The People Advantage
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - LEADERSHIP -
COACHING - GROWING & RETAINING TALENT
CHANGE - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
How we can help
"MInds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
Training & Development
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Leadership/Management Development & Teams
No-one wants to be a 'management robot' but ‘themselves with more skill’!
- Know yourself, be yourself" our advice to a new manager starting out; this drive for self-awareness will continue throughout your career. Take opportunities to reflect.
- Sense-making is key for people moving into new roles so they learn about their changing identity, understand the complexity/ ‘messiness’ of new reality.
- Stretching, innovative, fun development in all aspects of leadership/ management for leaders/ managers/ supervisors, at all levels, in a wide range of contexts, combining models with practical exercises designed to build confidence and knowledge.
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT (current examples, illustrative only)
- Building psychological safety
- Team Leading
- Towards a menopause-friendly workforce
- Collaboration, Trust
- Developing and building relationships
- Developing a coaching culture
- Coaching your team - workload, time management, prioritisation
- Change & resistance; Building resilient teams; Motivating in challenging times
- Inclusive leadership
- Women in leadership
- Hybrid teams
- Flexing your Management style
- HR topics: e.g. recruitment, unconscious bias, reviewing performance, bullying & harassment
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
Talk to us about:
- FACILITATION
- TEAM DIAGNOSTICS
- PEER NETWORK SETS
- TEAM COACHING
SEE WHAT OUR TEAM EVENT CLIENTS SAY
Training & Development
Extensive range of training courses and programmes, 'off the shelf or bespoke. Delivered virtually or face to face; in your workplace or in a luxurious venue.
MASTERCLASSES - from experts who 'have walked the walk'.
HOT TOPICS - designed to reflect the current situation e.g. working remotely, managing a hybrid team, engaging virtual meetings, wellbeing.
FORMAT - Bite-size courses, standalone or combine our modules. Can be blended with coaching, peer networks.
‘FLAVOUR’ tailored to suit your context and culture. Accredited and non-accredited programmes.
GROUNDED & INNOVATIVE is a speciality! Could be practical with real work scenarios and/or explore new approaches e.g. actor-facilitator workshops.
Some current examples, list is illustrative only:
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT (see previous box Leadership/management Development):
PERSONAL & CAREER DEVELOPMENT:
- Creating Personal Impact
- Owning your development
- Change & resistance - how to navigate, resilience
- Influencing skills, Influencing upwards
- Coaching skills
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Presentations with impact
- Conflict
- Train the trainer
- Hybrid Working
SEE WHAT COURSE PARTICIPANTS SAY
Conversations That Count
We specialise in helping people have high-quality conversations.
Engagement, performance, motivation can be enhanced through high-quality conversations.
- How confident are you that the conversations that count are happening with your team?
- Are the important, significant and sometimes challenging conversations happening?
- If they are, are you seeing the results you want?
Too often, we delay even starting the conversations that really have an impact on performance and wellbeing. We put them in the ‘too difficult’ box. A practical, interactive workshop showing you some conversational skills, tools, techniques to help build strong working relationships with those around you.
Other specialisms:
COACHING CONVERSATIONS (for managers)
REVIEWING PERFORMANCE
FEEDBACK
NETWORKS - we create and run professional communities, business networks, diversity forums.
COMMUNITIES: Our course delegates, coaching clients and companies we have worked with, want to continue their learning, sharing and networking with us and get news and updates. We created a number of Community Network Groups. Some are closed to specific courses, others are open to all.
Blended Learning
... combines online materials and opportunities for interaction online with face to face methods, e.g. coaching, mentoring, observing a colleague.
Benefits:
- broadens the experience by supporting anytime, anywhere learning
- learner can manage pace and engage more easily
- reduces travel, accommodation costs, greater return on investment.
Course Participant Feedback
Compassionate
Food for thought
FUN!
Highly relevant
Refreshing
Encouraging
insightful
engaging
Great networking
Creates light
bulb moments
Valuable
Professional
informative
Interactive
sharing
'How would you sum up your experience of this course in 3 words?'
Wordcloud - most common responses, after a 2-day event 2020.
Testimonials - Course, Forum, Conference, Event Participants
See also Testimonials from Change, Consultancy, Talent, Teams & Coaching Clients
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Frequently asked questions...
Can this workshop be tailored? Where would it take place?
Yes. We specialise in tailoring all our workshops to cater for your needs. Culture and context are important. If you want something designed to address a specific challenge talk to us.
We are very flexible. We are happy to run the event in-house, if you wish. If you do not have a preferred location, we can make arrangements with venues, where we have preferential rates.
What is the maximum and minimum number of delegates?
Numbers on our residential programmes are affected by size of venue which we would discuss with you.
For other courses/workshops, it depends on the content and format. Most of our workshops are interactive so large groups would not get the full benefit. Ideally 12-15.
Minimum? We run workshops for smaller organisations who may only have a handful of people who need development. 4 would be the minimum. Alternatively, they could join forces with another small event.
Can this workshop be delivered remotely?
How interactive is it?
Yes. We normally use Zoom, Microsoft Teams. Please talk to us if you have a specific platform you’d like to use.
We built our reputation on building interactive face to face workshops. Then during the pandemic, we used new tools and techniques and worked hard to maintain a high level of engagement throughout the sessions. As one client wrote:
"Thank you for pivoting the course to be so productive whilst remaining interactive and engaging, despite all the uncertainty and additional planning required."
Do you run open workshops where individuals can attend?
Sorry but we do not provide this option.
Location, Insurance
Our office is in Bradford on Avon, just outside Bath.
We are very flexible, happy to travel to your place of work or another suitable business location. We are happy to work throughout the UK and of course work online.
For training/ team events: If you do not have a preferred location, we can make arrangements with venues, where we have preferential rates.
For Coaching: Clients can choose to meet at or near their place of work or home. We also have access to other suitable business spaces, if preferred. Coaching online is also available.
INSURANCE: The People Advantage has professional indemnity insurance for coaching, training, education and consultancy, and public and products liability insurance.
Fees
You will find our prices very competitive.
We guarantee you will receive innovative, workable, cost-effective solutions from award-winning, highly qualified professionals, with 20+ years experience.
We have many options, and our fees reflect whether the event/service is 'off the shelf' or more tailored to your circumstances.
We offer special rates for not for profit organisations and charities
We only charge travel, if the venue is over 20 miles from BA15.
Qualifications, Expertise
The following are held by Angie Allcock, Director & Founder of The People Advantage. You can be confident that all of our Associates are also well qualified and accredited.
AWARDS:
- Nominee for Times Higher Education Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Masters in Human Resource Management
- Postgraduate Diploma In HRM
- Level 5 Diploma in Management Coaching & Mentoring
- Mental Health First Aid
ACCREDITATIONS:
- Myers Briggs (MBTI) Steps 1 and 2
- Team Management Profiles
- Thomas Kilmann Instrument (Conflict)
- Organisational Climate
(In addition, our Associates are qualified to administer other diagnostics, contact us for more information).
PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)
- Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council