"The facilitator's job is to support the group to do their best thinking. This means, encouraging full participation, promoting mutual understanding, fostering inclusive solutions and teaching new thinking skills."
We believe this is a fundamental difference between a trainer and a facilitator and why it is important to focus on the art of facilitation. The ability to embrace each of these four functions effectively, enables our team to not only strengthen the skills, awareness and confidence of group members but it also strengthens the structure and capacity of the group as a whole.
Leadership and Management development through tailored workshops and post workshop support is what we focus on at Richard Powell Learning.
It has been estimated that:
This is always the key challenge for all facilitation and learning. It is abundantly clear that over time and through personal experience this is where the greatest value can be found. If you are looking for your teams to change; evolve or grow it is important to encourage and develop strategies that support the facilitation, rather than simply relying on the facilitation alone.
Richard Powell Learning takes the development of people one step further by through inspirational facilitation, coaching and practice. This enables our facilitation to not only meet individual needs but also the needs of the organisation. But we don’t stop there!
As part of the facilitation approach we also reinforce the learning through direct reference to the organisation strategy, mission, vison and values, as well as supporting the learning outside of the workshop.
Facilitation, on the job practice, coaching, ongoing support and a genuine focus on development, is clearly designed to provide and improve the retention of knowledge. In fact, it is four times more likely to lead to sustained change in individual behaviour. The key to your businesses success is having skilled, motivated and engaged employees, therefore an investment in their development and future growth is paramount.
We endeavour to deliver on our core values which in turn develops the potential of your people. We focus on delivering programs that are engaging, practical and harness real life experiences. This approach allows for skills and knowledge to immediately be transferred into the workforce. A key benefit of our short courses is you will obtain new skills without having to commit to a longer learning period and you will receive follow up initiatives designed to enhance knowledge retention.
Richard’s formal qualifications include Training and Assessment, a Diploma in Leadership and Management, and an Arts Degree in Humanities. This knowledge is applied to ensure a tailored program is developed to meet the specific needs of you, your team and organisation.
The ability to relate, develop trust and reinforce learning is a core leadership skill. Richard Powell Learning can assist in developing these skills and many others in you and your teams. We of course take our facilitation seriously and through our passion for people development we are able to deliver learning episodes that are not only meaningful but also encourage ongoing self-reflection, a willingness to change and a strong commitment to embed improved behaviours.
Coaching is a process of relationship building and setting goals. How well you coach is related directly to how well you are able to foster a great working relationship with your employees and help understand them and strategic goal setting. It basically speaking, the purpose is to increase awareness, broaden thinking, identify strengths and development needs and set and achieve challenging goals.
With our own experiences and utilising established models of coaching we can develop, in your people, a coaching mindset. This approach is reinforced by research conducted by the Centre for Creative Leadership, who have identified that the key skills managers and leaders need to coach others fall into five categories:
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Engage and improve individual performance by developing people, to their fullest potential, through inspirational facilitation, coaching and practice.
