Online - Self lead

Addressing Unconscious Bias: Basic Awareness in the Workplace is an online course self-led course for all professionals working in the arts and creative sectors.

This course in collaboration with Safe to Create, is designed to help you understand what unconscious bias is, how it might manifest itself at work and how to challenge your assumptions to promote greater diversity and inclusion.

Raising awareness of our unconscious biases helps reduce their impact, however it does not eliminate them. This course explores theory as well as strategies to help tackle its impact at work. Staying alert to our unconscious biases is an ongoing process that might involve refreshing or extending our awareness on a regular basis via continued development opportunities.

By the end of this course, you will:

Understand what unconscious biases are and why we have them
Understand how they are formed and when they are most likely to be triggered at work
Understand how our unconscious biases impact our decision making
Understand how our unconscious biases affect our behaviour
Understand the benefits that recognising and working to address our unconscious biases have for our work and our audiences
Recognise our own unconscious biases and triggers
Identify strategies for challenging our unconscious biases

At the end of the course, you will need to answer 10 questions to check your understanding.

Afterwards you can check out the additional resources section for more information

This course is suitable for all professionals working in the arts and creative sectors.

Apply here

Free

Online - Self lead

Being an Active Bystander in the Workplace is an online course self-led course for all professionals working in the arts and creative sectors.

This course in collaboration with Safe to Create, is designed to empower people to challenge unacceptable behaviour that may have become normalised in the arts and creative sectors. The course aims to explain the role of an active bystander, identify forms of inappropriate behavior, demonstrate how to be an active bystander safely and the positive effect this can have in the workplace.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

Explain the role on an active bystander and why it is important
Identify all forms of inappropriate behavior
Demonstrate how to be an active bystander with an understanding of the breadth of possible intervention strategies
Recognise how being an active bystander can influence and affect a positive workplace culture
Recognise the importance of only intervening when it is safe to do so

This course is suitable for all professionals working in the arts and creative sectors.

Apply here

Free

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Screen Pass is an online self-led health and safety training course that is available free of charge for all professionals working in the Irish screen sector.

The Screen Pass training course, which was developed on the back of the new Health & Safety guide for the sector published in late 2021, contains key information on preventing accidents and encouraging a positive health and safety culture on set. This training course was developed with input from key industry stakeholders and professionals including Karen Cummins, Health & Safety Consultant with the Chris Mee Group, representatives from Screen Guilds of Ireland and Jo Homewood, Line Producer.

The course content covers critical topics such as:
Promoting a safety culture on set
Duties and responsibilities of employers and employees
Hazard identification
Risk assessment
Personal health and well-being.

This health and safety course is suitable for all professionals working in the Irish screen sector.

Link to course on Screen Ireland website here

Free

Saturday, June 18th 2022

Apply by 8th June 2022, 5pm

The course covers the key principles of effective management and examines the qualities of a good manager. By the end of the course trainees will feel confident in their own ability to manage others with skill and success.

1. Management Styles

Qualities of a good manager
Management vs leadership
Understand different management styles and their impact on staff
Evaluate strengths & weaknesses of each style
Discover and evaluate your own style

2. Motivation & Team Building

Your responsibility as a role model
Engaging with staff to build great working relationships
Using motivational techniques
De-motivation: recognise the symptoms
Addressing and resolving low morale

3. Organisational Skills & Planning

Managing your time
Goal-Setting: short, medium, and long term
Using the SMART goal-setting approach
Prioritising tasks
Delegation skills and work allocation

4. Communication & Assertiveness

Understanding how we communicate
Communicating with confidence and clarity
Understanding assertiveness
Learning how to say “No”

5. Managing Performance

Setting recognisable performance goals
Improving staff performance
Providing constructive feedback
Addressing poor performance constructively

6. Managing Conflict & Tricky Situations

Identifying areas of conflict
How to handle difficult conversations
Responding vs reacting

This course is aimed at any crew working in the Film and TV Drama Sector who have recently, or who soon will step up to a Supervisory role.

Such as Key Make-up Artist, Crowd Supervisors or Designers

Link to course on Screen Ireland website here

Link to application form here

The course fee is €90