Coaching Essentials for Leaders Training Course

Audience:

• Any management or leadership role.
• Project Members Looking to enhance their team skills.
• Any operational leaders looking to enhance their inter-personal skillset.

Overview:

This course is instructor led, delivered by highly experienced human factors specialists who have delivered high quality training to numerous high-risk industries including aviation, nuclear power, oil & gas producers, health care and elite sport. The importance of risk and safety awareness is emphasized throughout the delivery with the use of accident case studies from multiple industries. The course takes the candidate through the basic functions of human cognition and show how this understanding can be crafted into practical tools. This tool set can then be brought into the workplace environment at practical, policy and process level in order to enhance performance, efficiencies and reliability. The course is particularly relevant to companies who are increasingly using new technology. The use of checklists and appropriate application of standard operating procedures is thoroughly explored. There is a particular focus on operational risk and how decision-making performance under situations of pressure. The course culminates with a focus on the human factor characteristics of high performing teams and considers what we can all learn.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of human cognition.
• Apply their understanding to the development of cognitive tools to enhance performance.
• Grasp the key principles required to enhance compliance, reliability and performance.

Format of the Course:

• Instructor led.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and accident analysis.
• Break out scenario workshops and group presentation.

This course is available for delivery in English only currently

Audience:

• Any management or leadership role.
• Employees looking to enhance their training skills.
• Potential leaders looking to embark on a training role.

Overview:

This course is instructor led and can be broken down into twelve one-hour webinars to be undertaken in one session or as series of separate bite-sized sessions to suit the candidates’ timetable. The course is delivered by highly experienced human factors specialists who have trained many managers, coaches and trainers across multiple high-performance roles in numerous industries. This enjoyable and engaging course takes the candidate from the very basics of andragogy – or adult learning. Some of the myths of training are dispelled in the evidence base approach taken by this highly engaging and intensive course. The high level of candidate engagement culminates in a series of lessons and presentations which are recorded and assessed by your peer learners. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles andragogy.
• Apply their understanding to the development of learning and development tools.
• Design and implement basic training courses for their industry or occupation.

Format of the Course:

• Either instructor led or via webinar.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and accident analysis.
• Break out scenario workshops and group presentation.

This course is available for delivery in English only currently

Audience:

• Any management or leadership role.
• Employees looking to enhance their risk awareness.
• Any operational leaders looking to enhance their dynamic risk management skillset.

Overview:

This course is instructor led and can be broken down into six one-hour webinars to be undertaken in one session or as series of separate bite-sized sessions to suit the candidates’ timetable. This course focusses on the day to day threats faced by all industries in maintaining high levels of human performance. The first step in any aspect of risk management is the ability to identify and objectify operational risks. The most prevalent risk wherever humans play a part of the operational process is the ever-present threat form human error. Rather than attempt the unrealistic goal of eradicating error, the course focus on techniques which enable managers and practitioners to avoid, trap or mitigate the impact of human error. The course looks at real world case studies as well as making good use of the candidates’ own experiences to bring the tools and techniques of the course to life.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of dynamic risk management.
• Apply their understanding of avoid, trap and mitigate risk.
• Design and implement training tools and techniques which can be applied within their own industry.

Format of the Course:

• Either instructor led or via webinar.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and accident analysis.
• Break out scenario workshops and group presentation.

This course is available for delivery in English only currently

Audience:

• Any management or leadership role.
• Leaders who are looking to enhance their communication skills.
• Leaders looking to enhance their ability to communicate with their team.

Overview:

This course is instructor led and can be broken down into six one-hour webinars to be undertaken in one session or as series of separate bite-sized sessions to suit the candidates’ timetable. This course is very interactive from the outset. Effective communication underpins all leadership roles and is often overlooked as a given quality. The course uses up to date research from a cognitive empathy perspective. The ability to project our own goals in vision is often predicated form a broadcast perspective. This is counter-intuitive when we consider how the brain works and receives information. Participants are encouraged to look at their message from the perspective of other candidates and are continually given some quite illuminating feedback. Techniques used by the armed forces, emergency services and elite sport are combined to give candidates greater confidence in getting (and receiving) accurate messages, images and vision.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how the human brain receives and processes raw information into data.
• Apply this understanding to improve their personal communication techniques.
• Test their communication techniques with other members of the group.

Format of the Course:

• Either instructor led or via webinar.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and accident analysis.
• Break out scenario workshops and group presentation.

Audience:

• Accountable management or leadership roles.
• Middle & senior leaders who are looking to enhance their human factors knowledge.
• Middle & senior leaders who want to develop their own human factors performance.

Overview:

This course is instructor led and can be broken down into six one-hour webinars to be undertaken in one session or as a series of separate bite-sized sessions to suit the candidates’ timetable. The aim of this course is to give leaders and managers an understanding of how human factors plays such a significant role in the success and sometimes failure of high-performance operations. As well as investigating some high-profile corporate failures, the course also focuses on some organisations which have been extraordinarily resilient. These High Reliability Organisations are not a complete solution to the threat of corporate failure, but they can give us some great insights into corporate resilience. The course explains how powerful culture can be in shaping your employee’s risk perception and critical behaviour. Combining safety management with cultural influencers can not only improve safety performance but can create other operational efficiencies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand what high reliability theory (HRT) is based on.
• Apply some of the lessons from HRT to explain how why some organisations succeed whilst others fail.
• Understand how organisational culture drives employee values and attitudes and how to influence positive behaviours.

Format of the Course:

• Instructor led.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and accident analysis.
• Break out scenario workshops and group presentation.

This course is available for delivery in English only currently