People Development Programmes
Our capabilities and experience cover a wide range of business issues, including:
Acting & Thinking Strategically - many people get stuck in the day to day immediacy of their roles. We help people lift their head above the parapet, get in touch with the purpose of their roles, get clear about goals and outcomes, and get the important things done.
Managing projects - delivering projects to time, cost and quality - and which meet stakeholder priorities and objectives is not just about adhering to a process or methodology but demands a complex set of interpersonal skills and practices.
Motivating and managing Performance - unchecked poor performance can have a disproportionate impact on team morale and crucially on performance. We equip people with the skills to be able to have the tough conversations required to manage performance effectively, and also to motivate their teams so that good performance becomes the norm.
Feedback for change - feedback is a prime tool for change and development. Gaining and practicing feedback skills are a crucial component of any development programme.
Coaching and Mentoring - we all love trying to solve other people's problems, but in an organisational setting this habit can constrain development and overload managers. Building skills in coaching and mentoring can lead to significant increases in skill development, leverage managers time, enhance creativity, generate empowerment, trust, quality relationships and enhanced organisational performance.
Developing Future Leaders - the skills required to develop future leaders are increasingly important. We help people, often HR teams, to create effective strategies for developing the leaders of the future
Facilitating and leading groups - chairing meetings, facilitating brainstorms, providing internal consultancy all require an ability to facilitate groups effectively. We do this all the time and share these crucial skills with our clients where appropriate.
Developing your Team - effective managers adopt a range of approaches to developing their team members - we explore the process of development and encourage exploration and understanding of the different strategies available
Learning through Action and reflection - is a powerful way to consolidate and embed new skills and practices. Taken a step further, we build project work into longer term programmes to create opportunities to practice, test and reflect on new skills.
Influencing - increasingly people are having to influence sideways and upwards to achieve their objectives. Without the authority of the line management role, alternative strategies need to be deployed. We enable experimentation with a range of styles and strategies of influence.
Enhancing personal impact - how you come across and how you present yourself before you even open your mouth has a greater impact than we think. Our work in this area, particularly our mix of high quality feedback, support and challenge has had very positive outcomes on people's confidence and effectiveness,
Managing Conflict - the effective and constructive handling of conflict can transform relationships and massively enhance productivity and effectiveness - we help people understand their default strategies and develop a wider range of approaches to conflict.
Leading through Change - change is the only constant - and the better we are at handling it, the more flexible and responsive the organisation becomes. We explore approaches which create a positive approach to change which in turn generates energy for change.
Negotiating effectively - knowing what you want from a negotiation is key. Having strategies that build positive relationships and get to win-win outcomes where these are desirable or possible are invaluable in today's more for less environment
Managing Supplier / Customer Relationships - strong sustainable and effective working relationships between customer and supplier can save resources and increase productivity - we explore the factors that lead to effective relationships and help people develop skills toolkits to do this.
Working in partnership - our aim is to work in true partnership with all our clients, we find this the most value adding way of working. Our experience makes us uniquely placed to support our clients in developing their own approaches to partnership working.
Generating creativity - Creativity is a vital lifeblood of any enterprise, yet too often creative energy is sapped or untouched. Sadly, many people declare themselves utterly uncreative. We play with strategies that awaken the creative juices and enable people to tap into their creativity and enjoy exploring it - with surprising results.
For further information on our People Development please email rebecca.george@berkshire.co.uk or call a member of our team on 0118 932 3580.
