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- The Thornbury Approach
- The Learning Event.
We will typically treat a topic in the following way:
- We ask questions which are immediately and obviously relevant to the participants. ("What is good management ?" : "How do you handle exceptional performance ?" : "Why do projects fail ?" ).
- We initiate a discussion to warm the idea up.
- We present current best practice and the latest thinking and research on the issue, supported by examples and case studies.
- Participants work in teams on an exercise which requires them to put all their own experiences and our formal input together, to develop their answers to the original question.
- Participants record their team's conclusions.
- Each team then presents its findings in plenary session.
- The whole group discusses the similarities and the differences between the teams' outputs, and reaches consensus.
- We give handouts which summarise the topic, and give the participants time to read and question them.
The formal input may be supported by videos, process models, strategic or management toolkits etc. Where the topic is personal and interpersonal behaviour, we often video the team to help participants develop their insights and skills.
The whole learning process is supported by regular Learning Diaries, where participants reflect on what they have found particularly useful, share this with their colleagues, and write a personal log of their experiences and action plans.
- Taking the Learning Back to the Workplace.
AND Thornbury's big plus ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
All our programmes are delivered by consultants who have practical experience of their subject matter as practitioners - we do NOT use "trainers".
In this way, Thornbury meets the two great challenges of training:
- How to help participants get the best out of their learning experience:
- How to transform that learning into more effective personal behaviour and better organisational performance.
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"When I asked Thornbury to deliver a Finance for Non-Financial Managers course, they didn't just deliver, they excelled. By spending time with our FD to really understand the nuances of our business, they ensured that they focused on the issues that were pertinent to us."
Cheryl Henry, T&D Mgr, Contact 24
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