Staff Development

Amanda Antcliff can train or coach your staff in four different ways.

1. Workshops                                   
2. Motivational Speaking
3. Group Coaching
4. One-on-One Coaching

Amanda Antcliff as a Trainer and Speaker

For the majority of her working life Amanda has been involved in training people.  She has had wide and varied experience empowering adults through teaching in colleges, speaking at conferences and conducting training seminars. Armed with a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training she is presently a lecturer at a government accredited college.

You will discover Amanda is an effective motivator and an engaging speaker who is able to impart knowledge and inspire people to fulfill their potential. Her passion is to equip and empower. She has an ability to teach principles in a practical manner. She is motivated to inspire people to move forward and take new ground. As a speaker, you will discover that Amanda is vivacious, sincere and natural, and she shares from her own heart and life experiences. It has been said of Amanda, that ‘she is a catalyst to bring change into people’s lives.’

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1. WORKSHOPS

Amanda has 15 different, 2 hour workshops that she can conduct for you and your team. The content covered in the workshops will be applied at both a personal and professional level. The overriding objective of these workshops is to build your people, who in turn will build your business.

The workshops are interactive with a combination of training, group discussions, hands-on activities, games and role-plays. The topics are flexible, as is the time. Workshop content and focus can be discussed and altered according to your aims and outcomes. If you are wishing to provide a day seminar or a retreat for your staff, a number of the workshops may be chosen to best suit your needs. A workbook is provided for each workshop participant. Click on the link for the details of each workshop.

2. MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING

Amanda can inspire your staff with a message that will help them maximize performance in their personal lives and in their professional careers. She customizes the message to her audience and to the company’s objectives. Amanda is passionate and will energize your staff to enlarge and excel in all of life. Her words will challenge, inspire, entertain and provoke. She loves to speak about dreaming broader, achieving higher, unleashing potential, exceptional attitudes and loving life.

3. GROUP COACHING

A different format for presenting the Workshops is in a less formal, more interactive style called ‘Coaching Groups’. Rather than meeting in your seminar room for a workshop, Coaching Groups can take place around the lunch table, on the lounges in the staff room or in a quiet cafe. Ideally the size of these groups would range from 3 – 10 people and last for approximately 1 hour. These groups could be conducted weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.

Coaching Groups are a highly effective way of conducting Life Coaching to a number of employees at one time. By coaching in groups; cost and time are minimised. The additional advantages of coaching groups are that relationships will build and the team members may be held accountable to each other for things that are discussed and called to act upon. I highly recommend this style of training as your staff will receive regular input and both your team and your business will be strengthened.

For more information about the process and benefits of life coaching click here.

4. ONE-on-ONE COACHING

‘Forget gym memberships and parking spaces –
corporate high-flyers are now demanding a life coach as part of their salary package…
They believe a weekly or fortnightly session with someone who can enhance their performance is just as important as an attractive salary.’
(Qantas magazine)

One-on-One Coaching provides an important tool for intensive personal training over a period of time. It can help you or your staff; increase performance, breakthrough limitations and learn new skills. The role of a coach is multifaceted. They give insight, inspiration, support, guidance and motivation. They also become a confidant, a ‘sounding-board’ and an invaluable accountability partner. A coach is not a business consultant, rather an instructor who gets beside a person and assists them in all areas of their world both personal and professional. Coaching may be conducted at your work place, home, café or over the phone.

For more information about the process and benefits of life coaching click here.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

Workshop 1 - Power and Process of Vision

• Vision – What is it? Why do we need it? Where does it come from?
• Vision and Purpose. Writing Mission Statements and ‘Catch-Cry’ Slogans
• The Power of Writing/Drawing Vision
• The Process of Vision
• Skills and Character Required to Keep Vision Alive.
• Communicating Vision to Your Team

Purpose and Passion: 'I love to teach people about vision. Vision is the seed from which everything is created. If we don’t learn how to dream we will have fruitless and frustrating lives. With vision we have focus, direction, motivation and productivity. Vision is a process. In this training we will look at the skills and character to keep dreams alive and see them come to pass. I personally have learnt the power of vision and I know this workshop will inspire people to dream and to act.'

Workshop 2 - Practicalities of Planning

• Planning – The What, the How, the When, the by Whom! And the WHY!
• Vision precedes Planning. Planning precedes Action.
• Process of Planning – Objectives, Goals, Schedules, Projects
• Project Management
• Stages of Planning – Establishing a Plan, Carrying out a Plan, Evaluating a Plan
• Different Communication Skills Required throughout the Planning Stages.

Purpose and Passion: 'People are born with the capacity to dream. Many dreams however, are never realized because people lack the ability to plan effectively. I am motivated in this training by the need for men and women to understand the necessity and the practicalities of planning and the need for action. This training is very practical. It looks at the how- to and the process of planning and goal setting. Having an idea and making it work. That’s achievement!'

Workshop 3 - Power of Personal Management

• Defining Management
• Understanding the Need for Personal Management and How it Enlarges all Areas of Life.
• Character Qualities Required for Personal Management
• The Practicalities – The Organized Desk, Office, Drawers, Files, Cupboards, Car, Paperwork, Home, Garage and Finances.
• Systems of Organisation

Purpose and Passion: 'By nature and upbringing I was disorganized, untidy, forgetful, unpunctual, and a person who hated routines. Ten years ago I radically changed. I saw the need to get managed in the ‘little’ and seemingly insignificant areas of my world, if I was to ever achieve and succeed in the 'larger' more important areas of my life. The material covered in this workshop has been outlived in my life. The principles I know will not only motivate but empower change in individual’s lives. This change in turn will affect people in their personal and business world. I believe at the end of the day, organized people will achieve more.'

Workshop 4 - Managing Your Greatest Resource – TIME!

• Time Management and How it Relates to Vision and Purpose
• Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Priorities
• Important versus Urgent
• Budgeting Time
• Identifying and Eliminating Time Wasters
• Planning and Diaries

Purpose and Passion: 'Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life.” I believe in this statement spoken by Alan Lakein a time management consultant. It stirs me to help others understand key time management concepts such as important versus urgent, efficiency and effectiveness, and prioritizing. I am motivated to help others master their life by mastering the time they have.'

Workshop 5 - Principles of Effective Management

This workshop covers all the topics covered in Workshops 1-4 but in a condensed version.
• Defining Management.
• Three Key Elements of Management: i. Vision, ii Planning, iii Use of Resources (eg time)
• Understanding the Need for Personal Management and how it Enlarges all Areas of Life.
• Vision
• Planning
• Time Management

Purpose and Passion: 'This workshop is rich with life changing teaching. It provides a snapshot of the first four workshops in a condensed but very powerful format. Successful management encompasses the three key elements of Vision, Planning and Use of Resources. The theory of each of these elements will be taught and then expanded on in a practical way. My motivation to teach this workshop is highlighted under ‘My Passion’ for Workshops 1-4.'

Workshop 6 - Winning Character

• Character and its Influence on Professional and Personal Success
• Convictions, Values and Predetermined Decisions.
• Integrity, Honesty, Loyalty, Care, Discipline, Self Control
• Personal Responsibility
• Driven Life versus Balanced Life
• Bringing Change to an Area in Your Character

Purpose and Passion: 'I personally am troubled when a person with enormous talent is undermined both professionally and personally due to a lack in their character. Continued success is always due to both competency in skill and strength of character. Character is something that must be continually assessed and developed. This workshop looks at key character qualities that set people up for life and that any team in the business world would want displayed in their employees. This workshop will also empower people to be able to change or develop a character quality in their life.'

Workshop 7 - Intentionalizing Change

• Personal Limitations – Recognising WHAT they are and WHY they are there.
• Habits and their Power – The Good and the Bad.
• The Wheel of Life
• Change – Vision, Desire, Planning, Process of Change
• Character and Attitudes Required to Bring About Change
• Power of the Mind
• Bringing Change to One Area in Your World / in Your Business

Purpose and Passion: 'I believe if businesses and people remain the same, they die! If we are not moving forward then we are going backwards! We must constantly be looking at how can I/we improve, how can I/we change, how can I/we expand? Firstly we must come to a realization of what our limitations and weaknesses are and then, be able too see what’s on the other side if we were to change in this area. I am motivated to facilitate change in people’s lives.'

Workshop 8 - Mighty is the Team

• What is Team. Power of Team.
• Qualities of Effective and Successful Teams.
• Team Dynamics
• Role of Team Leader/Manager and Team Members
• Attitudes that Produce a Winning Team
• What can I do to Make a Better Team

Purpose and Passion: 'Successful business rises and falls on the effectiveness of a group of individuals coming together to form a team that works together to achieve a common goal. A team working in harmony together is like a well run machine that produces effectively and efficiently. This workshop gets the team involved in thinking through what team is, how teams work best, the individuals role and responsibilities within the team and how they can all build a better team.'

Workshop 9 - Skills of Successful Communication

• What is Communication.
• Different Modes of Communication.
• Qualities of Effective and Ineffective Communication
• Why do we Have Miscommunication – Different Assumptions, Intentions, Mindsets
• Resolving Conflict
• Loads of Practical Communication Tips

Purpose and Passion: 'Our lives are centered around connecting, sharing, relating and communicating with others. It has been said, 'Words have the power to produce life or death'. Too often our relationships are destroyed, hindered or strained because of ineffective or poor communication. We can see this in our marriages, with our children, parents and in the business world. In this workshop people will be empowered to understand the 'how-to's' of effective communication, which will result in a more harmonious and productive team and better customer service.'

Workshop 10 - Leadership versus Management

• Defining Leadership and Management.
• Categorising differences Between Leadership and Management
• Qualities of a Leader
• Effectiveness of a Manager
• Delegation – Why, How
• Different Management Styles
• Employee Selection

Purpose and Passion: 'This workshop is extremely beneficial to any managers or their assistants who want to enhance themselves and their team. The skills and qualities of effective leaders and managers will be discussed. The major difference between leaders and managers is that managers maintain whereas leaders propel things forward. Managers will be challenged in their level of leadership and given practical skills to empower them to utilize more fully the people in their team.'

Workshop 11 - Forceful Matters – MOTIVATION and ATTITUDE

• Defining Motivation – It’s Source, Supply, and Power
• Factors that Kill or Dampen Motivation
• How to Remotivate Yourself
• Attitudes that Breed Personal and Corporate Success

Purpose and Passion: 'Individuals who are enthusiastic, motivated and passionate about life are not only a joy to work with but tend to be more energetic and productive. This workshop highlights the power of motivation. Most people however go through challenging times when motivation wanes. I have an impetus to help others recognize the reasons why this happens and how they can move back to a place of motivation. Other attitudes which will be discussed that are essential to propel people forward are perseverance, responding positively to negative situations and the willingness to change, adapt and try new things.'

Workshop 12 - Presentation Skills

• Preparation Skills - Know your Audience and their Needs
• Define a Single Idea and Your Outcomes
• Subject and Complements
• Design Presentation Outline
• Writing the Presentation – Explain it, Prove it, Apply it
• Delivery Skills
• Presenting Yourself
• Keys to Confidence and Overcoming Fear

Purpose and Passion: 'Many positions require employees to be able to conduct presentations. This requires an array of different skills which range from the preparing of a talk that is informative, inspiring and interesting to actually delivering the presentation with confidence and style. This workshop will equip people with these skills and inspire them to be able to competently present themselves and their message.'

Workshop 13 - Understanding Self

• My Purpose is Found in My Passion
• My Gifts, My Motivations
• My Personality Type
• Who am I!
• My strengths and weaknesses

Purpose and Passion: 'We cannot understand, care for and work with others effectively until we are able to love and appreciate our own uniqueness. Often in the work place difficulties amongst team arise due to issues of underlying self esteem problems in individuals. Life is a journey of self discovery and this workshop will lead you through some life changing activities that will help disclose some powerful self revelations. When we understand ourselves and our purpose, recognize what our gifts and strengths are, what motivates us and what is peculiar to me; we are enriched and empowered as individuals.'

Workshop 14 - Maintaining a Balanced Life – Managing Stress

• Sources of Stress
• Spirit, Soul, Body and Mind
• Balance – What is it?
• Driven Life versus Balanced Life
• Recognising Priorities and Establishing Boundaries
• Care of Self

Purpose and Passion: 'Life for most people is extremely full, hectic and pressured. Stress can influence us in many ways – emotionally, physically and relationally. I am motivated to teach people to recognize the need to have a rich life in all ways. We are spirit, soul, body and mind, it is important that all of these areas are nourished. In this workshop people are encouraged to understand priorities and how to establish boundaries in their world.'

Workshop 15 - For Women Only

• What are the issues today?
• Partner, Mother, Daughter, Aunty, Friend, Worker – How do we do it all?
• Prioritising – Keeping Life in Perspective and Balanced
• Management Tips
• Self Care – Body, Soul and Spirit
• Stress how do we cope with it.

Purpose and Passion: 'Women have many pressures to deal with in these modern days. We are constantly juggling many things. Opportunities for women have soared, but so have the pressures. Women are faced with added responsibilities, greater personal expectations and desire to succeed, an increased necessity to earn money due to higher living costs and standards of living and the fact that many of us are also trying to be successful loving partners, mothers and friends. This workshop will give some very practical tips to help women to do it all and do it well!'