Build stronger leaders, more capable teams and better workplaces with practical training designed for New Zealand organisations.
Epic People offers leadership and management training, professional development and personal development courses throughout New Zealand. Choose from scheduled live online courses, in-house workshops for your team, or customised training designed around your workplace.
Whether you’re developing new team leaders, strengthening management capability or helping your people build skills in communication, resilience, time management and more, we’ll help you turn learning into actions people can use back at work.
Leadership and management workplace training courses
Being good at a job doesn’t automatically make someone good at leading people.
Our leadership and management training helps new, emerging and experienced leaders build the skills and confidence they need to lead people well. We focus on the situations managers face every day: setting expectations, giving feedback, managing performance, having difficult conversations, building trust and getting the best from their people.
Our leadership and management courses include:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
Not all workplace development is about becoming a manager.
Our professional development and workplace wellbeing courses help people build skills that make a difference to how they work, communicate and respond to pressure. The emphasis is on understanding what is happening, then developing tools and techniques people can realistically use in their working lives.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Workplace training that works for your organisation
There isn’t one right way to deliver workplace training. The best option depends on who needs development, what you want to achieve and how many people you need to train.
Live online training
Our scheduled live online classrooms make professional workplace training accessible to individuals and organisations throughout New Zealand.
These aren’t self-paced e-learning courses. Participants learn with a facilitator in real time, with opportunities to discuss, ask questions, practise skills and learn from others.
In-house workplace training
Need to develop a group of people at the same time?
Many of our courses can be delivered exclusively for your organisation, either online or in person. In-house delivery also gives us greater opportunity to relate the learning to the situations your people encounter at work.
Customised training
Sometimes an off-the-shelf course isn’t the answer.
We can customise existing programmes or design workplace training around a particular capability, challenge or group of employees. Tell us what you’re trying to achieve and we’ll work with you to determine what your people need to learn — and how to make that learning stick.
Workplace training grounded in real-world experience
Epic People brings together more than 30 years of experience across human resources, learning and development, leadership development and employment relations.
That matters because workplace training shouldn’t exist in a vacuum.
We understand what happens after people leave the training room. Managers go back to busy teams. Employees go back to competing priorities. Good intentions collide with the realities of work.
That’s why our training focuses on turning concepts into behaviours, tools and actions people can actually use. We want participants to leave knowing not just what they should do differently, but how to do it.
Workplace training and leadership development bundles
Maybe you’re combining our training with other leadership development activities, like 360-degree feedback and psychometric assessments. Or you’d like to roll out several courses over six to 12 months. Ask us about a training plan subscription with payments spread out for the duration of your programme.
Workplace training courses FAQ's
What workplace training courses does Epic People offer?
Epic People offers workplace training in leadership and management, employment law, managing poor performance, recruitment and selection, communication, social intelligence, time management, stress management and resilience. We also offer a comprehensive team leader development programme and can customise training for individual organisations.
Who are your workplace training courses designed for?
Our courses are designed for New Zealand workplaces and include training for new and experienced managers, team leaders, supervisors, emerging leaders and employees. Some courses focus specifically on people management, while others build professional skills or support employee wellbeing and resilience.
Do you offer leadership and management training in New Zealand?
Yes. Epic People provides leadership and management training for organisations throughout New Zealand. Courses range from short workshops on specific management skills through to our comprehensive team leader development programme.
Do you offer training for new managers and team leaders?
Yes. Developing new and emerging leaders is one of our specialties. Our training helps team leaders and first-time managers build the practical skills they need to manage people, communicate expectations, give feedback, manage performance and develop confident leadership habits.
Is your workplace training available online?
Yes. Our live online classrooms make workplace training accessible to individuals and organisations throughout New Zealand. Unlike self-paced e-learning, participants join a facilitator and other learners in real time, allowing for discussion, questions and interactive learning.
Can you deliver workplace training in-house?
Yes. Many of our workshops can be delivered exclusively for your organisation, either online or in person. In-house training is particularly useful when you have a group of managers or employees who need to develop the same skills or when you want the learning to relate directly to situations in your workplace.
Can workplace training be customised for our organisation?
Yes. We can adapt many of our existing courses to your workplace, audience and objectives. We can also design customised training when you have a specific capability or development need that isn’t covered by an existing course.
Do you offer workplace training for small businesses?
Yes. Epic People specialises in working with small and medium-sized New Zealand organisations. You don’t need a large learning and development budget or an internal L&D team to provide your people with quality training and development.
What is the difference between leadership training and management training?
Management training generally focuses on the skills needed to manage work and people effectively, such as setting expectations, managing performance, giving feedback and handling difficult situations.
Leadership development goes further by building the behaviours, self-awareness and interpersonal skills that help someone influence, motivate and develop others. Effective people leaders need both.
How much does workplace training cost?
The cost depends on the course, delivery format and number of participants. You can book individual scheduled courses, arrange training exclusively for your organisation, or talk to us about an ongoing workplace training plan if you want to provide regular development opportunities for your people.
Do you offer affordable workplace training for small teams?
Yes. Live online courses allow businesses to book individual employees without having to pay for an entire in-house workshop. We also offer workplace training plans for organisations that want to provide ongoing learning and development with predictable monthly costs.
How do I choose the right workplace training for my team?
Start with the capability or workplace problem you want to address. You might need to build the confidence of new managers, improve performance conversations, strengthen communication, develop resilience or give employees better tools for managing workload and stress.
If you’re not sure which course will best address the issue, talk to us about what’s happening in your workplace and we can recommend an appropriate training option.
Can your training be delivered as one to one sessions?
Yes they can! Not everyone wants to be in a classroom with others; or maybe you need the training before one of our scheduled courses. We’re happy to run training one on one, and can even customise the content for you. Our team leader training programme is a great example of a programme that we can deliver one on one.
Ready to build the skills your workplace needs?
Not sure which is the right course for your people?
Tell us what’s happening in your workplace, who you want to develop and what you’d like them to be able to do differently. We’ll help you work out the right training approach.
