Online Training: Minuting Virtual Meetings
This programme has been developed to support Councillors and Officers who are responsible for minuting virtual meetings.
England & Wales, Global, Ireland, Scotland
Events
LGIU offers many different types of events - ranging from policy roundtables to learning and development seminars and training courses. We also offer in house training - download programme. Contact barry.obrien@lgiu.org to find out more.
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Online Training: Practical Project Management
This webinar seeks to clarify what we mean when we say project and demonstrate how a practical approach can be beneficial. And introduces the nine essential parts of any project not just for work but in other aspects of your life as well.
England & Wales, Global, Ireland, Scotland
Online Training: Effective Social Media Sessions
This course consists of three modules of one hour each which cover an introduction to using social media effectively, planning and managing your social media and using images and video effectively.
England & Wales, Global, Ireland, Scotland
Online Training: Writing Advocacy Letters
This programme has been developed for Councillors who write advocacy letters on behalf of their constituents.
England & Wales, Global, Ireland, Scotland
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Seminar: Effective Communication Series: Using Social Media for Local Government
This training and development day is designed to enable delegates with the skills, confidence and plan to use social media more effectively. The course will concentrate on effective good practice, brand management, using social media to listen and choice of social media networks.
England & Wales
Seminar: An Introduction to Local Government Finance
This seminar gives a very good grounding in how local government finance works in practice and sets the ‘basics as part of the bigger picture of current developments and longer-term trends.
England & Wales
Seminar: Working and supporting volunteers & community champions: the benefits to individuals, communities and councils
This seminar takes delegates through the questions & processes that make for a strong and effective volunteer and community champion programme.
England & Wales
Seminar: Being an effective Councillor: ways of strengthening and sustaining personal resilience
This practical seminar that will provide participants with methods and helpful ideas to manage the pressures they face and enable them to be able to maximise the positive aspects of being an elected Member.
England & Wales
Workshop: Speed Reading & Retention – Fast Reading Techniques and Memory Strategies
This highly practical and interactive session has been developed for councillors who want to develop their skills in speed reading and the ability to use memory techniques. It will demonstrate how to use different reading styles in order to maximise the limited time that is available for review and retention of material.
England & Wales
FREE Seminar: Personal Safety for Councillors
This is an essential programme for Councillors who are mindful of their personal safety, particularly at the moment when many Members are canvassing during Purdah.
England & Wales
LGiU Scotland and CCLA Councillor Awards 2019
Since our first event last year was such a success, in November this year we will host the second Councillor Awards in Scotland to recognise councillors who go the extra mile for their communities.
Scotland
Workshop: Techniques for engaging effectively with Local and National Media
This training and development day is an overview of working with the media. The course will concentrate on developing an understanding of the different types of media, how to answer difficult questions in an interview, how to get your message across and what to do if it goes wrong. The sessions will be highly interactive…
England & Wales
42nd TB Macaulay Lecture – Green and Prosperous Land
Each year the Macaulay Development Trust, in partnership with the James Hutton Institute, hosts a world-renowned guest speaker for its annual TB Macaulay Lecture. This year we are delighted to welcome Professor Dieter Helm, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Scotland