Resources

 In this section we’ll be sharing some of the techniques and resources we commonly use to help you be at your absolute best at work and deliver outstanding results on a consistent basis.

The more we learn the more we’ll be adding here, so sign up to our regular updates <link to sign up page> and we’ll let you know as new approaches appear.

Although simple, these approaches definitely work – so if they’re not working for you, get in touch with us for free help and advice on how to fix it.

And if nothing here solves the problem you have, get in touch and tell us more, as there’s every chance we’ll have something that hasn’t made it into this section yet.

1. The Principles of Personal Excellence
Sets out 7 principles that underlie the achievement of personal excellence in any situation, regardless of the particular field or circumstances.

Download - 7 Principles of Personal Excellence

2. Identifying Your Greatest Potentials
Being at your best at work starts with identifying the areas where you’ve got the potential for excellence already built in.

Download - Finding Your Personal Best

3. Getting clear what you’re aiming for
Although everyone knows the value of a clear goal, setting one in the best possible still doesn’t seem to come naturally to many of us. Clear goals make everything else we do much easier, and give our all our actions more power and focus.

Download - Getting Clear about Your Goals

4. Staying on Target
There are a host of tools available to help you to achieve your goals. Here we share a small number of the best and simplest.

“What most defines us is what we can hold in our imagination”
The imagination is the most powerful tool we have to accelerate our progress and achieve our goals. Here’s an introduction to getting the best from this under-exploited treasure-trove.

Download -Using Visualisation to Boost Achievement

The normal human brain is an irrepressible fountain of creativity. Here’s the quickest way to start making more of all the genius on offer.
Download - Jump-start Your Creativity

No matter how good we are at what we do, involving others is always going to be critical to achieving real success. Here’s a simple way to increase your chances of making it work.

Download - Improving Communication

 In this section we’ll be sharing some of the techniques and resources we commonly use to help you be at your absolute best at work and deliver outstanding results on a consistent basis.

The more we learn the more we’ll be adding here, so sign up to our regular updates and we’ll let you know as new approaches appear.

Although simple, these approaches definitely work – so if they’re not working for you, get in touch with us for free help and advice on how to fix it .

And if nothing here addresses the questions that interest you, get in touch and tell us more, as there’s every chance we’ll be able to send something else that will help.

1. Understanding the way teams develop
Introduces key ideas about the way relations and behaviours develop in groups and teams over time, based on the Tuckman model of group and team development.

Provides a guide to people’s likely behaviours and needs during each stage – essential to understand if you are leading or facilitating a group to work together.

Download -  Introduction to Group and Team Dynamics

2. The Skills of Appraisal and Performance Review
Identifies the essential standards of competence for completing an appraisal effectively – on both sides. Further document describes what each party will be contributing when the process is working well.

Download -  Appraiser Competences
Download - Roles within the Discussion

3. Core Principles for Reviewing Performance
Reminder of core principles for reviewing performance, and the commonest pitfalls that degrade the process.

Download - Principles of Reviewing Performance

Here we’ll be sharing a variety of the tools and approaches we use to support rapid, effective and enduring change for teams and organisations of all kinds.

As more things arise we’ll be adding more and more materials here, so sign up to our regular updates <link to Sign Up Page> and we’ll let you know as new approaches appear.

Everything that appears here has been tested and applied extensively over many years of practice, and we can guarantee it works. So if it’s not working effectively for you, get in touch with us for free help and advice on how to fix it .

And if nothing here addresses the questions that interest you, get in touch and tell us more, as there’s every chance we’ll be able to send something else that will help.

1. A Selection of Learning Solutions
The range of possible learning solutions is inexhaustible, and elsewhere we have documented more than 40 each having distinctive characteristics. Here we list and describe the sixteen approaches accounting for the great majority of all planned learning taking place in most organisations.

We will be publishing guidance for the design and use of each of these over a period.

Download - Learning & Development Techniques – Definitions

2. Design for Rapid Learning
The techniques that form the basis of this particular design method, known as accelerated learning, are most commonly used and highly suitable for designing rapid learning solutions for knowledge and skills acquisition.

Although used most quickly and easily for formal (“classroom”) learning, the same techniques and principles can also be deployed for many individual and informal learning requirements – and for the rapid, effective and memorable transmission of information in many other contexts.

This article was published in the Training Journal in 2005.

Download -: Design for Rapid Learning

3. Introduction to Mentoring
A guide to best practice for those on either side of a mentoring relationship – mentors and those receiving mentoring (“mentees”). Sets out purposes, goals, and expectations on each party.

A comprehensive guide including conduct of meetings, key techniques, risks and pitfalls, self-tests and checklists is available on request.

Download - Introduction to Mentoring

4. Introduction to Action Learning
An overview of an indispensable tool for management and professional development.

One of the richest, simplest, most flexible, effective and cost-effective approaches to workplace learning so far developed, Action Learning is still hugely under-utilised due partly to confusion about its key principles and effective practice.

A guide to the conduct of set meetings is also available on request.

Download - Introduction to Action Learning