We develop practical skills through a tailored approach, based on design principles that work. We create an environment for discovery rather than teaching. Besides a broad range of technical skills we are really good at:
- Stakeholder analysis and management
- Leadership development programs
- Business planning
- Facilitation from the front line to the boardroom
Education and training is about learning and change.
We work to establish learning networks that can generate self-sustaining and creative solutions to complex skill challenges. Our most important projects have resulted in system-wide applications.
Our Approach to Learning and Development
Learning is individual – sitting behind our design thinking, planning and delivery is our awareness of the need to appeal to different learning styles. While invisible to the participant, each communiqué, event, workshop and artifact reflects the need to incorporate fact and logic, feeling and intuition, spontaneity and closure, visual and auditory in a seamless well-paced flow.
Learning is social – building ‘communities of practice’ Having delivered hundreds of training programs over the years we know the strengths and weaknesses of traditional curricula and delivery methods. Many well-tested techniques and tools comprise the ‘bones’ of a successful education program. And wherever possible we stimulate and sustain informal learning networks.
‘Communities of practice’ is just a fancy term to explain the way successful people actually go about getting things done, solving problems, and placing themselves in a social web of relationships and meaning. Regardless of what trainers think about the elegance of their training design or technocrats think about the functionality of their new technological breakthrough – people still tend to gravitate towards informal social learning and knowledge sharing.
Learning is doing as well as knowing
People remember what they do more than what they are told. A combination of tools and the experiential learning dimension we weave into educational events enables participants to practice using new knowledge right away. Small group case study work, self-paced learning, field work, workplace applications and a range of delivery styles all help to create a good balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of learning.