Training Courses

We offer bespoke training and can work with you to develop training within your organisation to meet the needs of your staff.  Uniquely, we will also work with you to ensure that you are able to deliver this training in-house in the future by offering ensuring you get a full copy of the tutor notes and training materials for any bespoke sessions.  Our team have a background in working for and with NUS, QAA and The Student Engagement Partnership on a number of projects and have a deep understanding of the Students’ Union sector.

Detailed outlines of some courses we offer:

  • Train the Trainer: Different levels of Train the Trainer Courses to meet your needs
  • Inspiring Creativity: Embedding Creativity in Working Practices
  • Fit for Funders: Sourcing Funding, Making Applications and Developing your Presentation Skills  
  • Demonstrating Impact: Effective and Innovative Research and Evidence Gathering for Annual Reporting, Impact Reports and Funding Applications, looking at use of case studies, user-led approaches, storytelling, video work and visual arts
  • Student Researcher Training: prepares students to carry out student-led research for Students’ Unions.
  • Idea Hack: Problem-solving and creativity sessions to develop and inspire!

Please contact heather@magneticideals.org for further details.

Additional sessions we can run in your union include, but are not limited to:

  • Plan your sabbatical handover in a day!
  • Research Authenticity and Accountability: Setting up and running student-led research projects
  • Beyond KPI’s: An Enhancement Base Approach to Planning and Evaluation
  • Developing Your Course Rep Training and Support Systems
  • Internationalising your union – making your union more accessible to international students and gloablising your outlook
  • Developing Safe Spaces in your Union
  • Writing and Researching your Student Written Submission
  • Train the Trainer 1: Delivering the ideal training session – 2 days
  • Train the Trainer 2: Training Design and Development – 2 days
  • Student Events Management: An Introduction to events management in students’ unions and societies from local networking events, to academic conferences and social events
  • Researching and Evidencing: Research and Evidence Gathering for Annual Reporting, Funder/Sponsor Reports and Funding Applications
  • Making Funding Applications and Developing your Presentation Skills
  • Fight to Win: Evidence Based Campaigning
  • Advanced Skills in Academic Quality Research
  • Analysing your NSS Results
  • Developing and Delivering Effective Course Rep Training

Each of these sessions can be run over one or two days depending on requirements and we will work with you to adapt them to the needs of your union.  Please contact us for further details heather@magneticideals.org