From one stretch of the UK to another, our in-house courses are incredibly popular.
We are often told they have the right mix of theory and practical application plus we work with our clients to create an agenda that fits the needs of their organisation.
We are often told they have the right mix of theory and practical application plus we work with our clients to create an agenda that fits the needs of their organisation.
We deliver thought-provoking keynote speeches on our specialist areas of mental health, personality disorders, managing challenging behaviours and building resilience.
We specialise in providing a wide range of consultancy and research in a variety of areas including:
Equality issues, Management of Challenging Behaviours, Mental Health, SEND and Resilience
Mark Welsh
Vice Principal
Staff
are effusive about the support and guidance they receive. The training is
inspirational, energising, bringing lots of ideas, with both substantial and
in-depth knowledge of ‘what work’ in the environment, together with case
studies, learning from experience and being fully practice-oriented. There is a
well-balanced structure to workshop sessions, which contributed to interesting
and focused discussions and exchanges. As a result of the training the quality
of teaching and learning has improved, children experience well-planned lessons and
access a wider range of resources and information.
Dr Anna James is excellent, combining theory and examples from the field and extracting the valid points from the different contributions from the group. A huge breadth of knowledge and the ability to tie the different worlds of education together and draw general strategies that work.
Dr Anna James is excellent, combining theory and examples from the field and extracting the valid points from the different contributions from the group. A huge breadth of knowledge and the ability to tie the different worlds of education together and draw general strategies that work.
Nicky Rowland
Head of HR
We have worked extremely successfully with Dr Anna James and March Training for many years now (more than 12) and would thoroughly recommend the services provided. Anna’s background provides a wealth of experiential information which helps create lively interaction and debate about even the driest or most difficult subjects. She is also amazingly flexible – we identify a training need, talk to her and she builds the session just for us and this can be for classes of 6 through to 50. Even the crustiest of staff vote with their feet and attend Anna’s sessions. Specific areas she covers for us every year include safeguarding, Prevent, supervisors development and restraint but other bespoke sessions have included time management, effectively managing mental health in FE, building employee resilience and teaching creatively in HE. When we run a whole college training day and Anna is running one of the workshops, it will be the first one booked out whatever the subject!
Mandy Piper-Killick
Director of People and OD
In all of my interactions with Anna, I have always found
her to be highly professional, knowledgeable and effective.
Anna supported a number of
training programmes at St Christopher’s by creating and delivering a range of
quality workshops for staff at all levels, from very junior staff up to and
including the Executive Team. The topics have incorporated areas such as resilience, strategic planning and management skills workshops. Anna
has also provided valuable training to Committee members to better
understand their role of ‘representing others’ and how to ensure that meetings
are effective. Internal feedback has confirmed that Anna’s contribution
to both of the organisation’s Leadership and Management Development Programmes,
which each spanned a period of 10-months, supported several managers to gain
greater confidence in their role, which in turn has led to an overall increase
in their willingness to take on more responsibility and/or their desire to
develop themselves further.
Meet the Team
If you haven't guessed already, Anna and Yvonne are sisters – double the trouble!
Dr Anna James
Dr Anna James is a criminologist specialising in the management of challenging behaviours and mental health. Anna has worked in prisons, universities and colleges for over 25 years' and now uses her knowledge to further her research, write, train and support others.
Yvonne James
A graduate, with a First-Class Honours in English, Yvonne has become a multi-published poet, subsequently being selected as a judge and reader for international poetry competitions. Yvonne is a qualified (with Distinction), Nutritional Therapist and Herbalist and has a career background in organising and delivering corporate training for British and overseas businesses.
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