Courses
Martin Faiers Associates has considerable expertise and experience in designing and customising in-house courses to meet the needs and outcomes of our clients.
We hope you find the following selected course summaries of interest. Please contact us if you require further information or to discuss any other training needs.
- Leading for Success
- The Manager as Coach
- Successful Mentoring
- Make Stress Work for You
- Applied Creative Thinking
- Interpersonal Skills for Managers
- The Compass Programme - For achieving personal and professional change
Leading for Success
Studies show that leadership abilities can be learnt and are essential if managers are to inspire teams and individuals to peak performance. Drawing on the most recent work
in the field this highly stimulating workshop will promote the development of personal and contextual skills and awareness and ways in which these can be deployed with others to
best effect.
Course contents:
• Achieving credibility by aligning your values, abilities, skills and behaviour.
• The significance of organisational and contextual awareness.
• Powerful ways to inspire teams and individuals by creating shared vision.
• Motivating others by understanding their characteristic patterns and behaviours.
• Carrying others through change and uncertainty.
Course contents:
• Achieving credibility by aligning your values, abilities, skills and behaviour.
• The significance of organisational and contextual awareness.
• Powerful ways to inspire teams and individuals by creating shared vision.
• Motivating others by understanding their characteristic patterns and behaviours.
• Carrying others through change and uncertainty.
The Manager as Coach
It is now recognised that the most effective managers are those who can facilitate genuine enthusiasm, creativity and productivity in staff and teams as opposed to old
style "tell and sell". This course draws on key material in the field and our own experience as corporate coaches to enable participants to draw out the best performance from others.
Course contents:
• The differences and links between coaching, counselling and mentoring.
• Forming rapport with others as a basis for the coaching process.
• Key skills and abilities for coaching others for peak performance.
• The importance of understanding the characteristic patterns of coachees.
• A highly practical model for structuring coaching over time.
Course contents:
• The differences and links between coaching, counselling and mentoring.
• Forming rapport with others as a basis for the coaching process.
• Key skills and abilities for coaching others for peak performance.
• The importance of understanding the characteristic patterns of coachees.
• A highly practical model for structuring coaching over time.
Successful Mentoring
Many organisations have recognised the value of mentoring schemes as a key method for growing managers and recruiting and retaining staff. For such schemes to operate
successfully it is essential that mentors and mentees are equipped with appropriate skills, approaches and knowledge.
Course contents:
• Establishing a mentoring infrastructure that militates for success.
• Training in key skills, abilities and approaches for mentors and mentees.
• Distinguishing between mentoring, coaching, supervision and appraisal.
• Matching mentors and mentees - balancing familiarity with diversity.
• Addressing key issues and problems and that can arise in practice.
Course contents:
• Establishing a mentoring infrastructure that militates for success.
• Training in key skills, abilities and approaches for mentors and mentees.
• Distinguishing between mentoring, coaching, supervision and appraisal.
• Matching mentors and mentees - balancing familiarity with diversity.
• Addressing key issues and problems and that can arise in practice.
Make Stress Work For You
Some degree of stress can motivate and energise people, but above a certain level it can be dysfunctional, and creates unhappiness, illness, problems in relationships
and impaired performance at work. This highly regarded course enables participants to identify their stressors, understand their individual responses to stress, and address
stress in powerful ways.
Course contents:
• Understanding factors that create stress in your life.
• Achieving a healthy balance across different areas of life
• Practical strategies for addressing stress in personal and/or work life
• Powerful ways to switch off from pressures and address personal needs.
• How to turn negative stress into a positive force for motivation and creativity.
Course contents:
• Understanding factors that create stress in your life.
• Achieving a healthy balance across different areas of life
• Practical strategies for addressing stress in personal and/or work life
• Powerful ways to switch off from pressures and address personal needs.
• How to turn negative stress into a positive force for motivation and creativity.
Applied Creative Thinking
Most of us need to call on our creative abilities in our work and personal lives yet we often use only a fraction of the potential of our minds. This highly stimulating course
combines well-established methods of generating creative thinking with leading edge approaches from such fields as neuro-linguistic programming to provide a range of
powerful tools with multiple applications.
Course contents:
• A range of proven methods for generating creative and imaginative thinking.
• How to expand your creative potential by exploring multiple perspectives.
• How to move from creativity to evaluation to application of your ideas.
• Application of creative thinking to participants' real world issues.
Course contents:
• A range of proven methods for generating creative and imaginative thinking.
• How to expand your creative potential by exploring multiple perspectives.
• How to move from creativity to evaluation to application of your ideas.
• Application of creative thinking to participants' real world issues.
Interpersonal Skills For Managers
The ability to use interpersonal skills effectively and confidently is a key tool for managers and can militate for success in a variety of contexts and applications. This
practical workshop equips participants with a range of powerful and flexible skills that can be deployed within such settings as negotiations; staff management and supervision;
group and team settings; and when making powerful presentations.
Course contents:
• Achieving flexibility by extending your natural behaviour repertoire.
• How to quickly form rapport by understanding others' signals.
• Exerting positive influence to achieve win-win situations
• Dealing with problematic people.
• Programming appropriate behaviours and signals for different contexts.
Course contents:
• Achieving flexibility by extending your natural behaviour repertoire.
• How to quickly form rapport by understanding others' signals.
• Exerting positive influence to achieve win-win situations
• Dealing with problematic people.
• Programming appropriate behaviours and signals for different contexts.
The Compass Programme
The Compass Programme combines all the stimulation of a personal development course with the individual focus and flexibility of personal coaching. It has been created
for individuals who wish to make significant changes in their personal, career, or business lives or who are facing crossroads as a result of redundancy or retirement.
The Programme is run in three phases:
• A personal coaching evaluation to identify potential areas for development.
• A highly stimulating, enjoyable and practical two day course which provides
participants with all the motivation, confidence and abilities to identify,
achieve and maintain chosen goals.
• Individual Coaching with a focus on extending and consolidating gains achieved.
The Programme is run in three phases:
• A personal coaching evaluation to identify potential areas for development.
• A highly stimulating, enjoyable and practical two day course which provides
participants with all the motivation, confidence and abilities to identify,
achieve and maintain chosen goals.
• Individual Coaching with a focus on extending and consolidating gains achieved.
The Compass Programme is available on an open or in-house basis.