open programmes

Outdoor Facilitation

Dates TBC

A highly interactive, informal, indoor and outdoor three-day learning experience for facilitators who want to stand out from the crowd. The programme is personalised according to the needs of the participants as it includes a pre-programme chat about personal learning objectives with the lead trainer. It also includes a comprehensive workbook and post-programme e-mail support.

The programme will enable you to:

• Understand the role of the outdoors in learning, its background, benefits and limitations
• Design effective experience-based learning experiences that surpass learning outcomes
• Run learning events effectively and manage group processes
• Review experiences actively and creatively and ensure that learning is transferred
• Follow up learning programmes effectively to maximise business impact

A highly experiential event, the programme will involve participating in a variety of exercises (high and low), games, debates, discussions, reviews and interactive theory sessions. It also involves opportunities to facilitate outdoors!

£795 + vat

(excluding accommodation)

Coaching in the workplace

TBC

A two-day coaching programme for team leaders and managers in association with coach Julie Kay which enables course participants to develop their practical coaching skills through participating in active projects, applying theory, taking part in facilitated reviews and giving and receiving feedback.

The programme will enable you to:

• Understand what coaching is and how it can lead to more effective interactions in the workplace.
• Recognise the value of coaching in enhancing performance.
• Understand the coaching process, styles and theories.
• Develop key coaching skills - active listening, strategic questioning, problem solving, goal setting and giving and receiving feedback.
• Practice coaching by taking part in practical projects and reviews.

This programme is highly interactive, and fun and uses an accelerated learning approach. It provides ample opportunity for participants to explore coaching in the workplace, practice coaching skills and relate what they are learning to their own organisational contexts.

£495 + VAT

(excluding accommodation)

The Leadership Challenge
TBC
A two and a half day programme for leaders who need to anticipate change and create a clear vision for the future, through the development of an understanding of their personal style and the impact it has on other people in various situations.
During the programme you will have the opportunity to…
 

• Appreciate the difference between leadership and management
• Understand the key challenges of leadership
• Practise leading teams and receive focused feedback
• Develop inter-personal skills
• Plan for future development of your inter-personal and leadership skills
• Have a fun, memorable and inspiring experience

 
The programme is highly experiential, combining theory and comprehensive notes with outdoor exercises linked closely to content. For example, as part of ‘inspire a shared vision’, participants develop a vision presentation about the future of their team on which they are given feedback by other leaders and the course tutors. To practise ‘enabling others to act’, the leaders take part in a complex project in which they have to assign responsibility to team members for tasks as diverse as making up words from wooden letters, balancing on diverging wires and climbing a 30 foot telegraph pole – all according to their individual talents!

£650 + vat
(excluding accommodation)

Reviewing skills and tools for trainers

Dates TBC.

This two-day workshop, with Dr Roger Greenaway, is especially for trainers who want to develop reviewing techniques that are as engaging, active and creative as their training activities.

Discover how to:

• Fire up the process of experiential learning
• Keep reviews alive and moving
• Deal with resistances to learning
• Use reviewing to accelerate group development
• Achieve specific objectives
• Develop your skills
• Raise the quality of communication within a group

You will be able to try out a stimulating range of reviewing methods using natural objects, visual aids, stories, replays and other techniques drawn from the creative arts, drama, counselling and group work. This workshop will extend your toolkit and develop your skills in using these versatile reviewing tools - book now!

£495+ VAT

(excluding accommodation)

How to Transfer Learning

TBC

A two-day programme led by Dr Roger Greenaway. This workshop is well supported by recent theories about the transfer of learning, but the priority is a practical one - to develop and extend your reviewing toolkit. It is about how to add to the impact of experience-based learning - so that both the experiences and the learning will live on after the event. You will discover what you can do throughout training events to ensure that they have a longer-term impact.

£495 + VAT

(excluding accommodation)