"It enables you to build teams around shared goals and mutual respect.  I found the programme enriching and beneficial.  The style of managing it was sensitive and supportive."

"Thank you for a very relaxing enjoyable and soul searching day, the best training I have ever experienced.  I look forward to meeting with you again."

"It provides splendid opportunities for ‘time out reflection’, team building, and co-ordination of core values." 

"There is optimism and hope for a better future."

"Exquisite encountering, stupendous stillness, luxuriant listening.  I could go on and on and on."

Focus Modules

1) Creative Problem Solving
2) Strategic Values & Vision
3) Shorter & More Effective Meetings
4) Managing Change Effectively
5) Resolving Conflict
6) In Sickness and in Health

1) Creative Problem Solving

Drawing on the whole person, the whole brain to use blocks to come up with innovative ways forward.

This workshop will give you enjoyable and practical techniques for identifying and solving problems. It will reduce the amount of time needed for problem - solving and will generate specific, innovative, high quality and sustainable solutions.

Content

• Using webbing techniques to identify and understand the strands of causes and solutions.
• Using a goal-wishing technique to find positive outcomes and overcome hurdles.
• Drawing on mind mapping to see the whole picture.
• Practising conflict resolution to reduce conflict.
• Creating a no blame culture.

Outcome

A solution focused organisation.

2) Strategic Values & Vision

Enabling employees to align themselves behind a shared vision, work with common values to reach strategic goals.

An organisation which has clear values and a distinct vision can provide direction, inspiration, motivation and excitement; you know why you are getting up in the morning. Working out of a basis of values and visions provides the stability and permanence that support people through constant change. This workshop will help you find a clear vision of where the organisation is going and how to get there. This vision will energise your business and increase performance.

Content

• Exploring the values of the organisation and those within it.
• Clarifying the vision of where the organisation wants to go in the short, medium and long-term.
• Practical steps on how to get there.
• Using a strategising technique to bring the vision into reality.

Outcomes

A clear vision of where you are going; a passionate commitment; and a specific path to reach it.

3) Shorter & More Effective Meetings

A highly innovative way of ensuring that meetings are participative, fast, fun, inspirational and effective. Where people are fully engaged, all participants make a contribution, and responsibility is taken for ensuring agreed actions are implemented.

Meetings play a vital part in business life bringing professionals together to solve problems, share information, reach crucial decisions, share priorities and commitments. Ideally they are creative and exciting - in reality they are often frustrating, dull and feel a waste of time. This course will show you how to get the full potential from your meetings so that people enjoy them and you get results.

This workshop will show you practical techniques to reduce meeting times. We will show you how to create the conditions whereby you discover new ideas, embrace diversity of views, draw on, engage and involve all who attend, reach high quality decisions, and come out of meetings refreshed and energized.

Content

• Preparing for meetings.
• Structuring a meeting.
• Encouraging contributions and participation from all.
• Ensuring relaxed but swift timing.
• Giving constructive feedback.
• Energising people.
• Reaching confident decisions to which there is full commitment.

Outcome

Shorter, enjoyable, productive meetings which are well planned and well chaired.

4) Managing Change Effectively

The workshop will help the organisation respond rapidly and smoothly to change. The impact of change on people can be enormous and may lead to anxiety and hurt. This workshop will help you turn change into transformation.

Content

• Looking at our individual responses to change.
• Looking at different possible responses to change.
• Turning negative change into positive transformation.
• Recognising and dealing with resistance to change.

Outcome

People thriving on change and the organisation transforming itself.

Making change help you to make quantum leaps forward.

5) Resolving Conflict

Getting people to go beyond ego, let go of resentments and rebuild trust.

We will look at specific strategies for reducing conflict and stress and finding ways of increasing harmony. A certain level of stress is vital to a healthy organisation, and some stress is simply unavoidable. But there is a level of stress that is unhealthy for individuals and counterproductive for the organisation leading to absenteeism and discontent. This course will resolve conflict creatively so that it positively enhances and strengthens your company.

Content

• Increasing the quality of listening.
• Clearing conflicts and misunderstandings.
• Developing a positive ethos of calm and vitality.
• Providing a clear and stable foundation of principles amidst change.
• Taking practical small steps to increase positive harmony and well-being.
• Appreciating diversity.

Outcome

A workplace where people enjoy coming to work.

6) In Sickness and in Health

A unique and groundbreaking approach to bringing the balance back in to work, creating an environment where people positively want to come to work, placing values at the centre. It shows you how to create workplaces where people can thrive rather than just survive.

We look at a case study where absenteeism drops dramatically from 30% to a sustained 2%, increasing profits by 60% over 12 months. We explore the eight tools that are used by the company and taste some of the innovative activities that turn the absenteeism and performance around.

For more details email info@lamontassociates.com

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