language and its sometimes unconscious meaning is essential to being a c...

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Social Care

Releasing Your Potential

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In order to achieve different results sometimes we need to make changes and approach things differen...

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Social Care

Working in the NHS - Navigating Change & Effective...

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stated that - in 2014/15 - 440,000 people in the UK reported a...

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Social Care

Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence (EI) or emotional quotient (EQ) is the capability of individuals to recognise...

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Social Care

Job Planning and Negotiation Skills

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Job Planning has been used within the NHS since the late 1990's and aims to ensure that the organisa...

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Social Care

Reflection and releasing Your potential - 2 half d...

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Reflection is an activity which allows the delegate to see the value in the learning experience. The...

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Social Care

Making a Business Case

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Today; NHS Trusts have to operate robust internal business case processes and maintain a transparent...

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Social Care

Advanced Teach The Teacher Masterclass

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Teaching is about supporting others to develop their knowledge and competence. A good teacher will u...

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Social Care

Motivational Interviewing

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Motivational Interviewing is a method that focuses on facilitating and engaging motivation within th...

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Social Care

Leadership and Management - An Introduction

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Leadership is an essential part of any healthcare professional's role; whether Clinical or non-Clini...

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Social Care

Leadership and Management - An Introduction

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Leadership is an essential part of any healthcare professional's role; whether Clinical or non-Clini...

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Social Care

Managing Stress and Poor Performance

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Managing poor performance is one of the most stressful aspects of any manager’s role. It is imperati...

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Social Care

Communicating with Confidence

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In order to communicate successfully; one person has to send a message and another to receive it. We...

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Social Care

Understanding and Dealing with Burnout in the NHS

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Burnout is a type of psychological stress. Occupational burnout or job burnout is characterized by e...

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Social Care

Bullying and Harassment

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Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect at work. Bullying and harassment of any kind are...

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Social Care

Consultant Interview Skills

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This workshop is for existing Senior Grades and Doctors applying for Consultant positions; of all sp...

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Social Care

Managing Conflict

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Managing Conflict. Conflict can happen in any workplace; the healthcare environment is no exception...

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Social Care

Myers Briggs

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Have you ever wondered what makes people tick? Why is it that some people can think on their feet an...

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Social Care

Human Factors in the NHS- Creating a Patient Safet...

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Human factors is the science of understanding human behaviour and is applied and related through thi...

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Social Care

Leadership and Management- Building a Team

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The NHS is changing and there has never been greater emphasis on each individual team member taking...

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Social Care

Communication Across Cultures

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In today's NHS; the patient has become far more discerning and expectations have become higher. One...

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Social Care

Teams; Coaching and High Performance

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Working as a team is essential to the success of any organisation; and the NHS is no exception. In o...

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Healthcare & Medical

Managing Complaints

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As the NHS strives for greater consistency in the ways that it improves services to their patients;...

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Healthcare & Medical

Being Human

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It doesn't matter what position we are in; at times we'll find that our energy levels; motivation; w...

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Healthcare & Medical

Negotiating in a Healthcare Setting

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We all negotiate every day; sometimes without even realising it; we negotiate both at work and at ho...

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Healthcare & Medical

Navigating Difficult Conversations

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When difficult conversations present themselves; it is important to know how to approach them depend...

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Healthcare & Medical

Personal Effectiveness and Achieving Balance

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An essential component of any individual’s success ; whether professional or personal is achieving a...

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Healthcare & Medical

Effective Educational Leadership

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Educational Leadership is often hard to define yet apparent when missing. Leadership is an essential...

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Healthcare & Medical

The Patient Experience and Continuous Improvement

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As individuals; we all experience things differently and as patients; a good experience of care and...

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Healthcare & Medical

Healthy Living Skills and Wellbeing

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Implementing the Care Act’s Wellbeing Principle is part of practitioners’ duty. They need to teach c...

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Healthcare & Medical

Personal Safety and Professional Boundaries

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Practitioners must know what constitutes appropriate professional practice. They need to maintain bo...

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Healthcare & Medical

Lean Management

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The NHSs greatest strength and expertise lies in practical service improvement. They have years of...

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Brian Herbert

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Paulo Coelho

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Malcolm Forbes

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

W.B. Yeats

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Brian Tracey

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

Jimi Hendrix

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

Allan Bloom

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."

Eartha Kitt

"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."

Richard Branson

"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Aristotle

"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."

Albert Einstein

"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."

George Whitman

"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."

Sarah Caldwell

"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."

Chinese Proverb

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

Confucius

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."

Benjamin Franklin

"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Dizzy Gillespie

"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."

Rudyard Kipling

"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"

Princess Ramirez

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

Pablo Picasso

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

Johann Sebastian Bach

"Much to learn, you still have."

Yoda

"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."

John Dewey

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."

Plutarch

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

Albert Einstein

"I am still learning."

Michelangelo, age 87

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

Henry Ford

"You cannot open a book without learning something."

Confucius

"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."

Sophocles

"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."

Anton Chekhov

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Oscar Wilde

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."

Will Durant

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

Socrates

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."

Oprah Winfrey

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Light up the darkness."

Bob Marley

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Isaac Asimov

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

B.B. King

"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

Marvin Minsky

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

Phil Collins

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

Chinese Proverb