• UK’s leading conflict resolution and managing challenging behaviour training specialist

    IKON Training believes in a world where every individual has the right to feel safe and confident in their place of work.

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  • Empowering people together

    By empowering people across a range of industries to feel safer and more confident, and providing them with the skills to manage conflict – IKON is helping to create a more positive and productive workplace, and ultimately, a better community for everyone.

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    The impact of our work equips our clients with valuable knowledge and empowers them with the skills that help them reduce and manage challenges confidently.

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  • Training delivered in the ways that work best for you

    With a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities businesses face in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing landscape, our team continue to guide and empower, one life-changing training program at a time.

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    Sector-specific training

    IKON Training exists to make a positive impact on the lives of people in frontline roles – those who are often faced with challenging behaviour in the workplace.

    Our skill in helping people learn to manage challenging behaviour in the workplace has made us one of the leading conflict resolution and conflict management specialist training providers in the UK.

    The high quality of IKON Training’s conflict resolution courses is renowned across the sectors in which we work: Education and Further Learning, Facilities Retail and Leisure, Health and Social Care, Local Authority and Housing, NHS, and Transport.

    We work with more than 80 NHS Trusts and healthcare providers, for example, and are the approved Children’s Services supplier for Suffolk County Council.

     

     

    Trusted & Certified

    IKON Training services have been certified by the BILD Association of Certified Training as complying with the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards. IKON is recognised by the Institute of Conflict Management (ICM) as a Quality Award Centre. The ICM sets the standards in the delivery of conflict management training. All our courses are nationally accredited. IKON Training have cyber essentials certification.

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    It’s the IKON way

    Feeling safe and confident at work has never been more important. Our skill in helping people learn to manage challenging behaviour in the workplace has made us one of the UK’s leading conflict resolution and conflict management specialist training providers.

    We are committed to supporting your people to learn and perform at their best wherever they are.

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    Recent IKON insights

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    Delivery methods

    IKON Live,
    live online training

    Our effective remote communications training enables your people to get the training they need wherever they are, with a dedicated live IKON trainer.

    Face-to-face
    training

    Many of our courses, especially those with physical skills, can be delivered in a face-to-face in-person training environment, either at your venue or ours.

    Train the
    trainer

    IKON’s train the trainer service enables your team to deliver empowering motivational and insightful training that builds confidence and trust with their colleagues.

    Empowering People Together

    The impact of our work equips our clients with valuable knowledge and empowers them with the skills that help them reduce and manage challenges confidently. We do this through:

    – Sector-specialist trainers employed by us

    – Modular courses tailored to your needs

    – Preparation for and support through inspections

    – Comprehensive audit trails

    – Thorough post-course reports

    – Regular professional feedback and advice

    – Next-stage recommendations

    Find out more about us

    Watch the team discuss the features of our IKON Live, live online training platform.

    We listen to our clients

    • Fantastic course, really helpful, the trainers had so much experience in this field, they could answer and queries we had. Really enjoyed it, thank you.

      Course delegate,
      Suffolk County Council

    • Very informative and fun way to learn, good balance of theory and practical demonstrating effective practices to safeguard myself my patients and their families and friends.

      Marie Curie

    • Merseyrail has been working for IKON for almost ten years. IKON has developed programmes around conflict resolution and Travelsafe. Their delivery methods, adaptability, professionalism and knowledge in this area has allowed us to achieve our lowest passenger accident rate ever.

      Daniel Dale,
      Competency Training Manager, Merseyrail

    • ... the professionalism, the experience and the knowledge shown by IKON Training was first class. They understood our needs and promptly developed a programme of training which we rolled out to over 120 hospital-based staff.

      Colchester Provide CIC

    • Great trainer, humorous, attentive, knowledgeable, great pace. Learnt a lot. Good to refresh sections after each task. Practical was excellent too. Very, very good indeed!

      Plymouth City Council

    • Very good course/trainers. Best training of this kind I have been on. Very enjoyable, very interactive & engaging.

      J Potsford, Potsford Care Services

    • Thank you, a wonderfully engaging course. Will be sending my engineers soon with confidence that they will learn a lot from it.

      Grosvenor Facilities Management

    • The course was great fun and very informative, would highly recommend.

      Merseyrail Transport

    • Thank you. Best training we’ve had delivered.

      Suffolk One

    • I have worked in the NHS for over 20 years and this was hands down the best conflict resolution training I have had. Thank you.

      King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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      Michalis Filippou
      Michalis Filippou
      2024-01-16
      Tim was really helpful in keeping us calm and relaxed and allowed us to deliver the training while only adding in when he felt his experience would be helpful. In doing so he provided us with tools to handle difficult questions in the future.
      Adebowale Shittu
      Adebowale Shittu
      2024-01-04
      Excellent training. Keep up the work
      Nicholas Denney
      Nicholas Denney
      2023-12-23
      Clear and useful training. I will remember what I have learnt and utilise when necessary. Most of what I learnt I will use daily, even outside work.
      Gemma Coady
      Gemma Coady
      2023-12-20
      Great training day, very reflective and interactive. Thank you
      Damian Humphreys
      Damian Humphreys
      2023-12-20
      The training was delivered in a professional and informative way and relevant to my role. The trainer had direct experience and knowledge of the course subject and I would recommend this training.
      Lorna Worsley
      Lorna Worsley
      2023-12-19
      I found this training incredibly informative and very empowering, I know the ED nurses I trained with did also. The trainer was really fun & engaging and I would totally recommend this to anyone and everyone.
      Yanna Ros
      Yanna Ros
      2023-12-15
      All in all good. Informative in terms of law and policies. I think just needed more practical scenarios for us to practice more techniques.
      Tracey White
      Tracey White
      2023-12-11
      The course was presented well by Kev and was also fun to do.
      Britney Thraves
      Britney Thraves
      2023-12-08
      Very good training and had alot of fun doing it. Extremely important training

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