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Case Study – NHS

UK based Step 2 Performance Consultant Helen Williamson specialises in leadership programmes and development with senior teams going through organisational change.

Helen ran a one day Step One programme with the Business Support team for Birmingham Public Health.

 

How the programme has impacted

For the new leader the impact was immediate as it gave them the confidence that this was a good team that they would be leading, and that it had all the right mix of elements within each of the individuals.

The change in the type and depth of conversation that the team has was immediate, creating openness and a flexible approach. Already they have seen the benefit of this when they were unexpected without a team member for an extended period, as there is a new energy within the team that brings them together which the leader says is “palpable”. They are achieving more as they are now more focussed and aligned and have moved more rapidly into the “norming” stage.

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Case Study – Britvic

UK based Step 2 Performance Consultant Helen Williamson specialises in leadership programmes and development with senior teams going through organisational change.

Helen ran a one day Step One programme with the Britvic GB procurement leadership team.

How the programme has impacted

The change in the type and depth of conversation that the team has was immediate, creating openness and an immediate understanding and correlation of the alignment of individual strengths to key business activities and when not; the impact on working relationships and performance.

There has been a much greater awareness, not just of, where their individual value lies, but they can now see more clearly how they can effectively capitalise on each other’s talents to create improved results. It has also increased their awareness of their potential blind spots, so that they can consciously deal with these, to enable better and more complete solutions to be achieved.

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Case Study: Beauteco

Submitted by Laura Carrick UK Performance Consultant.

Laura specialises in working with clients in the Spa and beauty industry. Here is a case study from one of her recent clients, Beauteco.

Beauteco’s turnover has increased by 76%, since the programme 6 months ago.

Salon utilisation is up from 47% to 69% currently and growing, following a Step One, one day programme.

Team members are much more engaged and absence is virtually non-existent. Click here to read more 

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Free Step One Programmes for Charities/Social Enterprises/NFP’s

An early Christmas Present!

As you know, we run high impact, high return on investment programmes. Our one day Introduction to Talent Dynamics programme, generally sees at least a £100k ROI within 12 months for a team of 10-12 people. Usually, a one day programme is priced at £2750/AUD$5000

Every month, we are accrediting new Performance Consultants, either in UK/Australia/South Africa or Japan. These new Consultants are really keen to get some experience running programmes straight away and they would love to get their experience in an organisation that is also making a real difference itself.

We have run a few free programmes to particularly deserving enterprises. Here’s one such case study from Inner Flame in the UK.

We want to help our Consultants to get real experience in running programmes as soon as they are accredited, at the same time as making a contribution to the community, by running free programmes for deserving charities/NFP’s and social enterprises.

If you know of, or you run a cool charity/SE/NFP with a team of at least 10-12 people who would love to experience one of our programmes and you are based in one of our trading countries (or you are willing to fly someone in to run a programme), please send  details to janet.carter@talent-dynamics.com, telling us more about what you do and why you would love to be part of this programme.

 

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Inner Flame Case Study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inner Flame Case Study

Submitted by Teejay Dowe Talent Dynamics Performance Consultant

Why we were asked to work with Inner Flame Submitted by Teejay Dowe Talent Dynamics Performance Consultant

Inner Flame is a 3 year old Youth Charity based in Swindon, Wiltshire. The organisation was originally set up to provide residential courses for 14 to 19 years olds in order to inspire them to reach their full potential and live happy fulfilled lives. In three short years the number of courses Inner Flame now runs, the diversity of those courses, and the demand for courses for a slightly older audience has grown significantly. Funding and staffing of the charity have become an on-going challenge as all of the coaches, trainers, outreach and office staff are all volunteers.

The board of trustees, founders and management team really needed to find a way to identify strengths in the organisation in order to ensure people’s time and skill is put to best use. They required a focussed way to take stock of where they had got to and where they want to go and to discover what is currently standing in the way of that progress.

Read more here Inner Flame Submitted by Teejay Dowe Talent Dynamics Performance Consultant | Talent Dynamics.

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Talent Dynamics for Schools Update

Everyone has a fundamental right to experience Flow

Talent Dynamics for Schools is the fastest way to grow flow for the next generation!

Alison Sadler from Blackpool HERO contacted us about becoming an accredited Talent Dynamics Performance Consultant when she heard that we were going to be launching Talent Dynamics for schools. Alison and her team had already experienced the power of Talent Dynamics in the workplace as last year we ran a programme with them, helping them to devise a plan that allowed them continuity as an organisation, after the government funding that previously ran them, had ceased. Click here to see the case study.

HERO is an incredible organisation, that champions Enterprise Education in and around Lancashire. Having understood the impact of Talent Dynamics on their own team Flow and revenues, they were keen to be the first group to pilot and use Talent Dynamics for schools, to introduce Flow to young people.

Launch Yourself Event – Blackburn July 7th

HERO have a one day programme aimed at 14-16 year olds called ‘Launch Yourself’ - An incredibly inspiring one day programme that opens the minds of young people to the possibilities of their future. It gives them access to real pepole who have used Enterprise as the vehicle for their success. People like Daniel Priestley and Jane Kenyon who shared their stories and learning on the day.

We profiled, in advance of the day, all 300 of the students attending the one day programme as well as all their teachers and sent them personalised reports and graphs. The TDS questionnaire has been adapted to make the test much more user friendly and specific for 9-16 year olds. The ensuing report is also more specific for them and easier to understand as well. It talks about the best roles in school for young people to maximise trust and flow – it has examples of which of the 8 profiles, the characters of Star Wars are!

The students got into a fun exercise with me that demonstrated the real differences between the profiles and they were asking some really amazing questions about how to get in and stay in Flow. How to tell what profiles other people were and how they could use this new knowledge today and for their futures.

Of course, they understood and picked up the principles of Flow immediately!

My favorite part of the Talent Dynamics session, was during the exercise debrief with the students and teachers. One of the teachers stood up and declared from the conversations they had during the session that: 

“We now need to find a way to teach the different profiles in the way they most like to be engaged and taught” – This received a big round of applause from the students and from me too!

We are now developing the ‘Talent Dynamics for Schools Pathway’ suite of products alongside HERO, which will include training interventions at the key stages of development and learning for 9, 11, 14 and 16 year olds.

Currently, Alison from HERO is the only Performance Consultant in the world, accredited to work with Talent Dynamics for Schools. For more information on TDS and how your School can benefit, please contact alison.sadler@unity.blackpool.org.uk direectly

If you are a Training company or consulting supplier to Education and are interested in becoming accredited to use TDS as one of your tools, please contact info@talent-dynamics.com with TDS as your subject header to find out more from our team.

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Case Study: Triumphant Events

“After finishing the one day Talent Dynamics workshop in December, we calculated, that as a result, we could add a six figure sum to our bottom line within 6 months and we are on track to achieving this. The team now have a shared language that really adds to the performance of our dynamic, fast-paced environment.”  

Marcus Ubl General Manager Triumphant Events

Why we were asked to work with Triumphant Events

Triumphant Events, one of the UK’s leading Entrepreneur training companies specialising in working with Entrepreneurs to create substantial ROI’s through their high impact, intensive development programmes. Incredibly Creative as a team and with very dynamic leadership, this team were never short of ideas to generate additional revenues but they were keen to find a way to become more focused and grow at an even faster rate. 

Well versed in our sister companies Wealth Dynamics system and with a number of new members in the team, they were also keen to have everyone understand the best way to get into and stay in flow as a newly extended team. 

Having had members of the team in various locations and roles up to December, they also wanted to provide an environment of added cohesion and clarity of accountabilities for the coming months 

What we did

 The Triumphant Events team completed Step One on the Talent Dynamics Pathway – a one-day programme called Understanding Primary Purpose.

On this programme, individuals in the team received their personal Talent Dynamics Profile Reports and began to understand the best way to create value within their team and how to leverage that value with each other. They started to have some real ‘aha’ moments about where individuals were most in and out of flow and how this could be impacting both their results and the level of motivation in the team .

 We took the team through our unique process for creating scalable ideas ‘Rapid Flow’ and showed them how to turn these ideas into clear and focused accountabilities. Ideas that were aimed at growing lead generation and sales. The programme created situations that allowed participants – both as individuals and as a team – to experience together, flow, in a very empowering way.

Whom we worked with in the Enterprise

The leadership and operational team UK 

Programme timings

One day programme.

How the programme has impacted

The main impact of the programme, has been the way in which the team are now better able to leverage the incredible value they were already delivering. This is the key to impacting revenue and profit. They have really prioritised their focus and have individuals with clear accountabilities, motivated to deliver. 

Ideas for revenue generation were already happening through the leadership team and so the programme empowered all levels in the company to get involved in this and to feel more cohesively connected to the organisation. 

6 months ahead of their original schedule, their signature programme KPI Accelerator (Key Person of Influence) is being launched internationally into Australia and negotiations are currently under way for a 3rd country. 

A tremendous amount of promotional content has been created and launched through YouTube and other means, which is having significant impact on both lead generation and also conversion rates – clients watching the content are attending sales meetings already having made a decision and interested in specific questions. The online KPI videos have had over 11,000 views to date. 

The Sales process and lead to conversion time has sped up following intensive focus and additional training support.  The sales team feel more empowered and confident in their roles and clear about their accountabilities within this. 

Powerful products, manuals and speaker cards have been created for the KPI programme, which has dramatically, further increased the value of this programme.

Overall, the team are operating at a significantly higher level of performance than they were in December. They are motivated, excited and connected.

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Webinar:Building effective teams in General Mills with Sue Swanborough

Building effective teams in General Mills UK & Ireland – Webinar with Sue Swanborough

  • Are you interested to learn how the world’s 6th largest food company builds effective teams across its divisions in the UK & Ireland?
  • Are you a business Leader/CEO/HRD responsible for a significant head count across multiple sites?
  • Do you want to know the top people strategies that have helped General Mills UK & Ireland, sustain a track record of double digit growth during challenging trading times?
  • Would you like to pose a direct question to one of the UK’s leading HRD thought leaders in building Trust in Organisations?

Join Michelle on May 18th, when she will be interviewing Sue Swanborough, UK & Ireland HR Director for General Mills. This is a rare opportunity, to gain an amazing insight, into how one of the world’s largest food companies, builds effective teams and we wanted to give you plenty of notice to be able to attend the live webinar!

Webinar details:

When: May 18th 0800-0845 London/1700-1745 SydneyClick here to check other time zones.

Where: Click here to reserve your place and to ensure you are sent the log in details before the webinar

Who can benefit from this webinar

  • CEO’s/HRD’s in large organisations, looking for value add information and insights
  • Business Leaders who have been considering Talent Dynamics as part of their strategy and are curious over the likely impact  in a large organisation
  • Performance Consultants accredited in Step One on the Talent Dynamics Pathway

General Mills UK & Ireland have been using Step One on the Talent Dynamics Pathway, as part of their strategy for building effective teams. Sue will be sharing why they decided to use Talent Dynamics and what the benefits and impact has been over the past 9 months having profiled the UK & Ireland leadership Teams.

Sue will also be taking questions live from the audience, on the webinar as well, so make sure you have a place booked as this is a great opportunity to get some high value and practical strategies that you can look to implement with your teams.

 Places on this webinar are limited so please click here to book your place now

About Sue Swanborough

Sue, a science graduate, has worked in a number of fmcg businesses, including Boots plc, Mars  and more recently General Mills. During her career she has moved cross functionally through R&D, supply chain, logistics and manufacturing before joining HR. She has held a number of generalist and specialist roles covering the full spectrum of HR. Her passion and expertise lies in cultural and leadership development through building trust to deliver excellent business results.

About General Mills UK & Ireland

General Mills UK & Ireland is one of the fastest growing food companies in the market and has a track record of double digit growth, with a market leading portfolio that includes Häagen-Dazs, Old El Paso, Green Giant, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley and Jus-Rol.

Part of the world’s sixth largest food company, General Mills has been ranked 8th in the Top 50 Best Workplaces UK is also proud to be consistently named in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work For

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Case Study – HERO

Facing dramatic government cuts in spending, we might not be here today if we hadn’t discovered Talent Dynamics six months ago! That day, everything changed. We discovered how we could make our vision a reality. Not only could we sustain but we could also scale our service…. The team was inspired in a way like never before.”

Nicola Hall – Head of Enterprise Education for Blackpool

Why we were asked to work with HERO

HERO is a project funded by Blackpool Council to deliver Enterprise Education across Blackpool. It is tasked with providing young people access to skills and knowledge they would otherwise have never received. The HERO team inspire many a young person into a career in business/entrepreneurship. Its work has been incredibly well received by young people, Blackpool schools and parents alike.

The team have known for approximately 18 months that their LEGI funding (Local Enterprise Growth Initiative) was due to end in March 2011 and that they would lose their entire £300,000 a year funding for activities. This meant an end to Enterprise Education as Blackpool knew it. Throughout the last financial year the project has seen “in-year” cuts to its funding become the norm.

If the team wanted to continue, it had to find a sustainable and scalable solution that didn’t require public sector funding and fast!

What we did

The HERO team completed Step One on the Talent Dynamics Pathway – a one-day programme called Understanding Primary Purpose.

On this programme, individuals in the team received their personal Talent Dynamics Profile Reports and began to understand the best way to create value within their team and how to leverage that value with each other. They started to have some real ‘aha’ moments about why the ideas they previously had were not coming to fruition in the way they had set out in the new HERO vision.

They experienced a unique process of creating flow using the Talent Dynamics model and learnt how to immediately apply that to the ideas created that day. The programme created situations that allowed participants – both as individuals and as a team – to experience for the first time together, flow, in a very empowering way.

Whom we worked with in the Enterprise
The HERO leadership team and Schools’ HERO enterprise facilitators .

Programme timings
One day programme.

How the programme has impacted

The change in the mindset within the team was dramatic and instantaneous. Team members were open to change, much more flexible in their approach, more committed and most importantly, were having more fun!

HERO has now become a Community Interest Company. It will no longer be funded by the Government from March 2011 but be funded through its commercial activities.

Forward orders have already been placed for programmes by schools that will be run by this ‘new company’ in Blackpool and it is estimated that a revenue of £50,000 will be achieved as a minimum in the next 12 months.

As a community interest company, it can now apply for funding streams that were not ’t open to it previously. This is likely to generate a further £30,000

It is likely that the service provided to Blackpool will be leveraged next year across the whole of the UK as part of an ambitious expansion plan.

The team remains the same as before with imminent plans to be no longer employed by the public sector, but set up as a Community Interest Company The wealth of experience, credibility and the strength of relationships mean service can continue at the usual high standard.

Productivity has increased because each person is working to roles and accountabilities that keep the team in flow.

They are all particularly excited that the work they have invested their time and passion in was recognised, when the team was awarded a Prime Ministers Big Society Award (one of only a handful presented across the country!).

Read more detail about this and other case studies here.

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