FREE Bespoke Taster Session! Because learning is dynamic participative experience, rather than sit around a table just talking about meeting your requirements, we prefer to show you - this way we can all make an informed decision about how we can work together based on real experience.

For you to get the most from this we ask that

1) you have identified a current training need that requires a solution in the next 3-6 months
2) 8 - 10 of your staff can take part
3) at least one key decision maker can attend
4) our travel expenses are covered

Interested? Please call our office now to talk about your objectives.

Use the Contact page to send us your details. See the Approach page for more about how we work.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COURSES:

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Magicians Apprentice

Packed with new and innovative ideas to get you excited again about delivering training with a difference. We train you in accelerated learning and brain-friendly principles, giving you a creative structure to work with so you produce consistently effective and successful training…we even ask you to bring your existing materials so we can get to work on them on the course. Available as an in-house and open course.

Open Course Dates for 2008:

13/14 May - 7/8 October
Venue: Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxfordshire


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Team Development

The events we run move a team from great performance to exceptional performance; they are flexible and adaptable and can meet objectives such as:

» The basis for team building, leadership/management development, or effective communication.
» As a way of integrating new managers with their teams, or facilitating the set-up of a completely new team.
» As a vehicle for embedding coaching and feedback skills.
» As a catalyst to bring together two or more branches of the same organisation whose geographical separation weaken a close working relationship.

Working with you, we will develop a unique, interactive, experiential, and fun learning event for your teams. Participants will get a greater insight of their natural behavioural style and how they can be more effective in their communication and influencing with others. This will enable your people to become more flexible and successful, creating a common language across your business, leading to sustained long-term business growth.

The Feedback...

"one of the best group activities we have had with regard to training"

"a very positive, fruitful, enlightening, and fun day"

"compliments to you for taking us painlessly through a great process, and to a great result"

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Leadership

This workshop will excite, inspire, and inform your leaders. We show you how to identify and adapt leader behaviours, developing a partnering process through developing more effective communication and coaching skills, and obtaining a commitment to work toward common goals. To consistently achieve high levels of individual or team performance requires leaders who can direct, support, coach, counsel, and inspire.

Employing the basic principles of experiential teaching methods, accelerated learning techniques, and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), participants will learn to increase their own learning speed and will have ample opportunity to practice exceptional leadership skills in active, challenging yet practical exercises.

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Limelight

This practical 1-day workshop provides participants with a simple structure and valuable skills for speaking confidently in public, learning the secrets of preparing and delivering powerful presentations on any subject to diverse audiences and in a variety of situations. 

As well as covering the presentation basics, this course will employ the Oddball principles of efficient 'brain-friendly' learning techniques and instruct delegates on how to use these same principles to not only get their message across, but also make it stick in the minds of their audience.

This course can be a one-day, two-day, or three-day workshop depending on the number of delegates.

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Problem Solving with Action Learning

Action Learning is a facilitated, problem solving process that could be described as group coaching. It can be profoundly useful and developmental, especially with ‘sets’ (groups of between 5 & 7) that meet on a regular basis.

It is intended to produce action (results in the workplace) and learning (individual development) outcomes. It breaks down the boundary between learning and doing in the real world of work.

You know it’s action learning when:

·        The group are working in an agreed, methodical way

·        There is only one issue-holder at a time; the others are asking questions designed to help them understand their issue

·        The issues are not clear-cut – they are dilemmas or ‘stuck’ situations.

You know it’s not action learning when:

·        Different people are talking about their own work issues at the same time

·        Questions are in fact disguised advice e.g. “have you tried ….” or “do you think it would help if you …”

·        You hear people giving advice based on what they did when it happened to them

·        People are using the time to get advice or quick answers

·        The conversation drifts into chat, sympathising, comparing war stories, gossiping, or philosophising about the organisation

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Insights Personality Profiling

The Insights Discovery Personal Profile is probably the most accurate personal profile in the world. It is an excellent tool for individuals to gain a detailed understanding of their working style, how this impacts on their relationships with others in the business environment, and how they might develop to improve their effectiveness both as a person and as a professional.

We can develop with your business a unique, interactive, experiential and fun learning event for your teams that brings to life the Insights Personal Profiles. The event will give a much greater insight, for the individuals involved, of their natural behavioural style and how they can be more effective in their communication with others.  This will enable your people to become more flexible and successful creating a colourful language across your business

Would you like to see a sample profile? Click one of these links to see Steve Rhodes and Nicola Dawson bare their souls!
Nicola Dawson - 23 Motivating D.pdf
Steve Rhodes - 28 Inspiring Hel.pdf

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Drumbeat

Samba

Choose from either African drumming or Brazilian samba!

We can help address issues such as team-building, employee relations, leadership skills, motivation, change management, assertiveness, and acclimatising new managers. We have even used the drum circle as part of a recruitment process, as a way of identifying people with appropriate interpersonal skills!

The group size can be from 10 up to 500 participants, and with our experienced facilitators we ensure everyone has a part to play.  Give it a go, it could be just what you're looking for!

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Scintillating Sales

Selling is a partnership process i.e. it is an ongoing and dynamic series of events involving two people contributing equal amounts of energy. Your ‘selling energy’ is useless without their ‘buying energy’.

This workshop is about developing that partnering process through more effective communication and a commitment from each partner to work toward the common benefits of the sale.

Selling is about:
~ building enough trust to enable both parties to enter the next stage in the sale
~ setting goals that are clear and motivating to both parties
~ establishing the incentive that will keep you both committed to the process

Abiding by the Six Rules of Self-Centred Selling – ‘your’ self, ‘my’ self, ‘their’ selves’ - empowers you to sell anything with ease by skillfully assessing and fulfilling the needs of all parties - paving the road to sales success.

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Key Symphony

Are you giving your keyboard two fingers? By now famous, this is the fun way of learning to touch-type.  It's a workshop for people who use keyboards but cannot type. On this one-day workshop you memorise which fingers use which keys, and to type as you look at the screen. It's a fun and interactive day!

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Customer Care

Customer care training will best serve you if it addresses the twin responsibilities of empathy and ownership. We have a reputation for delivering powerful and life changing workshops that raise the awareness levels of participants, to a point where cultural shift is rapidly brought about through the entire organisation. 

Organisations don’t change – people change. This shift in culture will give a whole different feel and flavour to the collection of personalities, roles, and skill sets that the general public see.


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Special Workshops

People come to us for our approach - if you have a training need that requires imagination, creativity, impact, or if you just need to refresh the imagine training has in your organisation, why not give us a call?

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Learning At Work Days

Learning at Work events are becoming increasingly popular, offering people a chance to break from routine and learn something new, and at the same time rediscover the experience of enjoying learning. Events can run from one to several days on myriad topics from Building Rapport and Time Management to Wine Tasting and Self Defence.

A recent client's focus group reported that 83% of staff found the learning and development experience "good, very good, or excellent".

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Smorgasbord

Sometimes a little of everything is required, sometimes you just want a taster before exploring further, or perhaps a full-blown training programme isn't appropriate. How about running a series of one-hour workshops instead - you can choose 4 per day. Examples of topics:

~Increase Trust in all Your Relationships

~ Advanced Questioning Techniques

~ Advanced Listening Techniques

~ Health and Lifestyle Balance

~ Fabulous Feedback – the fast-track to success

~ Memory – improve yours in just one hour

~ Handling Conflict and Aggressive People

~ Team Tactics

~ Instant Peace – stress management in a nutshell

~ Change – it’s inevitable

~ Self-Belief

~ Time Management

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Management Development

A series of management development workshops designed to bring out the very best in your managers.

Workshop titles include:

Personal Excellence

Leadership

Effective Communication and Feedback

Tremendous Teams

The Stress / Success Balance

Powerful Presentations

Creative Thinking

Leading Change

Time Travel

Meeting Mastery

Caring for Customers

Self -Centred Selling

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