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– to Union Members | | Management Development for Managers | | Effective Communications for National Executive Councils | | Personal Development – Assertiveness, Communications, Negotiations and Conflict Management | | Health and Safety Training | Computers Intermediate
FETAC Level 4 | Computers Advanced
FETAC Level 6 | Women in Leadership
– Strategic Planning | | Assertiveness Skills | | Career Planning | Interviewing
- Report Writing | Other courses which we are developing are:
- Media Skills for Union Activist
- Youth Programme for Union Activist
- Front Line Staff – Telephone Skills
- Employment Law
- Computers – Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Stress Management
- Personal Presenation
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| | Latest News: | | Irish Examiner - 8th March 2010 | | |  | | | | | | | | Women at Work Skillnet Host Successful Networking Event in IBOA House. | | |  | | | | L to R: Aileen Morrisey, Mandate, Mary O’Rourke, TD, Alacoque McMenamin, Network Manager, Marian Geoghegan, IBOA and Carol Scheffer, CWU at the launch of Women at Work Skillnet. Aileen, Marian and Carol are on the Management Group of the Skillnet. | | | | The Women at Work Skillnet held a Network meeting on the 3rd July in IBOA house. The event was attended by a cross section of employers, union officials, training companies and other relevant bodies with Mary O’Rorke, TD and Sallyanne Kinihan, Assistant General Secretary, ICTU as keynote speakers. The purpose of the event was to allow the key stakeholders to network and discuss their role on this ambitious programme. | | | | Overall the Skillnet will undertake a comprehensive training programme to up-skill women in the work place. The Skillnet is being led by five trade unions, Mandate, IBOA, CWU, INO and Impact. The aim is to up-skill women so as to enable them to realise their potential in their working lives and fully participant in workplace initiatives such as partnership, union activism and the management of change. This aim will be met by giving participants an ideal opportunity to enhance their skills through professional training and development courses. | | | | Larry Broderick, General Secretary, IBOA opened the event and welcomed the work of the five unions in bringing the project to the fore | | | | Sally Anne Kinahan of Congress chaired the event and spoke about the increase in the number of women in the workplace. It was clear from Sallyanne’s presentation that despite 30 years of equality legislation, women are still not on an equal footing with their male counterparts. In the last 15 years the number of women in the workplace has doubled, yet women remain over-represented in low paid, part-time and atypical employment. She believes that this has serious implications on their skills development into the future and welcomed this programme as a significant step towards addressing the matter. | | | Mary O’Rourke, TD, was warmly welcomed to the event and with great humour recounted her experience as a young County Councillor in Athlone, and the challenges of being a woman at county board meetings. She emphasised the need for women to build their confidence in the area of public speaking and not to be afraid to voice their opinions. She welcomed the programme and congratulated the Management Team on bringing this impressive programme together and wished all those involved every success.
A presentation was made to the keynote speakers and the attendees retired to the “Bankers Club” for refreshments. The DVD “Skills and the City” that was produced by the Management group was also shown at the event. It is intended that the DVD will be used for training purposes and to encourage women’s participation in training initiatives.
Overall it was deemed to be a very successful event with other networking events planned for future. | | | "The Women at Work Skillnet is funded by member companies and the Training Networks Programme (TNP), an initiative of Skillnets Ltd., funded from the National Training Fund through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment."
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