Training

We have over 20 years’ experience delivering training programmes and we customise all our courses to meet the client’s individual needs – typically supported with additional consulting and coaching. Below is a sample of our training programmes:

• Creative Problem Solving: Tools and Techniques

• Facilitating Complex Problem Solving

• Enabling High Performance Problem Solving

• High Performance Leadership and Change Management

• Teamship Skills for Effective Collaboration

• Moving Teams to High Performance

Courses with Bayes Business School at City, University of London:

• Creative Leadership: Setting the Stage for Innovation and Change

• Master’s in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership

This highly interactive one-day workshop provides individuals with fundamental information, guidelines and tools they can use to more effectively manage their personal approaches to creative thinking and problem solving. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) tools for generating options and focusing options are explained, with examples of when it is best to use each tool and how to make use of multiple generating and focusing options. The workshop enables participants to:

• Understand the natural dynamics of creativity and problem solving

• Know how to separate and manage their judgment in order to increase the power of their thinking and their ability to produce new ideas that add value

• Use four generating guidelines and four focusing guidelines

• Use tools for generating options and focusing options.

Find out more: To find out more about Creative Problem Solving: Tools and Techniques, please contact us or send an email via the button below.

Formerly called Facilitative Leadership and Creative Problem Solving (FL-CPS), this 5/6 day programme has been delivered across the world in over 20 countries. It is designed to train people with the skills, processes, and tools of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) so that they can lead groups and teams in a way that increases their capacity to think innovatively about the problems they face, make decisions about the best courses of action to take, and implement change with improved speed and quality.

One of the key benefits of CPS is in creating a common language, framework, and set of tools inside an organisation which enables individuals and teams (within and across different departments) to work more effectively together in solving problems and capitalising on opportunities for the business. Facilitative Leadership and CPS are based on people's natural problem solving processes and they integrate well with other methods such as Lean and Six Sigma.

Find out more: To find out more about Facilitating Complex Problem Solving, please contact us or send an email via the button below.

How to avoid being a change HiPPO

The ‘HiPPO’ acronym characterises a tendency to defer to the Highest Paid Person's Opinion rather than using research and data to inform key decisions. This approach is often applied from the start of a change project using a command-and-control leadership style. However, effectively leading change requires fundamentally different frames of mind and behaviours from managing day-to-day business. Leading people in times of rapid change requires a unique set of capabilities.

This one-day course identifies the key strategies and behaviours necessary to be an effective change leader. It is designed to help leaders improve their ability to prepare, plan for and lead productive change in their organisation – integrating three major concepts:

• Today’s need for a more flexible approach to leadership

• Linking innovation, complex problem solving and change

• Linking change and leadership.

Find out more: To find out more about Enabling High Performance Problem Solving, please contact us or send an email via the button below.

Becoming a First-rate Agent (or Sponsor) of Change

Change agents play a critical role in driving organisational innovation and growth – and it’s a tough role, requiring real leadership strength. This four-day course is designed to equip participants with the tools and skills they need to develop as a leader, create an innovative climate, manage the change process, and drive high performance in themselves and those whom they lead.

The programme is designed for first-line managers – Managers of Managers who are driving change in the organisation. Where possible we recommend participants come in pairs who can work together after the course to peer coach each other and transform learning into application; knowing into doing.

An additional one-day module is recommended for leaders who are sponsoring change – Acting as a Sponsor of Change.

Find out more: To find out more about High Performance Leadership and Change Management, please contact us or send an email via the button below.

Historically, the typical visual metaphor for teamwork was a rowing eight on a calm river. Today’s reality – a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and constantly changing world – is better represented by a team white water rafting down fast moving, rock strewn rapids.

Establishing sustainable team performance and successful collaborative interventions today requires high levels of trust, increased flexibility, support and encouragement, deeper understanding of ourselves and others, and a strong sense of mutual accountability.

Typically run over three days, our Teamship Skills for Effective Collaboration (SEC) programme equips team members with the know-how and confidence to safely navigate the rapids.

Find out more: To find out more about Teamship Skills for Effective Collaboration, please contact us or send an email via the button below.

To expand skills beyond the foundations of our Teamship Skills for Effective Collaboration (SEC) course, Moving Teams to High Performance (MTHP) delves more deeply into the 7 Factors of High Team Performance. This custom-designed programme shows how to release the collective intelligence of the group/s, re-examine current beliefs and underlying assumptions and reveal hidden conflicts to strengthen trust and develop what may be the hardest of them all – mutual accountability.

Unmentionable problems, the ‘elephants in the room’, can override any attempts to make progress if they remain unaddressed. We take the basic skills of dialogic conversations learned in SEC and advance these with extended knowledge and facilitated practice sessions.

Find out more: To find out more about Moving Teams to High Performance, please contact us or send an email via the button below.

We work with the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at Bayes Business School of City, University of London, to deliver the executive education programme Creative Leadership: Setting the Stage for Innovation and Change.

Perspectiv’s Kate Stuart-Cox and Andy Wilkins both teach on the programme, aimed at leaders across all sectors who want to stimulate transformational change and sustain high performance in their organisations. Find out more on the Bayes Business School website.

We helped establish the world-renowned Master’s in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (MICL) at Bayes Business School over 10 years ago. The MICL provides senior and middle managers with knowledge and skills that enable individuals, groups and organisations to lead more creatively, and deliver more innovative solutions.

Perspectiv’s Andy Wilkins is a Senior Honorary Visiting Fellow teaching on two of the eight modules of this multidisciplinary programme. The course is available full-time and part-time and you can attend an online information session to find out more.