Impact Series

If you need to present/communicate to others then this programme will add significant value to you and the people you present to – whether you’re standing up a the company conference, running a morning buzz team session or pitching your idea to the dragons den.

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If you sell, if you are in a sales support role and if you want to improve the way you interact with the clients (even if you don’t think you sell) you would all benefit from experiencing this programme in various formats.

Download our full ‘Selling With Impact’ programme outline HERE

Personal Impact

We have created a world class personal impact programme that is leading edge through its tools, techniques and methodologies in enabling you to have the maximum positive impact on yourself and other people who you interact with directly and indirectly.

More and more leading organisations are switching onto the fact that the way we interact with each other, the decisions we make, our ability to communicate, our ability to manage our emotions and actions has an immediate and long lasting impact on the results achieved by individuals, teams and business. Whether it is the way a leader comes across to a team, a sales person to the customer, a buyer to the supplier it is all contributing towards success or failure of the organisation.

Do you ask yourself these questions? What impact do I have on others? How do I affect the outcomes? How do I come across? What are my strengths? What do I need to improve? How well can I communicate? What is the impact of my feedback on others? Do I get the results I require? Etc…

By exploring and creating clarity for some of these questions, participants learn tools and techniques they can implement immediately to help them achieve better results for themselves and others.

All of the tools on the programme are applicable in many different internal and external business situations as well as enabling delegates to feel more fulfilled at work and home.

What is the Personal Impact programme?

• This programme is designed to help you develop your self-awareness of how you come across to others
• For you to explore the limiting barriers you have in place stopping you from achieving greater success and developing strategies to overcome those barriers
• To explore your strengths and understand how you can leverage those to have maximum impact on yourself and others
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses in inter-personal relationships and gain tips and techniques on how to build and develop them
• Recognise different thinking styles in practice and how they affect the communication process
• Develop an understanding of why and how conflict arises and how to deal with it effectively
• Develop a strategy so you can apply the skills and techniques to your own situations and through peer coaching activities
• This programme runs in a 2 – 3 day format that can be tailored to meet your specific requirements

The programme in a nutshell

• Ropes Challenge – highly experiential activity which enables delegates to learn and practice the foundational techniques for achieving maximum personal impact, to move out of their comfort zone, master their emotions and align thoughts, feelings and behaviour. During the activity most delegates achieve goals they previously thought impossible. All learning is explored and debriefed and the relevant links made to work
• Exploration of Communication – what is it, what influences it, what goes wrong, how can it be mastered, basics and advanced communication skills
• Rapport – how to use the rapport techniques to increase the speed of relationships and get the best results
• Getting to Understanding – how to ensure what you mean, what you say and what people hear are all congruent and aligned, reducing miss and missed communication
• Knowing Me, Knowing You – using thinking styles as a tool for tailoring communication for individuals and groups so they have a positive impact
• Fierce Conversations – exploring conflict conversations, the 7 principles of having a tough conversation and result you are looking for, structuring and practicing the art of having a fierce conversation
• Tactics to Influence Anyone – understanding and application of the 6 laws of influence, used in planned and ad-hoc situations
• Real Play – delegates practice using all of the tools learned on the programme in a real life task
• Action Planning and Goal Setting – part of having outstanding personal impact is the ability to proactively set personal goals and execute them. Delegates have time to create meaningful action plans

The benefits

Organisational benefits include:

• Improved results due to increased effectiveness of individuals
• Increased alignment of delegates to the organisation resulting in improved commitment
• Improved moral
• Improved relationships, communications and capability to influence authentically

Delegate benefits include:

• Improved capability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation
• Enhanced understanding of influence and capability to influence others congruently
• Increased self awareness
• Improved confidence
• Personal development and a personal development plan

Who is the Personal Impact programme aimed at?

If you’re looking to improve your interpersonal relationships and reflect on what you are currently achieving compared to what you want to achieve, this workshop will give you the environment, support and guidance to create your personal strategy for improvement.

Team Impact

Team = A group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job or a project. Team members operate with a high degree of interdependence, share authority and responsibility for self-management, are accountable for the collective performance and work toward a common goal and shared rewards. A team becomes more than just a collection of people when a strong sense of mutual commitment creates synergy, thus generating performance greater than the sum of the performance of its individual members (business dictionary)

Our unique team impact sessions are characterized by:

• Results focused – it needs to be real and reflect the challenges you face
• Energizing and inspiring – it’s a no brainer that people achieve better results when they are fired up compared to those people who lack drive a motivation
• Tool and technique based – you must be able to replicate the lessons when it counts on your return to work
• Can be indoors or use the outdoors to achieve the desired results
• Can be from 1 – 5 days in duration and spread over months or strategic team development
• Can be integrated within existing strategies for people, team and organizational development
• Fun

High performing teams

Every team has a glass ceiling, a natural point where the team is performing at a high level and achieving great results. This can be a frustrating place to be for a team, they know they can do even better but do not appear to have the extra piece of capability to move to the next level. That’s where we can work wonders; all of our facilitators have worked in teams that have broken through the ceiling from climbing Everest, cycling the Tour De France, achieving outstanding business growth and results. We bring this expertise and most importantly experience to our facilitation, alongside some funky tools and techniques designed to move your team to the next level and smash through the ceiling.

Under performing teams

Unfortunately very few teams live up to their billing and capability. Often people are thrust together without a great deal of consideration for purpose, dynamics, structure, capability, capacity, etc. the chances of reaching high performance levels are non-existent. W work with these teams to build some of the fundamental components required to establish the team and install a sense of spirit that is greater than the sum of the parts. We can turn teams with low confidence and trust around to get on the right track towards high performance.

Team bonding and fun

High performing teams can be like pressure cookers! Every team, whether it’s shattering the glass ceiling or stuttering to get going can benefit from some good old fashioned bonding and fun. This doubles up as a great opportunity to get to know each other better, learn about the team in a different environment, understand what is possible when the pressure is substituted for enjoyment and passion. Our team development sessions such as the Purbeck challenge are perfect for bringing teams together and giving them an experience they’ll dine out on for years to come – and serve as a reference for what the team is capable of.

In essence our team impact programmes are designed to enable teams to achieve the short and long-term goals they were formed to accomplish.

The structure and process for each team impact session will be unique to the team we are working, aligned to the goals, aspirations and current capability of the team and individuals.

That said there are some common areas which team development may focus.

• Understanding high performance and benchmarking
• Exploring team dynamics
• Aligning to the vision, direction and greater goals
• Group problem solving and decision making.
• Creativity and innovation.
• Adaptability and flexibility.
• Pro-activity and initiative.
• Conflict resolution.
• Team member feedback and development.
• Coaching and support.
• Information sharing and communication.
• The structural and cultural characteristics of teams.
• Forming and developing an effective team.
• The role of individual differences in the team.
• Team leadership skills.
• Bargaining and negotiation

The benefits

• You will experience an immediate impact on business results
• Confident focused team members
• Aligned and happy teams
• Clear goals and direction
• Increased revenue and greater profit margin

Who is Team Impact Programme aimed at?

All teams and groups of people who want to better themselves – whether you are currently high performing, under performing or just need a release from the pressure.