Training Groups in 2010

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

2009 saw the start of the our training groups – an opportunity for people to come together in order to develop personally and professionally through the medium of facilitated learning, shared experience and mutual growth. It has been an extraordinary year!

For 2010 the concept has been refined; retaining flexibility but within a more recognizable structure. We will continue to address those subjects and issues that are important to the group and each session can be supported by a goal-focused coaching session for those who want it. However, the monthly sessions will now follow a 4-month cycle with the first three months covering agreed topics with the fourth being used to review the learning from sessions 1-3 and complemented by action learning sets (please see below).

Never cast in stone, the subjects will be agreed by the group prior to each phase but in the absence of anything definitive at this stage, we would suggest the following schedule:

• Principles of Performance
• Knowing What You Want
• High Performance Relationships
• Review and Action Learning Sets*
• Persistence
• The Feel-Good Factor
• If You Think You Can – If You Think You Can’t … You’re Right
• Review and Action Learning Sets
• Effective Communication
• Getting What You Want
• Powerful Presenting
• Review and Action Sets

* So what are Action Learning sets well…

Action Learning Sets are a simple yet powerful tool for personal and professional development. They provide the opportunity to work on real problems and implement solutions – learning by doing. It’s a really powerful way for ‘people’ to learn from ‘people’.

What they give us is:

• Space for individual reflective learning
• Learning to take back to the workplace and translate into action
• Support and challenge from peers
• The chance to work smarter and find creative ways to bring about change
• A chance to test beliefs and assumptions and learn what works
• A safe environment to explore new ways of thinking and doing
• Personal, as well as professional, learning and development
• Insight into how others achieve different solutions
• A chance to progress new opportunities and develop new ideas

The start of a wonderful Journey

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Everything I have done to this date has been preparing me for what comes next and I hope you’ll travel this road with me.

Over the coming weeks, I’d like to share with you my concept of performance and how we can get the best out of ourselves and others. We’ll be looking into the philosophies, methodologies, tools and techniques that have proven to be key to personal and professional success. Drawing on material from a range of sources: mainstream psychology, sports psychology, NLP, Transactional Analysis (TA) and positive psychology, we will develop some of the ideas within titles such as ‘Knowing Yourself’, ‘That Feel Good Factor’ and ‘The Devil on Our Shoulder’. Also the performance principles of Confidence, Self Esteem, Attitude, Decisiveness, Responsibility, Persistence and of course, Goals & Goal Setting.

So why read this blog rather than another? Well, it might seem a little blasé to say that some of the stuff we will explore will significantly affect your life, but I believe this to be true.

I have spent my whole professional life in high performance roles that have demanded some (if not a total) focus on the development of individuals and teams. Within the last few years, I have also been privileged to be involved in organisational development and it’s a source of deep personal pride I can say that I have ‘made a difference’ to thousands of people over the years.

As a Performance Development Consultant I am constantly learning. We should all be reading, watching and listening to a host of materials from eclectic sources.

Let this site be one of yours.

See you soon,

Andy