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Team Building - Making It Happen With Your Team
1 hour - 3 days, for your team
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These popular sessions build the personal confidence of each individual and a collective confidence between colleagues so that you can achieve outstanding results in enjoyable and productive ways. The programme enables you to:
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It also serves as a rewarding time-out for stressed and potentially overworked staff, a chance to revitalise and think through what you are aiming to achieve together.
We design custom team development days and programmes with a Solutions-Focused mix of team-building and team strategy.
Future Focus Project
When budgetary constraints and policy differences threatened to destroy a child protection unit in a social services department, our SF teambuilding session transformed their team spirit.
They realised that with a few small changes entirely within their control, they could harness their resources to revitalise the way they worked together and with their clients.
When budgetary constraints and policy differences threatened to destroy a child protection unit in a social services department, our SF teambuilding session transformed their team spirit.
They realised that with a few small changes entirely within their control, they could harness their resources to revitalise the way they worked together and with their clients.
From Difficult To Constructive Conversations
2 days, for managers and staff
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We all experience difficult discussions from time to time. Whether it is with our clients, our colleagues, our bosses, we want to get the best out of our conversations. And sometimes we have to deal with conflict – and do our best to prevent it escalating, so we can resolve it with the best outcomes for both the agreement and for our relationships. During this intensive and practical two-day training, you will learn to:
Want to find out more? Here's our blog post in which we offer you ten tips for improving performance conversations. Back to Training Menu Back to Top |
Remember a time when you were sure you were right and then discovered one little fact that changed everything. There is always more to learn." Douglas Stone |
Leading Change through Powerful Conversations
5 days, over 4 months
Conversation is the fundamental unit of change, if you change the conversation you change everything that surrounds it’
How many conversations do you have a day? That’s how many opportunities you have to facilitate successful change in your organisation.
Whether it’s a 5-minute corridor conversation with colleagues, a tricky performance review, a coaching session or sales call, these dialogues can prove significant. With this programme, you can develops leaders’ and professionals’ communication and coaching skills for any occasion.
Participants learn how to improve their conversations so that they can transform results with immediately-applicable pragmatic techniques.
Join us for the latest developments in coaching and leadership. This innovative programme consists of 5 days of workshops over a 4-month period, with all participants working on and presenting a work-related change project. On the final day, everyone reveals their measurable outputs.
Organisations around the world have seen tangible, significant and swift change, including Barking & Dagenham College, John Laing, Reading Borough Council and DP World
Read this case study to find out how Brian Thomson, Head of IT from DP World Southampton used knowledge and skills from this programme to tackle a huge systems challenge.
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Conversation is the fundamental unit of change, if you change the conversation you change everything that surrounds it’
How many conversations do you have a day? That’s how many opportunities you have to facilitate successful change in your organisation.
Whether it’s a 5-minute corridor conversation with colleagues, a tricky performance review, a coaching session or sales call, these dialogues can prove significant. With this programme, you can develops leaders’ and professionals’ communication and coaching skills for any occasion.
Participants learn how to improve their conversations so that they can transform results with immediately-applicable pragmatic techniques.
Join us for the latest developments in coaching and leadership. This innovative programme consists of 5 days of workshops over a 4-month period, with all participants working on and presenting a work-related change project. On the final day, everyone reveals their measurable outputs.
Organisations around the world have seen tangible, significant and swift change, including Barking & Dagenham College, John Laing, Reading Borough Council and DP World
Read this case study to find out how Brian Thomson, Head of IT from DP World Southampton used knowledge and skills from this programme to tackle a huge systems challenge.
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Leadership Development with a Solutions Focus
Customised, for leaders and managers
We design bespoke and fully comprehensive leadership programmes for your people.
By the end of the programme your leaders will be able to:
We work with you to identify the core leadership skills and competencies you want.
We design bespoke and fully comprehensive leadership programmes for your people.
By the end of the programme your leaders will be able to:
- Maximise their potential
- Optimise their personal and professional performance in the workplace
- Learn new skills and put them into practice in everyday working life to meet business objectives
We work with you to identify the core leadership skills and competencies you want.
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Your customised programme covers:
Participants deliver a work-based project, demonstrating qualitative and quantitative results they have achieved during the programme and from applying their learnings in the workplace. These programmes typically run over a number of months and are supported by coaching and action learning sets. |
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Future Focus Project
Beiersdorf HR people were scattered around the world, and they desperately needed to get together as a team, with a fresh focus and a new start. The big idea: to become genuine strategic partners within the business.
With a series of training programmes and workshops for the HR team, they established collective goals, new ways of sharing success stories and are using SF tools to build credibility and take a lead in communications throughout the organisation.
Beiersdorf HR people were scattered around the world, and they desperately needed to get together as a team, with a fresh focus and a new start. The big idea: to become genuine strategic partners within the business.
With a series of training programmes and workshops for the HR team, they established collective goals, new ways of sharing success stories and are using SF tools to build credibility and take a lead in communications throughout the organisation.
Manager As Coach
Customised, for coaches, in-house coaches, and managers
Executives and managers too often fail to get the best from their staff. They don't have much spare time and are looking for something fast, effective and guaranteed. They know they need better results and are astute enough to appreciate that coaching may be the answer.
We offer coach development programmes for organisations who wish to develop their own internal bank of coaches. These incorporate skills development workshops, one-to-one coaching and supervision.
From attending this programme you will:
- Learn to use an effective and adaptable coaching model that can be used both explicitly and implicitly to enhance performance
- Take away instantly usable conversational tools to use in a wide variety of managerial situations
- Be ready to share know-how and get the message across in a way that is heard and acted on
- Further develop coaching and communication skills including those of listening and asking powerful questions
- Develop ways to build renewed motivation through feedback and other techniques
- Have timely and constructive performance conversations that lead to improvement in performance
- Find the key actions to drive performance
- Be introduced to the solutions focused (SF) approach and principles
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Our Manager as Coach programmes range from a two-day skills workshop to more comprehensive culture change programmes, which can be supported by coaching and action learning sets. The programmes also serves those who want fully-developed coaches for sustained in-house coaching. With coaching courses and supporting activities, you will see a rapid increase in quality work throughout the organisation. Read how John Laing Integrated Services achieved impressive, sustainable results by embedding a coaching culture. |
Cathy Walsh - Vice Principal, Curriculum and Learner Experience, The College of North East London |
Masterclasses
Customised for coaches, leaders, and managers
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If you have a specialist group of coaches, leaders or managers who want a more in-depth and practical exposure to any aspect of solutions-focused working, then a masterclass can be an inspirational and economical way forward. Contact us to let us know the size, needs and availability of your group, and we'll prepare an event to add huge value to your projects and to the development of your people's skills. Back to Training Menu Back to Top |
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Productive Meetings
1 day, for managers
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Use the SF approach to transform meetings from frustrating talking shops to a constructive use of your attendees' valuable time. In this one-day programme, you will learn:
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#TopTip: Not everyone needs to be at the meeting for the whole time. Invite people to attend only the part of the meeting when they’ll be adding value.
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What Works Well Programme
3 days or online webinars, for coaches, leaders, managers, staff, trainers
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Engagement, Performance, and Resilience The biggest challenge facing today's organisations is to raise performance by bringing the best out of people. This means retaining talent and engaging your staff in uncertain times. Success depends on more constructive conversations. With people under pressure to deliver, every conversation counts. Whether those conversations are inspired by leaders, managers or coaches, the positive and pragmatic flavour of Solutions Focus will make a significant difference to your results. Our new programme explores what business leaders can do to enhance Engagement, develop Resilience and drive Performance. This will equip participants with skills to deploy instantly to make the most of every conversation - however tricky or difficult they may be. Each stands alone, and they build into a complete programme. Scroll down or click on the buttons for more information on each of them. |
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Building Resilience - personal and team resilience for future success
1 day, for coaches, leaders, managers, staff, trainers
These are tough times in which many people are scared of losing their jobs, facing the uncertainties of restructures, against a backdrop of continuing budget cuts.
Resilience is all about getting yourself ready to meet the world in a resourceful state, so that you are mentally and emotionally equipped to deal with whatever comes your way.
During this interactive and engaging one-day workshop you will learn how to:
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Resilience Open Course: 29 June 2017To celebrate the publishing of our most recent book, the Resilience Pocketbook, we offered a 1-day Resilience Open Course on 29 June 2017. In particular, we explored the four dimensions of resilience: mental, physical, emotional and social, providing a range of immediately usable tips and tools for each. Remember, the Resilience workshop is part of the complete 'What Works Well' package, which includes Increasing Engagement and Raising Performance workshops. Back to Training Menu Back to Top |
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Increasing Engagement - unleashing the discretionary efforts of your people
1 day, for coaches, leaders, managers, staff, trainers
The CBI says engagement is the number one issue for its member companies. And that is no surprise. Engagement leads to improved personal performance. Better personal performance leads to improved organisational performance. And improved organisational performance equals results.
The CBI says engagement is the number one issue for its member companies. And that is no surprise. Engagement leads to improved personal performance. Better personal performance leads to improved organisational performance. And improved organisational performance equals results.
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You will learn:
SF tools and techniques to discover:
Participants describe this course as “fun, practical and dynamic”, relishing “a wonderful, supportive atmosphere”, appreciating “trainers who live the work”. One said, “I'm leaving with a new set of skills that I can begin to implement straight away” |
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Remember, the Increasing Engagement workshop is part of the complete 'What Works Well' Programme, which includes Building Resilience and Raising Performance workshops.
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Remember, the Increasing Engagement workshop is part of the complete 'What Works Well' Programme, which includes Building Resilience and Raising Performance workshops.
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Raising Performance – From tricky to constructive performance conversations
1 day, for coaches, leaders, managers, staff, trainers
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The performance conversation or appraisal is an integral part of management, and many organisations rely on this process for making decisions about staffing, defining training needs, providing feedback and setting the direction for future performance. Yet research shows that many people leave performance conversations less motivated than when they went into them. In this experiential and engaging workshop you will discover how to turn performance conversations around, so that they motivate, clarify and inspire your staff, enabling the manager to bring out the best from each member of the team. |
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Participants learn how to
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Future Focus Project
One of Britain’s major banks has redesigned its entire performance management system using SF principles.
Staff and managers are now looking forward to appraisal meetings that make significant positive differences to individual performance through an elegantly-designed constructive conversation.
One of Britain’s major banks has redesigned its entire performance management system using SF principles.
Staff and managers are now looking forward to appraisal meetings that make significant positive differences to individual performance through an elegantly-designed constructive conversation.
Contact us to arrange a one day stand-alone workshop or our popular three-day ‘What Works Well' Programme which also includes the two days of Increasing Engagement and Building Resilience.
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Contact us to organise in-house training to introduce SF ideas to your organisation.