Great organisations need great people working in them, doing great things. Making this happen is not about magic solutions or about huge bonus payments. People work well for organisations that treat them like people by:

 

  • Listening to their ideas for improvements
  • Supporting them to develop new skills
  • Encouraging them to perform better 

 

It sounds simple and the skills to do this are often called "soft skills". You probably know how hard these skills really are to develop properly in any organisation. Off the shelf training can be a starting point but you probably are finding that you need more than just a great training course to make that change happen.

Well designed in-house programmes will make a difference to your managers and in-house training teams so that great things happen. 
 
Influencing Your Team

You want to get the best from your team, you know that shouting at them won't work, you have tried some different ways to engage them but it is a bit of a hit and miss business. Picking up some great influencing and coaching tools will mean you can adapt your management style to the needs of your team. The types of topics you could select include:

 

  • How to coach your team to do the stuff you need them to do
  • How to motivate your team when you can't pay them anymore
  • How to get your meetings to start and finish on time with some kind of useful outcome.

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Developing Training Skills

If you are a subject expert or an in house trainer you will be looking for ways to engage with your audience more so that your training events result in changes once people return to their workplaces. We provide one to one support or group training for subject experts and trainers to develop skills in 

  • training design
  • creating interactive delivery for even boring topics
  • facilitation skills to handle challenging conversations and discussions.

 

 
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Reviewing Strategy

Some commentators are describing the downturn in the UK as a "W" and we are about to go down the next v. Ian Pearson from Fast Futures uses the term "Loch Ness Monster Downturn" - uneven peaks and troughs emerging with little warning.

What is clear is that you cannot afford to bury your head in the sand and hope for the upturn, effective organisations are creatively planning responses now.

Management Strategy Meetings give you a chance to step back, identify your challenges and assess ways forward.  By using a structured approach you can make best use of this time together, we will create a clear route map and structure so that everyone can share ideas, identify options and agree on solutions as a team.

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