The topics Emma covers within her workshops are outlined below.
CLIENT CENTERED PRACTICE
- Are they your goals or your client’s?
- Simple ways to involve your clients
- If practice makes perfect, how to ensure this practice!
- How to find your client’s passion
- Ensuring smooth transitions
- The importance of goals
- How to intervene holistically
- Putting yourself in your client’s shoes
- How to avoid failure
- Empowering your clients with a choice
- Simple ways to advocate disability
- Embracing your clients without prejudice
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
- Creating a high performing team
- How to ensure effective team leadership
- How to improve your team meetings
- Tips to ensure team based client service
- The effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary approach
- Recognition that professional development is an investment for ongoing achievement
- Making sure we all provide the same level of service
- How to clarify your purpose/values/goals
- Simple ways to give feedback
- The benefits of knowing and articulating your individual role
- The secrets to creating an optimistic atmosphere
COMMUNICATION
- Not merely talking – the importance of eyes, hands, posture in building rapport
- The power of debriefing
- A holistic message – the benefits of past and future liaison
- Meeting with your client’s supporters
- The secrets to conveying positive messages
- How to use optimistic language
INSPIRING YOURSELF AND OTHERS (SELF MOTIVATION)
- How to instil motivation and sustain your own and your client’s momentum
- The power of feedback, goal setting and follow-up
- How to build one another up with words and actions
- Learning to help yourself
- Simple ways of dealing with disaster and anxieties
- How to look for positives in a multitude of negatives
- How implementing a buddy system will help your client
- Simple ways to empower carers
- Ways to facilitate the building of a new identity
CREATING A HEALING ENVIRONMENT (PHYSICAL)
- How the environment could be a catalyst for your client’s progression
- How to provide an optimum user- friendly environment
- Aids – a hindrance or support?