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- The Thornbury Approach
- The Learning Event.
- Taking the Learning Back to the Workplace.
Training often has to take place off-site to a fixed schedule, and this makes it a special event. Unfortunately, this also tends to disconnect it from the real world:
"I've been on my course - now I've got to get back to work".
This presents perhaps the biggest challenge to training designers and tutors. At Thornbury, we address this issue in several ways.
- Our customised workshops are focused on your organisation.
For example, topics and team exercises address the issues you have told us are critical to meeting your needs, and therefore the participants' needs.
- The Learning Diary sessions create a detailed record of what each participant found particularly useful or helpful, and of any personal actions he or she has decided to take as a result.
- The final session of each event is dedicated to action planning. This is taken seriously: it is each participant's commitment to transfer skills and insights back to the workplace. We have developed a process which leads each participant through the sequence of decisions needed to create an Action Plan which survives the onslaught of the in-tray, e-mail, and the telephone.
- Thornbury handout manuals are designed not to cart yards of magazine article reprints around, but to form a permanent and personal record of the topics, the team discussions, the Learning Diaries, and the participants' personal and team Action Plans.
- We are committed to Action Learning as the basis for transforming insights into behaviour. On most events, we introduce participants to Action Learning, form Action Learning Sets, and get these sets to work on the syndicate exercises. In this way, they are already well acquainted with each other, and with the style of Action Learning, as they design their action plans and embark on their action learning process.
- Each Action Learning Set has a tutor facilitator, and - if there is an experienced facilitator on site - local support as well. Half-day review meetings are held every 2-3 weeks until everyone is agreed that the Set is both competent and confident in its ability to manage its own learning.
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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