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Epic workplaces provide epic training

Our workplace training is about more than just learning new skills—it’s about helping people feel inspired, capable, and excited to grow. When leaders and staff are given the chance to keep developing, they don’t just perform better in their roles, they bring more energy, creativity, and commitment to the whole workplace.

Leadership development and management training creates high-performing teams where everyone contributes and grows and builds confidence to guide others through change.

Personal and professional development empowers individuals to step into new challenges with a sense of purpose.

Learning and development is also one of the biggest drivers of employee engagement. When workplace training is provided in abundance, people know their growth matters. They feel valued and motivated, and that ripple effect creates stronger teams, better collaboration, and a culture where people truly want to be.

Social intelligence training facilitates the building of mutual trust and respect across your organisation and with customers and clients. It helps your salespeople to close more deals.

Epic workplaces aren’t built by chance. They’re built by people who are supported to learn, to try, and to thrive. With the right workplace training, every person has the chance to shine. And when your people shine, your whole workplace becomes something extraordinary.

Leadership and management workplace training courses

Effective people management is at the heart of every successful workplace. The right workplace training gives team leaders and managers the skills, confidence, and mindset to guide their teams, set clear expectations, and create an environment where people can do their best work.

Our leadership development workplace training helps emerging and experienced leaders alike to motivate their teams and reach new heights of performance. Investing in this type of workplace training doesn’t just improve performance—it builds trust, strengthens engagement, and helps people feel seen, supported, and valued.

Teams led by skilled managers are more resilient, collaborative, and committed, which directly impacts the success of the whole organisation. By equipping leaders and managers with the tools to guide, develop, and energise their people, businesses create a culture of growth, accountability, and achievement. Leadership and management workplace training isn’t just about doing better—it’s about helping people reach their potential, building teams that thrive, and shaping workplaces where everyone can contribute, succeed, and feel proud of what they achieve together.

Our leadership and management courses include:

  • Team leader development program: team leader training that is an 8-week program, with 2×75 minute online classrooms per week. Builds the essential skills of being a team leader.
  • A week in the life of a team leader: a customised, in-house training program for groups of team leaders who all work in the same department. Simulates a chaotic workweek and builds consensus on how different situations are managed in the workplace.
  • Employment law essentials for managers and small business owners: ensuring that the way you manage different situations is compliant with NZ employment law. In this course we de-risk and de-complicate employment law compliance.
  • Social intelligence: Observing people to understand what makes them tick, and making small adjustments to the way you interact with others is a powerful skill. Navigate relationships within and outside your workplace, building trust, respect, and influence.
  • Managing poor performance: This training is designed to give managers the tools, confidence, and practical steps they need to handle poor performance effectively, fairly, and consistently.
  • Recruitment and selection skills: make the right hire, the first time. Learn how to run a stellar recruitment process, right from thinking about the job itself, writing a robust position description, designing the right interview questions, running the best possible interview and selection process, and letting unsuccessful candidates down with dignity.

Personal and professional development

You are epic. You might not always feel it, but we know that within you there is an epic human being. 

To be truly epic, we all need to feel our best. At Epic People, we help you to be the best version of yourself. We help you to prioritize wellbeing in your workplace, equipping your team with tools to handle life’s challenges and build resilience. 

Our workplace training courses include

  • Stress management: Helping your people stay calm and focused under pressure. Understanding stressors and individual responses to stress; building a personalised toolkit to manage stress ‘in the moment’ and build the skills for self-care and recovery.
  • Time management: Empowering teams to make the most of their day. Getting more done in less time. Learners walk away with a customised time management toolkit that considers their needs and the features of their job.
  • Resilience: Building the inner strength to bounce back from setbacks. Learn the science of resilience, and the relationship with a growth mindset and change agility.
  • Communication skills: cutting through the concept of ‘noise’ and why messages sent and received are misunderstood. Build skills like active listening, effective questioning, and writing in a concise way that ensures your message is impactful and received as intended.

Need some special care and attention? Maybe coaching is what you need. Find out more here.

Time management training and coaching

One of the contributors to low resilience and burnout is the feeling of not being in control, especially when there is a high workload. Everyone seems to be short staffed at the moment, and so if you or your staff are feeling overwhelmed then it might be time to stop, take a breath, and put in place some robust time management systems and disciplines to help cope with what’s in front of you. 

We believe that all employee wellbeing programs should include time management training. If you’re a business owner or a senior manager with too much to do or too little time, then you may benefit from some one on one time management coaching.

We offer group workshops (in-house or virtual classroom) and one-on-one coaching for time management and productivity.  

What are you waiting for? Time is of the essence! Find out more here.

Workshop cost $400+GST / online classroom / 9am to 2.30pm with breaks.

Stress management training

Stress comes from all around us. Workloads, difficult customers, deadlines, competing demands … then add the non-work stressors and you have the perfect storm for a health crisis. 

As an employer, you have obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act, to ensure that you have a safe working environment, and this includes managing psychological hazards, ie stress. It’s not always possible to eliminate stressors. But what you can do, is give your employees the tools and techniques to manage their stress and lead them to better wellbeing outcomes. 

Find out more about our stress management workshop, “Thriving in Stressful Times” here.

Workshop cost $400+GST / online classroom / 9am to 3pm with breaks.

Resilience workshops

Life happens. Things come at us out of the blue and they usually come in the form of some kind or challenge or major change that we did not anticipate. How do you come through these life and work challenges, a happy, healthy person? Why is it, that faced with the same challenge, two people may react very differently, with one coming through healthy and happy, and the other lost and depressed?

Our workshop gets to the heart of what makes you resilient, homing in on change agility and growth mindset. We take the science of resilience: personality and psychological factors, and combine that with techniques from positive psychology, to create a customised resilience-building plan, unique to each learner.

Spoiler alert: participants will also boost your self-esteem, self-efficacy, optimism, and feelings of positivity in the process!

Find out more about our Unlocking Your Superpowers workshop here.

Workshop cost $375+GST / online classroom / 9am to 1pm with breaks.