Identification of Employee Skills

This may involve:

Self Assessment
We use a range of tools to help employees assess their own learning styles, strengths, development needs. We can also look at how others view them. Tools used are selected on a bespoke basis but might include Occupational Personality Questionnaires, Facet 5 Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Communication/ Learning/Team/Motivational Management Style Profiles and 360 degree feedback.

Development Events
We can provide: full event design; design of bespoke exercises; access to, delivery and feedback of a wide range of off-the-shelf exercises/tests; structured interviewing; fully experienced WorkLife observers; observer training; employee feedback; event integration (‘wash-up’) and management. With development events emphasis is firmly on the employee, giving them appropriate time to reflect and to receive feedback and development plans.

Management Development Intervention

This can include:

Team Building
Including the leadership styles appropriate to the various stages of team development, and team working, including helping individuals reach their potential within a team environment and working effectively with others.

Leadership and Change
Including planning, guiding, and helping people through change, equipping leaders with the skills, processes and confidence to ‘win’ their people’s commitment, leadership profiling and coaching.

Management Skills
Including the key processes and personal elements to help with areas such as role definition, delegation, performance management, coaching and mentoring, meeting management, self-organisation and maintaining ‘work-life’ balance, etc.

Communication Skills
Individually and collectively, including interviewing for the many different requirements, listening and getting messages across.

Staff Surveys
Qualitative surveys to explore attitudes towards roles, company culture and objectives, change etc.

Career Transition/Outplacement Programmes
We combine counselling skills with practical training sessions. Programmes can be provided on a one-to-one basis or in group sessions to suit company and individual needs. Typically we work with organisations where individuals are at a cross road in their career and need to reassess their skills and values or where employers wish to provide support for those who are moving on from the organisation. We work with employees at all levels within the organisation. Programmes may be as short as half a day or more extensive as need/budget allows. Typically we work at these stages:

Counselling
Usually working on a one-to-one basis we help employees to carry out a personal stock take of their situation. Moving on from here we help them to look at coping with change and to clarify their preferences for the future.

Self Marketing
This would be a practical programme designed to suit needs and would aim to help individuals reassess their personal strengths (we may use self assessment tools to do this). From here we would work on practical techniques to aid: job search skills; CV and application letter design; interview and presentation skills; familiarisation with assessment centres and psychometric testing. We also have specialist WorkLife modules on self marketing/assertiveness in career management which includes expert techniques for ‘follow up’ using the telephone and Personal Impact in a recruitment scenario.

See 'Clients; Case studies for real life examples.