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The PRD Partnership run a number of programmes as outlined below. These are medium to long term interventions that are often a combination of
several of our other products. Programmes are usually tailored to your exact requirements so to find out exactly what one of programmes would look like in your
organisation please Contact Us. Please read on for details of our Action Learning and
Intelligent Growth Programmes. For pricing please refer to our Pricing Policy.
Action Learning Group Facilitation Training
Action Learning enables individuals to learn by confronting the personal issues that block positive action. In removing the issues and taking supporting actions, Action Learning can make your people, processes or products more profitable. Typical issues stem from change (a new direction, new job, new system, or new external pressures), interpersonal conflict, a lack of fit with company culture or through accompanying a training programme such as Leadership and Management.PRD Partnership deliver Action Learning group facilitation in 2 distinct ways.
We supply facilitation for a group of 6 or 7 individuals for a period of 6-9 months either with the remit that: these people also receive training to facilitate Action Learning for other members of the company.
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The group can be self facilitated and run itself.
Why do we offer this? Its not training and its not consultancy.
The University of Bath's Management Faculty specialise in Action Research.
We worked with the University to help individuals and companies overcome the challenges that they face using Action Research.
Creating Excellence offered Marc and Roger the opportunity join their “real ways of learning” programme to help others become Action Learning facilitators. Action Learning can help you by:
Overcoming interpersonal issues
Action Learning has supported individuals to take action. Interpersonal issues are often due to issues on both sides being left unsaid, and then the issue escalates, and the working relationship becomes difficult. Through being able to talk about the issue, have others listen and challenge, you can feel supported in discussing difficult issues with colleagues and repairing working relationships. Due to the accountability of the set, you have to report back on your action. Often a powerful motivator.Overcoming phobias
Marketing, finance, strategic plans, numbers can often develop from a difficulty to a phobia. You can feel scared to take action, or you don't know what action to take as you feel you have tried lots of different methods. Often the solution is not about ability, but communication and attitude. Action Learning supports you in finding, trying out, and persisting with methods to confront phobias, with the result that you feel more able to deal with parts of your work load you have previously ignored.Discovering more about yourself
Everyone has blind spots, things you don't know about yourself. Action Learning provides the right environment to discuss and challenge you on an issue about yourself. In doing so you may discover something that is obvious to everyone else, but not to you. (If you want to understand more about blind spots you might like to take the personal relations survey based on the Johari Window).Assisting Knowledge Transfer
You may have a member of your team that has fantastic knowledge that is key to the future success of your organisation. Action learning helps that individual find ways of understanding others and therefore how to communicate effectively. The combination of these benefits means that Action Learning can be a powerful part of a leadership and management course. The listening, supporting, challenging and accountable nature of the sets improve skills to more effectively lead and manage others.
Intelligent Growth Programme
The Intelligent Growth programme provides the following benefits:- In depth analysis of the capability of an organisation to grow through innovation
- Scarce resources can be targeted at ‘quick wins’ and problem areas
- Ability to identify and create clear strategies for the future
- Key stakeholders (including employees) understand exactly where they fit into the organisation
- A unique innovation model leads to direct measurement of progress rather than through indirect key performance indicators
- The programme is holistic and industry sector independent and can thus be used for organisations of varying sizes, for high growth within the UK and for businesses seeking to become export ready
- Ownership of the problems and solutions remain with the organisation so there are no lasting dependencies
The starting point for the programme is a definition of innovation that simply reflects how we create ideas, what we do with them, how we manage our existing know how, how much do we need or want to change and how mature are the frameworks that are put in place? This model has also been interpreted for use on a regional basis by the state government of Guadalajara in Mexico. This definition leads onto the ability to measure the state of an organization, the identification of strategic capabilities and barriers and a short workshop programme that works with key catalysts within a business to work on the results of the capability audit and define strategies for the future.
They key components of the programme are:
- The Innovation Toolkit – audit tool which can be administered via paper, online or in workshops
- Creating The Difference – a 15 hour workshop that introduces creative thinking and uses it to work on the output from the audit
- Support for you as your new programme gets underway
- Knowledge is transferred to you so that there is no lasting dependency on us
Providing expertise and knowledge to businesses in Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, the South West, M4 corridor and throughout the United Kingdom.
Areas of expertise:learning and development, business creativity, innovation, leadership and management, coaching, mentoring, business strategy and planning.
Products and services:workshops, seminars, consultancy, learning and development programmers, innovation programmes, innovation audit, TIFF, Johari Window, project management, action learning facilitation, market research, commercialising your ideas.