Community Response News
Here are recent news items from Community Response and Response Development Training:
27 Aug 06
We are very excited to have recently created a new business providing student development programmes to schools and colleges.
Learning to Earning provides a unique and powerful programme called 'The Personal Skills Journey'. It helps to prepare students in their final school years in the transition from school to university or the world of work.
Subject areas include leadership, team working skills, personal brand, equality and diversity. The workshops span 2 days are delivered in schools and include a range of methods such as theory inputs, project work, practical exercises, discussion exercises, review and reflection.
The workshops are generating lots of interest within schools. We are also in discussion with a number of corporate partners regarding sponsorship and other means of support for the programmes.
For more information please visit the web site at www.learningtoearning.co.uk.
25 Aug 06
New clients for this Autumn are as follows:
A change management workshop for The US Commercial Service - part of the US Embassy.
Team building programmes for financial institutions Euroclear and Friends Provident.
We welcome them into the RDT fold and thoroughly look forward to working with delegates from these organisations.
25 Aug 06
We are currently mid way through a contract to assist the London Fire Brigade in creating a new 5 day Leadership Development Training programme aimed at Crew Managers.
Our role is to provide feedback, guidance and support to their facilitator team in designing and delivering the best programme possible. This is done through regular meetings, face to face feedback and via written reports.
It's an exciting and thoroughly rewarding process and one which enables us to offer our expertise and experience in providing leadership development training to a wide range of clients.
25 Aug 06
We were delighted recently to be asked to design and deliver two separate career development coaching workshops on behalf of the London Fire Brigade.
The workshops were provided for delegates who had recently gone through a promotional assessment centre. They offered individuals opportunities to:
Reflect on their strengths and development needs
Identify ways to maximise their learning and development
Prepare a career development plan and receive key feedback
Those who attended all benefitted enormously and we look forward to helping the Brigade with similar initiatives in the future.
25 Aug 06
We have recently worked with two separate large departments from AWE on one of our largest scale events - Barn Raising! The objective for the group is to raise a large scale 'Amish' style barn in a single day. In order for groups to be successful they must combine elements of complex project management, team working, negotiation and influencing skills, leadership and cross team working.
Every participant has a full and active role to play from project managers to roofers to cladders to journalists. It is always fascinating to observe the interdependancy of these roles and the project slowly come together. The transfer of learning back to the workplace always makes for a very powerful experience for all who take part.
25 Aug 06
We recently took a large group of marketers and product developers from one our large financial services clients to the Solent for a yachting regatta. Sailing from the beautiful Bucklers Hard at the head of the Beaulieu River there was a morning spent learning the fundamentals of crewing a 40 foot yacht, followed by lunch at Cowes and a Solent regatta in the afternoon.
We then travelled to the very comfortable Rhinefield House Hotel in the New Forest for a prizegiving, dinner and drinks. The second day followed with some team based exercises and discussions around the future working of this expanding department. All who attended the event agreed that it had a real wow factor and was hugely successful in bringing the department together. We look forward to the next event for this, one of our longest standing clients
14 Dec 05
November saw us host a team development training programme on behalf of one of our financial services clients in Lille. A short Eurostar journey took the 13 members of the Business Development Team across the water where they enjoyed an excellent stay at one of the city's nicest hotels.
Discussions centred around the new shape of this recently expanded team together with links to future goals, roles, systems and relationships. The event culminated in a creative video project using the stunning backdrop of Old Lille. Team members commented on how the programme had 'exceeded their expectations'.
We look forward to taking more of clients to European destinations which can provide excellent value for money.
13 Dec 05
We recently worked with a high profile funds group from one of our financial services clients. New team members and considerable changes to their internal systems and communication together with a changing regulatory framework made them feel that they should spend valuable time away from their offices to explore the issues and challenges they face.
We spent a day and a half at the Petersham Hotel in west London and facilitated a number discussions and team based activities closely matched to the event objectives. Use of Myers Briggs Type Indicator profiling also helped them to explore relationships, team and individual styles.
They are currently working on a robust and highly detailed action plan resulting from the event which we wish them every success with.
12 Dec 05
We look forward to running a 2 day management development programme on behalf of brand new client, Leapfrog Day Nurseries Group.
Operations Managers, who between them manage over 100 day care nurseries, will attend the programme just outside Derby in order to promote and enhance leadership,
business acumen, the management team function, self awareness and managing the work environment
We hope that this team of senior managers find the event enjoyable and greatly beneficial to their professional development.
11 Dec 05
Recent months have seen many other successful programmes and events such as:
1. Interactive Leadership seminars run on behalf of delegates at the Networking Women in the Fire Sevice Conference in Gloucestershire.
2. A conference energiser and goal setting forum for the UK Group Legal Team of the National Australia Bank which took place at Loch Lomond.
3. A presentation and discussion evening on personal leadership to small creative businesses in Essex.
4. Team Development for teams and departments within the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire.
5. The 4th consecutive department team building event for 40 members of the Fire Fighter Development Unit of the London Fire Brigade which took place in Derbyshire.
6. A one day leadership development workshop for all 75 students in the lower sixth form of the Kings School Ely.
10 Dec 05
In 2006 we will be providing new and existing clients with a large variety of training events and programmes. Some examples of which are:
1. Working with KIS Training in delivering residential personal development courses for Prince's Trust volunteers.
2. Delivering team development programmes for departments within the Atomic Weaponse Establishment.
3. Rolling out our new leadership development package known as 'The Leadership Journey'.
4. Continuing our leadership development programmes with the London Fire Brigade.
5. Continuing and expanding our workshops for students in schools to include diversity and personal branding.
We hope to be able see and work with you all in 2006.
25 Jul 05
CSR is increasingly part of core business strategy and companies strive to integrate good CSR practice within their organisations. Our Community Programme enables your company to meet your training needs and CSR objectives through community involvement. Our projects can be used for CSR Benchmarking, most specifically for the CSR Academy Competency Framework, where it meets several key competencies and in the Good Corporation Standard, where it meets various principles and assessed practices.
“The ability to attract and retain the best human capital is becoming ever more important to securing a competitive advantage.” FTSE 4Good Index
24 Jul 05
The key objective of our Community Training Programme is to enable your company to meet its training needs and its CSR objectives by enabling staff to become engaged in a meaningful community or charity project. This is not employee volunteering, but a means of developing both individual and team skills in a diverse and challenging environment, whilst also working alongside a charity and meeting the needs of the local community. By training your people through charity projects, you will help develop a fresh approach to problem solving, enhance self development, increase motivation and company loyalty and nurture active citizens.
23 Jul 05
Human Resources - Public Relations - Corporate Social Responsibility - and Management Development meet together in a virtuous circle.
The projects are integrally linked to programmes of team and management development 'bringing alive' learning which, with RDTs skilled facilitation, provide valuable links to the delegate's own world of work.
This approach is;
1. Designed to match the needs of our clients
2. Focused on desired skills and abilities
3. Focused on real issues for real local people
4. Powerful and unusual.
Programmes provide a blended approach with traditional indoor methods of training delivery being combined with an experiential approach through project working.
21 Jul 05
The following represent a selection of the huge number of projects and activities available.
1. Working within schools to design and deliver workshops for students on personal skills - such as Team working, Leadership and Communication
2. Undertaking practical conservation work at Nature Reserves and wildlife sites – such as pond restoration, woodland management, footpath work and disabled access
3. Improving recreation facilities for disadvantaged young people at local sites
4. Restoring buildings and grounds at Heritage sites
5. Working within schools on awareness raising such as anti-bullying campaigns
6. Decorating a refuge or house for the homeless
7. Creating a sensory garden in a school or hospice
8. Designing and managing promotional campaigns for charities in order to raise their profile locally or nationally
9. Research projects and survey work in both urban and rural areas
20 Jul 05
Young volunteers from the Prince's Trust ranging from ex offenders to the long term unemployed are benefitting from our expertise in delivering personal skills programmes.
Working on behalf of our client and delivery partner the London Fire Brigade we design and deliver 5 day courses which act as a powerful team and personal development experience. They are part of a wider 12 week programme designed to get the volunteers back into work, training or education or a charity placement.
We have so far worked with over 70 young adults between 16 and 24 years of age using outdoor activities, problem solving exercises and community projects within schools. We hope to continue this valuable and well regarded part of our community activity over the coming months.
For more information on the Prince's Trust visit their web site at www.princes-trust.org.uk.
