Who We Are. What We Do
We are passionate Learning and Development professionals who specialise in Leadership & Management and Personal Development.
We work with consultants who have over 15 years’ experience working in both public and private sectors, across all levels of business.
Our team will work in partnership with you to understand your specific needs so together we can identify the most appropriate learning solutions for you.
Solutions that build the skills and confidence of your potential and existing Leaders and Managers, to develop their performance and behaviours, to deliver your business results.
Our Main Services
Leadership & Management
We will work with you across all aspects of the Learning Cycle, from understanding your needs, to designing and delivering the most appropriate learning solutions, to evaluating the return on your investment.
For your Potential and Existing Managers, we can offer you the following:
- ILM Qualifications
- CMI Qualifications
- ILM Endorsed or Development Programmes
- Non accredited, bespoke Management Development Programmes
Personal Development
You may also want to help individuals with their Personal Development. We can design & deliver one day Personal Development workshops to meet your needs.
The list below provides examples of workshops that we typically run. However, this list is not exhaustive so if you don’t see the topic on the list, please get in touch so we can discuss your specific requirements.
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For people who want/need some simple yet effective tools and techniques to improve their personal effectiveness, to make better use of their time.
Content:
- Creating habits to change behaviour Including:
- To Do Lists
- Setting personal goals
- Prioritising your workload
- Planning and organising your day
- Avoiding procrastination
- Managing Distractions
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For Existing Managers who require strategies for managing the performance of individuals on their team.
Content:
- Setting SMART targets
- Having “Courageous Conversations”
- Giving effective feedback
- Identifying Performance types & how to deal with them
- Assessing performance
- Understanding organisations own policies & procedures relating to Performance Management
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For Managers who are required to lead and manage their team through change
Content:
- Defining change
- Why change happens
- 3 types of change
- Communicating change
- Reactions to change
- Change roles
- Motivating people through change
Duration: 1 or 2 days
Audience:For people who have had little or no experience in Designing & Delivering presentations
Content:
- Designing a presentation
- Getting your message across
- Delivering with impact
- Managing nerves
Note:
1 day version has limited time for practical activity.
2 day version gives learners the opportunity to design and then deliver a 15 min presentation
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For people who have to identify and solve problems in the workplace.
Content:
- Seven Step Problem Solving Process
- Identifying Problems
- Investigating Problems
- Generating & Exploring options
- Developing preferred options
- Decision making tools to find the “best” solution
- Planning to implement the solution
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For Managers (with or without their Team) to who want to help their team become more effective at working together.
Content:
- Difference between a Team & a Group
- What makes an Effective Team?
- Team Health Review
- Tuckman’s stages of Team Development
- Belbin Team Types
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For Managers who need to increase team productivity and engagement
Content:
- Why Motivation is important
- Benefits of Motivation
- 6 Principles of Motivation
- Recognised Motivational theories
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For anyone who wants to improve their Delegation skills
Content:
- What is Delegation?
- The difference between Leadership & Development Delegation
- Stages of Delegation
- What not to delegate
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For anyone who wants to understand what Emotional Intelligence is and how it can benefit working relationships.
Content:
- What is EI?
- Difference between EI & IQ
- Understand how your brain works
- 4 Dimensions of EI
- Behavioural Cycle
- Benefits of EI
- Assessment & Action Planning
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For anyone who is required to interview others. EG Recruitment, Appraisals, Disciplinary
Content:
- Effective Questioning & Listening skills
- Giving Feedback
- Empathy v’s Sympathy
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For those who need to improve their own interview skills in relation to recruitment/promotion
Content:
- Good v’s Bad Interview
- Interview Process
- Preparing for Interview
- Interview questions
- Elevator Speech
- The Interview itself
- Post Interview
- Do’s and Don’ts
- Practical Activity
Duration: 1 day
Audience: For anyone needing to improve their facilitation skills. EG Managers, Trainers, Coaches
Content:
- What is Facilitation?
- 7 Facilitation styles
- 4 effective Facilitation techniques
- Practical Activity
Workplace Wellbeing
This isn’t just about improving absence rates! It’s about looking after our people and creating a place to work which lets them flourish and achieve their potential for their benefit and the benefit of the business. A happy workforce is a productive workforce!
We can work with you to create a Wellbeing strategy which looks holistically across the business to identify areas for improvement. This can be as simple as designing and delivering specific Workshops to encourage a sense of Wellbeing in the Workplace.
Examples could include, but is not limited to the following:
- Developing Personal Resilience
- Identifying and Managing Stress
- Personal Safety (Lone Working)
- Mental Health Awareness for Managers
- Mental Health First Aid Training
Get in touch to discuss your specific needs.
Consultancy Services
From time to time you may have a bigger Learning & Development Project and you do not have the time and/or the expertise in-house.
We can use our experience of working on a number of Learning & Development Projects across a range of different companies, freeing you up to continue with business as usual.
The following list provides details of some of the L&D projects we have worked on with companies:
- Investors in People Recognition
- ILM/CMI Approval
- Design & Delivery of Bespoke Leadership & Management Programmes
- Design and implementation of Competency Framework
- Design and Implementation of Performance Development Framework
- Design and implementation of Employee Induction Programme
- Introduction of Mentoring Programme
- 1-2-1 Exec Coaching (Leadership & Management)
Again, the above are examples but if you have a specific requirement that is not listed above.
