Training courses

Our courses are individually tailored to meet your business needs. They are highly experiential and taught using accelerated learning techniques for maximum effectiveness. This list gives an idea of the type of course we run. Occasionally we also run open courses. Look at the future events page.

Advanced communication
Improving communication with yourself and others

"The meaning of communication is the response you get"

Appraisal skills
The skills needed to ensure your appraisal scheme works effectively

"We must see people in terms of their future potential, not their past performance"

Assertiveness
For staff suffering from stress and for those who find it difficult to say "no" appropriately

"My deepest regret, the one mistake I made was to cease in my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality" Oscar Wilde

Beyond traditional time management
Not "to do" lists but a search for what's important - experimenting with methods to ensure that the things that really matter are achieved

"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least" Goethe

Building a dream team
Not just a team that gets on well but one which inspires individuals to be great

The most attractive teams are those that encourage you to authentically be yourself AND to be part of the team. From outside these teams, you can clearly see how team members know themselves well and honestly give of themselves to create the team identity. The formation of the team is not at the expense of individual identities.

Building a team vision
Creating a medium or long term vision, which your team will really want to make happen

"If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter when your alarm goes off." Denis Waitley

Coaching skills for managers
C oaching the coaches

"It is better to light a few candles than to complain about the dark" Source unknown

Different perspectives
Shake up the way you think, do something different

"The human mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open" - Walter Gropius

Fast track coaching
How to get the most from your coaching when you are the coaching client

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Edison.

First principles of NLP
The four major principles of NLP, the study of excellence

"We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are" Max DePree

Get a Life!
Deciding what balance means to you in your life and finding out how to attain it

"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least" Goethe

Health and well being
What's needed to optimise your well-being and avoid stress

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. Brian Dyson - CEO Coca Cola Enterprises

Individual effectiveness
accessing the resources you already have to become more effective

"People travel to wonder at
the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars
and they pass themselves by without wondering".
Attributed to St Augustine

Leadership
Exploring leadership excellence and the leader in you

"It is the leader's task to create conditions which enable and encourage all staff to contribute willingly, confidently and creatively to the limits of their capabilities to the business of the organisation"- Sir John Harvey Jones

Learning to learn
Discovering how you learn best, accelerated learning

"Wise people learn when they can, fools learn when they must" - Peter Honey

Managing change
Ways of being that make change easy and fun

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal" Henry Ford

Managing personal emotions
Choosing a resourceful state to achieve your objectives, being in control of your mood and outlook

"Experience is not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you" Aldous Huxley

Mind mapping
The key principles for study, note taking, presentation, writing etc

"A new attitude invariably creates a new result" - Anon

Networking for results
Making the best of your personal contacts to work smarter and enhance your career

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity" Samuel Johnson

Overcoming email overload
Technical and non-technical solutions to the challenges of email overload for Outlook Express users

"You'd better start swimming or you'll sink like as stone" Bob Dylan

Presenting powerfully
How to gain rapport with your audience and get your message across

"Change your thoughts and you change your world" Norman Vincent Peale

Releasing your natural creativity
Our best ideas often come when we least expect them - learn to tap into your natural creativity when you need it

"We must all become innovators to keep up with our volatile and exciting times" Tom Peters

Turning dreams into reality
Setting goals which will be powerfully self-motivating

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want and, if they can't find them, make them". George Bernard Shaw

FAQs - frequently asked questions about our courses

Look at what people have said about our recent courses

"Do nothing and nothing happens. Do something and something happens" Richard Saunders