In response to requests and enquiries we intend offering our first Open Programmes in 2009.  We consistently receive outstanding feedback about our courses run in-house for specific clients.  For the first time we will make our tried and tested 'Influencing For Business Leaders' and 'FOCUSed Performance Coaching'programmes available to individuals and to organisations who are looking to address the needs of one or two individuals at any one time. 

We aim to gather together leaders from a range of business backgrounds and disciplines to come together to work intensively and practically on their skills, and at the same time benefit from the mix of people present. 

Influencing for Business Leaders Open Programme

Three intensive days focused on your individual needs, with results that can last a lifetime.

Our 3 day programme is a proven approach to developing skills and strategies in influencing to deliver business results. Improve your personal effectiveness and the effectiveness of those around you.

What you'll take from the programme:

• Practical skills to use immediately
• Strategic and tactical influencing for any situation
• Tools to impact business performance and gain commitment for your initiatives.
• The ability to achieve more through others
• Knowledge of how to meet more needs more often, including your own
• Different business perspectives from other business leaders

Perfect if any of the following are true:

• You are a senior business leader or manager
• you work in a complex and fast-moving environment
• your job title isn’t enough to get people to do what you need
• your work is geographically spread
• resources are tight and the pressure is on to deliver

Our approach

• we’ll ask you to get some feedback before the event. There’s no better way of understanding your current impact than by asking those around you.

On the programme you will:

• have our support to make sense of the feedback.
• experience the styles and skills for influencing that are available to you and make informed choices about what’s important for you to work on and have some intensive practise
• Build influencing plans for your key challenges
• spend time thinking through how to apply what you've learnt and deciding on your next steps

Our style of working

• Practical and pacey
• Challenging and supportive
• Tailored to you
• Feedback rich
• Focused on helping you apply your learning to your work

FOCUSed Coaching Performance Open Programme

High performance businesses have high performing people.  Develop your coaching skills to optimise the performance of those around you and to optimise results.

Our two-module programme is a proven approach to developing your coaching skills by providing you with a robust framework for your coaching.  Integral in the design is the opportunity to take the learning back into your workplace between modules, applying it immediately to enhance performance.

Perfect if any of the following are true:

• there’s untapped potential in those you work with
• you are a senior business leader or manager responsible for people who need to perform brilliantly
• you work in a complex and fast-moving environment and the people around you need to change how they operate to stay effective.
• you work in a support function and need the people around you to work differently
• you want others to come up with solutions and to operate more independently of you

What you’ll take from the programme:

• a robust framework and the skills to use immediately
• the ability to build healthy and effective coaching relationships
• a real appreciation of the role of coach and coachee.
• the ability to achieve more through others
• different  business perspectives from other business leaders
• a new way of working beyond the traditional coaching ‘meeting’

Our Approach

We’ll ask you to gather some feedback from your colleagues.  We’ll also ask you to set up a couple of coaching sessions which you will conduct as part of the inter-module activity. 
On the programme you will:

• have our support to make sense of the feedback
• experience a coaching process both as coach and coachee.
• explore the behaviours that underpin the process
• work as a coach to develop your skills
• work as a coachee to receive real coaching on your development as a coach

Our style of working

• Practical and pacey
• Challenging and supportive
• Tailored to you
• Feedback rich
• Focused on helping you apply your learning to your work
• Real coaching (no role play)

If you would like to know more about these programmes or sign up your interest in hearing more about schedules and dates please don't hesitate to get in touch.