Many organisations are now committed to promoting volunteering amongst their employees. We enable organisations to increase the value from these projects.

We do this by establishing ways that the learning from these valuable community based experiences can be translated back into the organisation. We have designed the strategy for employee volunteering for a major university, run awareness raising with volunteers about the transferable skills they have developed and have enabled employees to develop their management skills back in the workplace.

We have recently developed a workbook and team leaders toolkit for a project involving volunteering in six continents of the world.

An article based on our work has been published in an international journal  "Using employee volunteering programs to develop leadership skills" Development and Learning in Organisations vol 21, no1 2007 www.emeraldinsight.com/dlo.htm

"the planning session really helped me to think about how to get the project off the ground and the follow up review identified the learning points afforded by the project"

Mairi Louise Gobbi, Eversheds LLP

Dick Downing, Business in the Community

Individual Learning Programmes

One of our long term projects has been with a medium sized call centre in the legal sector. Each of the 16 managers in the centre have been working with us on an individual basis to identify what they need to do to improve their own performance and the performance of their team. Part of the success of the project has been providing participants with support to find resources to increase their awareness through books, magazine articles or internet sites.

We have developed material for a US owned company to use in its UK operations to support managers in managing the performance of their employees. Some of the topics covered include:

• Setting Expectations/Goals
• Coaching/Training
• Conducting Performance Reviews
• Giving Feedback