What we've been up to…
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We are delighted to be the proud owners of a prestigious training award! The innovative Train-Trainers-to-Train-Trainers programme that we designed and ran for Synovate last year received a National Training Award as an East of England Winner. While our name is on the award, congratulations go to Andrew Wood and the team at Synovate who have done a fantastic job of creating a sustainable learning culture across this global business as a result of the programme. We are talking to this year's entrants about our experience and learning in Cambridge on 7 April. |
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We've been helping Morrisons to recruit high calibre graduates to a range of exciting programmes in buying, finance, manufacturing and logistics. We designed an online Situational Judgement questionnaire, which has been highly effective and efficient for sifting. Learning a Living was also responsible for the design of a brand new bespoke Assessment Centre. Morrisons are delighted with the calibre of trainees they are appointing from the process and we have had consistently good feedback from the candidates on their experience. Both assessors and candidates particularly like the variety of activities and the fact that all exercises are directly relevant to Morrisons' business and values.
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We are forging stronger links with Results Coaching Systems, where Jane is now a trainer, assessor and mentor. She recently worked alongside Chris Samsa and Jessica Raby to deliver ICF (International Coach Federation) accredited Executive Coach training to coaches from a variety of backgrounds and cities in Europe, South Africa and USA . Results Coaching Systems is now part of the Neuroleadership Group, reflecting our brain-based approach. We are keeping ahead on exciting developments in neuroscience and how new understanding of the brain needs to be reflected in leadership development and coaching. |
Interesting stuff we've learned recently…
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We've started using Survey Monkey recently and we're really impressed with how simple it is to set up, run and analyse surveys and questionnaires. After a ‘sitting next to Nelly' training session of just 30 minutes, we've never looked back. A terrific, practical and great value tool – www.surveymonkey.com |
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Came across a telling article in Harvard Business Review (Sept 2010) – ‘Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women' – suggesting that men's careers are aided by having ‘sponsors' in contrast to the female approach which is to have a mentor. So, whereas women are focused on getting advice and guidance, men are benefitting from more active advocacy from senior executives. We're taking this into account when we set up career coaching and mentoring programmes. |
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We're in a business book club set up by vesseyhoppermcveigh and recently met to review ‘The Accountable Leader' by Brian Dive. It presents interesting challenges from an organisational design point of view. The book demonstrates a systematic approach to deciding on levels of accountability in an organisation and shows how too many layers and too little clarity around accountability causes problems, including disempowerment, poor decision making, confusion and disengagement. A key learning for us – there's no point training people in the skills of accountability if the system is too constraining. Click here to download the 10 accountabilities that are the test of whether any management role is truly accountable.
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What we're involved in now…
We are supporting the implementation of Coaching for Performance at Morrisons, contributing to the development of a comprehensive Coaching System in the Commercial Division to deliver high impact Talent Management. This includes designing Assessment and Development Centres for critical career paths.
Building on our expertise in entrepreneurship, we are coaching a number of SME business owners/directors, based on the natural achievement-focused, action-oriented style of the most successful entrepreneurs. We use the Entrepreneurial Potential Report from Saville Consulting, built on the Entrecode model – the DNA of successful high-growth entrepreneurs (click here for an example report). The coaching helps business leaders to develop the behaviours and processes that drive commercial success. We're having some great results, with improved business results paying for the cost of the coaching programme several times over.
Having learned a great deal from last year's Informatology Peer Awards Conference, we are delighted to be involved in the set up and running of this year's programme. What distinguishes this conference and these awards is that the contributors and the judges are real practitioners with insights to share about real projects in a range of different sectors. For more information, go to
http://www.informatology.com/conference/ |
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