What is it?

Development workshops are a way to acquire new skills by the members of an organisation by solving real problems with the assistance of a trainer. They are run in the form of individual or group meetings organised around a specific business goal. The trainer moderates and facilitates the advancement of the workshop, identifying obstacles and proposing tools to support the achievement of a goal. Such a learning-in-action process results in developing new effective behaviours, reaching a decision and determining an action plan.

Supportive models:

Transforming Communication

Nonviolent Communication

Communication tailored to others’ behavioural profiles

Conflict resolution

Feedforward – negative and positive feedback

What is the problem in your organization?

Does the organizational culture eat strategy for breakfast?

(silos; avoiding direct discussions; hundreds of e-mails; sweeping under the carpet; empty talk; resistance to succession planning; ineffective meetings),

How do you know that you communicate effectively?

(expressive and sensitive types; what do want these, who say nothing; someone is dominating the meeting; political correctness)

What are people afraid of in your organization?

(succession; new team member; new boss; sharing one’s knowledge; tough targets, deadlines; personal conflict; dismissal)

What is the effect of providing feedback?

(de-motivation for further work; worsening of the relationship; resistance; ignorance…)

What rules paralyse change?

(we’ve already tried; we don’t have money; we can’t do this; we are too small a company, we don’t have the right people…)

Development workshops provide support adapted to a specific situation; a resolution thanks to acting here and now.

We learn the most while acting.