…experience the difference!
We have two distinct spheres of work – helping organisations and companies apply principles of AI to help improve their organisational development, and providing practical training using AI techniques.
Our approach is always carefully tailored to the needs of our diverse clients. So whether you are seeking a five-day training course, a half day one-off introduction to AI, or coaching once a month over a longer period; we can devise a schedule and model to suit you.
AI for Organisational Development
Change often lies at the heart of any organisational development. That’s why we have developed workshops and activity-based learning focusing specifically on introducing, promoting and implementing change.
This strand of work covers everything from strategic planning and developing leadership through to partnership working, positive community engagement, conflict resolution and performance appraisal.
As a whole, this programme ensures that your organisation will have the capacity and positive ethos necessary to embrace change and ensure its success.
Our approach is engaging and professional, yet upbeat and informal. Participants at all levels are encouraged to be as creative as they wish in generating imaginative solutions.
For large scale open forum events, we often employ a graphic artist experienced in simultaneously translating verbal and written feedback into imagery and graphics to depict a shared vision.
We can also provide a DVD capturing the best of the event, which can be circulated to providers and service users, providing a cost-effective tool for further organisational learning.
Training in Appreciative Inquiry
In addition to being experienced AI practitioners, we specialise in training organisations and teams in Appreciative Inquiry. We currently offer the following workshops and short courses for staff development in AI and allied approaches.
Appreciative Inquiry
Comprehensive training is offered in the core method of AI. Our experiential and practical workshop covers:
- The principles of AI
- The 5D Process of AI: Define, Discover, Dream, Design and Deliver
- AI Applications at work
Appreciative Coaching
A practical, hands-on training in coaching skills for managers which dispels common misconceptions about coaching and delivers:
- What coaching is - and what it isn't
- A simple five-step performance coaching model that participants can use immediately
- How to coach using appreciative inquiry principles
- Knowing when coaching is appropriate - and when it isn't
- Formal and informal coaching
- Plenty of practice in coaching and experience of being coached
- Four styles of intervention and when to use each
Positive Action Learning
Action Learning blended with AI is an ideal practice for small groups or sets of leaders who want to challenge and support one another positively in areas of personal development and project management in a confidential professional atmosphere.
By acting as facilitator to a new set, we train the set in the method so that it becomes self-managing and self-facilitating over a period of four-six meetings without the need to rely on long-term external consultancy.
Action learning has the potential to provide sustainable leadership support and professional development solutions in one.
Appreciative Team Building
Appreciative Team Building is a person-centred participatory process for teams who want to build on their strengths to become more effective. It combines AI with a model called the Enneagram in order to help optimise personality and intelligence at work at the same time as enhancing relationships and helping to affirm individual and corporate identity.
The Enneagram is a model of nine personality types that enables individuals and teams to explore their own particular modes of thinking, feeling and acting in the world in order to bring out their best at work and when facing challenging circumstances.
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