Our offerings for Business and other sectors comprise both Learning Events and Facilitations, both of which are designed according to client need.
Learning Events
Here are example topics we have designed to deliver learning across Business and other sectors:
- Thinking as a Skill – Techiques from our toolbox to build thinking capacity and how to apply it.
- Taking Ownership – Developing proactive skills for managers to encourage their teams to take full ownership of projects.
- People and Collaboration – Learning about people and personality: the ways in which they are different, the same, and how to work with that.
- Developing Personal Effectiveness – Frameworks to manage workload and information in complex situations.
- Conflict Resolution – Insights and methods to handle conflict.
- Creative Leadership – Working with creative tools for managing and leading.
- Business Innovation – De-constructing a business model and designing creative moves to innovate.
- Decision Making – Processes and tools to aid problem solving and decision making.
- Advanced Management – Providing elements of an advanced management course covering specific topics.
- Refocus, Reposition, Regroup – A series of 3 sessions for business leaders – Getting organised, innovating, collaborating.
Facilitations
Facilitations are bespoke thinking structures to meet desired outcomes where there is a specific question, challenge or problem situation as the central issue. Below is a sample from a range of such ‘facilitated outcomes’ where we have designed and managed an intentional thinking process to harness the collective expertise of delegates.
Facilitations for Business and Other Sectors
Services include facilitated events for a range of outcomes, such as:
high performing teams
Creating the conditions and building skills to lead high performance teams to deliver a high profile time-critical multimedia programme.
innovation pipeline
Generating a substantial increase in new product development with a four year Roadmap for Action for Senior Product Managers in Manufacturing.
roadmap for collaboration
Identifying the gaps and barriers to successful collaboration between key stakeholders in academic, clinical and industrial settings in the development of novel tests and diagnostics.
leadership strategies
Developing leadership strategies for thinking creatively and managing people in times of disruptive change, using approaches to take advantage of uncertainty and ambiguity.
Replicating best practice
Developing and assessing proposals to replicate best practice for a regional healthcare programme with visible impact to be demonstrated within six months.
information management
Facilitated workshop at annual conference for a national institution for members to address and set the direction for information and data capture needs.
improved product delivery
Getting from “A” to “B”: Improving and progressing the launch and delivery of new products to customers, and refining processes for doing so for a team with longstanding experience.
vision planning
Idea generation and strategy of action for an Arts Festival Board working with a regional programming advisory board to deliver a biennial photographic festival operating as a cultural exchange.
Both Learning Events and Facilitations can be delivered in different engagement formats. See Who we do it for – Business and Other Sectors, for more information about market sectors, and how people responded to what we delivered for them.
seeing what is
Separate observation from evaluation to see clearly.
context
Context has significance, shaping how things evolve.
Values
Values influence decisions, whether we realise it or not.
