Our offerings for Business and comprise both Facilitations and Learning Events, both of which are designed according to client need.
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
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.
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.
roadmap for collaboration
Identifying the gaps and barriers to successful collaboration between key stakeholders across industrial, clinical and research settings in the development of novel tests and diagnostics.
New team cohesion
Bringing new software engineering teams together to build interpersonal, conflict resolution and collaborative working capacities and gain clarity about processes for developing a new programme.
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.
business priorities
Facilitating a session for media content proposals pitched to a senior management team, with resulting ideas mapped for collective evaluation and review. Visioning of success and devising a coherent strategy to determine priorities going forward.
refreshing perspectives
Facilitating events for business owners to gain fresh perspectives on their business, energise their thinking and reimagine the value they offer to their customers using insights from business modelling, neuroscience and thinking for the purpose of taking action.
Learning Events
Here are example topics we have designed to deliver learning events for business:
- 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.
Both Learning Events and Facilitations can be delivered in different engagement formats. See Who we do it for – Business 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.
