Professional Development Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Ireland (online or onsite) is aimed at organization leaders who wish to learn how to drive change within organizations by implementing effective change leadership strategies.

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

• Understand the effect of change leadership on individuals, teams, and organizations.
• Apply planning practices to organizational change efforts.
• Effectively drive organizational change through change leadership.

Audience:

• Specialists Looking to Transition to Broader Management or Senior Roles.
• New or Aspiring Managers.
• Established Managers looking to further develop their skills.

Overview:

This instructor-led, live on-site training is aimed at managers who wish to develop their capability to coach and lead their colleagues towards excellence. The course gives new and developing managers the confidence and ability to implement established and well-tried principles of management technique. The course is based on five key pillars of management performance: defining role purpose, emphasising strengths, enabling change, influencing and empowering colleagues. Whilst we do not promote one particular managerial style or pattern, the course is behavioural science led; evidence-based principles are presented in a practical and pragmatic format. The course is highly interactive and engaging requiring candidates to actively participate from the outset.

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

• Understand how humans are motivated and learn.
• Adapt their existing skills set to maximise their potential.
• Develop and implement an effective management technique.

Format of the Course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and feedback sessions.

Audience:

• Senior Management
• Risk and Safety Managers
• Project Manager

Overview:

This instructor-led, live training is aimed at senior managers who wish to develop their capability to strategize and manage safety and risk in complex, high-tech industries. The course gives risk and safety managers the confidence and ability to implement an established and effective organisational culture assessment process. The course will introduce the SI-9 product which has been developed to provide an efficient and accurate methodology to measure multiple elements of your organization's culture. The periodic measurement of your corporate culture not only enhances your risk visibility but provides evidence of your personal and corporate due diligence in risk management.

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

• Recognise the signs and signals of vulnerable corporate risk culture.
• Understand the personal and corporate liability implications of risk and safety management.
• Adapt their risk management systems to become more resilient.
• Design an effective cultural measurement system based on the SI-9 assessment system.
• Develop and implement an effective organizational cultural management strategy.

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on experience of cultural measurement tools

Audience:

• All Levels of Management.
• Technical Experts.
• New Project Managers.

Overview:

Change Management skills have increasingly become a core requirement for the effective management of projects, budgets and personnel. One key lesson our trainers have seen repeated across numerous industries through the Covid-19 pandemic is not to wait for change to overcome your organisation. Change Management principles need to be embedded in business resilience programmes. Utilising David Snowden’s Cynefin model as a basis for developing sense making before making strategy the course takes the candidates away from rigid and process decision-making structures which can impede collective and creative thinking. Building flexibility into decision-making structures not only enhances business resilience but promotes efficiencies from existing structures.  

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

• Recognise the need to consistently plan with flexibility.
• Understand the meaning of contingent business processes.
• Adapt their risk management systems to become more resilient.
• Design countermeasures against complacency and tunnel vision.
• Develop and implement an effective and consistent change management strategy.

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises, practice and planning.
• Hands-on experience of change management templates.

Audience:

• Aspiring Project Managers
• Junior Managers
• Field Specialists

This instructor-led, live training is aimed at senior managers who wish to develop their capability to strategize and manage safety and risk in complex, high-tech industries. The course gives risk and safety managers the confidence and ability to implement an established and effective safety culture assessment process. The course will introduce the SI-9 product which has been developed to provide an efficient and accurate methodology to measure multiple elements of your organization's culture. The periodic measurement of your corporate culture not only enhances your risk visibility but provides evidence of your personal and corporate due diligence in risk management.

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

• Recognise the signs and signals of vulnerable corporate risk culture.
• Understand the personal and corporate liability implications of risk and safety management.
• Adapt their risk management systems to become more resilient.
• Design an effective safety culture measurement system based on the SI-9 assessment system.
• Develop and implement an effective organizational cultural management strategy.

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on experience of cultural measurement tools

Audience:

• This course is for leaders, or aspiring leaders, with direct responsibility for leading teams and making strategic decisions

Overview:

The Strategic Leadership Course provides you with the knowledge and techniques to determine a clear, strategic direction for your organisation. It will help you better understand the various approaches to leadership, alongside change management and decision making, giving you the ability to plan and implement strategic actions. The course presenters have extensive experience in coaching senior leaders in the practical application of strategic leadership principles. The course makes use of contemporary real-life examples and utilises the experiences of the candidates.

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

• Gain insights into the various approaches to strategy
• Have a greater appreciation of the different approaches to leadership and change management
• Understand how to effectively implement a strategic plan
• Evaluate the progress of a strategic plan

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Scenario based learning with your group.
• Opportunities to discuss your own leadership challenges in a group setting

Audience:

• This course is for leaders, or aspiring leaders, with direct responsibility for leading teams and making strategic decisions

Overview:

The Strategic Planning Course provides you with the knowledge and techniques to determine a clear, strategic direction for your organisation. It will help you better understand the various approaches available in analysing, planning and implementing strategic actions. The course does not promote a singular approach to strategic planning but provides the candidates with a selection of approaches. This agnostic approach to strategic theory allows contextualised application of the candidates’ needs within their particular professional environment. Whilst candidates would be expected to bring and share their own experience, extensive use is made of contemporary real-life examples.

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

• Gain insights into the various approaches to strategy
• Have a greater appreciation of the different methods of strategic analysis and positioning
• Understand how to effectively address strategic implementation
• Evaluate the progress of a strategic plan

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Scenario based learning with your group.
• Opportunities to reflect on your own challenges

This instructor-led, live training in Ireland (online or onsite) is aimed at current CTOs and upcoming CTOs such as technical directors or technical managers who wish to acquire the technical and managerial perspective needed to be an effective CTO.

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

• Hire and lead a vibrant and innovative technical team.
• Effectively adopt and manage the technology needed to develop great products.
• Apply useful techniques and strategies for managing products and projects.
• Scale the company business and move it in the right direction.

Audience

Managers and Team Leaders who need to be fully aware of the issues surrounding the management and development of their staff (direct and indirect reports)

Format of the course

The course will be a highly-interactive combination of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Exercises and Case Studies

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand the different skills required for Managing and for Leading
• Develop their team in the most-effective way
• Explain how best to deliver Change in their part of the organisation
• Manage staff performance better
• Successfully negotiate their preferred solutions
• Explain how to deal with the difficult situations they may encounter in the office

This instructor-led, live training in Ireland (online or onsite) is aimed at managers and executives who wish to implement the right tools, skills, and methodologies to manage remote teams.

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

• Explore remote leadership, structures, and components to successfully adapt a remote work setup.
• Develop trust, goals, culture, and teamwork to create an effective and productive remote team.
• Use existing tools and technologies to improve virtual communication and collaboration.
• Implement goal setting and project management methods to measure the performance of a remote team.

Participant Profiles 

CxO, Operation Managers, Enterprise Architects, Business and System Analysts and Designers

Objective

This introduction seminar provides you with an overview of the digital business models, business and enterprise architecture frameworks as well as methodologies that organizations are trying to focus on to increase their business agility facing disruptions of the digital age.

In particular, this seminar aims at helping you to understand frameworks and reference architectures that are used worldwide to align digital business models and IT system architectures with the changing competitive landscape.

Objective:

Helping Business Analysts to understand how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources in order to increase business agility of their organization on the basis of their target architecture and changing market needs.

This 2 day training course aims at helping delegates to learn how to model their business processes and resources in order to adapt them to changes of their goals, strategies and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. On the basis of the key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPI, business capabilities, etc...), delegates learn there how to elaborate a vision centric business process and resource cartography. Then, only using the appropriate BPMN and UML notation adapted to their language, they understand how to adapt them to changing strategies, tactics and policies.

This instructor-led, live training workshop (onsite or remote) is aimed at introducing available change management models with their pros and cons and case studies in order to equip the delegates with the knowledge and skills to choose the most appropriate model specific to their domain itself.

Format of the Course

A combination of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Exercises and Case Studies

At the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Explain the basic Change Strategies that underpin the planning for change in an organisation
• Construct a Change Plan suitable to their part of the business.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Ireland (online or onsite) is aimed at stressed individuals who wish to deal with their stress effectively and achieve a calmer, clearer and more energetic state in daily life.

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

• Understand the two types of stress: distress and eustress.
• Articulate your personal indicators and relievers of stress.
• Create a plan with specific routines to enhance calm, clarity and energy, while minimzing stress accumulated in the day.
• Shift negative emotions and boost positive ones using proven techniques.
• Deal with stress-causing. disempowering beliefs around work, life, and relationships.

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course accredited by the Lean Kanban University (LKU). It combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.
 
The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.
 
You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation