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Courses that make a difference
Time spent in training and development is too valuable to waste. You should be getting great design, up-to-the-minute content, and methods that suit all your learners. Our courses are participative, practical and life-changing.
Designing and facilitating events
Great meetings, workshops or conferences rarely happen by accident. We’ll help you design a session that will deliver the outcomes you want. And if you need a credible, witty and experienced host, we can provide that too.
Keynotes and workshops
If you want your conference or meeting to get participants excited and engaged, allow us to present. Your audience will learn inspiring and practical take-aways to build on their strengths as leaders and valuable team-players.
Online Courses:

The Inspirational Facilitator shows you how to design and host meetings, workshops and conferences that rock – and keep your audience coming back for more. This practical programme will offer you all the tips and techniques you need to be a more confident and creative facilitator, both face-to-face and online. You’ll master your design and hosting skills, while participating in an exclusive collaborative network. You’ll gain a competitive edge that keeps you in demand for the fulfilling work you want.
Bringing out the best in you and your teams
If you want to:
- Raise the quality and impact of communication skills in your organisation
- Develop leaders who articulate and share a compelling, strategic vision
- Enhance the performance of teams and individuals
- Sustain improvements throughout your organisation
Grow:
- Increase your confidence and creativity
- Expand your business by clearly communicating your vision
- Learn to take risks and how to react to setbacks
- Benefit from our experience in getting results in world-class organisations
- We use flipped learning and applied improvisation in high-value, collaborative projects that will bring out the best in you and your teams
We’ll help you to:
- Increase your confidence and creativity
- Expand your business by clearly communicating your vision
- Learn to take risks and respond resiliently to setbacks
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What are we thinking – blog posts
Three steps to banishing apathy and replacing it with rich and useful feedback
Your team has been working hard in a difficult and novel working environment, and you’d like to reward them for their efforts.
In your next online team meeting you want to involve them in deciding on a treat. You ask them for ideas: ‘What would everyone like to do? How can we spend our budget?’
How to banish ‘Zoom Fatigue’ and bring energy back to your meetings
We’re told that people are getting ‘Zoom Fatigue’, which results in meetings that lack energy and get too little accomplished.
When people are logged-in to one monotonous meeting after another, each one demanding intense concentration, it’s no surprise they are switching off. Switching off their cameras, sound and engagement.
How to juggle content and processes, without getting overwhelmed
As a facilitator, your attention is dragged in at least three different directions – towards the content, the process and the people.
It’s your responsibility to look after all these dimensions. But, for a whole range of reasons, there are times when your participants are no longer on-board. No matter how clever the…
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