Speaking and Workshops

The pandemic hit amidst long-terms shifts in technology, globalisation, social responsibility and consumer and workforce expectations. Today we are faced with the additional challenges of global disruption, skills shortages and economic uncertainty. This this creates both significant pressure and opportunities for L&D. Explore the contemporary L&D landscape in this workshop, exploring new possibilities to increase your effectiveness and impact and identifying practices to embrace in your organisation.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:
Progressive L&D leaders and their teams who want to open their mindset to prepare them to modernise ways of working and increase impact.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• Clarity on the challenges and opportunities that the changing world of work is creating for L&D in your organisation.
• An understanding of high value L&D practices and identification of priorities for shifting your practices.
• An openness and deeper commitment to embracing changes in L&D roles and ways of working.

FORMAT
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Supporting learning at the pace of business has never been more critical than now. Business leaders expect learning to generate improved performance and organisational agility. At the same time jobs are being reshaped, skill needs are advancing, and the talent market is tight. Organisations need to support people to adapt and learn. These shifts increase demands upon L&D, while opening up new possibilities. Explore how to move from being constrained (busy, overwhelmed, underequipped and stuck) to resourceful (flexible, responsive, focussed, cross-functional and agile).

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:
Progressive L&D leaders and teams who want to rapidly sense and adapt to change in their organisation and it’s environment, working at the speed of business to meet the expectations and needs of their organisation.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• An awareness of what is constraining your L&D team and limiting your flexibility and responsiveness
• An actionable understanding of the three levers that build adaptable capability in an L&D team – Mindset, Agile Operations and Skillset
• An assessment of your current state against these three levers and next steps to move from constrained to resourceful (workshop format only)

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In the wake of the pandemic organisations are re-examining business strategies, workforce models, values, and culture. L&D has become more central in helping organisations address significant challenges, while faced with talent disruption and skills shortages. Amid this relentless activity, many have struggled to prioritise developing or refreshing their learning strategy. Yet the deep thinking this requires is essential to effectively make the strategic contribution needed. A well-crafted learning strategy provides a strong framework for L&D to contribute to your organisation’s goals and create value. This is a ‘how to’ session to discover a robust end-to-end process to create a compelling, high impact organisational learning strategy. Brought to life with real-world examples.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

L&D Leaders and teams who know it’s time to develop or refresh an organisational learning strategy and are looking for practical approaches and examples to ensure that it is compelling and effective for their organisation, with strong stakeholder buy-in.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• An approach to understand what your organisation really needs and expects from L&D
• A robust process to shape a compelling business and workforce value proposition for L&D
• Steps to craft your learning strategy so that L&D can deliver on this value proposition
• Real-world case studies and examples

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Keynote
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The days of a steady, stable careers are over. Organisations have become flatter and more networked. The pace of technology is relentless, making many skills go out of date in only a few years. Jobs are continuously evolving. People change organisations after shorter periods of time, or simultaneously work on contracts across a range of organisations. While organisations still offer a broad range of career opportunities, we need to think and act differently to spot new opportunities and create them. The great news is that in today's connected world you have more opportunity than ever to take charge of your own career. Take matters into your own hands and equip yourself to navigate an ever-changing landscape.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

Professionals who desire to carve out their career by continually adapting, reinventing and reskilling themselves.

Organisations that want to retain and more effectively utilise existing talent by encouraging and equipping their people to develop their career within the organisation.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• An understanding of the changing career landscape
• The ability to spot and create new opportunities
• Two vital practices to super-charge their career
• An approach to build a personal safety net to face career development with courage and confidence

FORMAT
Keynote
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Are you clear about your professional direction? Many people don’t look far enough ahead. You may also be unclear about how to leverage and supplement your experience to prepare for a range of possible futures. Like most of us, you’re probably busy and struggle to make time for your professional development. How can you build strong, consistent learning practices and habits that will help you continuously develop yourself and be ready for new opportunities? It’s time to take to control of your future!

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:

Professionals who want to put effective, efficient professional development practices and habits in place to work towards their goals – or to stay abreast of change in their field on an ongoing basis.

Organisations that want to encourage and equip their people to with skills, practices and habits for self-directed learning.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• Clarity on key career shifts they’d like to make in the coming 2-3 years
• A professional development goal to support these shifts for the coming 6-12 months
• A flexible plan to work on their development goal using contemporary approaches fit for the connected digital era
• A workbook with questions and activities that can be used to refresh your goals and development plan at any time
• A strategy to build a continuous development habit

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If you’re like most people, you’re motivated to get better at your job and improve your skills to open up new opportunities. However, your working day is full and it can be difficult to get time away from the workplace to do training. Even if you could, it’s hard to find the right course for your needs at a time that suits you. The good news is that you don’t need to wait to be sent on a training course to improve your skills, performance and outcomes. You can take matters into your own hands if you know how to spot and take advantage of opportunities to learn as you work. It’s time to take control of your own learning!

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:
Anyone who are ready to pick up some straightforward, practical ways you can learn as you work and from your work – getting better at your job every day.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• A clear understanding of how people really learn and improve your skills
• A set of approaches and tools that you can use easily to learn as you work
• A practice that you can use to intentionally extract learning from your past and future work experiences
• A strategy to build a habit of continuously learning from your work

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You’ve got a lot on your plate as a manager: hitting performance targets with limited resources and budget, keeping your people safe and getting your team to work together well are just the start of the list. You know that all of this is easier if your people have the right skills, can solve problems and flex to respond to issues and unusual events. The good news is that you don’t need to wait to send your people off on a training course to improve you’re their skills, performance, and outcomes. As a manager you have more influence over the development of your people than anyone else – and it can be easier and less time-consuming than you may think.

THIS IS PERFECT FOR:
Team leaders who you keen to continuously improve team performance without a big investment of time and money – through straightforward, practical ways you can help your team learn as they work and from their work.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• The ability to identify an important goal that is stretching their team’s skills
• An actionable understanding of how people really improve their skills
• Practical approaches and tools that you can use easily to help you team get better at their work
• A plan to immediately put at least one of these approaches in place with your team

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Keynote
Webinar
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