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Development With a Difference!
We know that you are always on the lookout for new ways of delivering development ideas and messages to your company. Our experience in Bespoke Events gives us an advantage. We can build a development programme around your company’s issue and deliver it in a way that is effective, interesting and fun.
The Approach
Our development approach focuses on the area of behavioural change. We believe that there can be no structural change without behavioural change. In order to effect change we use a series of tools to introduce participants to some new concepts and to reintroduce them to some old ones. We help participants to recognise the things that they already instinctively do well and also encourage them to practice new behaviours so that they can be learned and become intuitive.
The Development Tool Kit:
Whatever your challenge, whether it is communication, confidence or cultural change, let us help you to address the issue. Not only will your people have an experience to remember but they
will also be inspired to motivate themselves and others in the workplace
and in their personal lives. |
Our Development Team Includes:
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“I was very impressed with the programme,
it was fresh and well targeted to our needs. The reaction from a bunch
of initially cynical staff was very positive indeed. I have had nothing
but excellent feedback and the event has already shown long term benefits.
Really a great experience!”
STANIER ASSOCIATES
Beth Hayward
Beth Hayward is an experienced writer, facilitator and director of management training programmes and corporate events. She has been working in the field since 1992.
In 1984 Beth gained an honours degree in Performing Arts and worked as a professional actor for 19 years with a busy and diverse career including playing leads in, “Anthony and Cleopatra”, “Plaza Suite”, “Up’n’Under” and “Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story.”
Beth has worked as an Actor/Facilitator for a client list, which includes, The Home Office, Allied Domeq, Royal Mail, GEI, Gillette, Halifax, NTL and Whitbread.
Beth has directed projects for Chesterton, The Dept of Health, The Industry and Parliament Trust, Warburg Dillon Reid and Channel Magazine.
She has researched and written training programmes and plays for The Dept of Culture, Media and Sport, The Industry and Parliament Trust, and Stanier Associates amongst others, and has also written a generic Conflict Management programme for general use.
“Our event went down so amazingly, people
can’t stop talking about it.
The script was awesome!”
ACCENTURE
“It was a fantastic event, really different
and the actors were very good indeed. I was very impressed with the quality
and professionalism of the production”
ACAMBIS
The Development Tool Kit
We use a variety of different tools in order to deliver useful and entertaining programmes. If any of our innovative development ideas inspire you please call us to arrange a meeting. We will listen to your needs and then propose a development programme which best suits your objectives.
1. Forum Theatre
“ Play for Real”
This is a drama-based learning where actors present scenarios from a world
similar enough to the participants’ world for them to have points
of recognition but not so close as to make them uncomfortable or feel
personally attacked. It also makes sure that they focus on the behaviours
rather than getting bogged down in technical detail. From a safe, secure
and objective standpoint delegates can explore the issues, observe good
and bad practice and rehearse relevant behaviour.
2. Role Play
Using professional role players we give participants the opportunity to
face difficult situations in a safe, non-judgemental environment. Role
play is an ideal tool for dealing with issues around unacceptable behaviour,
conflict management, customer facing, listening and questioning skills,
coaching, delivering feedback and delivering difficult messages.
3. Facilitation & Training
Our experienced facilitators and trainers specialise in Communications
& Presentation Skills, Creativity and Motivation. They take a creative
physical and vocal approach to developing these and other skills and relish
facing new challenges and opportunities. We offer companies tailor made
workshops designed to meet all their communication needs.
4. Coaching
Presenting to more than a few can be a nightmare for many people.
Underlying all presentation skills is our confidence.
• Confidence coaching – Learn to take control of your levels
of confidence. Develop techniques to build up your boldness, find your
own style and make more of it. Experience personal growth in a really
supportive environment with people who can make a difference.
• Once your confidence has been increased your presentation skills
can be honed. We can help you with that all important speech or presentation;
Looking at the dynamics of body language, vocal support, dexterity, volume,
pitch and resonance, will release you vocally to give new realms to your
ability to talk with clarity, confidence and passion.
• Our professional writers will write/edit an address specifically
designed for you and your event.
5. Motivational Team Challenge
Team building exercises are extremely useful but this event extends the
concept and looks at the team as one part of an organisation and how it
links in with all the other teams in order to create something greater
than the sum of its parts. Using theatre as a metaphor this is a creative
and challenging event which can be further adapted to emphasise the values/mission
statement/ current priorities of your organisation.
6. Games
Games are the best way to learn because we retain information easier–
ice breaker games, improvisation, theatre fun, building trust, physical
games – Peter has been teaching acting and improvisation and confidence
building at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school and lecturing at Bristol
University for many years.
7. Practical exercises
Innovative interactive team building exercises nothing too strenuous but
plenty of challenging ways to stretch the participants logically laterally
and imaginatively.
8. Dancing
Discos can be divisive, a Ceilidh dance (yes similar to a barn dance but
with a bit more character and class) with a dynamic band and experienced
caller, who can motivate the dances without humiliating anyone, can create
the best team build you will ever have.
9. Music
The Ceilidh band can also be a participative event incorporating any delegates
with a modicum of musical ability into the music making. This can be especially
powerful if senior management can end up making the music that the delegates
dance to. This will get a group of people mixing and having fun in the
most memorable way. Peter can provide a high class acapella (unaccompanied
singing) group to enliven any function and set the climate for any corporate
evening. From early music through to the classics, Jazz standards and
pop arrangements - we can design a program to suit your tastes.
10. Fun
At the heart of everything we do is fun, without fun even the most fascinating
development options can be a torment to those at the receiving end. We
thoroughly believe that when people explore, through the idea of “play
and playing”, in terms of games but also in terms of theatre, that
people learn more. When we have fun we try to remember what we did. When
we don’t have fun we try to forget about it.
“It was a fantastic event, really different
and the actors were very good indeed. I was very impressed with the quality
and professionalism of the production”
ACAMBIS
