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Our Manager induction Package is a great deal offering Charity Retailers a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the world of charity retail and further develop their skills.

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Learn the fundamentals of running a great charity shop – including your people, your product and your processes. This section includes everrything you need to make the bery best of your charity retail operation.

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Managing Retail Teams

Aimed at those who manage shop managers – how to set great KPIs & objectives, successful supervision, remote management and more to help you get the most from your team.

Volunteering

Where would we be without volunteers? Here you can learn how to recruit, retain. train, engage with and develop your volunteer team.

Managing Retail Teams

Aimed at those who manage shop managers – how to set great KPIs & objectives, successful supervision, remote management and more to help you get the most from your team.

Customer Service

Learn how to create a customer centred culture in your charity shop and engage with & delight your customers every time.

Health & Safety

Courses with the charity shop environment in mind. Moving & handling, security, dealing with shoplifters, fire awareness and safe use of equipment can all be found here.

Stock

A key driver of success, there’s lots to learn about stock! How to get, process & price it – as well as how to make the best use of space, warehousing & logistics and much more.

eCommerce

Are you making the most of your online offer? Want to set up your first online shop? Learn all about how to go about it here.

Engagement & Marketing

Learn how to promote your store, building local relationships, using social media, running shop events and telling your story.

Digital Skills

Make the most of what digital can offer with our range of courses covering social media, basic IT skills and selling online.

Wellbeing

Look after your team with specialist courses in mental health awareness, diversity & inclusion, restorative practice & resilience.

Managing difficult conversations & behaviours

11th May 2023

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£40.00 excl. VAT

Webinar Details:

Date: 11th May 2023
Time: 10am
Webinar Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Tutor: Anne Webb

Learning outcomes for the session:

Knowing how policy and process frameworks & good communication can help prevent problems from arising
Knowing why you might feel nervous when having difficult conversations and how to manage that
Understanding how non verbal communication contributes to your conversations
Being aware of open and closed questioning and where and how to use them
Understanding how to use active listening skills
How to prepare for and hold a difficult conversation with a team member

Meet Our Tutors

All our tutors are either from the charity retail sector or are hand-picked by us for their specialist knowledge in their field. We work closely with all our tutors to make sure the content they deliver is relevant and accessible for a charity retail audience.

Jayne Cartwright

Co-founder of The Charity Retail Academy and Founder & Director of The Charity Retail Consultancy. You can read more about Jayne here.

Vicki Burnett

Co-founder of The Charity Retail Academy and Senior Consultant with The Charity Retail Consultancy. You can read more about Vicki here

Daniel O'Driscoll

Dan runs Engagement Consultancy and is a Charity Retail Academy Associate, executive coach & volunteering expert. Previously Head of Volunteering at Oxfam, Dan delivers our volunteering courses.

Anne Webb

A very well known face in the secctor, Anne was Deputy Director of Trading at Oxfam and Chair of the Charity Retail Association until 2020. With a background in HR, Anne is exremely well qualified to be delivering our people managment courses.

Sarah Baggaley

Sarah is a teacher and Restorative Lead Practitioner working across education, social care & Health in a local authority. She delivers our wellbeing session.

Emily Beere

Emily is the co-founder and chief sales officer of the e-commerce platform built for charity shops, thriftify. She shares their learnings while delivering our Intro to e-Commerce course.

Ngozi Lyn Cole

Freelance consultant & trainer, Ngozi was named in the 2016 New View 50 list as one of the top 50 most influential Black and Minority Ethnic people working in the public sector. She is passionate about people, equality and collaboration and delivers our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion training

Kat Maclennan

Visual Merchandising expert Kat runs her own VM company – Dot to Dot, Experienced in the development of VM strategies, store planning principles, window concept design and training store teams, Kat delivers our VM training courses & webinars

Kate Wootton

Kate is an accomplished management consultant and executive coach, having worked extensively for international corporations and in private, public and the charity sectors. She is passionate about understanding as much as she can about people’s behaviours so that she can support them.

Kate runs Mental Health First Aid, Awareness, Champion and Refresher courses as well as wellbeing and resilience programmes. Into each she brings her own particular experience.

Minoti Parikh

Minoti Parikh comes with an international experience of facilitating more than 1600 team engagement, wellbeing and training programs in over 25 countries.

Minoti was in the top 100 Female Entrepreneurs in the country list in 2020, is a Business Leader in Residence at Lancaster University along with being a Trustee at East Street Arts in Leeds.

Minoti delivers our Resilience course.

Zoe Amar

Zoe Amar is widely regarded as one of the charity sector’s leading digital experts, is Chair of The Charity Digital Code of Practice and was recently voted one of the 25 most influential charity leaders by Charity Times. Zoe delivers our Social Media for Charity Retailers course.

Ailene Young

Ailene Young has 30 years experience in Retail, with over 10 years in the charity sector in senior management roles. Having recently undergone the NEBOSH, (Health and Safety National General Certificate) Ailene delivers our Health and Safety for Charity Retailers course

Michael Fleming

Michael is our Gift Aid Guru. He works for Nisyst (one of the sector’s leading EPoS providers) as their lead trainer & has provided Gift Aid training for the Charity Retail Association since 2019.

Pete Thomas

Pete manages the security & loss prevention team at Lodge Service, who support charities nationwide in helping to reduce loss and improve safety and security in their shops. Pete delivers our Improving Security training.

Nicola Woodgate

Nicola Woodgate has over 25 years’ experience working with charities, income teams, marketing teams and supporting charity retail teams. She is currently Head of Marketing and Deputy Director of Income at St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds where they have 24 charity shops across the city, which collectively raise over £3.5 million per year. Nicola is passionate about effective communications and delivers our course on improving engagement between retail teams and the wider charity.

Rae Ritchie

Rae Ritchie is a freelance writer, editor, researcher and speaker specialising in sustainability and ethical living. She works for a range of publications including Woman&Home, where she produces the Green Made Easy page, and Woman, where she is the eco agony aunt – and has been a fan of charity shops since buying a velvet jacket from the British Heart Foundation in 1996. Rae delivers our Green Credentials course.

Julian Temblett

Julian is a marketing specialist and consultant to the sector, as the Charity Retail Marketeer. He has almost 30 years’ experience in marketing, with 15 of those leading British Heart Foundation’s retail marketing and business development, before delivering BHF’s five-year marketing and fundraising strategy. He is a trained coach, has recently completed a mini-MBA in marketing, and brings a wealth of experience to deliver our new Marketing Essentials and future marketing courses.