Core Training Programmes
e-instead has developed a number of development programmes to support organisations with change and transition. Each programme can be delivered to you and your team in-house and is customised to meet your specific needs. Depending on your unique requirements each programme can be delivered over 1, 2 or 3 days.
Programme 1: Tools for Building Positive Emotions
Research has shown that people who understand and manage their emotions achieve better results at work. The MBTI instrument promotes maximum self awareness and provides an easy avenue to enriching one's emotional intelligence. This programme contains tools for creating and delivering powerful interventions on type and emotional intelligence.
Programme 2: Appreciating Collaborations
The unspoken and unwritten rules that govern much of how people go about their work can in certain situations impact productivity. What works well in one environment may not always transfer as well to another. The essence of culture is not what is visible on the surface, it is the shared ways that individuals and groups make sense of their world. This module helps participants to determine what works best and what will help them to incorporate more of these constructive behaviours into their daily work life by emphasising strengths and accomplishments. Participants will have the opportunity to define the values and beliefs that influence collaborative behaviours, as well as the extent to which they satisfy their three basic social needs for: inclusion, control and openness in order to establish new language patterns and behaviours that contribute to more worthwhile interpersonal interactions and higher-level group dynamics. This programme utilises the FIRO Element B™ assessment tool.
Programme 3: Unleashing Creativity for Continuous Innovation
Innovation is a process that needs different strengths at different times. Type theory enables us to identify where an individual's or a team's strengths lie and to make the best use of them. This programme helps participants highlight the differences in how people define innovation and why during the innovation process some aspects feel more comfortable than others. The programme also helps participants to develop better techniques for maximising those strengths and bring a fresh view to the innovation process.
Programme 4: Respectful Relationships
This programme is aimed at helping participants to develop more effective conflict management strategies. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance their repertoire of conflict managing skills. While many people can see conflict as a threat to working effectively, resolving conflicts satisfactorily can actually strengthen the organisation and improve results. The programme helps participants to identify their preferred conflict handling style and learn when and how to use the five different modes - competing, accommodating, avoiding, collaborating and compromising - effectively. This programme utilises the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Model.
Programme 5: Creating Change & Transition Positively
Helping people to thrive and adapt to new ways of working can be a constant in most organisations. Change can take many forms such as: adjusting to new technologies, workforce rationalisation, outsourcing, merging, reengineering, implementing new quality models, flattening hierarchies, empowering employees, encouraging entrepreneurial initiatives, and increasing diversity in the workplace. Supporting the needs of people at a time of change is something that organisations need an effective strategy for. This programme uses a variety of tools to help participants understand the normal differences between people in bringing out the strengths they bring to organisational change, the places they may get stuck, and what they need to do in order to move forward and contribute to the change process. Using a logical framework this module encourages leaders to lead more persuasively and to focus on the task of transforming their organisation. Where it proves useful Provocative Dialogue can be a very powerful intervention for helping individuals to get 'unstuck' and move forward.
Programme 6: Valuing Time
We live in a digital age. The pace of work can be rushed with the expectation of instantaneous response. When workloads are high people can often try to cram as much as possible into every day. Time and project management skills takes people so far, what can really make the difference is how we manage our energy. This programme describes an approach to managing personal energy in more efficient ways helping people dramatically improve the way they think. The programme will also help participants to explore the many different meanings that time has for people and its impact on how they run their working lives. There are times when people can feel overwhelmed and under stress this is where an understanding of psychological type can help them to better manage these out-of-character experiences. Participants also benefit from the practical techniques of self-hypnosis and relaxation
Programme 7: Learning at a New Level - Career & Life Planning
This programme uses psychological type to support participants in their career development process. The programme helps people to gain greater insights into how they naturally operate and their career related needs, whether it be for re-deployment, career planning, retirement, redundancy or talent management. A successful transition requires a great deal of self-reflection consciously re-evaluating themselves. redefining and altering old patterns. The programme helps participants ask the right questions of themselves about who they are and what they really want to do, helping them explore the options open to them and chart a new direction.
Programme 8: Journey of Understanding - Nurturing Diversity
Through exploring the 8 Jungian mental functions this module helps participants explore a path to greater self-awareness. Once participants have a better understanding of who they are as individuals, then they can start to explore how they differ from others. Through this exploration they should begin to recognise and appreciate the diversity they find around themselves. This programme will help participants actively gain a better understanding of themselves and experience their differences in fun and gentle ways. Participants also have the opportunity to explore the 12 Jungian Archetypes.
Programme 9: Peak Performance - Being in the Flow.
The aim of this programme is for participants to share their experiences of peak performance and articulate what being fully engaged - being in the flow - means for them. When we become conscious of these experiences and are fully engaged in the here-and-now we can become even more absorbed in what we are doing. It is vital to know the optimum set of conditions, skills and applications of knowledge needed to create peak performance to enable us to be able to recreate these conditions for furthering peak performance in our work and personal life.
Programme 10: Building Capacity Through Strengths
This programme is a deep dive into the evidence based approach of the VIA classification model. Participants will experience their strengths in balance, when they are overplayed and underplayed at times of change and transition. Through experiencial activities participants will gain greater insights into their own and others strengths and where and when to use them to there best effect.