Training Course Calendar

The AQR runs a number of training courses throughout the year, open to both members and non-members. These courses prove very popular and early booking is advised.

We are now fully booked, please watch out for the next Spark event to be held in October

AQR Spark introduces its next evening workshop event:

‘Effective Communication’

Monday 9th August, 6.30-9.30pm

Session Leaders: Teresa Garfield and Steve Barnes (GarfieldBarnes)

At: PHD, The Telephone Exchange

5 North Crescent, London WC1E 7PH

Cost £25 + VAT for AQR Members

£30 + VAT for Non Members

About the session

Have you noticed that with some people you get on so easily you could almost finish off each other’s sentences, whilst with others it’s clunky, awkward and uncomfortable? That’s because we each have different communication styles – almost akin to speaking different languages.

This workshop offers a potent and user-friendly model for helping you connect, co-operate and influence clients, research participants and colleagues (etc.), and develop on-going effective, productive relationships with them.

More specifically, you’ll come out of the workshop;

• Having learnt about the four major communication styles

• Having discovered your own communication style

• Being able to recognise the communication style of others

• Knowing how to adapt your style in order to effectively communicate with people who communicate in the other styles.

This workshop promises to be thoroughly engaging and useful. It’ll comprise of training from the facilitators, enhanced with hands-on participation from us all. A detailed workshop manual will be offered to all participants.

We’re starting at 6.30pm prompt to ensure we get the most out of the evening. Drinks and nibbles will be provided throughout. All are welcome to stay for post-workshop drinks afterwards in a nearby pub.

As with all Spark events, the workshop is designed to be stimulating, unthreatening, fun, and for all members and non-members, qual practitioners and clients. Please spread the word. Places are, however, limited to the first 28 bookings to ensure we have a workable session; please book early to avoid disappointment.

About Teresa and Steve

Teresa and Steve are coaches, trainers and facilitators who deliver personal development training programmes in leadership and management skills. They help their clients create new perspectives, behaviours and experiences outside of their habitual and often restrictive ways, in order to facilitate fantastic commercial and personal results.

“GarfieldBarnes have provided Starcom MediaVest with a range of valuable support. Their interventions truly make a difference at the challenging level of values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours. Our people value working with them” (Liz Nottingham, HR Director, Starcom MediaVest Group).

With special thanks to Teresa, Steve and PHD, who are kindly offering their expertise/time/venue to the AQR free of charge.

We look forward to seeing you then. Lucie Wernicke, The AQR Education Sub-Committee.

Venue: PHD, The Telephone Exchange, 5 North Crescent, London WC1E 7PH
Date: 9 August 2010
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Admisison: Limited to 28 Delegates
Map: [Click Here]

 

Save the date…

RE-INSPIRATION!!

Inspiration in Action - Best of the Brits comes to London September 22nd

If you missed the sell-out, widely acclaimed, AQR/QRCA Global conference in Prague, earlier this year…..NOW’S YOUR CHANCE to hear six awesome sessions from the Best of the Brits

Join our starry line up of speakers for papers, Pecha Kucha sessions and floor discussion:

Nicki Karet, Simon Patterson, Anna Thomas, Chloe Fowler, Elle Atton, Bob Cook, Andy Barker and Joanna Chrzanowska will show and tell…

Learn more about post recession culture…

Explore some ingenious ways to acquire and build your qual business…

Discover more than you might be comfortable with about 8 year old boys…

Hear some controversial thoughts on the future of research and research methods…

Or …Simply hit the nostalgia button and re-live your teenage years !....

Get the highlighter on Wednesday September 22nd 8.30-1pm (Including breakfast)

Venue: The Futures Company, 6 More London Place, Tooley Street, London SE1 2QY
Date: 22 September 2010
Time: 8.30am to 1pm
Admisison: Limited to 40 delegates
Standard Price: £150+Vat
Member's Price: £95+Vat
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A new course in the AQR Calendar. Full details available soon.

Venue: Spectrum 25 Gloucester Place London W1
Date: 21 & 22 October 2010
Time: 9 - 4.30 each day
Admisison: Limited to 24 Delegates
Map: [Click Here]

 

The Residential Foundation Course runs over 3 days and 3 nights taking place 2-5 November 2010

“We have a history of sending our younger researchers to the AQR Foundation Course and we have always been extremely pleased with the results. The biggest and most noticeable difference is that their confidence takes a sudden upturn, its great to have moderators that have already started on their way to the level of competence that we aspire to at this company. We love the fact that it takes the pure enthusiasm of our researchers and combines it with invaluable tuition providing us, and them, with the grounding for a long and distinguished career in market research”… Firefish

'Year after year this course has provided the bedrock for researchers to appreciate the distinctiveness of qualitative enquiry’

‘The course allowed me the time to get into the qualitative mindset and ways of thinking’

‘For the first time I understood the difference between findings and insights’

‘Because of the course, running groups, I can now be less stressed out and give people space to talk’

‘It has shown me that it is OK to take chances and experiment’

‘For me it established the importance of understanding the meaning of words in their context'

The course is designed to foster a qualitative imagination and to introduce and sharpen core skills Delegates on this course span those at the start of their careers as qualitative researchers, experienced professionals who need to add qual skills to their portfolio and researchers with a couple of years of experience who would like to deepen their understanding and application of qualitative techniques.

At the heart of the course is what constitutes a masterclass in moderating, the opportunity to have your moderating skills developed and honed by our expert tutors. Built around case studies, the course covers interpreting the brief and designing your study, optimising elicitation and listening skills, the use of enabling and projective techniques, examples of different styles of interpretation and analyses, and constructing and delivering the presentation. Throughout there is an emphasis

not just on qualitative best practice but also on building and maintaining positive client relationships.

These are some of the things that delegates and companies said about it last year:

“I found the course had a great pace which didn't overwhelm or intimidate. The practical side of the course enabled me to try out various techniques I'd always been

curious about or that were new to me and it was brilliant to meet other qualitative researchers at varying levels who shared experiences and ideas with me. In essence

I loved it, and if my employer would pay for me to do it again I would in a heartbeat. It’s been invaluable throughout my first year in qualitative research and I find that

I am still very much using it today” (Rachel Cox MediaCom)

"As a planner at an ad agency I am not moderating groups all the time, and did not feel confident to do so. The course gave me all the skills and confidence I needed

to set up and moderate groups in those ad hoc pitch situations. It also gave me an invaluable insight into the qualitative research process from writing a brief to

sampling to putting together a debrief your client will love. An absolutely brilliant course!" (Kathryn Ellis DLKW & Partners)

The course will be held over 2-5 November 2010 at Wyboston Lakes Conference Centre, Bedfordshire.

Cost TBC: Guide price AQR Members £1000 + VAT Non members £1150 + VAT

Venue: The Waterfront Conference Centre, Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire MK44 3AR
Date: 2- 5 November 2010 TBC
Admisison: Maximum 20 delegates - cost includes accommodation for 3 nights
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