Our current workshop topics include:

• Building self-confidence
• Communicate effectively
• Career decisions
• Practical Issues - benefits, legal issues, living and working with cancer
• Cancer in the Workplace: a workshop for both employers and employees

Building Self-Confidence

If you feel that you lack self-confidence, or that you’re not as assertive as you’d like to be, you’re not alone. And building – or rebuilding - your self-confidence will probably be much easier than you think.

This workshop will be run by Business Psychologist, Simon Drury, who specialises in helping people recognise their own strengths and how to use those strengths to improve their everyday lives.

Communicate Effectively

When you speak, do people hear what you’re really trying to say? Do you know how to listen and understand what other people are trying to tell you? Effective communication is a skill that anyone can learn. Conducted by Mark Stevens, who has over 20 years of experience in Strategic Marketing and Communications, this workshop will show you how to speak and listen to your supervisor, co-workers, friends and family in order to maximise the impact of your message.

Career Decisions

Going back to work – either during your treatment or after – can be difficult. Whether you return to your previous job, look for a new job or even become self-employed depends on many things. Anne Sabine’s many years of experience as a Recruitment Specialist and Careers Consultant can help you decide what you want from your job, what your work options are and how to get back into the work you’re best able to do.

Practical Issues – Benefits, Legal Issues, Living and Working withCancer.

Janice Fletcher is a former cancer patient who currently volunteers at The Olive Tree and advises people affected by cancer – patients, their families and their carers – on the benefits and legal issues they may need to deal with. If you have any questions about your benefit entitlements or legal rights, this workshop will help.

Also covered will be other issues that affect those living and working with cancer.

Cancer in the Workplace: a Workshop for both Employers and Employees

"People affected by cancer" – is a description Macmillan Cancer Support often uses when discussing not only a cancer patient, but also the patient’s family, friends, and support group. But “people affected by cancer” also applies to a cancer patient’s supervisors, co-workers and business associates. Join us for a discussion - from both the employer’s and the employee’s viewpoints – of how cancer can affect the workplace environment, the different needs of employees and employers and how employers and employees can best work together to resolve these issues.