Your time and money is limited and valuable. You want results from your investment in training. We help you do this. We get people to focus on improving their performance, taking action and implementing ideas rather than just ‘coming on a course’. The workshop is only part of the development. There are activities before and after the workshop to help your people get the most from it. There are four key stages:

1. Analysis and planning: We begin by establishing: What do you want to achieve? Why? What differences do you want to see? Where possible, we turn the development into a project with clear goals and timescales.
   
2. The Workshop: Gives people ideas, information, enthusiasm and motivation. The workshop ends with people describing what they have learned and what their plan is for applying the learning and getting results back at work.
   
3. Implementation: Back at work, people are given time to apply what they learned, take action, learn from its success (or otherwise) continue to practice and refine any new skills or approaches, and get some positive results.
   
4. Review: Once people have had an opportunity to apply and practise what they have learned, the group get back together and discuss what they have done, what they have learned and what they will do to further consolidate and extend the progress they have made. This session gives people a chance to recognize and take confidence from what they have learned, to ask questions, and to learn from what their peers have done. Knowing that this session is part of the development also creates a different mindset from the outset, encouraging people engage fully and to take it seriously, particularly if senior colleagues attend the review session, to hear what people have done with the opportunity.

We encourage the delegate to take primary responsibility for ensuring they set objectives, learn effectively, take action, and review, and learn from, the outcomes. We also encourage the delegate’s manager to be actively involved. He/she is vital in helping shape the objectives, and helping the delegate make space and time for practice, and providing guidance and support during implementation.

This approach increases:

• Focus
• Relevance
• Commitment
• Action
• Skills development (as opposed to just acquiring knowledge)
• Sustained change
• Value for money
• Results/business benefits