NESA Coaching Program
Motivating Resistant Job Seekers
ONLINE | 2 PARTS
Tuesday 23 & 30 August
2.00pm AEST
TARGET GROUP
Frontline staff and management
SUMMARY
Lack of motivation is an increasingly difficult barrier to manage in employment services. The recent covid-19 pandemic, lingering rules, coupled with existing obstacles is affecting our job seekers motivation to participate in activities and job search.
Working with resistance can take its toll on staff, it becomes tiresome and frustrating. Resistance can be intermittent or ingrained. This inflexible pattern of relating, perceiving and thinking, requires a different level of investment to get clients engaged, focused and moving into employment.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
This 2 part online coaching program will build a framework to engage and motivate resistant clients. It will provide you with the motivational interviewing skills to engage resistant clients, and to inspire motivation and enthusiasm.
Hear about the framework and tools, in order to achieve outcomes and to retain a positive attitude in an ever changing and demanding industry. Focusing on client accountability, the skills will enable you to encourage clients to take personal responsibility whilst stimulating motivation. Instead of struggling when confronted by resistant, you will be able adapt a more constructive method in achieving outcomes.
The coaching program is a necessity for all frontline staff and management.
Expected outcomes
Understand the reasons for resistance
Understand the Stages of Change and how they apply to employment Services
Learn motivational interviewing techniques
Learn the importance of deliberate and collaborative conversations about change targeted questions to elicit change
Learn effective ways to resolve discrepancy and ambivalence
Acquire skills in effective goal setting and change measurement
Facilitator
SHARON MAMO
Sharon is a qualified human services program designer and lecturer with many years of experience in Human Resources. For the last 5 years she has focused on researching and working with disengaged job seekers and their complex needs. Sharon combines clinical psychotherapy and professionalism with a natural and down-to-earth approach. Sharon is a qualified Drug and Alcohol Facilitator, Psychotherapist & Social Sciences Professional. She has worked as a psychotherapist in employment services for many years. As an expert in encouraging mandated and resistant clients to change, she keynotes at national conferences on topics of behavioural change, AOD, mental health and neuropsychotherapy.
cost
OTHER
Each webinar session is expected to run for approximately 60 minutes including ample Q&A and discussion time. A PDF copy of the presentation will be distributed to all registrants. Once the series has been completed, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion.
CONTACT US
For further information on NESA PD training events please contact Amanda Owen +61 3 9624 2311 | EMAIL
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