I spent today, revising and updating our Performance Coaching Workshop due to run in September. I’ve added some extra detail to the session covering the ‘GROW model’ and taken some of the detail out of the body language session (as the attendees will have already covered this on previous development workshops).
Preparation: Performance Coaching
August 26, 2011
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Preparation: Train the Trainer
August 22, 2011We’re putting the finishing touches to the first module (of two) Train-the-Trainer events running in September.
It’s for an international audience from around Europe and the venue will be Eskilstuna, Sweden.
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Design: Leadership Self-study
April 29, 2011Today, we put the finishing touches to the self-study workbook we’ve been designing for the past few weeks. This version will be finalised by our client and then professionally printed and bound. After their conference in June, it will then be distributed to their work teams.
Audience size: 100s
Client: Aquatic Safety
Location: Broom, Warwickshire, England
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Design: Leadership Self-study Workbook
April 26, 2011We met with our client today to finalise the content of their first self-study workbook. The workbook covers leadership and is part of a short series of self-development materials for existing volunteer management that will roll-out this year.
Audience size: 100s
Client: Aquatic Safety
Location: Broom, Warwickshire, England
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Design: Leadership Self-Study Workbook
April 18, 2011This week, we are refining the Leadership Self-study package for our client. Draft 2 incorporates feedback from the three major stakeholders to refine the language used and fine-tune the content.
Audience size: 100s
Client: Aquatic Safety
Location: Broom, Warwickshire, England
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Design: Leadership
March 28, 2011This week we began work for a new client. We have been commissioned to author a short self-study workbook covering ‘leadership’. By the end of the week, we will have submitted draft 1 for feedback. Two more drafts will follow leading to completion and sign-off towards the end of May.
Audience size: 100s
Client: Aquatic Safety
Location: Broom, Warwickshire, England
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Design: Self Study Workbook
March 15, 2011Today, we were awarded the contract to develop a self-study workbook for managers covering ‘leadership’. Design work commences in the last week in March and will be signed off in early May in time for the client’s conference in June.
Client: Volunteers in Aquatic Safety
Location: Broom, Warwickshire, England
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Initial Meeting: Distance Learning Design
March 7, 2011We met a new client today. They have requested our services to design a series of materials to assist in the self-development of their management volunteers.
Client: Aquatic Safety
Location: Broom, Warwickshire, England
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Workshop: Stepping into Management – Foundation
January 19, 2011Target audience: Those new to the role of manager or those who have had no formal training as managers
Audience size: 7
Duration: Two days
Client: Automotive
Location: Daventry, Northamptonshire, England
This Workshop, is the first of a series (of thirteen) delivered over the next fifteen months. The series designed to equip managers with the knowledge and skills to be even more effective in their role. We are responsible for delivering nine modules in the series – these include:
Building Effective Relationships
Leading Team Performance
Organisational Skills
Effective Business Writing
Developing your Staff
Coaching for Performance
Presenting with Impact
Interviewing for Success
Leading from Within
The majority of the Workshops are two-days in duration, are highly interactive, and include formal action-planning at the end of each module.
Delegates are set pre and post-course work for each Module and they will be formally assessed in March 2012.
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Large Contract Awarded for 2011
October 20, 2010We learned today that we’ve been invited to deliver a range of management development workshops for a key client based in the UK, during 2011.
The modules will include:
- ‘Management and Leadership’
- ‘Executive Presentation Skills’
- ‘Prioritising your Day’
- ‘Recruiting the Right Person’
- ‘Assessment and Coaching Skills’
- ‘Creating and Leading an Effective Team’
- ‘Leadership through Relationships’
- ‘Performance Coaching’
- ‘Essential Business Writing Skills’
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Fly me…
October 6, 2010My Workshop scheduled for later in October, in Sweden, is now finalised with all the materials ready and the flights organised. I just need to know the venue.
I also have a trip to Germany promised, in November (and then again in December). Materials are also ready-to-go, so we’re just waiting to hear from our client about the location – my guess is that it’ll be Cologne).
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Busy, Busy
September 29, 2010We’re busy this week getting prepared for three major Workshops running in October and December of this year. At the workshops, we’ll be once again working with experienced product managers from the construction industry to develop their skills as trainers.
All the materials have been updated based on feedback from our client and the delegates who attended the previous two modules.
All that is left to do is send the handout materials to the printers nearer the time.
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Preparation Day
September 20, 2010It’s been a particularly busy day here today, as I’ve been ‘final prepping’ for the three Workshops I’m due to run this week.
Tomorrow and Wednesday is a two-day workshop entitled Management and Leadership. This is followed on Thursday with Getting Organised at Work. Finally, on Friday, it’s Effective Writing Skills.
I also found time to offer some extended telephone support to a friend who’s installing some essential software on her shiny new NetBook.
Phew!!!
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Design: Creating and Leading an Effective Team
June 3, 2010Today, we began work on designing a new workshop for a key client.
As the title suggests, the workshop looks at the ingredients for success in building, growing and developing a work-team.
The workshop will run on the 29 June for two days.
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Mini-Workshops and ’1 to 1′ events
April 12, 2010This week, we continued our delivery of mini-workshops and 1 to 1 events delivered on-site to a major client.
Topics included: ‘Management and Leadership’; ‘Managing Change’; ‘Carrying out an Appraisal’ and ‘Creating and Leading a Team’
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Design: eLearning
February 23, 2010We’re continuing to work on the design of an eLearning package covering ‘Product and Consumer Law’ for a key client
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Design: ePackage
February 19, 2010We started work on the design of the ‘Consumer and Product Law’ epackage today
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Design: eLearning
February 2, 2010We’re working with one of our clients developing two eLearning packages to run from their company intranet. The first, (for implementation in April), covers Employment Law; the second, launching in July, explains ‘Consumer and Product Law’. The target audience will be managers-to-be from the automotive sector in the UK.
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Workshop Design: Working Together Assertively
September 29, 2009We’re once again working with Rapport Training to deliver a series of bespoke development workshops in quarter 4 for Morgan Est‘s trainee managers. We are in the final stages of design and the first workshop will be delivered in a few weeks’ time.
This two-day module will feature a mix of theory and practical tips on how to handle situations in a more assertive manner. The workshop is part of a series designed to further grow their future management from within the business.
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Design: Delivering Effective Training
September 21, 2009We’re spending two to three days designing the content for VCE’s second Module ‘Delivering Effective Training’. This will run during the last week in October in Munich. The delegate feedback has just arrived from the client regarding module 1 and that will help us fine-tune the content and delivery style.
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