Learning to Learn
Getting a sustainable edge
In today's business world the only source of business advantage that's lasting is to learn faster than the competition. It's the basis of innovation - whether its aimed at creating new products or introducing new ways of working.
Most businesses find it difficult to manage change because they find it hard to spend the time needed to learn and embed the new skills needed to get the edge on their competitors.
The only way to do this is to embed it into your business planning.
We can help you create innovative ways of training your staff to deal with new issues. How to approach customers better for instance.
- We've worked with PCWorld and O2 to help them qualify and sell better to small businesses.
- We've worked with a major airline to help them recognised personality traits in customers.
- We've helped builders improve internal branding and run awaydays for publishing companies.
- And we've trained hundreds of people how to improve their online marketing.
Here are some examples that we've set up for other people like PCWorld, O2 and Virgin Atlantic.
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Let's see what we can do for you.
The learning organisation - making it practical.
Peter Senge in his seminal work, the fifth discipline identifies 5 components of a learning organisation as set out in the diagram above.
All of them need to be present. An effective business needs to unify head and heart, results and pattern, left and right brain activity. The leader has to walk the talk and conceptualise and explain her ideas - and propagate these activities as best they can in their organisations.
A key principle of effective delivery is systems thinking - generally we're quite poor at that in the UK. If people understand the POINT of the systems they work in and how they relate to company's purpose this becomes the basis of developing a shared vision. Continuous attention and action to these areas delivers the company's ability to learn as a team, to innovate and to transform the organisation and the people that work in it.
Acquiring and developing skills in line with the company's purpose makes the company responsive and lets it develop new products, systems and ways of engaging customers quicker than the competition.
This stakes out a real, first mover's advantage on the next wave of opportunity. Growing a company means getting on to successive waves faster than the competition.
What we can do for you
We can work with you to help you transform your business towards innovation because we understand how to use
- Market and Product Research Techniques
- Mental Models
- The underlying psychology of communication and motivation
- Advanced Training Techniques
- Systems thinking
We run bespoke in house workshops and offer one to one consultancy. We offer tools to help you understand the psychology of motivation and learning and we can design bespoke training programmes for you. One tool you might particularly like is the online BrainMap which will help you assess your style of thinking. You can try it for $22.95 here.
Why we can help you
Unusually for a consultancy company we practice what we preach. We have 25 years experience of running growth businesses in IT, Business Training, Internet trading and horticulture. Currently we run a £0.5 Million internet trading company - Plants4Presents - and a 10 employee Organic Vegetable Business. These give us a real-life basis for our consultancy and training business that underpins our research into how companies actually use IT to promote themselves and improve performance as they grow. During our previous business experience we created a self managing work team which we were able to manage remotely with a visit every couple of weeks.
Our Managing Partner, Alan Rae set up and ran the Executive Studio - a purpose built flexible and knowledge based working environment in West London which ran from 1997 to 2006. We worked flexibly using laptops and docking stations and developed a raft of innovative learning programmes for companies implementing IT based change.
You will have the benefit of the 10 years experience of developing and delivering innovative training programmes within a "best practice" orientated environment.
Contact - To discuss how we can help with your business growth or marketing ring 0845 094 0407
