Volunteer Care - Creating safer and more resilient volunteers who at times are dealing with aggressive customers situations
Volunteers are a unique bunch - this safety & security training offer is unique to them
NZ and Australia have a special and unique volunteer tribe. People that give their time freely for the greater good of the community. From delivering home care, staffing hospice shops, to assisting in parks, museums and library’s they are certainly a special bunch.
However, we know through knowledge, experience and client engagement that many volunteers are subjected to abuse, aggression and at times dangerous situations.
Knowing that the organisations that use volunteers don’t have significant training budgets - yet carry the same Health & Safety responsibilities, we have come up with our unique volunteer training solution.
Get access to our successful online training course for a fraction of the cost. A unique offer for a unique group of people.
We were grateful to have Paul Walsh provide Situational Awareness training to our Retail team in 2021. Like many other customer facing employees, our retail staff regularly experience challenging behaviour from the public, in their workplace. While it is never easy to take busy staff out for training – we felt this was something valuable we were able to do for our team. They came away with strategies and tools for what to do and most importantly they feel safer in their workplace. The feedback from staff for Paul and his Situational Awareness programme was overwhelmingly positive. Thank you, Paul for the expertise you generously shared with our organisation.”
— Cathy Read - Hospice West Auckland
Volunteer - Limited Time Special Offer
For a limited time volunteers inside your organisation can get access to our online safety and security training course for a fraction of the RRP of $199.
Train 5 volunteers through this online training course for only $195 +gst.
You can even buy multiple bundles of 5 - to take advantage of this special offer.
Use the contact button below to find out how easy it to get your people on this training course today.
Course Overview
We understand risk exists and we know that bad stuff happens to good people everyday, so providing tools to your people to help increase situational awareness when dealing with aggressive customers is a life skill that matters.
We’ve spent over 10 years developing this course and have delivered it to hundreds of clients, in New Zealand, Australia and abroad. From corporates to students, hospitality staff to NGO ‘s in foreign countries. The aim of the course really is to make the world safer, one client at a time.
Clients tell us they learn simple strategies and tips using situational awareness, to keep them safe at work and beyond.
This course is completed online at your own pace, and is a nice mix of video, animation, story telling with some easy chapter quizzes to help lock in the learnings. There is also a free downloadable worksheet for team course discussion and debrief.
Chapters
Chapter One - A course welcome
Chapter Two - It’s a risky world - understanding risk in your world and defining situational awareness
Chapter Three - Being situationally aware - working up your risk model framework
Chapter Four - Situational Awareness - Life skills guiding principles
Chapter Five - How to confidantly deal with aggressive customers
Chapter Six - How to stay safe during customer home visits
Chapter Seven - Next steps
Course Outcomes
Our learning outcomes for participants on this course are,
Demonstrate how engaging situational awareness reduces risk and injury in the both the workplace and beyond
Demonstrate an understanding of the difference between upset customers and aggressive customers
Demonstrate an ability to employ practical tools to deescalate upset customers
Apply the practical Q6 risk framework to identify, reduce and stay safe when confronted with aggressive customer situations
Apply the Q6 framework and practical strategies to stay safe in a customers home
Employ the Q6 risk model framework that can be applied to any situation that threatens personal safety and security - anywhere, anytime
Chapter Overviews
Chapter One
A course welcome, providing backstory and context. It’s there to set the scene and to get the participants to reflect on the risk in their world and think of their current capacity and capability to deal with risk based situations, both at work and beyond.
Chapter Two
It’s a risky world - An opportunity to understand what risk is in your environment and in your world
Defining & measuring risk
Understand how our body responds under stress and risky situations
Define what Situational Awareness really means
Chapter Three
Being Situationally Aware - It’s no good just understanding its definition, in this chapter we explore how to adopt it through our risk framework
Your risk plan
Adopting RSTOPA on a daily basis
How to work through any situation anywhere
Chapter Four
Situational Awareness - Daily habits to live by. Adopt these guiding principles and practice them on a consistent basis and it goes a long way to turning habits into life skills. Skills for the workplace and beyond
Be a hard target
Spheres of influence
The power of what if conversations
Chapter Five
Dealing with aggressive customers. Your personal safety and security is absolutely the priority. In this chapter we learn some simple tools to de escalate upset or angry customer and help lessen the chance of them becoming aggressive.
We then look at the situational awareness strategies through case studies on what to do if they become aggressive.
Chapter Six
Visting clients in their own homes carries with it elements of risk for many vocations. Most visits will occur without incident and we get to crack on with our job. But wether it’s the first visit, or the 100th circumstances can change.
Whilst having that engaged level of situational awareness helps identify the risk flags, we also look at guiding principals that support your situational awareness when visiting customers in their domain.
Chapter Seven
A course summary where we wrap it all up and provide you with tools and resources to take away and help lock in the learnings.
Situational awareness, the single greatest skill you can acquire for your personal safety and security. Nothing is more important, at work, in travel, in life !
Noreen’s Story - A QRisk Case Study
We are so proud to have Noreen as a QRisk ambassador. Through the telling of her incredible story, the principles of our situational awareness course come to life - put yourself in her shoes what would you do ? Noreen has an ongoing relationship with us, and even appears at the odd presentation, to help tell her story as a way to educate others in the value of Situational Awareness training. Her key message is "follow your gut instinct", when a situation doesn't feel right, it isn't. Then put a plan in place and ACT.
Gutsy Noreen nails attacker
“I had the power to change the course of events that afternoon. That gut instinct when you see something and it just doesn’t feel right.
Survivor uses her story to educate others
The QRisk training course provided me the skills to identify risk, put in place simple strategies and make good decisions. It won’t happen a second time!”
Noreen is here co presenting to a group of high school students - learn through story.
What our Clients are Saying
“She re-told Noreen's story which obviously made a big impact on her. A fantastic outcome from our perspective Paul, she will certainly be making better and more informed, thoughtful choices. Many thanks for the empowerment and skills you have given her.
Miranda Harcourt
“Probably the best training I have been to. Great leaders running the session, very approachable and down to earth. I wouldn't change anything”
Fund Manager Sydney 2019
“I’m going to summarise everything in one word: Fantastic! The course was a brilliant opportunity to consider situations outside our working environment as this has certainly made me more aware in my personal life as well. A really good opportunity professionally and personally.
Caroline - IAG NZ
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Enrol today to get:
The Aggressive Customer + Home Visits - Situational Awareness Course - seven chapters of quality online training content from QRisk Training situational awareness experts.
Bonus One: Free downloadable course e-booklet
Bonus Two: Free downloadable reflection worksheet - for you and your team to debrief the key course takeaways and share ideas to keep you safer and more situationally aware.
Bonus Three: Risk free - Money back if not 100% satisfied (within 7 days).
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Phone: +64 21 2010871
PO Box 301779, Albany 0752
Auckland, New Zealand