“The most dangerous phrase in the language is: ‘We’ve always done it this way.’”

GRACE MURRAY HOPPER

Training

Relevant. Memorable. Oh… and fun

Say goodbye to dull, boring and forgettable training sessions. You know those ones that start with a sinking feeling and go downhill from there…

Our training works because we make it as relevant and memorable as possible. People have a lot of fun along the way because we don’t believe in making it hard work.

Your people go back to their jobs with practical and personal objectives that will help them improve their performance. As a result, your business gets a shot in the arm too.

Focused on your business aims

All our training is tailored to meet your business priorities. So whatever you’re out to achieve, we can make sure everyone is pulling in the same direction.

Recent training projects

These are just some of the training sessions we’ve run recently. We can adapt our courses to fit the people and the challenges your business faces.

• Leadership in a Creative Business
• Designing appraisal programmes and making them work
• Training staff to use the appraisal process successfully
• Dealing with difficult people
• Managing people for the first time
• Diversity
• Managing Change , don’t fight it, embrace it.
• First 100 days
• Recruitment and selection
• Respect at Work
• Managing in a Creative Business
• How to be a Successful Mentor or Mentee
• Developing a Successful in-house Mentoring programme

Sample Courses

Team Leadership

This course for newly appointed producers covers:

• Understanding the role and key responsibilities of a manager
• Balancing the demands of the task with the demands of the people
• Exploring your own style and the implications of your approach
• Communicating expectations and standards, monitoring and improving team performance
• Delivering effective feedback.

The First 100 days

Helping new Executive Producers to:

• Build good relationships quickly especially with their boss
• Understand and work within an existing culture of a company
• Manage expectations
• Motivate and lead their staff to produce programmes on time and budget

Successful Appraisals

Helping people to:

• Understand the importance of performance management
• Plan and conduct an effective review session
• Deal appropriately with differences of opinion
• Set useful and relevant objectives

Difficult Conversations

Teaching executives to:

• Plan ahead for better results
• Deal with extremely sensitive topics
• Maintain a positive rapport
• Manage the conversation’s tone and outcome
• Anticipate and deal with potential roadblocks