Professional
Development
Our Professional Development training programmes are aimed at those who are looking to improve and enhance their skills to better meet the needs of their organisation. LearningCog have a range of tried and tested training programmes available and any of these can be customised to suit your specific business needs. If you are unsure of what you need, we can work together to identify your development needs and build a programme from the ground up.
An Introduction to Insights Discovery
1 Day Workshop
Our 1-Day Foundation Workshop introduces you to the internationally recognised psychometric assessment tool, Insights Discovery. The Foundation Workshop is designed to give you practical, actionable ways to adapt your communication. You will come away from the workshop with new tools to help you eliminate common communication issues that individuals and teams often struggle with. If you are new to ‘colour psychometrics’ or ‘colour energies’, this workshop is an ideal introduction. You will explore your own personal style and how you can adapt to get the best out of all your communications with others whilst investigating your strengths, areas for development and potential blind spots. We also take time to look at developing skills around influencing and motivation.
- Understand yourself and gain perspective of others using the Insights Discovery character model.
- Understand the Insights Discovery Four Colour System.
- Be able to adapt your style to get the best out of a situation by understanding personal preferences.
- Create a character map of the people around them across the business.
- Develop ideas on protecting the well-being of yourself and others.
- Write an action plan that you can learn from and implement from the moment you leave the workshop.
The workshop runs from 10am to 4pm, with breaks and lunch.
- We get started by welcoming you to the workshop and introducing you to everyone else, and gain an understanding of what your personal objectives are for the day.
- We start to look at Perception and how you perceive the world around you.
- We move into some interactive exercises to look at your perception, i.e. a self perception exercise and a group perception exercise.
- We introduce the Insights Discovery Four Colour Model and start to define their meanings.
- During the day we take a look at Jungian psychology and how this underpins the four colour model.
- Once we have this understanding you will then receive your 32 page Insights Discovery Personal Profile.
- After you have had time to read your profile we do some work using this information whilst looking at communication across the four colour types and how it relates to you.
- We look at the Do’s and the Don'ts when adapting your style to the people around you.
- We also take some time to assess a few celebrities and see where they sit on the wheel.
- We draw the day to a close by looking at a personal action plan for you moving forward.
The colour energy categories determine how and why people behave the way they do. Insights Discovery promotes effective relationships by introducing a common language that improves communication, reducing or eliminating conflict; leaving you to focus on the task ahead and get the job done. For this reason, many of our clients incorporate Insights Discovery into their recruitment strategies allowing them to build a cohesive and communicative team from the outset. Using Insights Discovery as a foundation for your people strategy builds stronger, more professional relationships, boosting productivity and taking your business to the next level of engagement.
Insights Discovery is for anyone who would like to:
- Improve their personal effectiveness by knowing and understanding themselves and others.
- Inspire and facilitate their own and others self-awareness, personal development and growth.
- Learn a common language of understanding and interaction that enhances communication.
- Gain a new perspective on themselves and others that dissolves limitations and expands possibilities.
- Empower themselves and others to recognise, value and optimise the benefit of difference.
- Transform the interpersonal dynamics, productivity and culture at home and/or their workplace.
Foundation Chapter
This chapter introduces you to your personal style and approach. It focuses on key strengths/weaknesses, value to the team, preferred communication style, possible blind spots, opposite types and suggestions for your development.
*Management Chapter
This chapter is a valuable inclusion within a leadership team or management development programme. It enables managers to consider their own management style as well as the needs of those they manage. you will gain insights into your motivation, preferred working environment and leadership style.
*Personal Achievement Chapter
This chapter explores how you can grow and improve in areas such as time management, creativity and goal setting. This information can form an integral part of a personal effectiveness or coaching programme.
*Effective Selling Chapter
This chapter explores individual approaches towards selling and influencing at each stage of the sale from preparation to follow-through. It can be customised or linked to your in-house sales model or process.
*Interview Chapter
This chapter is a one-page supplement providing pertinent questions to assist in the selection process. The questions probe and stretch the candidate, raising levels of self awareness and identifying areas of strength and areas for development.
*The report you receive will consist of the Foundation Chapter only. You may purchase further chapters. Please contact LearningCog for pricing.
Prior to the workshop you will be required to complete an online assessment which takes approximately 20 mins to complete. The results of your assessment form the basis of your Insights Discovery Personal Profile. You will receive a hard copy of your report (valued at £94) during the workshop.
Team Development
Are you looking to help your team become more effective? Do you need to increase collaboration and productivity in a team? Would you like to improve the performance of every team? Are you wanting to develop innovation and inspire creativity?
Imagine if everyone in your organisation could share a common language. Wouldn’t this make your life easier if they could communicate effectively and appreciate each other’s strengths and weaknesses?
Insights Discovery
Insights Discovery is a world leading diagnostic tool which helps people really understand themselves and others. We want to partner with you to help improve the effectiveness of your team and the performance of your organisation. Using a unique approach to the team building away day, we have been working with organisations across the UK to enhance their leadership and teamwork performance.
- Measurable improved performance
- Improved Customer Service
- Increased employee engagement
- Creative thinking to lead the way in service improvements
Improvements like these enhance the organisations ability to prepare for and respond to challenging times. We will partner with you to ensure that the programmes we deliver are just as relevant from the mail room to the meeting room. Our team building away days are simple and deeply insightful, providing immediate impact on your organisation.
LearningCog’s Team Development Training is designed around the key objectives of your team. We draw together professional standards of facilitation, current best practice, cutting edge people development and wrap this up with the specific objectives directed by you. We work with the key stakeholder in your programme on a regular basis in order to structure the team building away day and deliver specific objectives to your needs.
Insight Discovery Colour Wheel
The colour energy categories determine how and why people behave the way they do. Insights Discovery promotes effective relationships by introducing a common language that improves communication, reducing or eliminating conflict; leaving you to focus on the task ahead and get the job done. For this reason, many of our clients incorporate Insights Discovery into their recruitment strategies allowing them to build a cohesive and communicative team from the outset. Using Insights Discovery as a foundation for your people strategy builds stronger, more professional relationships, boosting productivity and taking your business to the next level of engagement.
Foundation Chapter
This chapter introduces you to your personal style and approach. It focuses on key strengths/weaknesses, value to the team, preferred communication style, possible blind spots, opposite types and suggestions for your development.
*Management Chapter
This chapter is a valuable inclusion within a leadership team or management development programme. It enables managers to consider their own management style as well as the needs of those they manage. you will gain insights into your motivation, preferred working environment and leadership style.
*Personal Achievement Chapter
This chapter explores how you can grow and improve in areas such as time management, creativity and goal setting. This information can form an integral part of a personal effectiveness or coaching programme.
*Effective Selling Chapter
This chapter explores individual approaches towards selling and influencing at each stage of the sale from preparation to follow-through. It can be customised or linked to your in-house sales model or process.
*Interview Chapter
This chapter is a one-page supplement providing pertinent questions to assist in the selection process. The questions probe and stretch the candidate, raising levels of self awareness and identifying areas of strength and areas for development.
*The report you receive will consist of the Foundation Chapter only. You may purchase further chapters. Please contact LearningCog for pricing.
Prior to the workshop you will be required to complete an online assessment which takes approximately 20 mins to complete. The results of your assessment form the basis of your Insights Discovery Personal Profile. You will receive a hard copy of your report (valued at £94) during the workshop.
Insights Discovery Floor Mat
In order to break down the barriers built up within traditional methods, our Team Development Training Course is based around the Insights Discovery floor mat. This changes the perspective of each delegate so that they are not just attending another presentation, but instead becoming part of the Insights Discovery System from the moment they start to take part in the workshop. The mat encourages interacting with one another on a new level whilst learning the strengths and weaknesses of each personality type from the moment the team day starts. The team works outside of their comfort zone, trying new things and inspiring creativity for the rest of the workshop.
Perfect Presentations
2 Day Workshop
Standing up in front of a group of people and delivering an impactful, inspirational business-winning presentation isn’t just about having all the information needed. It is about creating a convincing, informative and confident pitch that people take away and take action.
Our 2-day Presentations Skills workshop will support delegates in understanding their mindset towards presentation and help to build confidence when speaking publicly. We look at how to put forward a strong business-case and make an impact on your audience. This workshop is particularly useful for those with a lack of confidence, anyone with an over reliance on PowerPoint, or the inability to influence and persuade effectively. We aim to overcome a perceived lack of skills to deliver compelling, influential presentations that ensure you have your audience acting and behaving in the way you want them to.
- Understand the structure of compelling presentations
- Develop proven techniques to engage with your audience
- Build skills and behaviours that look at all aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication
- Deliver impacting and powerful presentations that ensure the audience is captured and retained, from start to finish
- Be confident handling questions and interruptions at all points during the presentation
- Increase business performance through the delivery of consistently impactful and engaging presentations
- Practice skills during the workshop and gain valuable feedback
Professional Coaching
A coaching culture has developed in many UK companies, with more people understanding the benefits Professional Coaching can bring to both the personal and professional environment. If you are excited by your current challenges and developing your skills then coaching can help you achieve your goals.
Some areas where coaching is of benefit:
121 coaching is the perfect tool to enhance any of our leadership development training courses. Professional coaching is designed to help you deliver on the investment and learning from the programme. Our LearningCog coaches have varied experience from a broad range of industries. They will work with you on an individual basis to ensure you get the most out of the training programme and be more effective.
The first 90 days
It is a well documented fact that the first 90 days of anyone moving into a new role or new organisation are the most important. Coaching will help any individual understand and respond to the challenges they face and accelerate them to high performance.
High Performance Leadership
For anyone in a leadership role , coaching can help prioritise, plan and grow not only themselves but the people around them. Coaching can be specifically designed to help and support high performing individuals in order to develop high performing teams – generating commitment and enthusiasm to achieve more.