Counselling skills
Featured in the Managing Age Diversity training manual
By Eddie Davies & John Roadley
Category: Diversity
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
This training activity enables participants to define counselling as one of the most non-directive development interventions.
In this training activity, participants explore the difficulties they may face when counselling employees of different ages in a work setting. All managers with staff may be drawn into the counselling process at one time or another. The training activity can also form an integral part of a training event designed to develop counselling skills for managers, or be used on events that aim to develop managers’ and supervisors’ skills in dealing with people. The training activity can also be linked with ‘Developing your workforce’ and/or ‘If they have to go’.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers acting as facilitators, but managers, coaches, colleagues or consultants can readily facilitate this training activity.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:50:00 |
| No of Pages: | 15 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable the participants to define counselling and examine the role and involvement of managers in using counselling skills at work. The participants explore the difficulties they may face when counselling employees of different ages in a work setting. The training activity could also be linked with ‘Developing your workforce’, which provides and overview of the variety of helping and development styles available to a manager, or ‘If they have to go’, which deals with counselling those who have become redundant.
Download the training activity, Counselling skills as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Age Diversity